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Daniel Carlson
@danielwcarlson.bsky.social
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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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Revisiting LOST HIGHWAY and thinking again about how David Foster Wallace described Balthazar Getty
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I know Balthazar Getty's name is getting repeated an awful lot, but I think it's one of the most gorgeous and absurd real-person names I've ever heard, and I found myself on the set taking all kinds of notes about Balthazar Getty that weren" really necessary or useful (since the actual Balthazar Getty turned out to be uninteresting and puerile and narcissistic as only an oil heir who's a movie star just out of puberty can be)
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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DIE HARD, Ellis
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I just checked on my phone, and it seems they’ve removed it. These were the only ones available related to the show.
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Not gonna lie, this is a sobering one
TRUE GRIT (2010), dir. Coens
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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“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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Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Talk about a
The movie poster for BOMBSHELL, a movie that exists
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Another banger for the Michael Shannon file: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
He describes the experience of life in the US today as "a nightmare. America is a nightmare right now. The country is mentally ill. It needs help. There seem to be delusions of grandeur and self-loathing in equal measure. It gets grimmer every day. I've never seen such dysfunction in my life. It's really embarrassing."
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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In winter I walk the dog while wearing the custom pajama pants my wife got me featuring pics of my dog’s face—I’m 43
Sadie and my pants that feature Sadie Sadie
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Uber's X Account Caught Messaging OnlyFans' Sophie Rain for SNAP Money Uber's X account was allegedly caught messaging Sophie Rain in a mix-up ELI LIPPMAN NOVEMBER 10, 2025 Damien Owens @OwensDamien I'm 50. All celebrity news looks like this: 'CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT' 8:40 PM - Jan 6, 2022
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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It’s 10:06 a.m.—do you know where your TCT is?
TCT (Tiny Cold Toes)
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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2025
And although I seem relaxed, I'm actually incredibly tense at all times.
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES. An absolute masterpiece: focused, gentle, elegiac. Such love amid such loss.
GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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PLURIBUS is great so far for many reasons, not least of which you can practically feel Vince Gilligan’s excitement at getting to remind people he was responsible for some of the best stuff on THE X-FILES
Rhea Seehorn, for whom statues should be built
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Happy 18th anniversary to NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, one of the best movies of the century. In a world where happiness is distinctly disconnected from action (i.e., bad things happen to good people), true morality means trying to do the right thing anyway, even knowing that you might pay for it.
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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He respects the classics
LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Years of Proven Experience
FRANK SOBOTKA FoR Secretary-Treasurer I.B.S. Local 1514 I.B.S. District Council
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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You gotta wait longer than a day to steal @theonion.com headlines if you want to pass them off as your own
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Loving Variety’s new staffer, great stuff
Bradley Whitford in GET OUT. I really love that he’s silver and balding now. Older people should get to look it.
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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The Loaded Italian?!!! And here I thought Cuomo lost!! But folks,
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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What’s the big deal, it’s just most of the major population centers in the country
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Right now, as you read this, countless people are writing very diligently about Grand Theft Auto 6, a game that will not arrive for another year. They are not doing this for you. They are doing it for the algorithm. The algorithm has wants and needs more important than yours, because the algorithm is what determines what Google surfaces and what it buries, whether a publication will get enough clicks to justify its existence or a YouTuber enough views to fund the next video. In a very real sense, the reader barely matters, or at least not as much as the algorithmic black box that determines whether or not the reader knows a video or article even exists.
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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They have, inexplicably, expanded into Florida; the journey before me will not be easy but will be worthwhile
November 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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An almost perversely delicious-sounding Thanksgiving-meal-on-a-sandwich at Wawa Ain’t no Wawa in sight “Why the fuck would you show it to me if I can't have it?!” Kevin Garnett from the Lonely Island song “I’m on a boat” in UNCUT GEMS
November 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Jonah Hill as the hotel employee of some kind in FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL saying “I just went from six to midnight” to Jason Segel’s character, whose name escapes me—wait, it was Peter. So he’s saying to Peter that he’s got a boner. He’s looking at the character played by Russell Brand. The 00s are impossible to explain to someone who wasn’t there.
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Loved this question: "If you had made this movie as a follow-up to The Civil War back in 1990, in what ways would it have been different?"

Burns's answer:
Burns: It wouldn’t benefit from all the scholarship that’s taken place in the last 35 years. You cannot understate the importance of the changes to romanticized ideas about the Revolution. It is still encrusted with the barnacles of sentimentality and nostalgia, and we don’t accept its violence. ​​I vowed after The Civil War not to do any more war films. It hurt too much. It’s painful. Then I learned that 1,000 American veterans of the Second World War were dying each day, and that a lot of graduating high school seniors thought we fought with the Germans against the Russians. I just said, fuuuuuuck, you know, we’ve got to do it. And that became The War. And then before the ink was dry on that, I said we’re doing Vietnam. And that took 10 and a half years. And before the ink was dry, in December of 2015, when Barack Obama had 15 months to go in his presidency, I looked up to Sarah, and I said, “We’re doing the Revolution.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM