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JACOBIN film critic, FILMSUCK podcaster
Most critics loved this 4-part Netflix LORD OF THE FLIES series, but man--or should I say, boy--I really did not.
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Boys, Beasts, and a Bloated Lord of the Flies
Jack Thorne’s Netflix adaptation of Lord of the Flies drowns William Golding’s brutal clarity in arty excess, muddled psychology, and a strangely sentimental plea for sympathy for boys.
https://jacobin.com/2026/05/lord-flies-netflix-golding-thorne
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Most critics loved this 4-part Netflix LORD OF THE FLIES series, but man--or should I say, boy--I really did not.
jacobin.com/2026/05/lord...
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Boys, Beasts, and a Bloated Lord of the Flies
Jack Thorne’s Netflix adaptation of Lord of the Flies drowns William Golding’s brutal clarity in arty excess, muddled psychology, and a strangely sentimental plea for sympathy for boys.
https://jacobin.com/2026/05/lord-flies-netflix-golding-thorne
about 20 hours ago
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New Filmsuck essay! On women in the workplace in movies of the 1930s through the '50s and the hornet's nest of misogyny that gets stirred up in most of them--with a few memorable exceptions. All are featured in the new Criterion Channel series "Office Romances."
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4 days ago
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13 days ago
On the next episode (5/4) 8e/7c/6m/5p We are going to be talking about Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo with Eileen Jones
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#Hitchcock
#Vertigo
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New Filmsuck episode! On THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2, which is so intent on the cratering of paying professions/the general collapse of our society, it ends with the two lead characters metaphorically "clinging to the last piece of wood next to the Titanic."
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THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2: Too Real? | Filmsuck
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10 days ago
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On the "Corporate Thriller" genre showcased on the Criterion Channel. The films contain a lot of lurid emoting about our capitalist dystopia but, with a few exceptions, still managed to underestimate the depth of the abyss we were staring into.
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The Corporate Thriller Lied to Us
Criterion Channel is hosting a retrospective on Hollywood’s “corporate thrillers” from the 1980s through the early 2000s. If anything, their message about the capitalist rot in America’s institutions ...
https://jacobin.com/2026/05/criterion-corporate-thriller-film-capitalism
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New Filmsuck essay! Of the classic Hollywood actors who used to represent admirable working-class toughness and decency, Jean Arthur might have been the most likable.
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18 days ago
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20 days ago
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wrote a chilling account of current cinema's comment on the ongoing "infanticide"
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a heartfelt reappreciation of Iran's cinema in the face of genocide with a nod to the “children’s films”
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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,...
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/iran-cinema-panahi-kiarostami-repression
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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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NATCHEZ: Mississippi Goddam | Filmsuck
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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.
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My tribute to glorious Iranian cinema and its filmmakers who struggle on against titanic obstacles.
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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,...
https://jacobin.com/2026/04/iran-cinema-panahi-kiarostami-repression
about 1 month ago
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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.
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THE DRAMA Isn't Real | Filmsuck
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about 1 month ago
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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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about 2 months ago
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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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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...
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/project-hail-mary-film-review
about 2 months ago
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Movie Night Extravaganza 🎥📽️
about 2 months ago
The One Battle After Another discourse is HOT right now Our OBAA episode with
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film critic Eileen Jones??? It's hot as rockets flying over an ICE Detention Camp
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Episode 317: One Battle After Another with Eileen Jones
YouTube video by Movie Night Extravaganza
https://youtube.com/live/m0y83uNnDnc
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about 2 months ago
Tomorrow (3/20) 8e/7c/6m/5p On a Friday, we are talking to Eileen Jones
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about one of the movies completely snubbed from the
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Brady Corbet + Mona Fastvold's The Testament of Ann Lee
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about 2 months ago
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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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-...
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Chris Fleming: Saving Standup Comedy | Filmsuck
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about 2 months ago
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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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Oscars 2026: Like the Statuette, Smooth But No Balls | Filmsuck
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2 months ago
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I rant about the Oscars because I can't help it, it's a gag reflex
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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.
https://jacobin.com/2026/03/oscars-film-hollywood-awards-politics
2 months ago
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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!
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THE BRIDE! A Messy Monster Mash | Filmsuck
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2 months ago
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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.
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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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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...
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/powell-ford-make-killing-review
3 months ago
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New Filmsuck episode! Dolores and I rant for an hour about Emerald Fennell's despicable adaptation of Emily Bronte's WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Cathartic!
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The Rotting Flesh of WUTHERING HEIGHTS | Filmsuck
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3 months ago
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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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Berlin Critics' Week | Filmsuck
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3 months ago
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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.
www.patreon.com/posts/hamnet...
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HAMNET: Good Grief (video version) | Filmsuck
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
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
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If you're looking for an escapist movie, and who isn't, Sam Raimi delivers with SEND HELP.
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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.
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/send-help-raimi-mcadams-thriller
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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
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! 8e/7c/6m/5p!!!
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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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Tribute to Catherine O'Hara | Filmsuck
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3 months ago
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4 months ago
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...
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On the next episode 1/27 (7e/6c/5m/4p) We are going to be joined by Oscar Nominated Screenwriter Josh Olson
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to talk about Michael Mann's 1981 directorial debut Thief!!
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Filmsky 📽️
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Jacobin
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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.
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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.
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/state-violence-ice-trump-repression?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign&utm_content=ap_qdv9rdshz6
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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.
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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.
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/strike-ice-unions-good-minneapolis?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign&utm_content=ap_prt5ljqvt9
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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.
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4 months ago
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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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FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER: Here's to Strained Family Relations | Filmsuck
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4 months ago
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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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Season 1, Gen X — Episode 7 — The Thin Blue Line (1988) w/Eileen Jones | Death Is a Photograph
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
We are LIVE!!! FIRST EPISODE OF 2026!! TALKING CITIZEN KANE WITH EILEEN JONES!!
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Filmsky 📽️
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Episode 313: Citizen Kane with Eileen Jones
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Latest Filmsuck! My tribute to Ernst Lubitsch's brilliant 1942 screwball comedy TO BE OR NOT TO BE, starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny, about a Warsaw acting troupe finding new uses for their performing skills during the Nazi takeover of Poland.
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
On the first episode of 2026!!! (1/6) 8e/7c/6m/5p!!
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We are going to be joined by Eileen Jones
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to talk about Orson Welles 1941 classic drama Citizen Kane!!
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On the first episode of 2026!!! (1/6) 8e/7c/6m/5p!! We are going to be joined by Eileen Jones
@eileenj19.bsky.social
to talk about Orson Welles 1941 classic drama Citizen Kane!!
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@neutron.bsky.social
@alwaysflacko.bsky.social
Filmsky 📽️
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Latest Filmsuck! Craig Brewer (DOLEMITE IS MY NAME) has an affinity for stories of working-class people as struggling performers. Like his SONG SUNG BLUE, about a middle-aged Wisconsin couple's Neil Diamond tribute band finding local fame in the '90s.
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SONG SUNG BLUE Keeps the Dream Alive | Filmsuck
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5 months ago
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New Filmsuck essay! On the leftist screenwriters who wrote IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and the FBI informant who condemned its pro-working-class stance to HUAC, and the lasting power of the film itself.
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On the Lasting Power of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE | Filmsuck
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5 months ago
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Filmsuck holiday episode we call "A Very TV Christmas." Dolores watches Hallmark Channel and ABC-Family holiday movies along with zillions of other Americans, and she persuaded me to try Hallmark's A SHOE ADDICT'S CHRISTMAS. I still haven't fully recovered.
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A Very TV Christmas (audio only) | Filmsuck
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5 months ago
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Another subdued theatrical run before the Netflix release, now for WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY. I enjoyed it, but what an odd film--embroiled in movie-Catholicism that's skewed toward writer-director Rian Johnson's own upbringing as an evangelical Christian.
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Netflix Won’t Give Wake Up Dead Man the Release It Deserves
Wake Up Dead Man is another crowd-pleasing entry in writer-director Rian Johnson’s Knives Out murder mystery franchise. It’s the kind of movie that should be crushing it with audiences on the big scre...
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/wake-up-dead-man-review
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New Filmsuck essay! It's really a kind of long, elaborate reminder that you should watch THE HOLDOVERS this holiday season!
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Alexander Payne’s Holiday Winner: THE HOLDOVERS | Filmsuck
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5 months ago
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New Filmsuck episode! On "Winter Noir" and the under-appreciated Nicholas Ray film ON DANGEROUS GROUND. Its unusual city vs. country structure ends up mourning the consistent relationship between lonely alienation and chaotic violence wherever you are in America.
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Winter Noir: ON DANGEROUS GROUND | Filmsuck
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New Filmsuck essay! On THE LOCKET, a great film noir with an unusual nesting-doll structure--similar to the one in FRANKENSTEIN--that deals with men who claim their lives have been destroyed by a femme fatale named Nancy.
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6 months ago
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In the latest Filmsuck episode, Dolores and I disagree on Guillermo Del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN. She thinks it has some redeeming qualities!
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FRANKENSTEIN: Guillermo Del Toro's Grand and Goofy Obsession | Filmsuck
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6 months ago
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I enjoyed BADLANDS, but I should note that I'm fond of the PREDATOR movies and--for reasons I won't go into--I've been watching art films by the dozen in a vomitous force-feeding endurance trial. That makes any film trying to entertain me ten times more delightful.
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Predator: Badlands Keeps the Hunt Alive
Predator: Badlands delivers a fresh spin on the nearly 40-year-old franchise by delving deeper into the alien society at the heart of the franchise. Judging by the impressive box office performance, i...
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/predator-badlands-trachtenberg-fanning-yautja
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