Tom Joudrey
@TomJoudrey
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Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.🏳️🌈🎬
Joined December 2018
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.
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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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RT @DAVID_LYNCH: I'm pretty sure I'm connected to the moon.
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Wow, twitter really popped off on this one, but I guess that's the price of living in an open society.
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undergrad writing has gotten so bad. look what one of my students turned in
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2014’s EX MACHINA lifted a startling element from film noir—the femme fatale—and crated the most provocative film about artificial intelligence since Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. ⬇️.
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