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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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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A ★★★★ review of Keep the Lights On (2012)
THE TINA THE LIQUOR THE CRACK
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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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A ★★★★★ review of Marty Supreme (2025)
Timmy and Josh Safdie came on this bitch mad as hell
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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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Multnomah County Library
22 days 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
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#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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NEW POD:
#SummerHouse
trailer breakdown, Britani Bateman cabaret show recap and discussing the latest from
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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 ❤️
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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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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 ...
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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?
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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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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.
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A review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
That Andrew Lloyd Webber moment was for me
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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/
about 2 months ago
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"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. ❤️🔥
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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...
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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.
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 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”! ⛷️❄️🔪
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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
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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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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...
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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
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3 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
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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!
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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...
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
As was often the case, Roger was right.
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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!
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3 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
3 months ago
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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.
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3 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
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3 months ago
I told you guys back when ICE first invaded LA the agents tried to go into my hometown Whittier public library to pee. When the librarians told them to get lost they peed all over the building and flower beds in broad daylight.
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Can you spare something for Hammam and Abood and the family?
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Pillion (2025)
A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.
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A ★★★★★ review of Autumn Sonata (1978)
sympathy is a knife: the movie. unfortunately this movie was very triggering in a way that no other film i’ve seen about mothers and their children (maybe beside xavier dolan’s i killed my mother, but...
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A ★★★★★ review of Persona (1966)
i immediately recognized the strindberg influences (the first play that truly shook me in college was the ghost sonata). bergman said of strindberg’s plays, “he expressed things which I’d experienced ...
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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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3 months ago
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3 months ago
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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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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4 months ago
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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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4 months ago
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