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...

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...

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." www.patreon.com/posts/women-...

On the next episode (5/4) 8e/7c/6m/5p We are going to be talking about Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo with Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social !! #Hitchcock #Vertigo @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social Filmsky 📽️ youtube.com/live/_-xGZjC...

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." www.patreon.com/posts/devil-...

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. jacobin.com/2026/05/crit...

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. www.patreon.com/posts/jean-a...

@hamrahrama.bsky.social wrote a chilling account of current cinema's comment on the ongoing "infanticide" www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...; @eileenj19.bsky.social a heartfelt reappreciation of Iran's cinema in the face of genocide with a nod to the “children’s films” jacobin.com/2026/04/iran...

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! www.patreon.com/posts/natche...

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...

My tribute to glorious Iranian cinema and its filmmakers who struggle on against titanic obstacles. jacobin.com/2026/04/iran...

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. www.patreon.com/posts/spring...

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!" jacobin.com/2026/03/proj...

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 📽️ youtube.com/live/m0y83uN...

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 youtube.com/live/oUqlGml...

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 youtube.com/live/oUqlGml...

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-...

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." www.patreon.com/posts/oscars...

I rant about the Oscars because I can't help it, it's a gag reflex jacobin.com/2026/03/osca...

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...

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. jacobin.com/2026/02/powe...

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...

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. www.patreon.com/posts/berlin...

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...

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 youtube.com/movienightex...

If you're looking for an escapist movie, and who isn't, Sam Raimi delivers with SEND HELP. jacobin.com/2026/02/send...

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 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0y8...

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. www.patreon.com/posts/tribut...

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 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDf4...

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.

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...

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! www.patreon.com/posts/father...

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! www.patreon.com/posts/season...

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 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMPU...

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. www.patreon.com/posts/screwb...

On the first episode of 2026!!! (1/6) 8e/7c/6m/5p!! @movienightextra.bsky.social We are going to be joined by Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social to talk about Orson Welles 1941 classic drama Citizen Kane!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social www.youtube.com/movienightex...

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!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social Filmsky 📽️ www.youtube.com/movienightex...

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. www.patreon.com/posts/song-s...

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. www.patreon.com/posts/on-las...

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. www.patreon.com/posts/very-t...

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. jacobin.com/2025/12/wake...

New Filmsuck essay! It's really a kind of long, elaborate reminder that you should watch THE HOLDOVERS this holiday season! www.patreon.com/posts/alexan...

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. www.patreon.com/posts/winter...

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. www.patreon.com/posts/locket...

In the latest Filmsuck episode, Dolores and I disagree on Guillermo Del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN. She thinks it has some redeeming qualities! www.patreon.com/posts/franke...

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. jacobin.com/2025/11/pred...