Eileen Jones
Contributing Editor/Film Critic at Jacobin
I write about film for Jacobin magazine and have a podcast called Filmsuck. Survived many years of teaching at UC Berkeley's Department of Film and Media.
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2 weeks ago |
jacobin.com | Eileen Jones
It is with a sense of incredulity that I find myself writing a review of A Minecraft Movie, which is a huge blockbuster hit. I saw it in a theater filled with rows of boys from preteen through late teens, all of whom applauded at the end. I didn’t applaud at the end, because the movie is terrible. Though unfortunately, it isn’t even bad enough to be interesting.
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3 weeks ago |
portside.org | Eileen Jones
Don’t Blame Rachel Zegler for Snow White Published April 1, 2025 There’s no way a project as utterly cynical and misbegotten as the live-action remake of Walt Disney’s landmark 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs could turn out well. Particularly one plagued by as many setbacks as this one has had.
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4 weeks ago |
jacobin.com | Eileen Jones
There’s no way a project as utterly cynical and misbegotten as the live-action remake of Walt Disney’s landmark 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs could turn out well. It must’ve been obvious that a contemporary remake would be anything but audience-friendly, and indeed there have been a few failed attempts by screenwriters in the early 2000s to address the antiquated aspects of the story. But, of course, the Disney remake gravy train needed to keep running.
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1 month ago |
portside.org | Eileen Jones
Black Bag: Not Much To See Here Published March 25, 2025 Steven Soderbergh’s spy film Black Bag, currently in theaters, has come out just a few months after his ghost film Presence, making one wonder when the director actually sleeps. Black Bag is by far the bigger hit with the critics though, getting glowing reviews from all over even as it tanks badly at the box-office. I’m with The People.
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1 month ago |
portside.org | Eileen Jones
Severance Is an Indictment of Workplace Hell Published March 23, 2025 Severance is probably the best show on television. And I only say “probably” because I can’t possibly watch everything on television for the sake of comparison. Is there already an online backlash beginning to develop among would-be hipsters? Of course. It must follow as the night the day, as Shakespeare put it, the backlash following anything good becoming popular. Ignore it.
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n this "Tribute to the Totally Forgotten," I celebrate the career of tap-dancer Eleanor Powell, who was so good she intimidated the legendary Fred Astaire, who complained, "She dances like a man." Her mentor was Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. https://t.co/JPc5zpyMi2 https://t.co/bX9HjmTn94
My review of SNOW WHITE, which is lucky to have Rachel Zegler in it, because at least she salvages something out of this trainwreck: https://t.co/v8hLw5rsyn
Latest Filmsuck episode, audiovisual and open to the public! It's the celebratory when-Dolores-interviewed-director-Todd-Haynes episode! https://t.co/j8sMlPZPBn https://t.co/KNbiPDDPNd