Joshua Polanski

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Radical Filmmaking & Killing Penises: An Interview with Miguel Llansó on Infinite Summer "I first wanted to kill the penis."

The craziest interview I've ever done.

You ever just think about how cool it is that there are movie theaters?

Trump's Antifa-crusade looks a lot like Erdoğan's attack on the Gülen movement.

Follow along with my annual coverage of the Boston Palestine Film Festival at the Boston Hassle.

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I reviewed Robert K. Beshara's book "Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory: A Study of Youssef Chahine’s Al Maṣīr" for the Journal of Religion & Film.

One thing AI is good for is reminding people how even the very worst movie they’ve ever seen is better than AI “movies”

The Threesome — Chad Hartigan [Review] | In Review Online A new film review of The Threesome, directed by Chad Hartigan & released by Vertival, for film review site In Review Online.

What's the worse thing that can happen in a threesome? Both women getting pregnant, of course.

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The Threesome — Chad Hartigan [Review] | In Review Online A new film review of The Threesome, directed by Chad Hartigan & released by Vertival, for film review site In Review Online.

What's the worse thing that can happen in a threesome? Both women getting pregnant, of course.

inreviewonline.com/2025/09/05/t...

I'm hosting a film criticism workshop for the Grand Rapids Film Society this week. As part of it, I'm printing out advice from respected and insightful critics.

If you have advice you'd like to pass to people just getting started writing about movies, you can either DM me or drop it in response.

Empire (1965)

Do Warhol's Empire State Building next

Thank you all in advance! I've learned so much from the advice that's already been imparted to me in the process of preparing for this workshop.

I'm hosting a film criticism workshop for the Grand Rapids Film Society this week. As part of it, I'm printing out advice from respected and insightful critics.

If you have advice you'd like to pass to people just getting started writing about movies, you can either DM me or drop it in response.

We will live long enough to see her tried at The Hague.

There is a whole Phd sitting and waiting for some film scholar in this collection.

Fritz on Fridays: The ‘Secret’ Films in the American Heritage Center Collection Fritz on Fridays — Joshua Polanski’s monthly look at the works of Austrian “Master of Darkness” Fritz Lang — dives into the lesser-known collection of Lang’s short films gathered by the American…

Fritz on Fridays — Joshua Polanski’s (joshuapolanski.bsky.social) monthly look at the work of Austrian “Master of Darkness” Fritz Lang — continues with a dive into Lang’s “secret” films in the American Heritage Center collection at the University of Wyoming.

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IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

Fritz on Fridays: The ‘Secret’ Films in the American Heritage Center Collection Fritz on Fridays — Joshua Polanski’s monthly look at the works of Austrian “Master of Darkness” Fritz Lang — dives into the lesser-known collection of Lang’s short films gathered by the American…

There is an entire collection of Fritz Lang-helmed moving pictures fully unadulterated by cinephiles, scholars, historians, programmers and critics. The entire collection is available for free on the internet, too.

In addition to the disgusting creep factor, Cowen is an economist. Why would a real publication give a shit who his favorite actor is?

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Looks like youre missing a certain major animated movie that Netflix put out earlier this year.

gonna be honest here, can’t stand the ‘it’s been a bad year so far…’ takes that pop up here & the other place with increasing frequency. So much good stuff out there, so many good movies, just gotta take in the entire scope of the art form and not only the multiplex

I was pretty mixed on One Battle After Another.

Ultimately, I think it's a very broken mirror for our current moment. Timely, sure. Insightful or galvanizing? No.

I pray we have men and women like this in our military.

TIFF '25 MOVIE REVIEW: "KARMADONNA" Is A Shocking, Sacreligious and Singular Vision Of Retribution - Rue Morgue The incredibly obscene and blasphemous directorial debut of the co-writer of "A Serbian Film" delivers karma at its most grotesque.

One of the most fucked up movies I've ever watched.

TIFF '25 MOVIE REVIEW: "DEAD LOVER" Is An Aromatic Take On A Classic Tale - Rue Morgue Grace Glowicki revives an old John Waters gimmick in the smelliest horror film so far this year.

The smelliest movie I've seen this year.

Chief of War was phenomenal. It also unlocked a new celebrity crush for me, Te Ao o Hinepehinga.