In this episode Eileen and Evgenia tackle the potentially mortifying subject of “Love in Film.” We agree on one broad premise: the best depictions of love in film are either crazy comedies or such dark dramas that somebody has to die.
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Love In Film

This week we discuss the appeal of anthropomorphic animation in the TV series Animals, Creature Comforts, and Bojack Horseman. This gets us into the old Disney animation vs. Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes wars, spirit animals, and Ganesh knows what other animal-human related topics.
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Preview of "Animals"

This week we talk about An American Pickle, a new comedy premiering on HBO Max that features Seth Rogen in a dual role: a Jewish emigrant from Eastern Europe in 1919 America who falls into a vat of brine at his job in a pickle factory, and his great-grandson in 2019, a sad sack app-creator who has trouble coping with the reappearance of his perfectly preserved forebear. You may have heard of it because of Seth Rogen’s recent comments about growing up as a Jewish kid who was ‘fed a huge amount of lies about Israel.'
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Preview of Pickled American Brain

This week we’re talking about John Carpenter, director of Halloween, They Live, The Thing, and many other great films! To quote Guillermo del Toro in a 2016 Twitter rant, ‘I am amazed at the fact that we take him for granted. How can we? Why should we?….Carpenter created masterpiece after masterpiece and they are often ignored. Now go to Blu-ray church and pray.’
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Preivew of John Carpenter 101

On this week’s Filmsuck, we discuss the convoluted new Academy Award rules for Best Picture nominations that are intended to promote diversity as well as the latest Netflix film, Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things. It made us think of ending things too.

*Preview* We're Thinking of Ending Things

It’s the Paul Verhoeven episode on Filmsuck, in honor of the 25th anniversary of Showgirls, a legendary flop when released in 1995 that won the director a record number of Worst Film Razzie awards. We put the subsequent cult film success of Showgirls in the context of Verhoeven’s overall career that includes such films as Soldier of Orange, RoboCop, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, and Black Book.

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*Preview* Viva Verhoeven

In this week’s Filmsuck we rave about a new Showtime series we love called The Good Lord Bird, starring Ethan Hawke in the performance of a lifetime as the radical abolitionist John Brown. Don’t miss this wild, dark, and hilarious show in the tradition of Huckleberry Finn and Little Big Man—and don’t miss this episode either!
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*Preview* The Good Lord Bird

In this week’s Filmsuck we interview Yasha Levine, author of Surveillance Valley, about the Netflix documentary Social Dilemma. It's supposed be to a scathing critique of Silicon Valley's manipulative social media business practices...yet why the hell does this crap film refuse to chart the actual history of the internet and the way its operations are entirely consistent with the ordinary workings of capitalism?

*Teaser* The Social Dilemma

*Teaser 2* The Social Dilemma

This week’s Filmsuck takes on the Sofia Coppola problem. We talk about her new movie premiering on Apple Plus TV, On the Rocks, which has strong Lost in Translation vibes. It’s about the daddy issues (Bill Murray is the daddy) of an affluent but creatively blocked writer (Rashida Jones) who thinks her husband (Marlon Wayans) is cheating on her. It’s being described as a screwball comedy, which will surprise you if you see it and fail to laugh even once!

*Preview* Sofia on the Rocks

Welcome to Filmsuck—a weekly podcast about film hosted by Eileen Jones, an American film critic and recovering academic, and Evgenia Kovda, a Russian filmmaker.

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