Welcome to the John Bleasdale Universe.
The John Bleasdale Universe is a collection of my work from film criticism to fiction; podcasting to biography. It is also home to the Lynch Blog, BondBlog, Stanley KuBlog and the completed Steven SpielBlog, respectively a film by film examination of the films of James Bond and the careers of David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg.
I have a new biography of Terrence Malick due out in December, 2024, available here. It is the first of its kind and I am very excited to have everybody read it.
I am also an avid podcaster. I'm approaching 200 episodes of Writers on Film, the only podcast dedicated to books on cinema. I have just begun the James Bond Book Club, a reading of the Ian Fleming novels chronologically. You can sample episodes below. Cinema Italia is on a break at the moment but is likely to resume soon.
I write mostly about film but also occasionally politics. My writing has appeared in Variety, The Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian, The Independent, The Skinny, CineVue, Film School Rejects, Hotcorn, Sight and Sound and The What and the Why, as well as Il Manifesto in Italian and Film Bulletin in Swiss German.
I attend many, many international film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Macao, the Pingyao International Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the Tromso International Film Festival, El Gouna International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the Red Sea Film Festival, Bergen and Locarno.
Some of my reviews are collected at Rotten Tomatoes and you can also follow me on Letterboxd.
I have a new biography of Terrence Malick due out in December, 2024, available here. It is the first of its kind and I am very excited to have everybody read it.
I am also an avid podcaster. I'm approaching 200 episodes of Writers on Film, the only podcast dedicated to books on cinema. I have just begun the James Bond Book Club, a reading of the Ian Fleming novels chronologically. You can sample episodes below. Cinema Italia is on a break at the moment but is likely to resume soon.
I write mostly about film but also occasionally politics. My writing has appeared in Variety, The Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian, The Independent, The Skinny, CineVue, Film School Rejects, Hotcorn, Sight and Sound and The What and the Why, as well as Il Manifesto in Italian and Film Bulletin in Swiss German.
I attend many, many international film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Macao, the Pingyao International Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, the Tromso International Film Festival, El Gouna International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the Red Sea Film Festival, Bergen and Locarno.
Some of my reviews are collected at Rotten Tomatoes and you can also follow me on Letterboxd.
Steven SpielBLOG
SpielBlog is a film-by-film soup-to-nuts rundown of the career of the most successful Hollywood director currently alive. It will take an irreverent but informed look at the work of the man who has defined fifty years of film making. It can be found here. |
Stanley KuBLOG
I'm writing a new complete soup to nuts film blog on the career of one of my favourite film makers Stanley Kubrick. It's called Stanley KuBLOG and can be found HERE.
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