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Movie Night ExtravaganzaEpisode 317: One Battle After Another with Eileen Jones Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk to Jacobin and FilmSuck Film Critic Eileen Jones about Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another!! It's our Oscars Month, we got a bunch of 2025's biggest movies (that we haven't covered already) up on deck, culminating with our Oscars LIVE Coverage in March. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall, JunglePussy, Tony Goldwyn, and Alana Haim One Battle After Another is up for 13 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor twice, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director...
2026-02-052h 22
FilmsuckThe Schism Over THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEECo-hosts disagree on THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, a new film about the title character (played by Amanda Seyfried) who founded the Shaker religion. Eileen liked it because she has a morbid religious streak that makes her obsessively interested in movies about old-time people who see visions and start mad spiritual communities. Dolores, on the other hand, hates movies set in the 18th century “when everything was so ILL” and found THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE a dull empty frustrating would-be-hipster work that makes the artfully simple utilitarian structures of Shaker architecture look like Restoration Hardware stores. A lively deba...
2026-01-271h 09FilmsuckFATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER: Here's to Strained Family RelationsCo-hosts Eileen and Dolores found Jim Jarmusch’s new indie film Father Mother Sister Brother a sleep-inducing slog. It’s a comedy-drama anthology film in three chapters about difficult family relationships that won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and stars Adam Driver, Tom Waits, Mayim Bialik, Cate Blanchett, and Charlotte Rampling. Jarmusch calls it an “anti-action film” that avoids commercial expectations of such typically hard-hitting effects as “drama, violence, revenge, sex” in order to create a film that’s minimalist, focused, delicate, and deliberately simple, like “three flower arrangements.” So consider yourself warned!
2026-01-1556 min
Movie Night ExtravaganzaEpisode 313: Citizen Kane with Eileen JonesForrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about CITIZEN KANE on the first episode of 2026 with Eileen Jones!!Orson Welles groundbreaking drama, telling the story of Charles Foster Kane, America's biggest newspaper magnate, a man who had everything and lost it all. Based on William Randolph Hearst, Charles Foster Kane's love of power and wealth, leads him to lose everyone in his life and eventually spend his whole fortune trying to impress his ex-wife Susan Alexander Orson Welles directorial debut stars many first time film actors from Welles's Mercury Theater, Joseph Cotten, Ray...
2026-01-072h 09
Death is a PhotographSeason 1, Gen X — Episode 7 — The Thin Blue Line (1988) w/Eileen JonesThis week, DPP is joined by Jacobin film critic and host of the Filmsuck podcast: Eileen Jones.We gather in the police station break room over coffee and doughnuts to discuss Errol Morris's 1988 film, The Thin Blue Line.Morris's documentary has been incredibly prescient — bringing to the fore big 21st-century questions about 'fake news,' 'polarisation,' and state power.Sam, Chase, and Eileen contemplate a few questions — "what even is the truth, man?" and "what if justice just serves the system, dude?" as they discuss the rise of postmodernism and narrativisation in late...
2026-01-041h 02FilmsuckA Very TV ChristmasIn honor of the season, co-hosts Eileen and Dolores take on the made-for-TV holiday movie, focusing especially on the perennial Hallmark Channel favorite, A SHOE ADDICT’S CHRISTMAS (2018). It’s about a thirtysomething department store employee and shoe-lover named Noelle (Candace Cameron Bure) who’s lost both her creative and romantic mojo, which leads her guardian angel Charlie (Jean Smart) to use her Ghost of Christmas Past and Future powers in showing Noelle how to find a man and a plan. Naturally several Christmas miracles ensue. Eileen, a Hallmark Channel newbie, is appalled by these eye-hurting spectacles while Dolores points...
2025-12-1653 minFilmsuckFRANKENSTEIN: Guillermo Del Toro's Grand and Goofy ObsessionCo-hosts Eileen and Dolores disagree when it comes to their basic reactions to the new FRANKENSTEIN, written and directed by Guillermo Del Toro and currently playing on Netflix. Whereas Dolores finds a number of aspects of the film compelling, such the opulent production design, the sensitive performances of Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth, and the all-out melodramatic emotionalism typical of Del Toro, Eileen experienced such a blinding hatred of the whole thing she could only gradually realize that…yes, Mia Goth is always interesting.
2025-11-181h 08FilmsuckBUGONIA: The Rhetorical ImpasseCo-host Eileen Jones and special guest Conan Neutron of the Movie Night Extravaganza podcast enthuse about the wild and riveting new Yorgos Lanthimos film, Bugonia. It concerns a pair of rural cousins, played by Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis, who abduct the CEO of a pharmaceutical company (Emma Stone), convinced she’s an alien come to destroy planet Earth through corporate means. Their plan is to force her to arrange a meeting between the cousins and the “Andromedans” on their mother ship in order to negotiate an agreement for the aliens to leave Earth in peace. Which is a fairly...
2025-11-041h 13FilmsuckIt's a Good Time for ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHERCo-hosts Eileen and Dolores agree that Paul Thomas Anderson’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a must-see movie and a model for American filmmaking right now. An adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel VINELAND, ONE BATTLE makes brilliant use of such dynamic genres as action, dark comedy, and the political thriller to drive this depiction of an aging radical leftist in hiding, hilariously played by Leonardo DiCarprio, who’s trying to protect his teenage daughter from his past. Then they’re targeted by rightwing political forces led by the repulsive Col. Lockjaw (Sean Penn) and compelled to go on the run...
2025-10-0757 min
The Locked up Living Podcast: Surviving and thriving in prisons and other challenging environmentsDr Eileen Borris (Video); Transforming Lives with Political ForgivenessGuest: Dr. Eileen Borris, Clinical and Political Psychologist
Host(s): David Jones and Dr Naomi Murphy
Episode Summary: In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Eileen Borris, a clinical and political psychologist who has pioneered the concept of political forgiveness at individual, community, and national levels. Dr. Borris has addressed the United Nations and has worked for over 30 years to build peace in conflict areas around the world, including Rwanda, South Africa, Liberia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and the Middle East.
https://www.drborris.com/books/finding-forgiveness-a-7-step-program-for-letting-go-of-anger-and-bitterness/
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2025-08-1344 minThe Locked up Living Podcast: Surviving and thriving in prisons and other challenging environmentsDr Eileen Borris (Audio); Transforming Lives with Political ForgivenessGuest: Dr. Eileen Borris, Clinical and Political Psychologist
Host(s): David Jones and Dr Naomi Murphy
Episode Summary: In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Eileen Borris, a clinical and political psychologist who has pioneered the concept of political forgiveness at individual, community, and national levels. Dr. Borris has addressed the United Nations and has worked for over 30 years to build peace in conflict areas around the world, including Rwanda, South Africa, Liberia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and the Middle East.
https://www.drborris.com/books/finding-forgiveness-a-7-step-program-for-letting-go-of-anger-and-bitterness/
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2025-08-1344 min
Movie Night ExtravaganzaEpisode 285: Materialists with Eileen Jones During the next few weeks, we are doing a few 2025 Summer Releases, First up, it's Celine Song's second film Materialists with Eileen Jones of Filmsuck and Jacobin!!! Eileen's review of Materialists: https://jacobin.com/2025/06/materialists-rom-com-dakota-johnson Back in 2023, Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talked on an episode about Celine Song's debut Past Lives which we all loved Her second film, also written and directed by her, stars Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans. It's a "Romantic Comedy," although is it? Some have speculated it's secretly a horror movie...
2025-06-252h 12FilmsuckWHITE LOTUS Season 4: How Deep is the Water?Season 4 of Mike White's big hit show WHITE LOTUS might not be the most profound thing you've ever seen, but Dolores and Eileen still enjoy its excellent cast reveling in portraying the latest tales of ghastly behaviors of the rich.
2025-06-171h 06FilmsuckPraise for SINNERSCo-hosts Dolores and Eileen enthuse about the messy but compelling thrills of Ryan Coogler's delirious Deep South vampire extravaganza!
2025-06-1759 minFilmsuckJOHN WICK and BALLERINA: Seeking Rough JusticeAction film enthusiasts rejoice! Special guest Forrest "Flacko" Miller of the lively and popular Movie Night Extravaganza podcast joins co-host Eileen Jones for an episode delving into the everybody's-a-killer world of JOHN WICK 1 - 4, including the new riotously violent spin-off BALLERINA starring Ana de Armas. Discussion includes wild speculation about the likely plot for the upcoming JOHN WICK 5, featuring the return of Keanu Reeves as everyone's favorite world-weary assassin.
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#12minconvosEileen Mendel: Staying Centered Amid Economic Disruption, AI Shifts, and Marketing Evolution /Ep3752Eileen Mendel is an Executive Business Strategist and one of the few Certified “Life Mastery Consultants” in the world. Eileen moved to San Diego in 2012 from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she was actively involved in organizing and attending events for the local MIT Alumni Club. In 2018, Eileen rebranded her company to Centerpoint Vortex Strategies to better reflect the rapidly evolving landscape of the business world. With the constant disruptions and shifts in industries today, she focuses on helping CEOs and business owners of technology-based firms stay grounded amidst the whirlwind of change. By developing strategic business and...
2025-04-0414 minFilmsuckWe're Still HereTalking about I'M STILL HERE, a new political drama based on the 2015 memoir by Marcelo Rubens Paiva about the fracturing of his leftist family in the early 1970s, during the right-wing military dictatorship in Brazil. It's the latest film by Walter Salles (MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, CENTRAL STATION), who knew the Paiva family personally, and it's Brazil's biggest film hit since the Covid pandemic. It's also up for multiple Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best International Film, and Best Actress for the formidable Fernanda Torres. Co-hosts aren't in total agreement about I'M STILL HERE--Eileen loved it while acknowledging Dolores's misgivings about...
2025-02-261h 01FilmsuckDissecting David LynchIt's a Very Special Filmsuck episode open to the public! Co-host Eileen Jones interviews writer and cinephile Alex Deley, who wrote a fantastic piece for JACOBIN magazine about the glories of Lynch films.
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Movie Night ExtravaganzaEpisode 263: Anora with Eileen Jones It's our first episode of Oscars Month!!! Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, and Kt Baldassaro talk to Eileen Jones of Jacobin and Filmsuck about Sean Baker's Anora! Starring Mikey Madison as Ani, a dancer and sex worker from Brighton Beach, who gets married to a Russian Oligarch's son Vanya she meets at the club. When Vanya's parents find out about the marriage, they send their security to force Ani and Vanya to annul the marriage. #anora #oscars #filmpodcast #moviepodcast #oscars2025 #academyawards #mikeymadison #vanya #russian #brightonbeach #academyawards2024 #tangerine #thefloridaproject #redrocket #class #classconflict #yuri #yruiborisov #oligarch
2025-02-041h 53FilmsuckCohost Experience Uneven FLOWWe've got a rare total disagreement between co-hosts when it comes to FLOW, the highly praised Latvian animated feature that's up for Oscars for both Best Animated Film and Best International Film. Dolores found this dialogue-free tale of a housecat and several other animals trying to survive a disastrous flood moving, inspiring, and perhaps the greatest film this year. Whereas Eileen—who generally despises the whole movie history of animals being terrorized so we can be entertained and learn dubious lessons, going back to THE YEARLING and OLD YELLER—defies all critical and public opinion to declare her deathless hatr...
2025-01-2958 minFilmsuckNOSFERATU: Robert Eggers' Dark DreamCan't get enough of that new NOSFERATU, so co-hosts Eileen and Dolores are debating its merits and demerits while at the same time embracing the film as a cinephile must-see.
2025-01-051h 00FilmsuckNOSFERATU: Robert Eggers' Dark DreamCan't let that NOSFERATU experience go, and the gods know there aren't likely to be any riveting film releases in the doldrums of early January, so here's the latest Filmsuck episode grappling with the highs and lows of Robert Eggers' new film! Co-hosts Dolores and Eileen agree the film is a must-see for cinephiles, though the film is a wild mix of mesmerizing sequences and puzzling effects that fall flat.
2025-01-031h 00FilmsuckHolding Space for "Glicked"Co-hosts Eileen and Dolores take the "Glicked" challenge and watch WICKED and GLADIATOR II back-to-back. Here are hilarious our survivor's tales.
2024-12-031h 08FilmsuckSeason of the WitchFilmsuck co-hosts Eileen and Dolores celebrate Halloween with a discussion of the witch films currently featured in the Criterion Channel series. They include such favorites as BLACK SUNDAY, SUSPIRIA, THE WITCHES, THE CRUCIBLE, and THE LOVE WITCH, but the most exciting discovery is IL DEMONIO (THE DEMON), a 1963 Italian Neo-realist film featuring a spider-walking peasant woman whose exorcism clearly inspired THE EXORCIST (1971)!
2024-10-251h 11FilmsuckBEETLEJUICE Returns to the LivingFilmsuck co-hosts Eileen and Dolores celebrate the long-awaited sequel BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE, thirty-six years after Tim Burton's beloved 1988 comedy hit. Michael Keaton is back as the high-living undead title character, a "freelance bioexorcist," along with Winona Ryder as former depressed teen Lydia Deetz, now a perplexed middle-aged woman with an alienated daughter of her own played by Jenna Ortega of WEDNESDAY. Add the divine Catherine O'Hara as Lydia's mother, the daffy conceptual artist Delia Deetz, and the stage is set for fantastical fun with the living and the "recently deceased" and the highly porous border in between.
2024-09-121h 01
Master My Garden PodcastEP234- Unveiling Carlow Garden Festival With Eileen O Rourke Carlow TourismEver wondered how a small local event can grow into an internationally recognized festival featuring top UK and Irish gardening experts? Join us as we explore the incredible journey of the Carlow Garden Festival with insights from Eileen O'Rourke, CEO of Carlow Tourism. Since 2014, when UK gardening celebrities were first introduced, this festival has blossomed into a must-attend event for gardening enthusiasts. We promise you'll gain invaluable insights into historic gardens, ornamental borders, and food growing, making this event a true celebration of all things gardening over its 10 duration.With Eileen we look at each event, chat...
2024-07-1245 minFilmsuckMAESTRO and the Mess that is the BiopicIn this episode, we talk about the sad mess that is the biopic genre, with MAESTRO, currently playing on Netflix, as one of our main examples. Dolores takes a reasonable stance on the biopic, praising the good ones and indicating the fascination of the form for a certain type of audience, and Eileen says, "Kill it with fire!"
2024-01-1656 min
Movie Night ExtravaganzaEpisode 195: Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Eileen Jones Forrest, J. Andrew World, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes talk to Jacobin and FilmSuck Film Critic Eileen Jones about John Huston's 1948 adventure film Treasure of the Sierra Madre starring Humphrey Bogart. #sierramadre #treasure #johnhuston #humphreybogart #maltese #maltesefalcon #casablanca #jacobin Follow the show Letterboxd HQ: letterboxd.com/movienightextra And we now have a Movie Night Extravaganza discord community Eileen Jones writes for Jacobin Magazine as a Film Columnist https://jacobin.com/author/eileen-jones She also co-hosts FilmSuck Podcast https://www.patreon.com/filmsuck
2024-01-102h 07FilmsuckGo Bears: Why We’re Still Thinking About THE BEAR Seasons 1 & 2Filmsuck co-hosts Eileen and Dolores agree that the relentless affect and unusual staying power of the FX/Hulu series The Bear makes it a rare example of popular art in the tradition of the family-torment plays of Eugene O'Neill and Edward Albee. A belated tribute!
2023-08-1557 minFilmsuckBARBIE and OPPENHEIMER: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DollLatest Filmsuck! Co-hosts Eileen and Dolores agree on finding Greta Gerwig's BARBIE surprisingly funny and delightful, and Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER a ponderous, unenlightening snore. In order to argue these contentious views, we have to get into the gritty details, so this is a spoilers-galore episode!
2023-08-011h 11FilmsuckAsteroid City: Wes Anderson’s Alien AffectFilmsuck co-hosts Eileen and Dolores fearlessly defy obsessive Wes Anderson fans in reviling his soul-deadening, seersucker suit sensibility!
2023-07-041h 02FilmsuckDead Ringers: Dead-on or DOA?Latest Filmsuck episode! Co-hosts Dolores and Eileen tackle the new Amazon Prime miniseries DEAD RINGERS, based on the 1988 David Cronenberg body-horror freakout classic, and featuring Rachel Weisz in the roles of disturbingly codependent twin gynecologists once played by Jeremy Irons. The miniseries oddly combines feminist topicality with the old good-vs.-evil-twin tropes of melodramas that used to star Bette Davis (A Stolen Life, Dead Ringers) and Olivia De Havilland (Dark Mirror).
2023-04-2656 min
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2023-03-0831 minFilmsuckEmily and the Blasphemed BrontesFilmsuck co-hosts disagree over the new Emily Bronte biopic, Emily, currently playing in theaters. Dolores likes the way the film depicts the creative development of the author of the towering Gothic novel Wuthering Heights, and Eileen--a Bronte Sisters devotee--hates it so much she's willing to see the world burn if only this film could be destroyed. Well, tastes differ.
2023-03-081h 01
Women Who Podcast - How to start, run and grow your podcastEpisode 8: Eileen Jones on making PR uncomplicatedEileen Jones is a journalist and PR professional based in Cumbria, UK.
We talk about the basics to PR, what it is and simple ways you can achieve it.
Read all about Eileen's PR business at: http://www.cumbriapr.com/
Get her parkrun books here.
The Real Happy Valley. The Locations and the Murders.
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Turn Up Your Volume facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/turnupyourvolume
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2023-02-2739 minFilmsuckJoel Coen in Person: Definitely Meet Your HeroesSince the recording of co-host Eileen's interview with Joel Coen and Frances McDormand about The Tragedy of Macbeth is not going to be widely released after all--a decision made by Coen himself in accordance with the curating team at the Pacific Film Archive where the screening and interview took place--here's a fulsome discussion of the event with co-host Dolores, who was in attendance that evening! Aspects of the entire "Joel Coen in Person" film series, which took place over two exhilarating weekends in late January, are thrashed through for your listening pleasure!
2023-02-081h 04FilmsuckThe Pale Blue Eye: Poe Lingers OnThe new Netflix film The Pale Blue Eye, featuring Harry Melling as Edgar Allan Poe when he was an eccentric young West Point cadet, here aiding an alcoholic detective (Christian Bale) to solve the grisly murder of a fellow cadet at the military academy. The film's a train-wreck, and a good opportunity for co-hosts Eileen and Dolores to rant about the strange dearth of Poe biopics and adaptations of his work, considering he was a master of horror and the detective-centered mystery, both thriving genres right now. WTF, entertainment industry?
2023-01-1854 minFilmsuckHoliday Movie MeldownBONUS Filmsuck episode for holidays! Dolores and Eileen discuss the Christmas movies they can't or won't see because childhood trauma, and offer up some alternative holiday films for your viewing pleasure. Dolores suggests Goodfellas as heartwarming family fare, and Eileen recommends Curse of the Cat People a a lovely yuletide entertainment.
2022-12-2054 minFilmsuckWhite Lotus: Playing in the Shallow EndFilmsuck co-hosts Eileen and Dolores grapple with their bewildering lack of love for White Lotus, the highly praised, much-Emmy-ed HBO Max series satirizing the vacationing ruling class. Sorry in advance to all those who revere it!
2022-12-1359 min
Jacobin RadioJacobin Show: Is Culture Dead? w/ Catherine Liu & Eileen Jones We're joined by the left's preeminent cultural critics, Catherine Liu and Eileen Jones, to assess why cultural production is so awful right now and what its root causes are. We also have professor René Rojas to help us understand why the progressive constitution in Chile failed horribly after years of mounting social pressure. Jen Pan examines some new independent union alternatives and why they don't stack up to traditional labor power. Finally, we pay tribute to Barbara Ehrenreich, one of our finest socialists of the modern era, who sadly passed earlier in the month.1:00 tribute to B...
2022-09-151h 46
Underdawg TalkMore Month at the end of the Money - Episode #39 -w/ Eileen Joy the Money Coach for MomsEileen Joy is the money coach for moms. She makes money easy and empowers moms and their kids with a finm who hit rock bottom after her divorce. Eileen had to get a new house, a new car and a new job all at the same time. She went from bankrupt and broke to now totally debt free, a fully funded emergency fund, a paid off car three years early, and on track to retire early!
She has created an easy system that any busy and overwhelmed mom can follow and specializes in working one on one with self-led, professional...
2022-09-1447 minFilmsuck2 Yeps for NopeThough if you talk to your friends and acquaintances you're likely hear a range of opinions on Nope--from 1) best Jordan Peele film so far, he's transcended himself, to 2) worst Jordan Peele film ever, Get Out (2017) and Us (2019) were so much better--your Filmsuck co-hosts agree on their pro-Nope stance. Dolores thoroughly enjoyed it, and Eileen thinks it's one of the most brilliant and thrilling genre films made in ages.
So calling all cinephiles, you need to get in on this public debate while it's hot! See the film, listen to the episode, argue with your people!
2022-08-031h 02FilmsuckElvis and the Hysteria of Baz LuhrmannYou may know writer-director-producer Baz Luhrmann from such expensive spectacles as The Great Gatsby, Australia, and Moulin Rouge! Co-hosts Dolores and Eileen talk about Luhrmann's hysterically melodramatic films and disagree sharply on how successfully his new biopic Elvis represents the life and career of legendary performer Elvis Presley, debating in particular how the film stands on the entrenched "Elvis authenticity thesis." (Short version of theory: young "real" pioneering rocker Elvis = good, and older "fake" Las Vegas Elvis = bad.)
2022-07-121h 10
Be In The Drivers SeatEp. 012 - Giving Diverse Young Adults in the Community a Helping Hand w/ Carlton D Jones"Investing in the workforce of a city helps to break the cycle of poverty by creating opportunities for people to succeed in high-salary, high-demand careers.Imagine a community whose young adults were debt-free, financially stable, highly-skilled, and desire to give back. That’s the community we are trying to build.”-Carlton D JonesConnect with Carltonhttps://linktr.ee/info.carnavhttps://talentdevelopmentcoalition.com/https://carnavgroupllc.com/https://www.facebook.com/CarNavGroupLLCCheck out Regina on social at:TikTok @reginathequeenofcarloansYouTube - Regina the Queen of C...
2022-04-2137 min
Harnessing Happiness with Sarah J Naylor048: Parkrun Passions, Challenges, and PR Prowess aka Lockdown Success Story - Sarah chats to Eileen JonesHarnessing Happiness with Sarah J Naylor is an upbeat, energetic, and inspiring podcast filled with joy and laughter, wisdom, philosophies, and positive psychology.
During this lively episode you’ll meet Eileen Jones, a journalist with a PR business in The Lake District (UK) and author of How parkrun Changed Our Lives.
As you will discover Eileen has been a runner since her early 30s when she used to run and enter fell races all over The Lake District. That was until she found herself slowing down and no longer competing against anyone, to the point she...
2022-03-2945 minHarnessing Happiness with Sarah J Naylor048: Parkrun Passions, Challenges, and PR Prowess aka Lockdown Success Story - Sarah chats to Eileen JonesHarnessing Happiness with Sarah J Naylor is an upbeat, energetic, and inspiring podcast filled with joy and laughter, wisdom, philosophies, and positive psychology.
During this lively episode you’ll meet Eileen Jones, a journalist with a PR business in The Lake District (UK) and author of How parkrun Changed Our Lives.
As you will discover Eileen has been a runner since her early 30s when she used to run and enter fell races all over The Lake District. That was until she found herself slowing down and no longer competing against anyone, to the point she...
2022-03-2945 minFilmsuckWest Side Stories and the MusicalIn this week’s Filmsuck episode, our co-hosts throw down over which version of the great musical West Side Story reigns supreme. Eileen backs the 1961 version directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, while Dolores pulls for Steven Spielberg’s new version. That being said, co-hosts join forces to shake their fists at such Spielberg choices as overly CGIed and desaturated cinematography and some of the more egregious “social issue” scenes, like the lengthy one devoted to the purchase of a gun in order to point up the dangers of gun violence in a work that’s already taking on gang ma...
2021-12-141h 14FilmsuckLiza Minnelli: Pizzazz with 4 ZsWe know we’ve sung high praises for all our Great Old Broads, but wow, was Liza Minnelli an amazing talent! In our final installment of the series, we discuss this multi-media star, tailor-made for the New Hollywood of the 1960s. Even though she had famous Hollywood movie studio parents, Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, Liza initially propelled herself toward life as a dancer and actor on stage. She had such early success, she won a Tony Award at age nineteen in her first leading role on Broadway, and the film industry quickly came calling. Ultimately becoming a star of...
2021-11-021h 09
P.A. Political Revolution PodcastThe EDC fights another day and The Eileen Cure racist FiascoThe EDC fights another day and The Eileen Cure racist Fiasco. The P.A. Political Revolution Podcast talks about Port Arthur's EDC and the Eileen Cure racist fiasco.
2021-09-1416 min
Beyond ListeningE19: Part 2: A Family of Activists- From the Inside Out, with Eileen Cooper Reed and India MartinIn Part 2 with Eileen and India, we continue the journey through the territory of discrimination, race and equity- exploring personal and professional stories of societal and organizational transformation.
Eileen Cooper Reed is a change maker and advocate. Her entire adult life has been dedicated to the improvement of the human condition particularly for children and families of color. Before becoming a lawyer, Eileen was trained in community development and worked in both rural and urban settings.After graduating from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, she did a stint at the US Court of Appeals before...
2021-09-071h 00
Beyond ListeningE18: Part 1, A Family of Activists- From the Inside Out, with Eileen Cooper Reed and India MartinIn this first episode of a two part series with Eileen and India, we explore the cross section of family, race, culture, and gender in the forming and reforming of identity. India and Eileen traverse across the broad territory of community, control, the fear of our own power, and transforming equity in corporations, communities and the United States.
Eileen Cooper Reed is a change maker and advocate. Her entire adult life has been dedicated to the improvement of the human condition particularly for children and families of color. Before becoming a lawyer, Eileen was trained in community...
2021-08-2542 min
Bookhounds: The Run Down'How parkrun changed our lives' by Eileen JonesIn this episode we review the book 'How parkrun changed our lives' by Eileen Jones.
Jak and Char welcome Bookhounds members and parkrun addicts Egg and Jo to the virtual studio to chat about parkrun tourism, what we do with our stats and why it's so much more than just a 5km run.
About the book:
It’s been hailed as the greatest public health initiative of our time; a social movement for the common good; and even a new religion.
Eileen Jones set out to f...
2021-06-2541 min
My Friends In The NorthEileen JonesMy Friends in the North is a twenty-minute podcast series from North East entrepreneur Sarah Waddington in which she interviews some of the North’s leading business and community figures. Here she speaks to Eileen Jones from Cumbria PR, who has just published a wonderful paperback called ‘How parkrun changed our lives’ about: What inspired Eileen to write a book about parkrun How she organised a book launch which, despite COVID-19, saw 104 relay runners carry a book via a parkrun all the way from the Lake District to London, where the book was handed to the origin...
2021-04-0120 min
Trail & ultra running from Wild Ginger RunningInterview with Eileen Jones - Journalist, author, former fell runner and born-again parkrunner!Eileen Jones is a journalist, author and publicist based in Ambleside in the Lake District. How parkrun changed our lives is her first book for Gritstone Publishing which ‘set out to see why so many people love the Saturday morning run around the park, and how it has changed their lives’.She has her own one-woman business, Cumbria PR, promoting tourism and heritage organisations including William Wordsworth’s home at Rydal Mount, the Heaton Cooper Studio and Gallery, and Zeffirellis cinemas and restaurants.She has worked for newspapers and magazines including the Yorkshire Post and Hollan...
2021-03-251h 03FilmsuckBridgerton: WTFThis is, in a way, a continuation of last week’s special Anti-Valentine’s Day episode about “peak libido” and unsexy cinema and television, because we’re talking about the supposed counter-example of Bridgerton, which is getting raves for its red-hot period-piece sexiness. Special guest co-host Emily Robbins helps Eileen fathom the Regency romance subgenre in order to understand the phenomenon that is Bridgerton, which is such a huge hit on Netflix, it’s kind of…bizarre.
2021-02-231h 16FilmsuckYES WE FRANDolores and Eileen talk All About Fran--i.e. writer-humorist-raconteur-ultimate New Yorker Fran Lebowitz--in the new Martin Scorsese docuseries Pretend It's a City, now playing on Netflix. We celebrate Fran L., "public wit," mordant naysayer, and the last bohemian standing, representing a lost gritty urban paradise of art, books, music, and hanging out smoking, drinking, and eating with fellow creative types.
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Parallax Views w/ J.G. MichaelMrs. America and Arch-Conservative Phyllis Schlafly w/ Eileen Jones
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On this edition of Parallax Views, 2020's began the "Prestige TV" season earlier this year with FX's Mrs. America leading the charge. This show, based on the battles of the feminist Women's Liberation Movement of the 1970s, centers on the anti-feminist arch-conservative Phyllis Schlafly. The show gained a lot of attention upon it's release for being "timely" in regards to the American political moment of polarization and dealing with the fights between the right (Schalfly) and the left (Gloria Steinem, who is also features in the series) that echo today. Eileen Jones, a f...
2020-08-051h 062020-08-0200 min2020-07-2400 min2020-07-1800 min2020-07-1000 min2020-07-0400 min2020-06-1900 min2020-06-1300 min2020-06-0500 min2020-05-2900 min2020-05-2300 min2020-05-1600 min2020-05-1000 min2020-05-0100 min2020-04-2500 min2020-04-1800 min2020-04-1100 min2020-04-0300 minFilmsuck (archived) — 2019/2020Preview of Alright Brain, I Don't Like You, and You Don't Like Me, But Let's Just Do ThisPodcast Episode
2020-03-2800 min2020-03-2000 min2020-03-1400 min2020-03-0800 minFilmsuck (archived) — 2019/2020Interview with Andrei Nekrasov, director of "The Magnitsky Act – Behind the Scenes"Podcast Episode
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The University of Georgia Press PodcastJeannette Eileen Jones, "Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936" (U Georgia Press, 2011)When President Trump talked of Africa as a continent of “shithole countries” where people lived in huts, he was drawing on a set of ideas made popular in the 19th century. “Darkest Africa” became a favorite trope of explorers like Henry Morton Stanley who promoted his books and lectures by pushing the idea of Africa as a dark place – a phrase that had all kinds of meanings – racial, intellectual, geographical.Today I speak with Jeannette Eileen Jones, author of In Search of Brightest Africa, Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936 (University of Georgia Press, 2011). Jones talks about...
2019-06-1727 min
New Books in African StudiesJeannette Eileen Jones, "Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936" (U Georgia Press, 2011)When President Trump talked of Africa as a continent of “shithole countries” where people lived in huts, he was drawing on a set of ideas made popular in the 19th century. “Darkest Africa” became a favorite trope of explorers like Henry Morton Stanley who promoted his books and lectures by pushing the idea of Africa as a dark place – a phrase that had all kinds of meanings – racial, intellectual, geographical.Today I speak with Jeannette Eileen Jones, author of In Search of Brightest Africa, Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936 (University of Georgia Press, 2011). Jones talks about...
2019-06-1727 minFilmsuck (archived) — 2019/2020Episode #6: #Metoo MoviesIn this episode, Evgenia and Eileen tackle gender-swap films.
2019-03-3000 minFilmsuck (archived) — 2019/2020Episode #4: Our obligatory Oscars episodeIn this episode Eileen and Evgenia discuss the nauseating Oscar ceremony and also get into the sordid union-busting history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
2019-02-2800 minFilmsuck (archived) — 2019/2020Episode #2: Independent Film and Its DiscontentsIn this episode Evgenia and Eileen talk about the rough life of independent filmmaking,
2019-01-2300 minFilmsuck (archived) — 2019/2020Episode #1: New Year's Coen Brothers SpecialIn this episode, Evgenia interviews Eileen on a subject she has frequently taught at UC Berkeley: the films of the Coen brothers.
2018-12-3100 min
Nostalgia TrapThe Decline and Fall of American Cinema w/ Eileen JonesEileen Jones is a film critic and professor whose biting, polemical movie reviews are featured in Jacobin and a number of other publications. Her recent book Filmsuck, USA investigates the persistently horrific state of American cinema, while outlining Jones' vision of a liberatory movie culture that honors the medium's working class roots. In this conversation, she explains how her early experiences watching Hollywood genre films influenced her ideas about movies, why the Coen brothers are her preferred auteurs, and why she thinks the language of cinema can play such a vital role in challenging the organizing principles of capitalism.
2018-09-261h 04Nostalgia TrapThe Decline and Fall of American Cinema w/ Eileen JonesEileen Jones is a film critic and professor whose biting, polemical movie reviews are featured in Jacobin and a number of other publications. Her recent book Filmsuck, USA investigates the persistently horrific state of American cinema, while outlining Jones' vision of a liberatory movie culture that honors the medium's working class roots. In this conversation, she explains how her early experiences watching Hollywood genre films influenced her ideas about movies, why the Coen brothers are her preferred auteurs, and why she thinks the language of cinema can play such a vital role in challenging the organizing principles of capitalism.
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