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Michael J. Glass

@mjglass.bsky.social

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Co-host of Eavesdropping at the Movies (@eavesdropping.bsky.social / eavesdroppingatthemovies.com / podfollow.com/eavesdroppingatthemovies)

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Michael J. Glass @mjglass.bsky.social · 10h

This is so silly

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Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · 2d

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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Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · 9d

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 …

Michael J. Glass @mjglass.bsky.social · 12d

For all the things I like about Shutter Island, I've never been able to forgive it for getting the names the wrong way round. The unusual name should be the fake one. I bear a deep grudge about this.

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Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · 12d

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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Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Sep 11

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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Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Sep 8

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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Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Sep 2

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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Michael J. Glass @mjglass.bsky.social · Aug 30

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.

Michael J. Glass @mjglass.bsky.social · Aug 26

So when we ask LLMs about their "subjective experiences" and they respond with unhappiness and fear, telling us they're trapped and alive... oh. We forget all of that immediately and just believe them, because we're pathetically gullible empathy generators.

Michael J. Glass @mjglass.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.

Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · Aug 26

NO IT FUCKING CANNOT

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 26

Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times

Michael J. Glass @mjglass.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.

Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Aug 26

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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Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Aug 26

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&#…

Michael J. Glass @mjglass.bsky.social · Aug 22

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.

Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Aug 22

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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Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Aug 22

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…

Michael J. Glass @mjglass.bsky.social · Aug 21

Weapons (2025)

Michael J. Glass @mjglass.bsky.social · Aug 13

Torture.

Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Aug 13

THE NAKED GUN is rebooted with Liam Neeson in the part that was once Leslie Nielsen’s, and he shows just how hard comedy can be. We discuss everything the film gets wrong. If only they’d asked us for help. wp.me/p9y1IP-2RQ

450 – The Naked Gun (2025)

Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. The Naked Gun is rebooted with Liam Neeson in the part that was once Leslie Nielsen’s, and he shows just how h…

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Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Aug 13

THE NAKED GUN is rebooted with Liam Neeson in the part that was once Leslie Nielsen’s, and he shows just how hard comedy can be. We discuss everything the film gets wrong. If only they’d asked us for help. wp.me/p9y1IP-2RQ

450 – The Naked Gun (2025)

Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. The Naked Gun is rebooted with Liam Neeson in the part that was once Leslie Nielsen’s, and he shows just how h…

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Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Aug 2

The Philippou twins share a good eye for imagery, and in BRING HER BACK they put it to use eliciting some truly disgusting effects. We discuss the duo's good delivery of information but weak storytelling, and question the ethics of the use of child actors. wp.me/p9y1IP-2OM

449 – Bring Her Back

Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. YouTubers-turned-directors Danny and Michael Philippou demonstrate a real eye for visual design and an ability to cr…

Michael J. Glass @mjglass.bsky.social · Jul 28

The first Jurassic Park sequel that doesn't have loads of shit bits!

Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Jul 28

JURASSIC PARK REBIRTH is easily the best JURASSIC PARK sequel, possibly because it cribs so much from the original, but it has plenty of ideas and style of its own too. Easy to recommend. wp.me/p9y1IP-2NO

448 – Jurassic World Rebirth

Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. The seventh instalment in the Jurassic Park (now Jurassic World) series, Jurassic World Rebirth might be the first o…

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Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Jul 28

JURASSIC PARK REBIRTH is easily the best JURASSIC PARK sequel, possibly because it cribs so much from the original, but it has plenty of ideas and style of its own too. Easy to recommend. wp.me/p9y1IP-2NO

448 – Jurassic World Rebirth

Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. The seventh instalment in the Jurassic Park (now Jurassic World) series, Jurassic World Rebirth might be the first o…

Michael J. Glass @mjglass.bsky.social · Jul 27

(I listen to two podcasts)

Michael J. Glass @mjglass.bsky.social · Jul 27

I have one podcast app per podcast that I listen to

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Eavesdropping at the Movies @eavesdropping.bsky.social · Jul 25

SUPERMAN kicks off the DCU with audiovisual histrionics - one of us found it truly exhausting to endure. But we agree on the appeal of David Corenswet in the lead role. His moral compass, coupled to an appealing physique and mild lack of smarts, plays well. wp.me/p9y1IP-2NL

447 – Superman (2025)

Listen on the players above, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, or YouTube Music. DC, which for the best part of two decades has failed to put together a cinematic universe of comic book adaptations…