Ira Madison III
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Best-selling author. Pure Innocent Fun: Essays out now.
https://iramadison.com/
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A ★★★½ review of An Affair to Remember (1957)
contemporary critics derided the second half’s spin into over the top nonsense, but i fucking love it … divas in the 50s were constantly being struck by cars (like magnificent obsession, a blessedly 1...
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A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)
hell yeah i have some thoughts on the black characters in this that i’ll solidify on a second watch (immediate rewatch, prob this week). but a movie this rad, with such dynamic characters (not me sta...
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A ★★★ review of High Fidelity (2000)
john cusack is a horrible boyfriend but a relentlessly charming one. inspirational. none of the music in this is for me, however. the fx show is infinitely better (rip).
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cece🩸resurrection era
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the prophecy is complete
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kaleb’s writing was brilliant and he was incredibly funny and i loved talking to him during our year at mtv news all our work was deleted from the internet but you can still read kaleb’s archived essays here:
web.archive.org/web/20170610...
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derek guy
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A ★★★★ review of 3 Women (1977)
sissy spacek’s wicked laugh will haunt me forever i loved everything i watched even if i wasn’t sure what i was watching most of the time, it felt like a fever dream. i’ll need to revisit it and i’m ...
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THREAD. (And Paulina Borsook has indeed had a very interesting life.)
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A ★★★★ review of Masculin Féminin (1966)
lot of thoughts about this one, as i’ve never seen godard outside of breathless in college (and don’t remember it). obsessed with these kids watching movies and yet they feel none of the magic that co...
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as is common with most apple shows not called the morning show i did not even know this existed till now
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The incredibly talented
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lost everything in an apartment fire this week. His GoFundMe is *almost* fully funded! Just a few bucks could make a difference!
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Donate to Help Ira rebuild after apartment fire, organized by Ira Madison
On September 20, I lost everything I owned in a devastating apartment fire. Thankful… Ira Madison needs your support for Help Ira rebuild after apartment fire
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Chris Geidner
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This is absolutely true. If the NYT covered this the way they covered trans care, you all would finally understand what dangerous shit their trans care coverage has been.
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Correct. And there were people decades ago, warning where this was going. People like David Brock, who founded Media Matters and pubbed "The Republican Noise Machine" in what, 2004!?
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Josie Duffy Rice
12 days ago
Hakeem Jeffries is the same guy who will not endorse the democratic nominee for NYC Mayor lol
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it’s been so long since there’s been a “fun” day in new york media
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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost
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olivia nuzzi rn
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halsey’s interview with zane lowe where she said her label won’t let her release a new album was disheartening, i thought the great impersonator was her best work yet
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I was wrong about Halsey.
Halsey album review and more
https://open.substack.com/pub/iramadison/p/i-was-wrong-about-halsey?r=dx02g&utm_medium=ios
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A ★★★★ review of The Living End (1992)
bonnie and clyde meets badlands and it’s sexier than any gay film i’ve seen in years (beside passengers). hilarious, rebellious, politically enraged, and feels incredibly 1992 in the way a lot of gen ...
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A ★★★★ review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)
not as perfect as i remembered (i was preaching about this film in the streets), but i love movies about movies and i miss the coens’ collabs
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cardi came on this bitch mad as hell
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the last good thing chuck schumer did was tell me to get the rice pudding at the noortwyck when he passed by my table
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Ben Rothenberg
13 days ago
This by
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is the most elucidating paragraph I’ve read so far on the parallel-universeness of Charlie Kirk reactions.
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13 days ago
Ira exactly describes my concerns about Erika Kirk. Behold the new Scam Goddess.
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this week’s newsletter on Charlie Kirk, Jackie (2016), Cameron Crowe, and more
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Charlie Kirk and American myths
Charlie Kirk, Pablo Larraín's Jackie, Cameron Crowe, and more
https://iramadison.substack.com/p/american-myths
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i’m excited for this season, but i didn’t love the RHOSLC premiere
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Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is reheating its own nachos
Reality Brain Rot #4
https://iramadison.substack.com/p/real-housewives-of-salt-lake-city
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14 days ago
A new generation of politicians who will tweet about important issues and then write and promote books about them!!
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barefoot in the park is a perfect new york movie because even decades later a five story walk up feels like hell
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15 days ago
Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/charlie-kirk-ezra-klein-tanehisi-coates?_sp=b72cfa75-76e2-4289-9bf0-14eb90c6993b.1758044662907
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goofy is my favorite word of the season in case y'all can't tell LOL been addicted to it since
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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton
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"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.
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okay nobody wants to talk about the legend of bagger vance…
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my favorite robert redford film is sneakers (1992), which a friend introduced me to a few years back but i’m also partial to indecent proposal, barefoot in the park (1967), three days of the condor (1975), spy game (2001), and his directed features ordinary people (1980) & quiz show (1994)
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Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
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A ★★ review of Opus (2025)
shocking that a film from a former gq writer has nothing new to say about fame and culture but it did look cool and i need ayo in more horror (this was barely horror) need a full malkovich album too b...
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16 days ago
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say what you want about charlie kirk but he built a truly amazing vodka empire
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“We need a shorter, more intense version of Big Brother…it seems like some of these people really just sign up so they can sublet their apartments for the summer and make some cash. Maybe evictions should be twice a week!” Oh Ira ate this upp
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wrote about survivor, big brother, and the bachelorette
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American reality television is flailing
Reality Brain Rot #3: Survivor, Big Brother, The Bachelorette
https://open.substack.com/pub/iramadison/p/american-reality-television-is-flailing?r=dx02g&utm_medium=ios
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valhalla:
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Alejandra Caraballo
19 days ago
Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site. Standards editor:
[email protected]
Journalists who wrote the article:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.
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the whole political “debate” shit that happens now are just new versions of tucker carlson’s crossfire none of these people are baldwin or buckley
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lauren winning would only be funny in her discovering everyone thinks she’s one of the worst winners ever and maybe coming back for a future season and getting completely destroyed pre merge
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20 days ago
you cannot be disparaged by your own words... people cannot attack you with your own ideas if ones words are repeated and they are viewed unfavorably that is not a reflection of the one who repeats it is a reflection of the author
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A review of The Company (2003)
i love being an artist and i love altman’s depiction of a company of artists but there’s a tension between a film that wants to invite melodrama and a film that repudiates it at every turn ultimately...
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people are always talking but what happens when the talk isn’t CHEAP and it IS what it IS
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whole timeline giving are you a good witch or a bad witch
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wrote about highest 2 lowest in this week’s newsletter
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Spike Lee is talking to himself
Highest 2 Lowest, a vintage Andrew Holland interview, and more
https://open.substack.com/pub/iramadison/p/spike-lee-is-talking-to-himself?r=dx02g&utm_medium=ios
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"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
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