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...

Ehhhhhhhh, I didn't care for it. jacobin.com/2025/11/del-...

New Filmsuck essay! I revel in the "Blackout Noir" series on Criterion Channel, noirs which focus on a favorite plot device of mine involving interludes of amnesia--usually alcohol-induced blackouts--during which a character may or may not have committed murder. www.patreon.com/posts/blacko...

New Filmsuck episode! I enthuse about the delirious new Yorgos Lanthimos film BUGONIA with special guest Conan Neutron of the Movie Night Extravaganza podcast! www.patreon.com/posts/bugoni...

New Filmsuck essay! I recommend some films for that post-Halloween shift to All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day when, if you've got a soul, it requires tending. Try the doomed paranormal romance of THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, PORTRAIT OF JENNIE, and THE BISHOP'S WIFE. www.patreon.com/posts/doomed...

Calling all academics! In this new Filmsuck episode, co-hosts hoot and despair over Luca Guadagnino's AFTER THE HUNT, a tendentious drama starring Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield as hot untenured Yale University profs rocked by a student's sexual assault charge. www.patreon.com/posts/after-...

Odd attempt at a feel-good holiday-themed movie based on a true-crime case that ends in an Army veteran's life imprisonment. Or maybe in contemporary America, that IS a happy ending--at least he'll have a roof over his head and three meals a day. jacobin.com/2025/10/roof...

Latest Filmsuck! My essay on the new horror movie GOOD BOY, which seemed especially designed to draw me to the theater and then torment me. All about a dog named Indy whose seriously ailing human moves them into a haunted house. But only Indy can see the ghosts. www.patreon.com/posts/good-b...

Still enthusing about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, this time in podcast episode form! It's time for the inevitable backlash against the film that occurs whenever a lot of people sing the praises of almost anything. Ignore it! You can be jaded when you're dead! www.patreon.com/posts/its-go...

New Filmsuck essay! In praise of the Val Lewton Gothic horror film THE SEVENTH VICTIM, in which a woman seeking wisdom finds out nobody has any to offer, including the Satanists. www.patreon.com/posts/sevent...

My review of a totally tanking fantasy romance you'll probably never see! jacobin.com/2025/09/big-...

New Filmsuck episode! We take on a remarkably savvy 1939 melodrama featured on the Criterion Channel called TWO GIRLS ON THE STREET. It's about two young women beset by predatory men who join forces to make a better life for themselves. www.patreon.com/posts/two-gi...

Latest Filmsuck essay celebrates the haunting Hollywood star Kim Novak, who's just received a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival, where the new documentary KIM NOVAK'S VERTIGO premiered. Produced by my friends P David Ebersole and Todd Hughes! www.patreon.com/posts/haunti...

My tribute to the wiliness of Robert Redford (RIP RR): jacobin.com/2025/09/robe...

New Filmsuck episode! Dolores and I enthuse about CAUGHT STEALING. It's doing pretty badly at the box-office, though it's a timely dark comic noir of chaotic working class life, and Austin Butler has a delightful co-star in the cat actor playing Bud. www.patreon.com/posts/darren...