Tom Joudrey
@TomJoudrey
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Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.🏳️🌈🎬
Joined December 2018
Brad Pitt: What's in the booooooox? Correct answer: the Reagan era Se7en served up allegory of the 80s, from Jerry Falwell and Allan Bloom (The Closing of the American Mind) to urban blight and the crack cocaine epidemic.
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My local corner store gave up on selling off-brand fireworks and now just sells knockoff Tolkien merch
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Thrilled to see Dean Gradgrind is recalculating the curriculum at Carnegie Mellon! 🙌
How One University Is Reimagining a Humanities Ph.D. Program @CarnegieMellon is turning its literary and cultural studies Ph.D. program into one focused on computational cultural studies. https://t.co/XpgVUQlgFr
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i grew up on a 64-acre apple orchard in Ohio. most of the people who came to the orchard to pick apples were lovely. i wrote about the ones who weren’t @Slate
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Robert Redford was a titan. One overlooked film I always champion is All Is Lost : a sparse, terrifying indictment of neoliberal global supply chains and the notion—which he helped popularize with Jeremiah Johnson—of the rugged, self-reliant individualist.
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Everyone’s praising Julian Fellowes for inventing the clock twink but c’mon
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RIP to the legendary TV journalist Bill Moyers Absolute fave among all his interviews: Martha Nussbaum, on why goodness (human flourishing, not moral character) is a fragile thing
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Drugs, fat suits, and the toxic siren call of the American Dream. For the BBC, I wrote about the divisive legacy of Requiem for a Dream, 25 years on. https://t.co/sL0oGXAEsO
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Darren Aronofsky's radical drug-addiction drama was highly acclaimed and angrily slated when it came out in 2000. Today, this Hubert Selby Jr adaptation is no less contentious.
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30 years ago, a film adaptation of a bestselling Stephen King novel was released, and it featured what was then a genuinely shocking twist: being a bitch isn’t a crime. I wrote about DOLORES CLAIBORNE for its 30th anniversary. ⬇️
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This piece tracing the deliciously sordid phenomenon of hagsploitation films is insanely good 📽️⬇️
The Hagsploitation horror sub-genre provided ageing actresses with leading roles during a time of immense ageism in Hollywood. Yet others find it problematic. Revisit my long read for @BBC_Culture about the power of these films and why they've endured:
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