NATCHEZ: Mississippi Goddam | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

New Filmsuck episode! We recommend NATCHEZ, an angst-inducing new documentary about the main economic engine of the Mississippi River town--tourism, specifically tours of plantation houses that romanticize the antebellum Deep South. Mississippi goddam!

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New Filmsuck essay considering BORN YESTERDAY as political entertainment. It was a hit 1950 movie sounding the alarm about home-grown fascism in the USA. www.patreon.com/posts/born-y...

A Tribute to Iran’s Soulful and Revolutionary Cinema With President Donald Trump recently threatening to destroy Iranian civilization itself, the country’s filmmakers carry on their long tradition of defiant, deeply human cinema forged under censorship,...

My tribute to glorious Iranian cinema and its filmmakers who struggle on against titanic obstacles.

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THE DRAMA Isn't Real | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

New Filmsuck episode! Dolores and I vent our incandescent hatred of THE DRAMA, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in a supposed "anti-romcom" about an engaged couple who tell "the worst thing you've ever done" right before the wedding and live to regret it. www.patreon.com/posts/drama-...

New Filmsuck essay! For those of us suffering from acute spring fever, here's a consideration of the odd assortment of movies that make the "Spring Films" lists online. For example, Jane Austen adaptations make everybody's list.

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Project Hail Mary Is the Feel-Good Dystopian Sci-fi We Need Ryan Gosling’s new space film, Project Hail Mary, blends doomsday stakes with a surprisingly tender cross‑species friendship, offering a rare blockbuster that admits the planet is worth saving — and t...

The desire for dorky escapist entertainment becomes overwhelming. PROJECT HAIL MARY acknowledges our doom-addled state and says, "But it's okay, look at Ryan Gosling bond with this nice alien!"

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Episode 317: One Battle After Another with Eileen Jones YouTube video by Movie Night Extravaganza

The One Battle After Another discourse is HOT right now

Our OBAA episode with @jacobinmag.bsky.social film critic Eileen Jones??? It's hot as rockets flying over an ICE Detention Camp @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @eileenj19.bsky.social

Filmsky 📽️

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Tomorrow (3/20) 8e/7c/6m/5p

On a Friday, we are talking to Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social about one of the movies completely snubbed from the #Oscars

Brady Corbet + Mona Fastvold's The Testament of Ann Lee @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social

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Tomorrow (3/20) 8e/7c/6m/5p

On a Friday, we are talking to Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social about one of the movies completely snubbed from the #Oscars

Brady Corbet + Mona Fastvold's The Testament of Ann Lee @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social

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Chris Fleming: Saving Standup Comedy | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

New Filmsuck episode! We recommend the new HBO special CHRIS FLEMING: LIVE AT THE PALACE, an ideal showcase for the dazzling YouTube comic who models a kind of elastic Gumby-limbed freedom in an expansive world of oddity. Very soothing in dark entrapping times. www.patreon.com/posts/chris-...

Oscars 2026: Like the Statuette, Smooth But No Balls | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

Bonus Filmsuck episode! Dolores and I express our unease about this year's creepy, quietist Academy Awards ceremony in a two-person rant we call "Oscars 2026: Like the Statuette, Smooth But No Balls."

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An Oscar Night of Sentimentality and Amnesia At a time of profound unrest and the launch of an insane new war, Hollywood stuck to its “keep politics out” mandate.

I rant about the Oscars because I can't help it, it's a gag reflex

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THE BRIDE! A Messy Monster Mash | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

New Filmsuck episode on THE BRIDE!, a film inspired by Mary Shelley's 1818 novel FRANKENSTEIN plus James Whale's marvelous 1935 film THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Imaginative in spots, but what a mess! www.patreon.com/posts/bride-...

Latest Filmsuck essay! I'm revisiting the character I call "the vengeful prole," which we find in Emerald Fennell's SALTBURN and WUTHERING HEIGHTS and in John Patton Ford's HOW TO MAKE A KILLING, the tepid remake of KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS. www.patreon.com/posts/vengef...

Glen Powell’s How to Make a Killing Is Too Squeamish to Land How to Make a Killing, starring Glen Powell, is a modern-day remake of a 1949 British black comedy classic. But whereas the original found comedy in the ruthless murder of a nasty aristocracy, this re...

Remaking KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS was a bad idea anyway, but I was pulling for director John Patton Ford, whose film debut EMILY THE CRIMINAL in 2022 was a nicely angry working-class fulmination and a great vehicle for Aubrey Plaza.
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The Rotting Flesh of WUTHERING HEIGHTS | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

New Filmsuck episode! Dolores and I rant for an hour about Emerald Fennell's despicable adaptation of Emily Bronte's WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Cathartic! www.patreon.com/posts/rottin...

Berlin Critics' Week | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

New Filmsuck essay! My dispatch from Berlin, where I took part in the Woche der Kritik (Berlin Critics' Week) as a member of the panel handling film selections and discussing our finds. Here's a shot from the splendid noir action film TURGAUD, made in Kazakhstan.

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HAMNET: Good Grief (video version) | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

Latest Filmsuck episode! Dolores and I were both reluctant to see Chloe Zhao's HAMNET, which is up for many Oscars and still playing in theaters. But we got swept up in it. What an ending! Whole audiences crying buckets.

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We are off tonight from streaming but TOMORROW (2/4) we are going to be kicking off Oscar Month 8e/7c/6m/5p

Talking about One Battle After Another with Eileen Jones
@eileenj19.bsky.social!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social

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Send Help and Sam Raimi’s Genre Movie Joy Are you desperate for genre movie escapist fun amid all this hell lately? Who isn’t? Sam Raimi’s Send Help is just what the doctor ordered.

If you're looking for an escapist movie, and who isn't, Sam Raimi delivers with SEND HELP.

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It's Oscars Month once again on Movie Night Extravaganza

Starting 2/4 with Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another with Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social! 8e/7c/6m/5p!!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social

Filmsky 📽️

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Tribute to Catherine O'Hara | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

New Filmsuck essay! A belated tribute to Catherine O'Hara because since we lost her, she's colonized my brain. For which I am grateful.

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This is really extraordinary. "There has been a net 50-point move to the left on abolishing ICE since the fall of 2024. A position that was electoral suicide for Democrats in 2024 is now a toss-up — or better. Marginal voters might even be in favor of it!" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...

On the next episode 1/27 (7e/6c/5m/4p)

We are going to be joined by Oscar Nominated Screenwriter Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social to talk about Michael Mann's 1981 directorial debut Thief!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social

Filmsky 📽️

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Where Is the Off-Ramp From All This State Violence? It’s hard to think of a parallel effort in US history to build a domestic agency of violence specialists at the scale of ICE before now.

It’s hard to think of a parallel effort in US history to build a domestic agency of violence specialists at the scale of ICE before now.

A Mass Strike in Minneapolis Against ICE? General strikes don’t happen very often in the United States. But in the face of widespread anger at ICE abuses and the murder of Renee Good, the Twin Cities’ labor movement is moving toward organizing one at the end of this week.

General strikes don’t happen very often in the United States.

But in the face of widespread anger at ICE abuses and the murder of Renee Good, the Twin Cities’ labor movement is moving toward organizing one at the end of this week.

New Filmsuck essay on the tragi-comic Netflix miniseries DEATH BY LIGHTNING. Two men striving for greatness--James Garfield (Michael Shannon), who became the 20th US president, and Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen), who assassinated Garfield in 1881. It's terrific. www.patreon.com/posts/in-pra...

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER: Here's to Strained Family Relations | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

A few listeners expressed a desire for Filmsuck co-hosts to stop liking so many movies, so here's our gift to you. I hated Jim Jarmusch's new film FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER and Dolores disliked most of it intensely! Free and open to the public!

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Season 1, Gen X — Episode 7 — The Thin Blue Line (1988) w/Eileen Jones | Death Is a Photograph Get more from Death Is a Photograph on Patreon

I got to be a guest on the terrific new podcast Death is a Photograph, talking with hosts Chase Padusniak and Sam McIlhagga about Gen X movies in relation to THE THIN BLUE LINE and the theatrical documentary film boom of the 1980s - '90s!

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Episode 313: Citizen Kane with Eileen Jones YouTube video by Movie Night Extravaganza

We are LIVE!!!

FIRST EPISODE OF 2026!!

TALKING CITIZEN KANE WITH EILEEN JONES!! @eileenj19.bsky.social @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social

Filmsky 📽️

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