ciara moloney
@ciaramoloney.bsky.social
film and TV critic, at current affairs and other places. eclectic academic. phd on martin mcdonagh + diaspora. intermittent podcaster. into sitcoms, slasher movies, and martin and lewis.
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ciara moloney
@ciaramoloney.bsky.social
· Nov 18
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latest newsletter 📧📫
The Sundae Presents Christmas Special! Meet Me in St. Louis 🎁
Plus a long read about westerns! Superman vs Ralph Nader! And more!
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December 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
latest newsletter 📧📫
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final pod of the year! Meet Me in St. Louis rules! also I finally had a contextual excuse to drop a song about shooting the President of the United States!
BRAND NEW: for our Christmas episode, we watched Meet Me in St. Louis and talked about how funny it is! also colonialism a bit! Merry Christmas!
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Meet Me in St. Louis: The Sundae Presents, Episode 42
Ciara and Dean take a Christmas journey to St. Louis, Missouri with Judy Garland. They talk about wonderfully horrible children, the history of world’s fairs and whether John Truett is a neur…
thesundae.net
December 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
final pod of the year! Meet Me in St. Louis rules! also I finally had a contextual excuse to drop a song about shooting the President of the United States!
hell yeah tune in 🔉 and have yourself a merry little christmas ❄️
BRAND NEW: for our Christmas episode, we watched Meet Me in St. Louis and talked about how funny it is! also colonialism a bit! Merry Christmas!
thesundae.net/2025/12/23/m...
thesundae.net/2025/12/23/m...
Meet Me in St. Louis: The Sundae Presents, Episode 42
Ciara and Dean take a Christmas journey to St. Louis, Missouri with Judy Garland. They talk about wonderfully horrible children, the history of world’s fairs and whether John Truett is a neur…
thesundae.net
December 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
hell yeah tune in 🔉 and have yourself a merry little christmas ❄️
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Remember when every leader wanted their picture taken with Greta? She is still that truth teller, they just can't face the truth of their crimes.
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Remember when every leader wanted their picture taken with Greta? She is still that truth teller, they just can't face the truth of their crimes.
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It's that time of the year. Time to count down our ten most popular episodes of a truncated season.
Our tenth most popular episode was Mark Webb's "Snow White", with @mistercinecal.bsky.social and @ciaramoloney.bsky.social.
Rachel Zegler, CGI dwarves and more!
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Our tenth most popular episode was Mark Webb's "Snow White", with @mistercinecal.bsky.social and @ciaramoloney.bsky.social.
Rachel Zegler, CGI dwarves and more!
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421. Snow White - Ani-May 2025 (#---)
Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guests Luke Dunne and Ciara Moloney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted
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December 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
It's that time of the year. Time to count down our ten most popular episodes of a truncated season.
Our tenth most popular episode was Mark Webb's "Snow White", with @mistercinecal.bsky.social and @ciaramoloney.bsky.social.
Rachel Zegler, CGI dwarves and more!
soundcloud.com/the250/421-s...
Our tenth most popular episode was Mark Webb's "Snow White", with @mistercinecal.bsky.social and @ciaramoloney.bsky.social.
Rachel Zegler, CGI dwarves and more!
soundcloud.com/the250/421-s...
i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
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December 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
i'm fascinated by how much people love and are amazed by chat gpt saying "nice catch!" and "great observation!" because i personally find the condescension and obsequiousness the most skin-crawling thing about how LLMs "talk"
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You probably haven’t seen the disco roller musical extravaganza “Roller Boogie” (released on this day in 1979) — and here’s why you should: crookedmarquee.com/keep-the-cha...
Keep the Change, Bobby James: The Simple Pleasures of Roller Boogie — Crooked Marquee
There’s not an anniversary, or a news peg, or a new streaming or disc release. We just figure you probably haven’t seen this 1979 disco roller musical — and here’s why you should.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
You probably haven’t seen the disco roller musical extravaganza “Roller Boogie” (released on this day in 1979) — and here’s why you should: crookedmarquee.com/keep-the-cha...
wrote about one of my favourite performances!
“The shock of his performance in the 1974 TV movie ‘The Morning After’ remains undiluted because he’s largely maintained the persona that it deconstructs,” @ciaramoloney.bsky.social writes of Dick Van Dyke. crookedmarquee.com/in-praise-of...
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December 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
wrote about one of my favourite performances!
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“The shock of his performance in the 1974 TV movie ‘The Morning After’ remains undiluted because he’s largely maintained the persona that it deconstructs,” @ciaramoloney.bsky.social writes of Dick Van Dyke. crookedmarquee.com/in-praise-of...
crookedmarquee.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
“The shock of his performance in the 1974 TV movie ‘The Morning After’ remains undiluted because he’s largely maintained the persona that it deconstructs,” @ciaramoloney.bsky.social writes of Dick Van Dyke. crookedmarquee.com/in-praise-of...
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“The shock of his performance in the 1974 TV movie ‘The Morning After’ remains undiluted because he’s largely maintained the persona that it deconstructs,” @ciaramoloney.bsky.social writes of Dick Van Dyke. crookedmarquee.com/in-praise-of...
crookedmarquee.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
“The shock of his performance in the 1974 TV movie ‘The Morning After’ remains undiluted because he’s largely maintained the persona that it deconstructs,” @ciaramoloney.bsky.social writes of Dick Van Dyke. crookedmarquee.com/in-praise-of...
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Cannot remember the last time I saw this man say anything other than moaning about how unfair everybody is to him
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has hit out at media coverage of the long-awaited Fianna Fáil review of its disastrous presidential election campaign, calling some reporting "disappointing, selective and inaccurate".
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Taoiseach hits out at 'selective and inaccurate' media coverage of presidential campaign review
A special parliamentary party meeting is due to be held this week.
jrnl.ie
December 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Cannot remember the last time I saw this man say anything other than moaning about how unfair everybody is to him
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Because if you care about securely owning a movie that you love--as opposed to "owning" it only until a license agreement over which you have no control expires without warning--you need a DVD or Blu-ray. The hardware may be yesterday; the concern is very much of this moment.
Why do (us) old people want to burden Gen Z with our nostalgia for an antique piece of hardware in the first place?
A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
December 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Because if you care about securely owning a movie that you love--as opposed to "owning" it only until a license agreement over which you have no control expires without warning--you need a DVD or Blu-ray. The hardware may be yesterday; the concern is very much of this moment.
don't know if this includes desktop or just the phone app, also have no recollection of visiting the Wikipedia page for eddie hobbs or why. I did read the whole of the page for castrato though
December 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
don't know if this includes desktop or just the phone app, also have no recollection of visiting the Wikipedia page for eddie hobbs or why. I did read the whole of the page for castrato though
"In boots I'm five three."
Davey Jones screen test, as featured at the end of s01e10, Here Come The Monkees
Davey Jones screen test, as featured at the end of s01e10, Here Come The Monkees
December 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"In boots I'm five three."
Davey Jones screen test, as featured at the end of s01e10, Here Come The Monkees
Davey Jones screen test, as featured at the end of s01e10, Here Come The Monkees
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There's a trick to John Hughes' pictures—probably an unconscious, instinctive choice...he never goes beyond a kid's point of view; even the supposedly adult characters are seen only in kids' terms. (1986)
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
There's a trick to John Hughes' pictures—probably an unconscious, instinctive choice...he never goes beyond a kid's point of view; even the supposedly adult characters are seen only in kids' terms. (1986)
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scarface is for girls!!!
On this day in 1983, moviegoers got their first look at one of our favorite girly movies: Brian De Palma’s “Scarface.” crookedmarquee.com/scarface-is-...
Scarface is For Girls — Crooked Marquee
As the “Barbie” gender essentialism discourse finally (hopefully?) comes to an end, let’s take a look at one of our favorite female-coded movies.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
scarface is for girls!!!
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Pointing out (because when else would I get to show off this research) that about 533 U.S.–produced features, from both major studios and independents, were released into theaters in 1957. In 2017, there were 131 given wide release, including independents. It's astounding how output has shrunk.
30+ movies a year. Wow. That's very impressive. This year Paramount released a grand total of 7, exactly one of which made the year's top 25 (while losing $), so there is zero reason to believe that the company has the means to more than quadruple its output. deadline.com/2025/12/para...
Paramount Promises To Release 30+ Films Annually If It Acquires Warner Bros: “We’re Going To Satisfy The Needs Of The Moviegoing Public”
Should Paramount succeed in acquiring Warner Bros, the combined studio will release more than 30 theatrical titles a year. This was Paramount CEO David Ellison’s promise during a phone presser followi...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Pointing out (because when else would I get to show off this research) that about 533 U.S.–produced features, from both major studios and independents, were released into theaters in 1957. In 2017, there were 131 given wide release, including independents. It's astounding how output has shrunk.
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if i was one of them dervishes i'd rotate very slowly instead, sort of as a comment on our relationship with whirling, the social pressure to whirl in dervish communities, etc... it's not a statement AGAINST whirling, i'd clarify in an interview, only against whirling frivolously, without intention
December 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
if i was one of them dervishes i'd rotate very slowly instead, sort of as a comment on our relationship with whirling, the social pressure to whirl in dervish communities, etc... it's not a statement AGAINST whirling, i'd clarify in an interview, only against whirling frivolously, without intention
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i didn't think i had any real positive expectations for the academic job market because i'd heard all about the crisis of precarity, how hard it is to get a permanent job, people cobbling together part-time gigs on opposite sides of the country and bouncing from one temporary contract to another but
December 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
i didn't think i had any real positive expectations for the academic job market because i'd heard all about the crisis of precarity, how hard it is to get a permanent job, people cobbling together part-time gigs on opposite sides of the country and bouncing from one temporary contract to another but
lot of competition but i think my favourite thing in the monkees pad is the "love of money is the root of all evil" embroidery. the sign saying "in case of fire, run" is up there though
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
lot of competition but i think my favourite thing in the monkees pad is the "love of money is the root of all evil" embroidery. the sign saying "in case of fire, run" is up there though