New Filmsuck episode! Conan Neutron of Movie Night Extravaganza joins me in a tribute to the films of Howard Hawks. One of the best to ever do it: SCARFACE, BRINGING UP BABY, HIS GIRL FRIDAY, THE BIG SLEEP, RED RIVER, THE THING, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES... www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...

My review of YOUNG WASHINGTON folded into an examination of the swift rise of Angel Studios, a Christian conservative production company that crowdfunds its films. It's from the people who brought you SOUND OF FREEDOM. jacobin.com/2026/07/ange...

I was on Filmsuck with Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social to talk about the life and career of Robert Mitchum Especially his starring role in the 1947 Film Noir "Out of the Past" where he starred opposite a sinister Kirk Douglas www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...

Video version of my conversation with Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social on Filmsuck @filmsuck1.bsky.social about the life and career of Robert Mitchum is up on Patreon!!! www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...

New Filmsuck essay! In praise of the splendid new comedy-horror series WIDOW'S BAY that you may not be watching yet and should be. www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...

New Filmsuck episode open to the public! Special guest Forrest Miller of the popular podcast and live show Movie Night Extravaganza joins me in celebrating the films, life, and legend of renegade Hollywood star Robert Mitchum. There's nobody noir-ier! www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...

We are LIVE with Eileen Jones!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @eileenj19.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social youtube.com/live/3rYDyhh...

We are LIVE with Eileen Jones!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @eileenj19.bsky.social youtube.com/live/3rYDyhh...

366 people have joined DSA since the polls closed last night. There's a ticker: results.socialists.nyc/ticker/ h/t @petersterne.com

Of course you're just dying to know all about TOY STORY 5, so here's my review jacobin.com/2026/06/disn...

New Filmsuck essay! Celebrating a new Hong Kong martial arts movie, THE FURIOUS, playing at a theater near you and coming soon to Hulu. Action-packed! Astounding fight scenes! Working-class rage expressing itself with hammers! www.patreon.com/filmsuck/pos...

On the next episode (6/23) 8e/7c/6m/5p We are talking to Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social about Scorsese's 1991 Cape Fear!!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social #CapeFear #Scorsese #FilmTwitter youtube.com/live/3rYDyhh...

On the next episode @movienightextra.bsky.social (6/23) 8e/7c/6m/5p We are talking to Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social about Scorsese's 1991 Cape Fear!!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social #CapeFear #Scorsese #FilmTwitter youtube.com/live/3rYDyhh...

New Filmsuck episode on DISCLOSURE DAY, free to the public! We love the action, we pity several of the actors, we hate the ending, we tell why. www.patreon.com/.../posts/di...

My review of DISCLOSURE DAY. Is it sappy and corny and implausible with an ending that falls so flat people in the audience audibly exclaim, "What the hell"? Sure. Nevertheless... jacobin.com/2026/06/spie...

We've all had to hold forth--film critics, I mean--about what the low-budget horror hits BACKROOMS and OBSESSION mean for Hollywood. So I hold forth jacobin.com/2026/06/film...

New Filmsuck essay! Criterion Channel is running a "Weddings" series in honor of the season. But they left out one obvious film, FATHER OF THE BRIDE (1950), a Vincente Minnelli comedy satirizing post-WWII wedding-mania that was a smash-hit of its day. www.patreon.com/posts/weddin...

New Filmsuck episode! Emotions run high for the discussion of the HACKS finale--Dolores may never recover! Thoughts and prayers during this difficult time, everyone! www.patreon.com/posts/hacks-...

Good news, everybody! My review of Boots Riley's I LOVE BOOSTERS jacobin.com/2026/05/boot...

New Filmsuck essay! On THE SHEEP DETECTIVES, a beguiling little film oddity at a theater near you. Cinephiles have been muttering to each other, "Have you heard that it might actually be good?" It is. www.patreon.com/posts/sheep-...

Latest Filmsuck! We came up with the nicey-nice title "Spring TV Potpourri" before we actually reckoned with EUPHORIA, THE COMEBACK, BEEF, MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES, SCRUBS. Even if in rare cases it's well done, it's ghastly somehow. Gah, this culture! www.patreon.com/posts/spring...

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...