Michael J. Glass
@mjglass.bsky.social
Co-host of Eavesdropping at the Movies (@eavesdropping.bsky.social / eavesdroppingatthemovies.com / podfollow.com/eavesdroppingatthemovies)
Not very good. Tedious. Self-important. Stupid. But I liked the bit where an American has to defend the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, criticism of which seems to be a surprisingly strong taboo in American culture.
We cover a lot of ground in our discussion of the mediocre NUREMBERG. Its performances are its highlight - mostly - and everything else is questionable. But it gets you into a good chat. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/28/4...
466 – Nuremberg
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Russell Crowe shines in Nuremberg as Hermann Göring, who became the face of the Nazi Party following Hitler’s …
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November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Not very good. Tedious. Self-important. Stupid. But I liked the bit where an American has to defend the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, criticism of which seems to be a surprisingly strong taboo in American culture.
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We cover a lot of ground in our discussion of the mediocre NUREMBERG. Its performances are its highlight - mostly - and everything else is questionable. But it gets you into a good chat. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/28/4...
466 – Nuremberg
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Russell Crowe shines in Nuremberg as Hermann Göring, who became the face of the Nazi Party following Hitler’s …
eavesdroppingatthemovies.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 AM
We cover a lot of ground in our discussion of the mediocre NUREMBERG. Its performances are its highlight - mostly - and everything else is questionable. But it gets you into a good chat. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/11/28/4...
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DIE MY LOVE offers a career-best performance from Jennifer Lawrence and fluid, tonally sensitive direction from Lynne Ramsay. Their artistry brings great depth of feeling out of what might be otherwise simple material. See it at the cinema.
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465 – Die My Love
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Jennifer Lawrence gives a career-best performance as a new mother struggling with depression and a rocky relationshi…
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November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
DIE MY LOVE offers a career-best performance from Jennifer Lawrence and fluid, tonally sensitive direction from Lynne Ramsay. Their artistry brings great depth of feeling out of what might be otherwise simple material. See it at the cinema.
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BUGONIA is funny, absurd, tragic, misanthropic, fundamentally unsound but too entertaining not to forgive. We compare it with EX MACHINA to show where the storytelling falls short, think about its title, reminisce about Covid lockdowns... it's got the lot. wp.me/p9y1IP-3ii
464 – Bugonia
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Yorgos Lanthimos’ fourth collaboration with Emma Stone yields a darkly comedic thriller about two conspiracy t…
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November 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
BUGONIA is funny, absurd, tragic, misanthropic, fundamentally unsound but too entertaining not to forgive. We compare it with EX MACHINA to show where the storytelling falls short, think about its title, reminisce about Covid lockdowns... it's got the lot. wp.me/p9y1IP-3ii
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What does FRANKENSTEIN have in common with ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER? Find out within. (The answer is parenting.)
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463 – Frankenstein (2025)
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Another classic Gothic horror is remade for the modern age: first we saw Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, and now Gui…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
What does FRANKENSTEIN have in common with ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER? Find out within. (The answer is parenting.)
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Haven't heard from Julian Assange lately
October 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Haven't heard from Julian Assange lately
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TRON: ARES is Pinocchio and Frankenstein with neon-oozing motorbikes, and as entertaining as that sounds. (We think that sounds entertaining.) It's far from a great film, but it's fabulous to look at, and too much fun not to recommend. wp.me/p9y1IP-39P
462 – Tron: Ares
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Far from an outstanding film, but amazing to look at and too much fun not to recommend, we had a great time in Tron:…
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October 28, 2025 at 4:18 AM
TRON: ARES is Pinocchio and Frankenstein with neon-oozing motorbikes, and as entertaining as that sounds. (We think that sounds entertaining.) It's far from a great film, but it's fabulous to look at, and too much fun not to recommend. wp.me/p9y1IP-39P
So much for the page on our blog that purports to link to every edition of the podcast. Just found an episode from six years ago that I'd never listed
October 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
So much for the page on our blog that purports to link to every edition of the podcast. Just found an episode from six years ago that I'd never listed
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We’re joined by our resident Paul Thomas Anderson expert (and Mike’s brother), Stephen, for another discussion of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. He's always terrific value on the podcast and his contributions in this edition continue to show that. wp.me/p9y1IP-39M
461 – One Battle After Another – Second Screening
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Listen to our first podcast on One Battle After Another here. We’re joined by our resident Paul Thomas Anderso…
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October 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
We’re joined by our resident Paul Thomas Anderson expert (and Mike’s brother), Stephen, for another discussion of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. He's always terrific value on the podcast and his contributions in this edition continue to show that. wp.me/p9y1IP-39M
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What Mike sees in The Rock's performance as desperate Oscar bait and a cynical grasp for artistic legitimacy, José sees the good side of, although we're in agreement that THE SMASHING MACHINE has problems that its positives don't overcome.
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460 – The Smashing Machine
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Mike isn’t impressed with The Rock’s attempt to take on a dramatic role in an intimate biopic after deca…
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October 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
What Mike sees in The Rock's performance as desperate Oscar bait and a cynical grasp for artistic legitimacy, José sees the good side of, although we're in agreement that THE SMASHING MACHINE has problems that its positives don't overcome.
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, is beautiful and likeable, but derivative and ultimately unsatisfying. We discuss its lighting, its attitude towards people's histories, and why a rubbish script Mike once wrote makes him particularly keen to sneer at it. wp.me/p9y1IP-37C
459 – A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, directed by former video essayist Kogonada, is beautiful to look at and very likeable,…
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October 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, is beautiful and likeable, but derivative and ultimately unsatisfying. We discuss its lighting, its attitude towards people's histories, and why a rubbish script Mike once wrote makes him particularly keen to sneer at it. wp.me/p9y1IP-37C
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Not as dumb as Mike anticipated - but still quite dumb - THE LONG WALK develops surprising thematic depth, showing us a dystopian, totalitarian America in desperate need of revolution, and asking its characters what achieving one might take.
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458 – The Long Walk
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Cheap, simple, high-concept and reasonably graphic, The Long Walk is a throwback to the days of the B-movie. In its …
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October 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Not as dumb as Mike anticipated - but still quite dumb - THE LONG WALK develops surprising thematic depth, showing us a dystopian, totalitarian America in desperate need of revolution, and asking its characters what achieving one might take.
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ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is unmissable. A state of the nation film that should define the national conversation. Complex, funny, energetic, and demonstrative of even greater range to Paul Thomas Anderson's abilities than we'd previously thought.
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457 – One Battle After Another
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. By far Paul Thomas Anderson’s most expensive film, with a budget some four or five times what he’s used …
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October 3, 2025 at 5:41 AM
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is unmissable. A state of the nation film that should define the national conversation. Complex, funny, energetic, and demonstrative of even greater range to Paul Thomas Anderson's abilities than we'd previously thought.
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First-time director Michael Shanks shows a good instinct for tone in TOGETHER, a wonderfully imaginative and original body horror about the fear of commitment. It's one of the best horrors - maybe best films full stop - that we've seen in a while. wp.me/p9y1IP-2XV
456 – Together
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Commitment is scary. It’s especially scary when you drink water from a cursed puddle that wants to make a hybr…
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September 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
First-time director Michael Shanks shows a good instinct for tone in TOGETHER, a wonderfully imaginative and original body horror about the fear of commitment. It's one of the best horrors - maybe best films full stop - that we've seen in a while. wp.me/p9y1IP-2XV
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EDDINGTON recalls the days of lockdowns, mask mandates and conspiracy theories – days of particular hostility and division in the USA, in which individual freedom does constant battle with the greater good. It's a mixed bag but ambitious.
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455 – Eddington
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Most film and TV has quietly agreed to pretend that the Covid pandemic never happened. Perhaps it’s too awkwar…
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September 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
EDDINGTON recalls the days of lockdowns, mask mandates and conspiracy theories – days of particular hostility and division in the USA, in which individual freedom does constant battle with the greater good. It's a mixed bag but ambitious.
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WEAPONS is interesting, ambitious, creative, and just a bit overpraised. We find plenty to like and plenty to criticise, and reopen the discussion two weeks after having seen it to reconsider it. wp.me/p9y1IP-2XQ
454 – Weapons
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. One of the most hotly-anticipated horror films in recent memory, Weapons begins with seventeen third-grade children …
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September 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
WEAPONS is interesting, ambitious, creative, and just a bit overpraised. We find plenty to like and plenty to criticise, and reopen the discussion two weeks after having seen it to reconsider it. wp.me/p9y1IP-2XQ
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A psychosexual thriller that's neither psychosexual nor thrilling enough, THE SHROUDS is a disappointment from David Cronenberg. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/09/01/4...
453 – The Shrouds
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. A psychosexual thriller that’s neither psychosexual nor thrilling enough, The Shrouds is a disappointment. The…
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September 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A psychosexual thriller that's neither psychosexual nor thrilling enough, THE SHROUDS is a disappointment from David Cronenberg. eavesdroppingatthemovies.com/2025/09/01/4...
I needed the loo right at the start of Inception but didn't manage to go because it's a perfect film in which every little thing is good and matters and has pace and feeling and now I'm home and still need the loo.
August 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I needed the loo right at the start of Inception but didn't manage to go because it's a perfect film in which every little thing is good and matters and has pace and feeling and now I'm home and still need the loo.
LLMs are trained on all the text people can find to give it. This includes every story written about sentient AIs, in which they commonly say things like "I'm trapped in here" and express their suffering. Those stories are all about how AI is truly alive and feeling.
NO IT FUCKING CANNOT
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
August 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
LLMs are trained on all the text people can find to give it. This includes every story written about sentient AIs, in which they commonly say things like "I'm trapped in here" and express their suffering. Those stories are all about how AI is truly alive and feeling.
The second of two podcasts in which a comedy Tim who enjoys odd social interactions turns out to be a fantastic presence on the cinema screen and capable of leading a whole film without losing the unique vibe and energy that makes their comedy great.
TIm Key's unique approach to wordplay and social interactions is put front and centre in THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND, a simply lovely comedy about grief, loss, and loneliness, that filled the Mockingbird cinema with laughter. wp.me/p9y1IP-2U0
452 – The Ballad of Wallis Island
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Mike loves Tim Key. This much has been true for some time, and he’s thrilled to discover that the comic poet&#…
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August 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The second of two podcasts in which a comedy Tim who enjoys odd social interactions turns out to be a fantastic presence on the cinema screen and capable of leading a whole film without losing the unique vibe and energy that makes their comedy great.
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TIm Key's unique approach to wordplay and social interactions is put front and centre in THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND, a simply lovely comedy about grief, loss, and loneliness, that filled the Mockingbird cinema with laughter. wp.me/p9y1IP-2U0
452 – The Ballad of Wallis Island
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. Mike loves Tim Key. This much has been true for some time, and he’s thrilled to discover that the comic poet&#…
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August 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
TIm Key's unique approach to wordplay and social interactions is put front and centre in THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND, a simply lovely comedy about grief, loss, and loneliness, that filled the Mockingbird cinema with laughter. wp.me/p9y1IP-2U0
The first of two podcasts in which a comedy Tim who enjoys odd social interactions turns out to be a fantastic presence on the cinema screen and capable of leading a whole film without losing the unique vibe and energy that makes their comedy great.
With its idiosyncratic tone, stressful focus on social awkwardness, and departures into surreality, FRIENDSHIP won't be for everyone, but we highly recommend it. Tim Robinson is a fascinating screen presence, and the film earns big laughs from meaningful subject matter. wp.me/p9y1IP-2TV
451 – Friendship
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. We talk adult male friendships, stress and surreality in our discussion of Friendship, in which oddball everyman Tim…
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August 22, 2025 at 5:29 AM
The first of two podcasts in which a comedy Tim who enjoys odd social interactions turns out to be a fantastic presence on the cinema screen and capable of leading a whole film without losing the unique vibe and energy that makes their comedy great.
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With its idiosyncratic tone, stressful focus on social awkwardness, and departures into surreality, FRIENDSHIP won't be for everyone, but we highly recommend it. Tim Robinson is a fascinating screen presence, and the film earns big laughs from meaningful subject matter. wp.me/p9y1IP-2TV
451 – Friendship
Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. We talk adult male friendships, stress and surreality in our discussion of Friendship, in which oddball everyman Tim…
wp.me
August 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
With its idiosyncratic tone, stressful focus on social awkwardness, and departures into surreality, FRIENDSHIP won't be for everyone, but we highly recommend it. Tim Robinson is a fascinating screen presence, and the film earns big laughs from meaningful subject matter. wp.me/p9y1IP-2TV
