Josh Lewis
@thejoshl.bsky.social
Mojito fiend, leftist, film bro, host @sleazoidspod.bsky.social, film programmer, theater manager & physical media guy. I write about movies: http://letterboxd.com/thejoshl
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Forgive the shameless promo you're about to witness, have done a number recent SLEAZOIDS episodes with some people who gravitated over here (and that we never properly shared here) that we wanted to shoutout. So bear with me!
An opportunity to share one of my favorite original lobby cards that I own!!! Robert Mitchum drunkenly watching Bobby Orr and going “what a future he’s got, huh?” not knowing what’s about to happen to him makes me tear up.
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
An opportunity to share one of my favorite original lobby cards that I own!!! Robert Mitchum drunkenly watching Bobby Orr and going “what a future he’s got, huh?” not knowing what’s about to happen to him makes me tear up.
Reposted by Josh Lewis
For free listeners, we’ll be back next week with a special guest talking about black female-led crime-thrillers: COFFY (1973) and SET IT OFF (1996), until then here’s a brief teaser for this bonus episode: soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
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November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
For free listeners, we’ll be back next week with a special guest talking about black female-led crime-thrillers: COFFY (1973) and SET IT OFF (1996), until then here’s a brief teaser for this bonus episode: soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
Reposted by Josh Lewis
🕵️♂️ 406 - OUT OF THE PAST (1947) + FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (1973) 🕵️♂️
This week we discussed Robert Mitchum's long face and sad, weary eyes in Tourneur's classic, tragic prototypical 40s film noir and Yates' blunt, unglamourous Boston bank-robbing 70s neo-noir.
Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/406-ou...
This week we discussed Robert Mitchum's long face and sad, weary eyes in Tourneur's classic, tragic prototypical 40s film noir and Yates' blunt, unglamourous Boston bank-robbing 70s neo-noir.
Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/406-ou...
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🕵️♂️ 406 - OUT OF THE PAST (1947) + FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (1973) 🕵️♂️
This week we discussed Robert Mitchum's long face and sad, weary eyes in Tourneur's classic, tragic prototypical 40s film noir and Yates' blunt, unglamourous Boston bank-robbing 70s neo-noir.
Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/406-ou...
This week we discussed Robert Mitchum's long face and sad, weary eyes in Tourneur's classic, tragic prototypical 40s film noir and Yates' blunt, unglamourous Boston bank-robbing 70s neo-noir.
Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/406-ou...
NOIRVEMBER is upon us, and we were lucky enough to have
@meganabbott.bsky.social on to talk about two of her favs: Edgar G. Ulmer's dirty, depressed, intensely psychologically subjective murderous hitchhiking noir and Val Lewton/Mark Robson's bleak, satanic Gothic-horror conspiracy-mystery noir.
@meganabbott.bsky.social on to talk about two of her favs: Edgar G. Ulmer's dirty, depressed, intensely psychologically subjective murderous hitchhiking noir and Val Lewton/Mark Robson's bleak, satanic Gothic-horror conspiracy-mystery noir.
🕵️♂️ 405 - DETOUR (1945) + THE 7TH VICTIM (1943) ft.
@meganabbott.bsky.social 🕵️♂️
This week we kicked off Noirvember with two of the most dreamlike, expressionist & nihilistic 40s B-noirs.
Listen here:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/0gHc...
@meganabbott.bsky.social 🕵️♂️
This week we kicked off Noirvember with two of the most dreamlike, expressionist & nihilistic 40s B-noirs.
Listen here:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/0gHc...
November 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
NOIRVEMBER is upon us, and we were lucky enough to have
@meganabbott.bsky.social on to talk about two of her favs: Edgar G. Ulmer's dirty, depressed, intensely psychologically subjective murderous hitchhiking noir and Val Lewton/Mark Robson's bleak, satanic Gothic-horror conspiracy-mystery noir.
@meganabbott.bsky.social on to talk about two of her favs: Edgar G. Ulmer's dirty, depressed, intensely psychologically subjective murderous hitchhiking noir and Val Lewton/Mark Robson's bleak, satanic Gothic-horror conspiracy-mystery noir.
Reposted by Josh Lewis
🕵️♂️ 405 - DETOUR (1945) + THE 7TH VICTIM (1943) ft.
@meganabbott.bsky.social 🕵️♂️
This week we kicked off Noirvember with two of the most dreamlike, expressionist & nihilistic 40s B-noirs.
Listen here:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/0gHc...
@meganabbott.bsky.social 🕵️♂️
This week we kicked off Noirvember with two of the most dreamlike, expressionist & nihilistic 40s B-noirs.
Listen here:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/0gHc...
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🕵️♂️ 405 - DETOUR (1945) + THE 7TH VICTIM (1943) ft.
@meganabbott.bsky.social 🕵️♂️
This week we kicked off Noirvember with two of the most dreamlike, expressionist & nihilistic 40s B-noirs.
Listen here:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/0gHc...
@meganabbott.bsky.social 🕵️♂️
This week we kicked off Noirvember with two of the most dreamlike, expressionist & nihilistic 40s B-noirs.
Listen here:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/0gHc...
The Seventh Victim (1943) dir. Mark Robson
October 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The Seventh Victim (1943) dir. Mark Robson
Final spooky episode of the year is a big one on some of our favorite guys: Boris Karloff, James Whale, Terence Fisher, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee.
🎃 404 - FRANKENSTEIN (1931) + CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) 👻
This week we discussed two adaptations of Mary Shelley in different eras of Gothic, sci-fi horror: the iconic pre-Code Universal Monsters take in 1931 and the more graphic & lurid 1957 Hammer Horror update
www.patreon.com/posts/404-fr...
This week we discussed two adaptations of Mary Shelley in different eras of Gothic, sci-fi horror: the iconic pre-Code Universal Monsters take in 1931 and the more graphic & lurid 1957 Hammer Horror update
www.patreon.com/posts/404-fr...
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Final spooky episode of the year is a big one on some of our favorite guys: Boris Karloff, James Whale, Terence Fisher, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee.
Reposted by Josh Lewis
For free listeners, we’ll be back next week with a special guest kicking off Noirvember with: THE SEVENTH VICTIM (1943) + DETOUR (1945), until then here’s a brief teaser for this bonus episode: soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
For free listeners, we’ll be back next week with a special guest kicking off Noirvember with: THE SEVENTH VICTIM (1943) + DETOUR (1945), until then here’s a brief teaser for this bonus episode: soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
Reposted by Josh Lewis
🎃 404 - FRANKENSTEIN (1931) + CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) 👻
This week we discussed two adaptations of Mary Shelley in different eras of Gothic, sci-fi horror: the iconic pre-Code Universal Monsters take in 1931 and the more graphic & lurid 1957 Hammer Horror update
www.patreon.com/posts/404-fr...
This week we discussed two adaptations of Mary Shelley in different eras of Gothic, sci-fi horror: the iconic pre-Code Universal Monsters take in 1931 and the more graphic & lurid 1957 Hammer Horror update
www.patreon.com/posts/404-fr...
October 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🎃 404 - FRANKENSTEIN (1931) + CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) 👻
This week we discussed two adaptations of Mary Shelley in different eras of Gothic, sci-fi horror: the iconic pre-Code Universal Monsters take in 1931 and the more graphic & lurid 1957 Hammer Horror update
www.patreon.com/posts/404-fr...
This week we discussed two adaptations of Mary Shelley in different eras of Gothic, sci-fi horror: the iconic pre-Code Universal Monsters take in 1931 and the more graphic & lurid 1957 Hammer Horror update
www.patreon.com/posts/404-fr...
Reposted by Josh Lewis
Looks like our pals at the Sleazoids podcast are now over here. Give them some love.
October 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Looks like our pals at the Sleazoids podcast are now over here. Give them some love.
For the first time in my lifetime our Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series.
October 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
For the first time in my lifetime our Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series.
This week we had @slimyswampghost.bsky.social back on the pod to discuss a pair of disgusting 1980s Video Nasty slashers that are at times also relaxing, slow-burn remote island travelogues. Pretty hard to scrub the image of George Eastman tearing a fetus out of the womb & chowing down on it after.
🎃 403 - ANTHROPOPHAGOUS (1980) + THE SLAYER (1982) ft. @slimyswampghost.bsky.social 👻
Listen 🎧:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/1vgM...
Listen 🎧:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/1vgM...
October 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This week we had @slimyswampghost.bsky.social back on the pod to discuss a pair of disgusting 1980s Video Nasty slashers that are at times also relaxing, slow-burn remote island travelogues. Pretty hard to scrub the image of George Eastman tearing a fetus out of the womb & chowing down on it after.
Reposted by Josh Lewis
🎃 403 - ANTHROPOPHAGOUS (1980) + THE SLAYER (1982) ft. @slimyswampghost.bsky.social 👻
Listen 🎧:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/1vgM...
Listen 🎧:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/1vgM...
October 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🎃 403 - ANTHROPOPHAGOUS (1980) + THE SLAYER (1982) ft. @slimyswampghost.bsky.social 👻
Listen 🎧:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/1vgM...
Listen 🎧:
soundcloud.com/sleazoids/40...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
open.spotify.com/episode/1vgM...
Reposted by Josh Lewis
The best movie podcast is finally on here
October 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The best movie podcast is finally on here
Looking at an account on here and trying to figure out if I used to follow it or have it blocked…
a young man with a mustache is talking into a microphone in a store .
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October 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Looking at an account on here and trying to figure out if I used to follow it or have it blocked…
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They're finally on here!
To me, they are the undisputed best genre cinema podcast.
To me, they are the undisputed best genre cinema podcast.
October 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
They're finally on here!
To me, they are the undisputed best genre cinema podcast.
To me, they are the undisputed best genre cinema podcast.
Reposted by Josh Lewis
If you haven’t got your SLEAZOIDS t-shirt or dad cap yet we still have stock available at: blackbeltcinema.ca/search?q=sle...
October 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If you haven’t got your SLEAZOIDS t-shirt or dad cap yet we still have stock available at: blackbeltcinema.ca/search?q=sle...
Reposted by Josh Lewis
Rewatched Army of Darkness last night. Raimi’s breathlessly manic kineticism should be exhausting even at 80m but man… the slapstick gags, cartoon mugging, stop-motion action craft and willingness to just move on from/blow up anything on screen on a dime. What a filmmaker.
October 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Rewatched Army of Darkness last night. Raimi’s breathlessly manic kineticism should be exhausting even at 80m but man… the slapstick gags, cartoon mugging, stop-motion action craft and willingness to just move on from/blow up anything on screen on a dime. What a filmmaker.
Forgive the shameless promo you're about to witness, have done a number recent SLEAZOIDS episodes with some people who gravitated over here (and that we never properly shared here) that we wanted to shoutout. So bear with me!
October 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Forgive the shameless promo you're about to witness, have done a number recent SLEAZOIDS episodes with some people who gravitated over here (and that we never properly shared here) that we wanted to shoutout. So bear with me!
The Jays we watched all year finally decided to show up. A beautiful sight.
October 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The Jays we watched all year finally decided to show up. A beautiful sight.
The spooky season is about throwing on an Italian horror film and sitting through some misogynistic American guy driving around Rome doing bozo detective shit for like 95% of the runtime to get to the 5% of gruesome slasher kills you know are coming when the groovy baseline hits.
October 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The spooky season is about throwing on an Italian horror film and sitting through some misogynistic American guy driving around Rome doing bozo detective shit for like 95% of the runtime to get to the 5% of gruesome slasher kills you know are coming when the groovy baseline hits.