Tom Joudrey
@tomjoudrey.bsky.social
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Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.🏳️🌈🎬
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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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