Eileen Jones
@eileenj19.bsky.social
JACOBIN film critic, FILMSUCK podcaster
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...
Winter Noir: ON DANGEROUS GROUND | Filmsuck
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December 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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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November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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.
www.patreon.com/posts/locket...
www.patreon.com/posts/locket...
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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FRANKENSTEIN: Guillermo Del Toro's Grand and Goofy Obsession | Filmsuck
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November 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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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www.patreon.com/posts/franke...
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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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...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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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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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November 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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.
www.patreon.com/posts/blacko...
www.patreon.com/posts/blacko...
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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November 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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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www.patreon.com/posts/bugoni...
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...
October 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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...
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-...
AFTER THE HUNT: Academic Agon | Filmsuck
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October 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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-...
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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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...
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October 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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.
jacobin.com/2025/10/roof...
jacobin.com/2025/10/roof...
Latest Filmsuck! My essay on the new horror movie GOOD BOY, which seemed especially designed to draw me to the theater and then torment me. All about a dog named Indy whose seriously ailing human moves them into a haunted house. But only Indy can see the ghosts. www.patreon.com/posts/good-b...
October 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Latest Filmsuck! My essay on the new horror movie GOOD BOY, which seemed especially designed to draw me to the theater and then torment me. All about a dog named Indy whose seriously ailing human moves them into a haunted house. But only Indy can see the ghosts. www.patreon.com/posts/good-b...
Still enthusing about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, this time in podcast episode form! It's time for the inevitable backlash against the film that occurs whenever a lot of people sing the praises of almost anything. Ignore it! You can be jaded when you're dead! www.patreon.com/posts/its-go...
It's a Good Time for ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER | Filmsuck
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October 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Still enthusing about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, this time in podcast episode form! It's time for the inevitable backlash against the film that occurs whenever a lot of people sing the praises of almost anything. Ignore it! You can be jaded when you're dead! www.patreon.com/posts/its-go...
New Filmsuck essay! In praise of the Val Lewton Gothic horror film THE SEVENTH VICTIM, in which a woman seeking wisdom finds out nobody has any to offer, including the Satanists. www.patreon.com/posts/sevent...
September 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
New Filmsuck essay! In praise of the Val Lewton Gothic horror film THE SEVENTH VICTIM, in which a woman seeking wisdom finds out nobody has any to offer, including the Satanists. www.patreon.com/posts/sevent...
My review of a totally tanking fantasy romance you'll probably never see! jacobin.com/2025/09/big-...
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Bombs Out
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey pairs Colin Farrell with Margot Robbie in a colorful, life-affirming fantasy setting. How could it go so wrong?
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September 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My review of a totally tanking fantasy romance you'll probably never see! jacobin.com/2025/09/big-...
New Filmsuck episode! We take on a remarkably savvy 1939 melodrama featured on the Criterion Channel called TWO GIRLS ON THE STREET. It's about two young women beset by predatory men who join forces to make a better life for themselves. www.patreon.com/posts/two-gi...
Two Girls Love TWO GIRLS ON THE STREET | Filmsuck
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September 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
New Filmsuck episode! We take on a remarkably savvy 1939 melodrama featured on the Criterion Channel called TWO GIRLS ON THE STREET. It's about two young women beset by predatory men who join forces to make a better life for themselves. www.patreon.com/posts/two-gi...
Latest Filmsuck essay celebrates the haunting Hollywood star Kim Novak, who's just received a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival, where the new documentary KIM NOVAK'S VERTIGO premiered. Produced by my friends P David Ebersole and Todd Hughes!
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The Haunting Appeal of Kim Novak | Filmsuck
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September 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Latest Filmsuck essay celebrates the haunting Hollywood star Kim Novak, who's just received a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival, where the new documentary KIM NOVAK'S VERTIGO premiered. Produced by my friends P David Ebersole and Todd Hughes!
www.patreon.com/posts/haunti...
www.patreon.com/posts/haunti...
My tribute to the wiliness of Robert Redford (RIP RR): jacobin.com/2025/09/robe...
RIP to Robert Redford, a Star Who Knew How to Play the Game
Robert Redford was a man of the Left until the end and a patron saint of independent cinema. He will be missed.
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September 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
My tribute to the wiliness of Robert Redford (RIP RR): jacobin.com/2025/09/robe...
New Filmsuck episode! Dolores and I enthuse about CAUGHT STEALING. It's doing pretty badly at the box-office, though it's a timely dark comic noir of chaotic working class life, and Austin Butler has a delightful co-star in the cat actor playing Bud. www.patreon.com/posts/darren...
Darren Aronofsky CAUGHT STEALING a Good Time | Filmsuck
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September 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
New Filmsuck episode! Dolores and I enthuse about CAUGHT STEALING. It's doing pretty badly at the box-office, though it's a timely dark comic noir of chaotic working class life, and Austin Butler has a delightful co-star in the cat actor playing Bud. www.patreon.com/posts/darren...
New Filmsuck essay! After seeing HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, I went back and re-watched Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW. Great as ever, and I wrote about the ending, which is a killer. www.patreon.com/posts/cumula...
September 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
New Filmsuck essay! After seeing HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, I went back and re-watched Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW. Great as ever, and I wrote about the ending, which is a killer. www.patreon.com/posts/cumula...
Hey, Darren Aronofsky made a nice lowdown genre movie I enjoyed! *pigs begin flying all over the world*
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Caught Stealing Is a Wild and Violent Romp
Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing sees the typically pretentious auteur shift gears toward fun and violence in late 1990s NYC. It’s a throwback to gritty 1970s filmmaking but set in the Giuliani era ...
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September 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Hey, Darren Aronofsky made a nice lowdown genre movie I enjoyed! *pigs begin flying all over the world*
jacobin.com/2025/09/caug...
jacobin.com/2025/09/caug...
Hey, Darren Aronofsky made a nice lowdown genre movie I enjoyed!
*pigs begin flying all over the world*
jacobin.com/2025/09/caug...
*pigs begin flying all over the world*
jacobin.com/2025/09/caug...
Caught Stealing Is a Wild and Violent Romp
Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing sees the typically pretentious auteur shift gears toward fun and violence in late 1990s NYC. It’s a throwback to gritty 1970s filmmaking but set in the Giuliani era ...
jacobin.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Hey, Darren Aronofsky made a nice lowdown genre movie I enjoyed!
*pigs begin flying all over the world*
jacobin.com/2025/09/caug...
*pigs begin flying all over the world*
jacobin.com/2025/09/caug...
I thought if I didn't re-watch Akira Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW, which I hadn't seen in decades, it would help Spike Lee's loose adaptation HIGHEST 2 LOWEST have a greater impact. Ehhh, it didn't help. jacobin.com/2025/08/high...
Highest 2 Lowest Is a Cringeworthy Remake of a Classic
Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest attempts to remake a beloved Akira Kurosawa film about the injustices of a class-stratified society all while sidestepping class. Even Denzel Washington can’t save this mi...
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August 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I thought if I didn't re-watch Akira Kurosawa's HIGH AND LOW, which I hadn't seen in decades, it would help Spike Lee's loose adaptation HIGHEST 2 LOWEST have a greater impact. Ehhh, it didn't help. jacobin.com/2025/08/high...
New Filmsuck episode! Co-host Dolores is back and we're discussing the new Ethan Coen-Tricia Cooke film noir-comedy HONEY DON'T. We enjoyed the hell out of this second film in the Coen-Cooke "lesbian B-movie trilogy"! www.patreon.com/posts/honey-...
Honey Do Go See HONEY DON'T | Filmsuck
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August 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New Filmsuck episode! Co-host Dolores is back and we're discussing the new Ethan Coen-Tricia Cooke film noir-comedy HONEY DON'T. We enjoyed the hell out of this second film in the Coen-Cooke "lesbian B-movie trilogy"! www.patreon.com/posts/honey-...
New Filmsuck essay! In which I investigate the missing persons case of the actor John Cusack, long absent from mainstream screens and doing straight-to-video schlock like the vile malefactor Mel Gibson. What condemned Cusack to such a fate? www.patreon.com/posts/whatev...
August 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
New Filmsuck essay! In which I investigate the missing persons case of the actor John Cusack, long absent from mainstream screens and doing straight-to-video schlock like the vile malefactor Mel Gibson. What condemned Cusack to such a fate? www.patreon.com/posts/whatev...
I guess Sydney Sweeney is such a big deal now because of that rank American Eagle jeans/genes ad that the box-office failure of the film AMERICANA is described in every headline as "Sydney Sweeney's AMERICANA." Whatta world! Anyway, here's my review. jacobin.com/2025/08/amer...
Americana Falls Flat
Nothing in film is more exposing than the big attempt at meaning and poignance that just doesn’t come off. Sadly, Americana stands exposed.
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August 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I guess Sydney Sweeney is such a big deal now because of that rank American Eagle jeans/genes ad that the box-office failure of the film AMERICANA is described in every headline as "Sydney Sweeney's AMERICANA." Whatta world! Anyway, here's my review. jacobin.com/2025/08/amer...