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Jen Johans

@filmintuition

A 3x nat'l award-winning writer, film critic, essayist, & historian @ http://FilmIntuition.com, I host the podcast Watch With Jen™

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I like it, cool!

11.03.2026 20:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Last night’s homemade sausage & pepperoni pizza.

11.03.2026 18:40 👍 197 🔁 7 💬 18 📌 2
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Virtual Event with Author Jordan Harper on April 29 | Jen Johans of Film Intuition & Watch With Jen™️ Get more from Jen Johans of Film Intuition & Watch With Jen™️ on Patreon

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:

www.patreon.com/posts/152723...

10.03.2026 20:44 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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This is silly and false. The only operators of Tomahawk missiles are the U.S. Navy, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Netherlands Navy and Royal Navy. Iran has no Tomahawk missiles. If it did, it’d have no way to launch them.

10.03.2026 22:34 👍 2271 🔁 581 💬 196 📌 32
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Virtual Event with Author Jordan Harper on April 29 | Jen Johans of Film Intuition & Watch With Jen™️ Get more from Jen Johans of Film Intuition & Watch With Jen™️ on Patreon

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:

www.patreon.com/posts/152723...

10.03.2026 20:44 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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My kitchen skills are seriously underwhelming, but I will say that I make a damn good oatmeal raisin chocolate chip cookie. I have no secrets but adding cinnamon, ginger, and vanilla makes these taste incredible.

09.03.2026 23:23 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Photo of gas pump prices ranging from 4.35 to 5.12 a gallon. Text reads, “please tell me again that women are too emotional for the job, and me too went too far.

Photo of gas pump prices ranging from 4.35 to 5.12 a gallon. Text reads, “please tell me again that women are too emotional for the job, and me too went too far.

Might be a good idea to fill up your tank soon.

09.03.2026 20:03 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Hello Kitty is hanging by a cherry blossom tree today, c/o this lovely pop-up card. 💕🍒🌸

08.03.2026 00:23 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Joan Cusack: Best Supporting Energy Five scenes in five unexpected movies to showcase the actor's irrepressible talents.

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."

02.03.2026 18:45 👍 33 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 5
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Video: Jen's 25 Favorite Films of 2025 | Jen Johans of Film Intuition & Watch With Jen™️ Get more from Jen Johans of Film Intuition & Watch With Jen™️ on Patreon

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).

www.patreon.com/posts/152260...

05.03.2026 00:56 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

🧵 Hey, men - because I'm talking to the men here. This isn't meant to be an attack, no worries. I just want you to know that most women you know right now aren't doing great. We're not. I'll use myself as an example. 1/x

07.03.2026 15:08 👍 213 🔁 57 💬 6 📌 20

Going to say the thing in noir that no one says but I believe we all secretly think, which is that our suspension of disbelief is most often pushed to the breaking point sometimes when the stunningly beautiful new “nightclub act” femme fatale starts to sing.

06.03.2026 23:13 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I need to hear your thoughts on some of these!

06.03.2026 19:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

05.03.2026 20:57 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

05.03.2026 15:27 👍 6135 🔁 2444 💬 93 📌 184
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Here's me talking specifically about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, which is my favorite film of last year.

www.instagram.com/p/DVe6wwvjl4L/

05.03.2026 00:56 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Video: Jen's 25 Favorite Films of 2025 | Jen Johans of Film Intuition & Watch With Jen™️ Get more from Jen Johans of Film Intuition & Watch With Jen™️ on Patreon

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).

www.patreon.com/posts/152260...

05.03.2026 00:56 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Joan Cusack is a top-tier Now We're Talkin actor

03.03.2026 18:59 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"...So I-I killed. So I maimed. So I destroyed one innocent life after another. Aren't I a human being? Don't I yearn, and ache, and shop? Don't I deserve love... and jewelry?"

04.03.2026 06:48 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I was on the ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES junket, and watching Joan Cusack break down the beats of the "Ballerina Barbie" speech like she was dissecting a jazz number was the highlight of the day.

Which is really saying something, because Carol Kane and Anjelica Huston were also there.

04.03.2026 05:20 👍 52 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 1
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Ad idea: A child in the hospital can’t get the oxygen tank they need covered on Medicaid, because there’s a moratorium on Durable Medical Equipment because of “fraud.”

Cut to economist on MS Now saying that 100k kids could have healthcare covered for a year for cost of planes just shot down in war.

04.03.2026 19:53 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

One of my favorites!!

04.03.2026 05:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you, Casey!

04.03.2026 03:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Great article by @filmintuition.bsky.social

04.03.2026 03:56 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Aw, Jed, thank you!

04.03.2026 03:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Great piece here on Joan Cusack by Jen Johans. She's never not one of the best things about a movie

03.03.2026 22:24 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
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Joan Cusack: Best Supporting Energy Five scenes in five unexpected movies to showcase the actor's irrepressible talents.

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:
www.rogerebert.com/women-writer...

03.03.2026 17:02 👍 79 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 2

Oh, she would’ve been so great!

04.03.2026 00:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Unexpected" for Joan Cusack in ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES is hilarious to those of us who adore the film. She ABSOLUTELY deserved another Oscar nomination for it.
That said, this is a lovely article and I agree with these choices.

04.03.2026 00:30 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0