You’re invited! I’m talking to @jordanharper.bsky.social on April 29 at 5:00pm PST via @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social. Join us and submit questions:
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Great article by @filmintuition.bsky.social
Here's me talking specifically about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, which is my favorite film of last year.
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One of the most consistently funny & iconic performers to grace our screens and far too under-appreciated. Debbie is a work of art.
#JoanCusack #movies #filmsky
Thank you!
Released a video of my 25 Favorite Films of 2025. You can watch the entire thing for free below (where I hope you'll consider becoming a paid supporter of my work & the upcoming return of Watch With Jen pod).
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Great piece here on Joan Cusack by Jen Johans. She's never not one of the best things about a movie
In the latest episode of #TheDecadeProject on @ohmpods.bsky.social I talk with my dear friend, the host of Watch with Jen - @filmintuition.bsky.social about the seductive, low-stakes elegance of #FOCUS.
For Women Writers Week, Jen Johans writes about Joan Cusack, and how she’s "crackling, high-voltage live wire who commits to scenes with an intensely funny mischievous ferocity."
When Nell & Chaz @ebertvoices.bsky.social invited me to write something again this year for Women Writers Week, I chose one of Roger Ebert’s favorite character actresses & mine, a woman who’s synonymous with Chicago, the great Joan Cusack! Read it here:
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A fun piece from the great @filmintuition.bsky.social on Chicago legend Joan Cusack!
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That thing when you have a late-night autoimmune chronic pain flare so bad you only get an hour of sleep, so you decide to write, record, & create a video adaptation of one of your fave EMDR guided meditations in case it might help someone else. Highly recommend it:
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Fun chatting w/ @swierczy.bsky.social about John Carpenter, synthesizers, Jamie Lee Curtis, pocket paperbacks, rebellious priests, bubblegum, apocalypses, madness, Carpenter Country + his new graphic novel DEAD FLOWERS, for Carpenter & Sandy King's Storm King. You'll hear it soon on #WatchWithJen.
I'm superstitious enough as a writer that I don't like to say what I'm working on publicly until I finish it. Just saved the first draft of a new article I'm writing for Ebert, on one of his favorite actresses & mine, the incomparable Joan Cusack. You should be able to read it in a few weeks.
I always have a ball with Blake!!
I was asked to program 3 surprising romantic features for Valentine's Day as a pod guest recently. Watch it here: youtu.be/qrKLELkjfmM?...
Hi, I'm Jen. I talk w/ my hands, play w/ my hair, & am nerdily expressive, lol, but luckily it makes my friends laugh! (Though I'm not about to start a video podcast, lol.) Scenes from this wk's Delroy Lindo chat w/ Sean Burns & S.A. Cosby, coming in March to Watch With Jen pod. Sean wore my logo!
Recorded my first #WatchWithJen chat with the wonderful @amina.bsky.social about magazines, the fashion industry, the '90s, saying "no" to Anna Wintour, & THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. My plan is to record as many shows as I can from now through the end of Feb, & then start releasing episodes in March.
I'm recording the first two episodes of #WatchWithJen S7 this week. One of them involves speaking to a Vogue employee turned author, who worked for Anna Wintour while THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA was being written. Do you have any burning questions about Vogue or the industry you'd love to have answered?
I've received more requests for anxiety, ADHD, affirmations on creativity, & chronic pain content. These are fun little challenges, I love working in a different medium, mixing audio, video, & writing, so I'll keep sharing these if you're interested.
So excited to see @swierczy.bsky.social will be doing a @watchwithjen.bsky.social episode on Elmore Leonard Crime Flicks...
After westerns and then crime, I think maybe an Elmore Leonard TV movies episode is in order
Couple years back I went long in a thread about Elmore Leonard and his westerns specifically, but that account no longer exists... Some of the best stuff from that project made it into this @watchwithjen.bsky.social episode on Leonard westerns www.patreon.com/posts/watch-...
Guests:
@amina.bsky.social, @blacktopkid.bsky.social, @splicedpersonality.bsky.social, @nikkidolson.bsky.social, @swierczy.bsky.social, & @sheilakathleen.bsky.social.
Pod: @watchwithjen.bsky.social
More announcements coming soon!
Get psyched!
This is so good
Shared something pure with good intentions to help people de-stress, if they wish for their mental health. Worked on it all week. Someone immediately tried to pick a fight. The other day I was subtweeted by a bullying Mean Girl too. I'd rather be creative than mean.
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I created a 30 minute relaxing guided meditation video to give us all a break during this stressful week. Inspired by Sensei in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, it's called "Ocean Waves."
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Passions Collide. I wrote & recorded a meditation called "Ocean Waves," inspired by Sensei.
🧵When the world is as crazy as it is, we're feeling depressed, anxious, defeated, & helpless. We get irritable & pick stupid fights, myself included! I think what it boils down to is this: intentions matter. Ask yourself who the enemy really is & who you're really mad at before attacking strangers.
Gushed over LAST MAN STANDING a few years ago on the @watchwithjen.bsky.social podcast... made an audacious claim about Hill's film stacked next to Kurosawa's and Leone's and for some reason @filmintuition.bsky.social let me come back on her show again. Thanks, Jen
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