Daniel Carlson
@danielwcarlson.bsky.social
Lapsed film critic. Writer, reader, bearder. Seen at Crooked Marquee, Musings, Bright Wall Dark Room, Plex, several others. Sucker for ’90s country. Hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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Whatever amount of cocaine you thought was floating around in the 70s, double it
The “Star Wars Holiday Special” premiered on this day in 1978.
November 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Whatever amount of cocaine you thought was floating around in the 70s, double it
"We’re seeing a strategy where the movie itself is almost irrelevant. It’s not just product, but a secondary product to whatever an outlet with a successful YouTube channel or TikTok presence is producing."
This Bad Marketing Is Tremendous Content
What is the point of a press tour?
www.commentarytrack.net
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"We’re seeing a strategy where the movie itself is almost irrelevant. It’s not just product, but a secondary product to whatever an outlet with a successful YouTube channel or TikTok presence is producing."
The best websites are those that are true websites: that is, they use the internet's hyperlink and search ability to make something really enjoyable that could only exist online. For this reason, one of the best websites is and will always be Frinkiac frinkiac.com
Frinkiac
The Simpsons Search Engine - Create Memes and GIFs
frinkiac.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The best websites are those that are true websites: that is, they use the internet's hyperlink and search ability to make something really enjoyable that could only exist online. For this reason, one of the best websites is and will always be Frinkiac frinkiac.com
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Good titles:
MORVERN CALLAR
BREWSTER MCCLOUD
PUTNEY SWOPE
Bad titles:
JAY KELLY
ELLA MCCAY
JOHN CARTER
MORVERN CALLAR
BREWSTER MCCLOUD
PUTNEY SWOPE
Bad titles:
JAY KELLY
ELLA MCCAY
JOHN CARTER
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Good titles:
MORVERN CALLAR
BREWSTER MCCLOUD
PUTNEY SWOPE
Bad titles:
JAY KELLY
ELLA MCCAY
JOHN CARTER
MORVERN CALLAR
BREWSTER MCCLOUD
PUTNEY SWOPE
Bad titles:
JAY KELLY
ELLA MCCAY
JOHN CARTER
Rick Steves from 2014: "The more I travel, the clearer it seems to me: Fear is for people who don't get out much. These people don't see the world firsthand, so their opinions end up being shaped by sensationalistic media coverage geared toward selling ads."
Op-Ed: Tune out cable news and turn away fear
I miss the days when people would say "Bon voyage" to travelers heading off.
www.latimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Rick Steves from 2014: "The more I travel, the clearer it seems to me: Fear is for people who don't get out much. These people don't see the world firsthand, so their opinions end up being shaped by sensationalistic media coverage geared toward selling ads."
Not gonna lie, this is a sobering one
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Not gonna lie, this is a sobering one
Top 5 film genres:
- the detective is smart but solving the wrong mystery
- the frontier is a metaphor for my hidden personal failure
- dress shirts with tactical vests
- musical fantasia
- I can almost glimpse the pattern of meaning in the univers—shit, I lost it
- the detective is smart but solving the wrong mystery
- the frontier is a metaphor for my hidden personal failure
- dress shirts with tactical vests
- musical fantasia
- I can almost glimpse the pattern of meaning in the univers—shit, I lost it
top five film genres:
lady journalist in depression era america is going to get to the bottom of this, man or no man
warriors learn magic, defeat master who killed their master
the camera moves!: an experiment
the folks in this building is a reflection of all america
immigration as a vibe
lady journalist in depression era america is going to get to the bottom of this, man or no man
warriors learn magic, defeat master who killed their master
the camera moves!: an experiment
the folks in this building is a reflection of all america
immigration as a vibe
Top five film genres:
- pre-WW2 Hollywood comedy where plot’s tertiary at best, all vibes
- French or Italians lookin’ fabulous, talkin’ sophisticated
- your dad loves this movie & now that you’re 50 so do you
- porn is art when it’s softcore & everyone dresses nice
- L.A. Rebellion
- pre-WW2 Hollywood comedy where plot’s tertiary at best, all vibes
- French or Italians lookin’ fabulous, talkin’ sophisticated
- your dad loves this movie & now that you’re 50 so do you
- porn is art when it’s softcore & everyone dresses nice
- L.A. Rebellion
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Top 5 film genres:
- the detective is smart but solving the wrong mystery
- the frontier is a metaphor for my hidden personal failure
- dress shirts with tactical vests
- musical fantasia
- I can almost glimpse the pattern of meaning in the univers—shit, I lost it
- the detective is smart but solving the wrong mystery
- the frontier is a metaphor for my hidden personal failure
- dress shirts with tactical vests
- musical fantasia
- I can almost glimpse the pattern of meaning in the univers—shit, I lost it
The creative discrepancy between THE PHANTOM MENACE and “Duel of the Fates” is almost startling. Hard to think of another piece of music that good used in a movie that bad (the DRAGONHEART theme is also a contender)
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The creative discrepancy between THE PHANTOM MENACE and “Duel of the Fates” is almost startling. Hard to think of another piece of music that good used in a movie that bad (the DRAGONHEART theme is also a contender)
Don’t tell me there aren’t angels in this world
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Don’t tell me there aren’t angels in this world
After having owned a really good pair of headphones for the first time in my life (Sennheiser Accentum Plus Wireless), I feel comfortable stating that you have not actually heard real music on earbuds, stereo speakers, car set-ups, etc.—none match headphones for the sound’s sheer depths and layers
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
After having owned a really good pair of headphones for the first time in my life (Sennheiser Accentum Plus Wireless), I feel comfortable stating that you have not actually heard real music on earbuds, stereo speakers, car set-ups, etc.—none match headphones for the sound’s sheer depths and layers
It is a rare thing to really love movies these days—not as products, or meme factories, or greasy nuggets of pop culture that pass through our collective memory faster than shit through a gander, but as the real true powerful thing—and @bwdr.bsky.social really loves movies. Worth your support.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:21 AM
It is a rare thing to really love movies these days—not as products, or meme factories, or greasy nuggets of pop culture that pass through our collective memory faster than shit through a gander, but as the real true powerful thing—and @bwdr.bsky.social really loves movies. Worth your support.
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Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators
It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators
The look of existential malaise on Jesse Eisenberg’s face in all these junket interviews for the new NOW YOU SEE ME movie is haunting; literally 8 months ago he was up for an Oscar for writing an emotionally incisive family drama and now he’s at a table with Dave Franco talking about card tricks
November 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The look of existential malaise on Jesse Eisenberg’s face in all these junket interviews for the new NOW YOU SEE ME movie is haunting; literally 8 months ago he was up for an Oscar for writing an emotionally incisive family drama and now he’s at a table with Dave Franco talking about card tricks
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Why isn’t Hannibal Lecter in Eat Pray Love
Why Isn’t Pennywise in The Running Man? It's more complicated than you might think... bit.ly/4a04Vvk
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Why isn’t Hannibal Lecter in Eat Pray Love
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
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HBO Max has pretty quickly become my second streaming source after Criterion. They’re like a small branch library: If you’re looking for something specific pre-1960 they probably don’t have it, but if you’re looking more generally for something good pre-1960 you’ll be fine.
HBO Max added 30 classic crime films in Nov — from proto-noirs like THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) to essentials like OUT OF THE PAST (1947).
Including their Criterion titles, they now have nearly 100 pre-1960 noirs.
There’s even a dedicated #Noirvember section. (New adds in alt text.) #FilmSky #FilmNoir
Including their Criterion titles, they now have nearly 100 pre-1960 noirs.
There’s even a dedicated #Noirvember section. (New adds in alt text.) #FilmSky #FilmNoir
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
HBO Max has pretty quickly become my second streaming source after Criterion. They’re like a small branch library: If you’re looking for something specific pre-1960 they probably don’t have it, but if you’re looking more generally for something good pre-1960 you’ll be fine.
“If you think they treat me badly, when the whole world is watching, it pales in comparison to what happens inside that facility.”
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religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“If you think they treat me badly, when the whole world is watching, it pales in comparison to what happens inside that facility.”
religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
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Sidney Lumet knew how to open a goddamn movie
Dog Day Afternoon opening - "What you are about to see is true---"
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November 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Sidney Lumet knew how to open a goddamn movie
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I’ll stop posting this when it stops happening
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I’ll stop posting this when it stops happening
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This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
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OK but if emails take down Trump, and a blow job finally ruins Clinton, it definitely proves God is a really funny woman right
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
OK but if emails take down Trump, and a blow job finally ruins Clinton, it definitely proves God is a really funny woman right
@jasondashbailey.com Happy birthday, my man!
November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
@jasondashbailey.com Happy birthday, my man!
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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one