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Filmsuck

Filmsuck

By: Eileen Jones and Dolores McElroy
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 Support us on Patreon.com/filmsuck for bonus episodes and more perks! A weekly podcast hosted by Eileen Jones, film critic at Jacobin magazine and recovering academic, and Dolores McElroy, diva enthusiast and lecturer in film and media at UC Berkeley. In this podcast for the people, we bring you the truth about the rotten state of cinema, its often odious or ham-fisted relationship to politics, and its occasional wondrous bursts of courage and brilliance. We consider the glories of cinemas past, and wonder about lots of things: what’s the role of contemporary film in a time of bad art and worse taste; popular entertainment in a time of fragmentation, generalized disaffection, and PTSD; and media in a time when it seems to have lost its power to get us off our asses? In short, what is to be done when film sucks?Copyright 2021 All rights reserved. Art
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  • Cracking Ourselves Up: Self-presentation in Onscreen Comedy: PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF

    Cracking Ourselves Up: Self-presentation in Onscreen Comedy: PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF
    Jul 29 2025

    New Filmsuck episode! While Dolores is making the world safe for opera in Santa Fe, I'm talking to my friend M Dalebout, whose area of scholarly expertise is identity construction in onscreen comedy. We start off with the 2025 HBO Max documentary PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF!
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • How Much is TOO MUCH?

    How Much is TOO MUCH?
    Jul 16 2025

    New Filmsuck episode! I rage against Lena Dunham, who cursed us all with GIRLS and is back doing further harm to impressionable minds everywhere with her new, semi-autobiographical Netflix romantic comedy TOO MUCH. Dolores has a more measured reaction to this low-stakes entertainment about an arrested development case played by Megan Stalter (HACKS) who tries to get over a bad breakup by relocating from Brooklyn to London and immediately starting a messy relationship with an indie rocker played by Will Sharpe (WHITE LOTUS 3).How high is your Lena Dunham tolerance?

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    59 mins
  • WHITE LOTUS Season 4: How Deep is the Water?

    WHITE LOTUS Season 4: How Deep is the Water?
    Jun 17 2025

    Season 4 of Mike White's big hit show WHITE LOTUS might not be the most profound thing you've ever seen, but Dolores and Eileen still enjoy its excellent cast reveling in portraying the latest tales of ghastly behaviors of the rich.
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    1 hr and 6 mins
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