Jourdain Searles
Writer and Critic at Freelance
film critic & comedian • bylines @thr @okayplayer @bitchmedia @indiewire @ebertvoices @reverse_shot @vulture @theavclub • programmer • [email protected]
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1 week ago |
wrvo.org | Linda Holmes |B.A. Parker |Jourdain Searles |Liz Metzger
Stephen King's work has often contemplated the inevitability of death. But his latest adaptation, The Life of Chuck is a life-affirming film that challenges the cynic in everyone. It has a big cast including Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jacob Tremblay, Mark Hamill, and Nick Offerman. The film was directed and written for the screen by Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass). Follow Pop Culture Happy Hour on Letterboxd at letterboxd.com/nprpopculture Copyright 2025 NPR
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Linda Holmes |B.A. Parker |Jourdain Searles |Liz Metzger |Hafsa Fathima |Mike Katzif | +1 more
13 hours agoMike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation offers a schematic, suburban vision of end times. It’s impossible to discuss “The Life of Chuck” without revealing the ending, because that’s where the movie starts. It’s built backward, as is the Stephen King novella on which it’s based. A title card declares …
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1 week ago |
thefilmstage.com | Jourdain Searles
Materialists is a film with a classic screwball setup: a young, beautiful matchmaker meets the charming, rich man of her dreams on the same night she runs into her broke, handsome ex-boyfriend. But Celine Song’s sophomore feature takes a more dry, dramatic approach to explore dating in the modern world. Channeling Jane Austen, Materialists discusses relationships like a numbers game where height, income, and age are the key factors to dating success.
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1 month ago |
judysquirrels.substack.com | Jourdain Searles
Hello everyone. Long time no speak. Trying to get the hang of this again. Writing blu-ray booklet essays has become a lovely and exciting part of freelancing for me. It’s nice to get to see my words in print and have people actually buy films on my recommendation. It’s also a great way for me to write about older films, which is a big passion of mine. I have a deep love and respect for physical media and always encourage people to buy films if they have the budget and interest.
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1 month ago |
letterboxd.com | Jourdain Searles |Mia Lee Vicino |Annie Lyons |Unknown Pleasures
Since his feature debut Pickpocket in 1997, director Jia Zhangke has been steadily making films for more than 25 years, telling deeply human stories about love, loss and the constant, indiscriminate march of time. 2000’s Platform was Zhangke’s first foray into tracking the passage of time, depicting the societal changes within a small city in China from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
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kevin corrigan… the man that he is… the thespian… who else worked with scorsese, malick, hal hartley… both ridley AND tony scott… tamara jenkins AND nicole holofcener… legend!
thanked andrew bujalski for making SUPPORT THE GIRLS tonight 🫡