Eileen Jones

We are off tonight from streaming but TOMORROW (2/4) we are going to be kicking off Oscar Month 8e/7c/6m/5p

Talking about One Battle After Another with Eileen Jones
@eileenj19.bsky.social!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social

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Send Help and Sam Raimi’s Genre Movie Joy Are you desperate for genre movie escapist fun amid all this hell lately? Who isn’t? Sam Raimi’s Send Help is just what the doctor ordered.

If you're looking for an escapist movie, and who isn't, Sam Raimi delivers with SEND HELP.

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It's Oscars Month once again on Movie Night Extravaganza

Starting 2/4 with Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another with Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social! 8e/7c/6m/5p!!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social

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Tribute to Catherine O'Hara | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

New Filmsuck essay! A belated tribute to Catherine O'Hara because since we lost her, she's colonized my brain. For which I am grateful.

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This is really extraordinary. "There has been a net 50-point move to the left on abolishing ICE since the fall of 2024. A position that was electoral suicide for Democrats in 2024 is now a toss-up — or better. Marginal voters might even be in favor of it!" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-imm...

On the next episode 1/27 (7e/6c/5m/4p)

We are going to be joined by Oscar Nominated Screenwriter Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social to talk about Michael Mann's 1981 directorial debut Thief!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social

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Where Is the Off-Ramp From All This State Violence? It’s hard to think of a parallel effort in US history to build a domestic agency of violence specialists at the scale of ICE before now.

It’s hard to think of a parallel effort in US history to build a domestic agency of violence specialists at the scale of ICE before now.

A Mass Strike in Minneapolis Against ICE? General strikes don’t happen very often in the United States. But in the face of widespread anger at ICE abuses and the murder of Renee Good, the Twin Cities’ labor movement is moving toward organizing one at the end of this week.

General strikes don’t happen very often in the United States.

But in the face of widespread anger at ICE abuses and the murder of Renee Good, the Twin Cities’ labor movement is moving toward organizing one at the end of this week.

New Filmsuck essay on the tragi-comic Netflix miniseries DEATH BY LIGHTNING. Two men striving for greatness--James Garfield (Michael Shannon), who became the 20th US president, and Charles Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen), who assassinated Garfield in 1881. It's terrific. www.patreon.com/posts/in-pra...

FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER: Here's to Strained Family Relations | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

A few listeners expressed a desire for Filmsuck co-hosts to stop liking so many movies, so here's our gift to you. I hated Jim Jarmusch's new film FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER and Dolores disliked most of it intensely! Free and open to the public!

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Season 1, Gen X — Episode 7 — The Thin Blue Line (1988) w/Eileen Jones | Death Is a Photograph Get more from Death Is a Photograph on Patreon

I got to be a guest on the terrific new podcast Death is a Photograph, talking with hosts Chase Padusniak and Sam McIlhagga about Gen X movies in relation to THE THIN BLUE LINE and the theatrical documentary film boom of the 1980s - '90s!

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YouTube video by Movie Night Extravaganza Episode 313: Citizen Kane with Eileen Jones

We are LIVE!!!

FIRST EPISODE OF 2026!!

TALKING CITIZEN KANE WITH EILEEN JONES!! @eileenj19.bsky.social @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social

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Latest Filmsuck! My tribute to Ernst Lubitsch's brilliant 1942 screwball comedy TO BE OR NOT TO BE, starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny, about a Warsaw acting troupe finding new uses for their performing skills during the Nazi takeover of Poland. www.patreon.com/posts/screwb...

On the first episode of 2026!!! (1/6) 8e/7c/6m/5p!! @movienightextra.bsky.social

We are going to be joined by Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social to talk about Orson Welles 1941 classic drama Citizen Kane!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social

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On the first episode of 2026!!! (1/6) 8e/7c/6m/5p!!

We are going to be joined by Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social to talk about Orson Welles 1941 classic drama Citizen Kane!! @cosmepolitics.bsky.social @neutron.bsky.social @alwaysflacko.bsky.social

Filmsky 📽️

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SONG SUNG BLUE Keeps the Dream Alive | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

Latest Filmsuck! Craig Brewer (DOLEMITE IS MY NAME) has an affinity for stories of working-class people as struggling performers. Like his SONG SUNG BLUE, about a middle-aged Wisconsin couple's Neil Diamond tribute band finding local fame in the '90s.
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On the Lasting Power of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

New Filmsuck essay! On the leftist screenwriters who wrote IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and the FBI informant who condemned its pro-working-class stance to HUAC, and the lasting power of the film itself. www.patreon.com/posts/on-las...

A Very TV Christmas (audio only) | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

Filmsuck holiday episode we call "A Very TV Christmas." Dolores watches Hallmark Channel and ABC-Family holiday movies along with zillions of other Americans, and she persuaded me to try Hallmark's A SHOE ADDICT'S CHRISTMAS. I still haven't fully recovered. www.patreon.com/posts/very-t...

Netflix Won’t Give Wake Up Dead Man the Release It Deserves Wake Up Dead Man is another crowd-pleasing entry in writer-director Rian Johnson’s Knives Out murder mystery franchise. It’s the kind of movie that should be crushing it with audiences on the big scre...

Another subdued theatrical run before the Netflix release, now for WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY. I enjoyed it, but what an odd film--embroiled in movie-Catholicism that's skewed toward writer-director Rian Johnson's own upbringing as an evangelical Christian. jacobin.com/2025/12/wake...

Alexander Payne’s Holiday Winner: THE HOLDOVERS | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

New Filmsuck essay! It's really a kind of long, elaborate reminder that you should watch THE HOLDOVERS this holiday season! www.patreon.com/posts/alexan...

Winter Noir: ON DANGEROUS GROUND | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

New Filmsuck episode! On "Winter Noir" and the under-appreciated Nicholas Ray film ON DANGEROUS GROUND. Its unusual city vs. country structure ends up mourning the consistent relationship between lonely alienation and chaotic violence wherever you are in America. www.patreon.com/posts/winter...

New Filmsuck essay! On THE LOCKET, a great film noir with an unusual nesting-doll structure--similar to the one in FRANKENSTEIN--that deals with men who claim their lives have been destroyed by a femme fatale named Nancy.
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FRANKENSTEIN: Guillermo Del Toro's Grand and Goofy Obsession | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

In the latest Filmsuck episode, Dolores and I disagree on Guillermo Del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN. She thinks it has some redeeming qualities!

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Predator: Badlands Keeps the Hunt Alive Predator: Badlands delivers a fresh spin on the nearly 40-year-old franchise by delving deeper into the alien society at the heart of the franchise. Judging by the impressive box office performance, i...

I enjoyed BADLANDS, but I should note that I'm fond of the PREDATOR movies and--for reasons I won't go into--I've been watching art films by the dozen in a vomitous force-feeding endurance trial. That makes any film trying to entertain me ten times more delightful.

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Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein Is Dead Flesh Reanimated Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited Frankenstein adaptation for Netflix is a big, bloated mess. Much like Frankenstein’s Creature, it’s dead matter, crudely stitched and bolted together.

Ehhhhhhhh, I didn't care for it.

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New Filmsuck essay! I revel in the "Blackout Noir" series on Criterion Channel, noirs which focus on a favorite plot device of mine involving interludes of amnesia--usually alcohol-induced blackouts--during which a character may or may not have committed murder.

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New Filmsuck episode! I enthuse about the delirious new Yorgos Lanthimos film BUGONIA with special guest Conan Neutron of the Movie Night Extravaganza podcast!

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New Filmsuck essay! I recommend some films for that post-Halloween shift to All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day when, if you've got a soul, it requires tending. Try the doomed paranormal romance of THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR, PORTRAIT OF JENNIE, and THE BISHOP'S WIFE. www.patreon.com/posts/doomed...

AFTER THE HUNT: Academic Agon | Filmsuck Get more from Filmsuck on Patreon

Calling all academics! In this new Filmsuck episode, co-hosts hoot and despair over Luca Guadagnino's AFTER THE HUNT, a tendentious drama starring Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield as hot untenured Yale University profs rocked by a student's sexual assault charge. www.patreon.com/posts/after-...

Channing Tatum’s Roofman Is a Bummer of a Feel-Good Movie In Roofman, Channing Tatum plays a real-life lovable burglar and family man trying to make it in America. But while writer-director Derek Cianfrance clearly wanted a lighthearted, feel-good movie, Roo...

Odd attempt at a feel-good holiday-themed movie based on a true-crime case that ends in an Army veteran's life imprisonment. Or maybe in contemporary America, that IS a happy ending--at least he'll have a roof over his head and three meals a day.
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