Ira Madison III
@irathethird.bsky.social
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Best-selling author. Pure Innocent Fun: Essays out now.
https://iramadison.com/
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Aarik Danielsen
12 days ago
This week's Friday Five is live! Music by Ashley Monroe,
@earlsweatshirts.bsky.social
+ Mike + Surf Gang, and Thundercat Words by
@gabriellebates.bsky.social
and
@irathethird.bsky.social
aarikdanielsen.com/blog/april-1...
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April 10, 2026 — Aarik Danielsen
Ashley Monroe pens her ode to Nashville while Ira Madison III bets it all on ‘Fun.’
https://aarikdanielsen.com/blog/april-10-2026
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Matt
14 days ago
this was such a fun read! Highly recommend for millennial pop culture divas
@irathethird.bsky.social
#booksky
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On the Summer House scandal, for FRANK:
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Summer House is a television show
The Summer House scandal
https://open.substack.com/pub/iramadison/p/summer-house-is-a-television-show?r=dx02g&utm_medium=ios
21 days ago
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A ★★★★ review of Look Behind You
Nia DaCosta inverting male gaze horror tropes on Connor Storrie in tight jeans and a tank… honestly perfect one star off because V****** plays with my money too much…
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21 days ago
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A ★★★★ review of Project Hail Mary (2026)
This movie drained every ounce of cynicism from me for two and a half hours, I even forgive the Disney movie ending. Ryan Gosling acting down, Sandra Hüller acting down AND singing? It’s a yes from me...
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25 days ago
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A ★★★★★ review of All About My Mother (1999)
This film is about mothers, but it’s also about friendships forged among women and the ones that forged Almodóvar’s gifts as an artist. All About My Mother teaches you how to trust, how to love. Read ...
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27 days ago
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A ★★★★ review of The Drama (2026)
This cringe comedy so intense you feel like you’re watching a horror movie really delighted me… may this kind of toxic love please find me!!
https://boxd.it/dA6ZWv
27 days ago
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Some thoughts on colorblind casting in theatre and The Public’s new take on Antigone
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Notes on adaptation
Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) and colorblind casting
https://open.substack.com/pub/iramadison/p/notes-on-adaptation?r=dx02g&utm_medium=ios
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A ★★★½ review of Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026)
The sister relationship was underbaked and I got sick of them arguing, but SMG is SO fun and I loved Elijah Wood and this is a fun movie that gives us amazing new set pieces and potential for a cinema...
https://boxd.it/dA5wHT
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A ★★★★ review of I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009)
This is Tyler Perry’s best film. I like to imagine a world where he cared enough about the art of filmmaking to continue making melodramas that recreate Hollywood’s women’s weepies through a black len...
https://boxd.it/duGxOL
about 1 month ago
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I wrote about the BAFTAs, August Wilson, and the NY Times podcast on Toni Morrison
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You're What You Own
On the BAFTAs, August Wilson, and Toni Morrison
https://open.substack.com/pub/iramadison/p/youre-what-you-own?r=dx02g&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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A ★ review of Scream 7 (2026)
Iconic Gale moments aside, this was sloppy, disrespectful, and frankly just boring Worst Ghostface reveal, not to mention an incomprehensible motive
https://boxd.it/dl9qx7
about 2 months ago
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A ★★★½ review of Send Help (2026)
Survivor was only a McGuffin 😞
https://boxd.it/dinj4N
about 2 months ago
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A ★★★ review of Wuthering Heights (2026)
if all you take from reading Wuthering Heights is a story about doomed lovers then this is perfect no notes anyway i should rewatch Crimson Peak
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2 months ago
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A ★★★★★ review of The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
What a cruelty it is to become part of history like this in the hopes that you affect the world and the souls of the people in it. This will haunt me forever. And I won’t forget how superb this filmm...
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4 months ago
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A ★★★★ review of Keep the Lights On (2012)
THE TINA THE LIQUOR THE CRACK
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4 months ago
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A ★★★★ review of The Housemaid (2025)
“We’ll call the credit card company and have them reverse the charge.” “That’s not a thing!” I’m sorry if you didn’t see this lit, in a sold out theater, with everyone cackling. This movie is exactly ...
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4 months ago
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A ★★★★★ review of Marty Supreme (2025)
Timmy and Josh Safdie came on this bitch mad as hell
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4 months ago
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A ★★★★ review of Gremlins (1984)
Getting to hear Kate’s monologue about Santa Claus in a crowded theater was iconic, no hyperbole
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4 months ago
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Multnomah County Library
4 months ago
If you're looking for a "Something to bring a little levity to what has been a very hard year," try Pure Innocent Fun by
@irathethird.bsky.social
!
#AskALibrarian
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Pure Innocent Fun — Multnomah County Library
Pure Innocent Fun — Madison, Ira, III, — "In this inviting and joyfully raucous collection of sixteen original essays, written with a rare combination of humor and sharpness, Ira Madison III combines ...
https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C2509284
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Gibson Johns
4 months ago
NEW POD:
#SummerHouse
trailer breakdown, Britani Bateman cabaret show recap and discussing the latest from
#RHOP
,
#RHOBH
and
#RHOSLC
with
@irathethird.bsky.social
! Listen here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...
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Unpacking The Latest From RHOP, RHOBH and RHOSLC with Ira Madison III ( + 'Summer House' Season 10 Trailer Breakdown & Britani Bateman's Cabaret Debut)
Podcast Episode · Gabbing with Gib · 12/09/2025 · 1h 5m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unpacking-the-latest-from-rhop-rhobh-and-rhoslc/id1711793555?i=1000740393948
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A review of Cashing Out (2024)
This doc radicalized Luigi I wanted to know more about DeeDee Chamblee ❤️
https://boxd.it/c5FHGd
4 months ago
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A ★★★★★ review of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006)
You wanna talk about mothers??? Beatrix’s motherhood narrative hits harder watching in one full setting. Yes, this is Tarantino at his most indulgent — the anime didn’t need to be that long chile — bu...
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4 months ago
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A ★★★★★ review of Sorry, Baby (2025)
What’s the film version of literary fiction? This felt like a debut novel in a way, so honest and personal and beautifully crafted. Eva Victor is a potential mother! I’d missed Lucas Hedges a lot, an ...
https://boxd.it/bXaFAX
5 months ago
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A ★★ review of After the Hunt (2025)
Julia Roberts looking fabulous, smoking cigarettes and doing her best Lydia Tár. The film reminded me of Nocturnal Animals, vacuous but gorgeous to look at. Luca’s Tom Ford era, I guess?
https://boxd.it/bUkuB9
5 months ago
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A ★★★★★ review of The Long Goodbye (1973)
Appropriate for Elliott Gould’s first movie post Barbra Streisand divorce. Robert Altman deconstructing the noir film. That final shot. That final SHOT. The film ending with the Keep It theme song… go...
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5 months ago
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A ★★★ review of Wicked: For Good (2025)
Dorothy in the Taylor Swift Showgirl Collection Pumps… the animals escaping through the Underground Brick Road… carrying lmao Docked a full star for hiding Jonathan Bailey’s nipples.
https://boxd.it/bRV6In
5 months ago
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A review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
That Andrew Lloyd Webber moment was for me
https://boxd.it/bRvaiV
5 months ago
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Profiled the always inspirational Tessa Thompson for California Style Mag.
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Tessa Thompson Is a Triple Threat
Join Tessa Thompson on her artistic journey as she embraces new roles behind the camera and shares her creative vision.
https://magazinec.com/style/tessa-thompson-is-a-triple-threat-of-style-substance-and-self-possession/
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Michael
5 months ago
"So much ... is about playing a person who has woken up inside of the choices they've made and realizing those choices are not their own. And then wanting to burn everything down."
@irathethird.bsky.social
profiles Tessa Thompson, mais oui. ❤️🔥
magazinec.com/style/tessa-...
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Tessa Thompson Is a Triple Threat
Join Tessa Thompson on her artistic journey as she embraces new roles behind the camera and shares her creative vision.
https://magazinec.com/style/tessa-thompson-is-a-triple-threat-of-style-substance-and-self-possession
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A ★★★ review of Bugonia (2025)
How does a film with such an obvious ending still feel like it was unearned. It also robs Emma Stone’s character of any worthwhile agency. The entire film I wondered what a full tilt boogie sci-fi fil...
https://boxd.it/bLZ1bR
5 months ago
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A ★★★★ review of Marty Supreme (2025)
in life, you’re either the baker or the baker’s wife and i’m pretty sure josh safdie thinks if the end is right, it justifies the beans.
https://boxd.it/bin1T3
5 months ago
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Ira Madison III
sal
5 months ago
Finally got to read
@irathethird.bsky.social
’s short story, “Selling Vermont,” and when I tell you this was a GREAT and also gagworthy read…absolutely worth the $5 subscription if you can swing it!!
substack.com/@volume0/not...
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Selling Vermont
"Black people like to ski?" | by Ira Madison III
https://substack.com/@volume0/note/p-178089208?r=etuiq&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
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✅ my second publication of the year 🥹 Celebrated the launch of VOLUME 0 issue 10, which features my first published fiction piece — a short story, “Selling Vermont”! ⛷️❄️🔪
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✅ my second publication of the year 🥹 Celebrated the launch of VOLUME 0 issue 10, which features my first published fiction piece — a short story, “Selling Vermont”! ⛷️❄️🔪
6 months ago
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Ann Powers
6 months ago
Thanks for making this readable! In this newsletter I explore the idea of songs/artists making it "if there's any justice," and what exactly creates the unfair circumstances in the pop marketplace.
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very excited to have my first published fiction piece, a short story, in the latest issue of Volume 0!
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"Black people like to ski?"
An excerpt from new short horror story, "Selling Vermont"
https://iramadison.substack.com/p/black-people-like-to-ski
6 months ago
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A ★★★★★ review of Scream 2 (1997)
i will always fast forward the jerry o’connell singing scene!!!
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6 months ago
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A ★★★★ review of Twinless (2025)
dylan o’brien will win an oscar someday… know that aside from being incredibly funny (set ups and punchlines! james sweeney could give us the next down with love…) this felt disturbingly close to my i...
https://boxd.it/bwcWRR
6 months ago
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A ★★★★ review of Lurker (2025)
usually it’s a poc doing alladat for a white boy so this felt refreshing!! heartwarming even
https://boxd.it/buVXV3
6 months ago
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i wrote about the new tame impala
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tame impala and the new cool
On Tame Impala, Dua Lipa, and drugs
https://open.substack.com/pub/iramadison/p/tame-impala-and-the-new-cool?r=dx02g&utm_medium=ios
6 months ago
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A ★★★★ review of Baby Boom (1987)
diane keaton had hoes for real. sam shepard?? nancy meyers cooked with this one. everything that should feel goofy and cliche just feels fun and romantic. i love movies!
https://boxd.it/bmxour
6 months ago
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A ★★★½ review of Mad Money (2008)
“every woman should keep a little mad money tucked away just in case.” these women are heroes. diane keaton’s comic sensibilities make her perfect for a film like this and she has the gravitas to make...
https://boxd.it/bmqSEx
6 months ago
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Ira Madison III
Matt Zoller Seitz
6 months ago
As was often the case, Roger was right.
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Ira Madison III
Matt Zoller Seitz
7 months ago
My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.
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A ★★★ review of Christine (1983)
tightly made, it is john carpenter after all, and the score is banging but i hated all of these characters especially arnie. maybe if the gay subtext with dennis was text. bitchin car tho!
https://boxd.it/biBD5t
7 months ago
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i wrote about pta & one battle after another
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pta's acts of contrition
One Battle After Another, sex, and forgiveness
https://iramadison.substack.com/p/ptas-acts-of-contrition
7 months ago
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sal
7 months ago
another 10/10 read!! also to the other ira stans out there who are as slow as me, i just realized that there’s a substack chat in which ira is active (free to subscribe & participate in). you should join it with me!! ☺️
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A ★★★★ review of Marty Supreme (2025)
in life, you’re either the baker or the baker’s wife and i’m pretty sure josh safdie thinks if the end is right, it justifies the beans.
https://boxd.it/bin1T3
7 months ago
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my album review
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she's not your average showgirl
On Taylor Swift's new album, Sweden's artistic legacy, and pop beef
https://iramadison.substack.com/p/shes-not-your-average-showgirl
7 months ago
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