Tom Joudrey
@tomjoudrey.bsky.social
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Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.🏳️🌈🎬
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Me, Kate, and Bette.
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What’s in the 📦? I wrote about the hidden allegory in Se7en for the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
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'The blight seeped into your soul': How Seven reflected fears in the US in the 1980s
David Fincher's thriller began with its screenwriter's view of the urban decay and religious conservatism of the Reagan era. But it also predicted our obsession with true crime today.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20251117-how-seven-reflected-1980s-fears-in-the-us
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I grew up on an apple orchard in rural Ohio, and most of the people who came to pick apples were lovely. Some weren’t. Naturally, I wrote about the ones who weren’t.
slate.com/life/2025/09...
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I Grew Up on an Apple Orchard. Oh, the Horrors I’ve Seen During You-Pick Season.
Oh, the horrors I've seen.
https://slate.com/life/2025/09/apple-picking-near-me-orchard-farm-best-season.html
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For the BBC, I wrote about the divisive legacy of Requiem for a Dream, 25 years on.
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
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'Slumming in a vision of hell': Why Requiem for a Dream is still so divisive, 25 years after its release
Darren Aronofsky's radical drug-addiction drama was highly acclaimed and angrily slated when it came out in 2000. Today, this Hubert Selby Jr adaptation is no less contentious.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250603-why-requiem-for-a-dream-is-still-so-divisive
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🏊♂️ the 4️⃣0️⃣ ft 🍀
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in my medieval era
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81° today 🥵 and new ✂️
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30 years ago, a film adaptation of a bestselling Stephen King novel was released, and it featured what was then a genuinely shocking twist: being a bitch isn’t a crime. I wrote about DOLORES CLAIBORNE for its 30th anniversary. ⬇️
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Me, Kate, and Bette.
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Lord Byron. Still mad, bad—and dangerous to know.
www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/29/o...
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The afterlife of corpses - The Boston Globe
Western cultures once were obsessed with dead bodies. Today we dispose of them with clinical efficiency. Are we missing something important?
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/29/opinion/when-dead-found-new-life/
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Democracy dies in darkness. We just didn’t know Jeff Bezos would be the one turning off the f-ing lights.
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Can this hellish month be the nail in the coffin of the idea that the billionaire class will “save” us—that, against all evidence, arsonists make the best firefighters?
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AMADEUS at 40.🎻
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
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'An unmistakable stab at the USSR': Could Amadeus be the most misunderstood Oscar winner ever?
Released 40 years ago this month, Miloš Forman's best picture-winning Amadeus is often accused of historical inaccuracies – but the film's critics could be missing the point.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240926-could-amadeus-be-the-most-misunderstood-oscar-winner-ever
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Back to blonde 🌞
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Seinfeld was wrong. THE ENGLISH PATIENT is a masterpiece. And you betcha it deserved that Oscar over Fargo.
www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/11/o...
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In defense of ‘The English Patient,’ a masterpiece of anti-imperialism - The Boston Globe
First hailed, later mocked, the Oscar-winning epic deserves credit for subverting its own genre.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/11/opinion/defense-english-patient-masterpiece-anti-imperialism/
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Unlike Norma Desmond, SUNSET BOULEVARD hasn’t aged a day
www.theguardian.com/film/2020/au...
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Sunset Boulevard at 70: we’re all Norma Desmond now
Sunset Boulevard showed the damage wrought by fame. Seventy years on, popular culture is more obsessed than ever with being seen
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/04/sunset-boulevard-at-70-were-all-norma-desmond-now
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post grammys glow
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Sam and I hit it off
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This weekend’s sequence of events
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Just arrived from The Other Place—looking forward to checking this 🆕 place out!
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