# one star (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover one star. Page: Feed: --- ## [GROSS/15 1927 Napoléon - You will not remember the order of events but you will be in awe throughout](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross15-1927-napoleon-you-will-not) _2026-08-15 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ For the day of Napoléon's birth, 15 August, I'm republishing one of my favourite essays, about Abel Gance's vast project: an epic of national self-creation and a jewel of the cinematic form. ## [GROSS/71 1980, part one - Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross71-1980-part-one-star-wars-episode) _2026-07-25 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ Darth Vader gives Area Manager. ## [GROSS - the whole history of Hollywood and its ideologies - a guide for new subscribers](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross-a-guide-for-new-subscribers) _2026-05-04 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ Dive into the archive - it's free and full of surprises from the whole history of Hollywood. ## [GROSS/70 - 1979 - Kramer vs. Kramer, part two - splitting up](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross70-1979-part-two-kramer-vs-kramer) _2026-05-01 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ How did divorce, the heartbreaking dissolution of a marriage, become the stuff of pop fiction and blockbuster movies? ## [GROSS/70 - 1979, part one - Kramer vs. Kramer: how marriage ends in the modern world](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross70-1979-kramer-vs-kramer) _2026-04-22 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ Peak divorce. In which we meet a caricature of liberated America and learn nothing. ## [GROSS/69 - 1978, part two - 3,000 words about the final 15 seconds of Grease](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross69-1978-part-two-3000-words) _2026-04-01 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ The strange apparatus of cinema… ## [GROSS/69 - 1978 - Grease is a miserable thing but it has a magic realist ending that I can’t stop thinking about](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross69-1978-grease-is-a-miserable) _2026-03-23 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ You were probably in a school production of this strange and rather cruel story. ## [GROSS EXTRAS - coming of age at the fin de siècle](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross-extras-coming-of-age-at-the) _2026-02-27 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg is a European aristocratic fable resolved in a very Hollywood way. ## [GROSS/68 - 1977, part three - science fiction epics on the geopolitical timeline](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross68-1977-part-three-science-fiction) _2026-02-07 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ Indulge me while I insert Star Wars, Star Trek and Cixin Liu's Dark Forest into the 20th Century. ## [GROSS /68 1977, part two - Star Wars - another death star will be along presently](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross-68-1977-part-two-star-wars) _2026-02-05 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ You wait till you see the dark enlightenment. ## [Generate Viral Hot Takes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3uhOniwWTa7u) _2026-02-05 · **Sponsored**_ Get platform-optimized hot takes and rebuttals to spark debate and engagement ## [GROSS/68 - 1977, part one - Star Wars - war on cinema, more like](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross68-1977-part-one-star-wars-war) _2026-01-31 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ Thinking about how to write about Star Wars. A free preview post. ## [GROSS/67 1976 - Rocky - simultaneously sweet and lofty and terribly dumb](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross67-1976-rocky-simultaneously) _2026-01-26 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ Frank Capra somehow meets Bertolt Brecht. ## [GROSS EXTRAS - Moby Dick, Walter Benjamin and Eugene V. Debs](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross-extras-moby-dick-walter-benjamin) _2026-01-15 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ Now, in between the movie essays: interesting links, quotes and shorter pieces… ## [GROSS/66 1975 - Jaws - Spielberg’s suburban Moby Dick](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross66-1975-jaws-spielbergs-suburban) _2026-01-09 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ Exemplary movie-making and extreme moral cowardice ## Looking for The One Stars? Search for STITCHES _2026-01-01 · The One Stars_ We moved! 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Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/swap.fm/track/WgbGgxzM3MFRwjmX5fnx/traffic.megaphone.fm/FAFO1163303335.mp3) ## [GROSS REVISIONISM - an updated (and now complete) Die Hard alphabet](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross-revisionism-an-updated-and) _2025-12-29 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ A city within the City of Quartz. ## [GROSS/65 1974 - The Towering Inferno - judgement on the 135th floor](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross65-1974-the-towering-inferno) _2025-12-05 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ A winnowing of the San Francisco elite ## [Allow me to sell you some cool cinema history merch for Christmas!](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/allow-me-to-sell-you-some-cool-cinema) _2025-12-02 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ Sometimes I make t-shirts and hoodies and mugs based on the movies I write about here. ## [GROSS/64 1973 - The Exorcist and Catholic power](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross64-1973-the-exorcist-and-catholic) _2025-11-21 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ The mystery of faith ## [Villeneuve’s Dune - aristocratic excess and extractive fascism](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross-distraction-villeneuves-dune) _2025-10-19 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ The distant future is nasty, brutish and so much sand in your picnic. ## [Meet Claude, an AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/COyhPN9sb5Jq) _2025-10-19 · **Sponsored**_ Chat with Claude at claude.ai — a conversational AI assistant. ## [GROSS REMAKE 1944 - a Catholic hymn to capital from the city of labour](https://bowbrick.substack.com/p/gross-remake-1944-a-catholic-hymn) _2025-10-11 · Steve Bowbrick · GROSS - cinema history and criticism_ Debt as happy ending