Daniel Joslyn
@djoslyn.bsky.social
Attorney in Las Vegas and writer for Watchers: the Virtual Series (thewatcherscouncil.net). All opinions solely my own. Lots of movie posting and general nerdery with occasional baseball and dog pictures is where I picture this going. He/him
After the Hunt (2025) Luca Guadagnino's latest is an unfortunately rote take cancel culture in higher education. Julia Roberts plays a professor torn between her favorite student and a colleague accused of sexual assault. The movie really has absolutely nothing new to say about this. #Filmsky 📽️
December 14, 2025 at 5:59 AM
After the Hunt (2025) Luca Guadagnino's latest is an unfortunately rote take cancel culture in higher education. Julia Roberts plays a professor torn between her favorite student and a colleague accused of sexual assault. The movie really has absolutely nothing new to say about this. #Filmsky 📽️
Hamnet (2025) So I cried at the end of this film. Not one manly tear, but full on, for the first time at a movie in at least a decade. Director Chloe Zhao brings sense of sensual and emotional immersion to this fictionalized story of Shakespeare's wife (Jessie Buckley). #Filmsky 📽️
December 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Hamnet (2025) So I cried at the end of this film. Not one manly tear, but full on, for the first time at a movie in at least a decade. Director Chloe Zhao brings sense of sensual and emotional immersion to this fictionalized story of Shakespeare's wife (Jessie Buckley). #Filmsky 📽️
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) I had a ball rewatching this classic that feels sort of from an alternae universe rather than our own. Gene Wilder turns in an all-timer performance as the titular candymaker, it feels like the movie would not have worked with any other actor. #Filmsky 📽️
December 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) I had a ball rewatching this classic that feels sort of from an alternae universe rather than our own. Gene Wilder turns in an all-timer performance as the titular candymaker, it feels like the movie would not have worked with any other actor. #Filmsky 📽️
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart are the Old and New West in this John Ford Western with Thoughts about America. It's almost too caught up in its own allegory to work as a movie but not quite. John Wayne calls Jimmy Stewart "pilgrim" the whole time. #Filmsky 📽️
December 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart are the Old and New West in this John Ford Western with Thoughts about America. It's almost too caught up in its own allegory to work as a movie but not quite. John Wayne calls Jimmy Stewart "pilgrim" the whole time. #Filmsky 📽️
Coming soon in our featured movies: 12 Days of Naughty Christmas. I've done 12 days of Christmas movies before, but I'm switching it up this year to focus on movies about people behaving badly, whether that's sex, drugs, crime, murder, etc., as long as it's at the Holidays. #Filmsky📽️
December 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Coming soon in our featured movies: 12 Days of Naughty Christmas. I've done 12 days of Christmas movies before, but I'm switching it up this year to focus on movies about people behaving badly, whether that's sex, drugs, crime, murder, etc., as long as it's at the Holidays. #Filmsky📽️
Gentleman's Agreement (1947) I could write several essays on this Best Picture winner. Gregory Peck plays a gentile journalist who pretends to be Jewish in order to "really experience" antisemitism, which leads to various problems including with his seemingly very liberal girlfriend. #Filmsky 🎥
December 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Gentleman's Agreement (1947) I could write several essays on this Best Picture winner. Gregory Peck plays a gentile journalist who pretends to be Jewish in order to "really experience" antisemitism, which leads to various problems including with his seemingly very liberal girlfriend. #Filmsky 🎥
Leave No Trace (2018) An unflinching depiction of a veteran with PTSD (Ben Foster) choosing to live "off the grid" with his daughter (Thomasin McKenzie). But there isn't a lot more to the movie than that, for me. It's too realistic to have much of a plot. Not super uplifting, let's say. #Filmsky 📽️
December 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Leave No Trace (2018) An unflinching depiction of a veteran with PTSD (Ben Foster) choosing to live "off the grid" with his daughter (Thomasin McKenzie). But there isn't a lot more to the movie than that, for me. It's too realistic to have much of a plot. Not super uplifting, let's say. #Filmsky 📽️
The Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966) More of a Z-movie than a B-movie. A hick from Tennessee (country singer Ferlin Husky) inherits the worst casino you've ever seen and has both Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren somehow competing for his affections. Not even competent on its own terms. #Filmsky 📽️
December 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
The Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966) More of a Z-movie than a B-movie. A hick from Tennessee (country singer Ferlin Husky) inherits the worst casino you've ever seen and has both Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren somehow competing for his affections. Not even competent on its own terms. #Filmsky 📽️
Madhouse (1981) A slasher of such cheesy proportions I'm surprised there aren't regular midnight screenings. A woman's insane twin sister comes back to murder all her friends and throw a birthday party for dead bodies. At one point an obvious dog puppet gets power drilled in the head. #Filmsky 📽️
December 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Madhouse (1981) A slasher of such cheesy proportions I'm surprised there aren't regular midnight screenings. A woman's insane twin sister comes back to murder all her friends and throw a birthday party for dead bodies. At one point an obvious dog puppet gets power drilled in the head. #Filmsky 📽️
Wake Up Dead Man (2025) Writer/Director Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig return for a third installment with Craig as eccentric detective Benoit Blanc, solving the seemingly impossible murder of a conservative priest during a service. Josh O'Connor is really co-lead as a young priest. #Filmsky 📽️
December 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Wake Up Dead Man (2025) Writer/Director Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig return for a third installment with Craig as eccentric detective Benoit Blanc, solving the seemingly impossible murder of a conservative priest during a service. Josh O'Connor is really co-lead as a young priest. #Filmsky 📽️
The Running Man (2025) This dystopian action flick, based on the same Stephen King novel as the 90s Schwarzenegger cheese-fest, takes a much harder edged approached to the material. Glen Powell stars and Edgar Wright directs, using his powers to make an exciting action movie. #Filmsky 📽️
December 8, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The Running Man (2025) This dystopian action flick, based on the same Stephen King novel as the 90s Schwarzenegger cheese-fest, takes a much harder edged approached to the material. Glen Powell stars and Edgar Wright directs, using his powers to make an exciting action movie. #Filmsky 📽️
High and Low (1963) I figured I should see Kurosawa's take on this story before seeing Spike Lee's new remake. The great Toshiro Mifune is a business magnate dealing with the kidnapping of an employee's son, mistaken for his own. A very detailed, highly influential procedural ensues. #Filmsky 📽️
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
High and Low (1963) I figured I should see Kurosawa's take on this story before seeing Spike Lee's new remake. The great Toshiro Mifune is a business magnate dealing with the kidnapping of an employee's son, mistaken for his own. A very detailed, highly influential procedural ensues. #Filmsky 📽️
Winter Light (1963) Among the more Bergman of Ingmar Bergman films, in which he focuses in on one of his favorite themes, "the silence of God." A priest of a small country parish struggles after a parishioner comes to him about his dread of nuclear war, then goes home and kills himself. #Filmsky 📽️
December 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Winter Light (1963) Among the more Bergman of Ingmar Bergman films, in which he focuses in on one of his favorite themes, "the silence of God." A priest of a small country parish struggles after a parishioner comes to him about his dread of nuclear war, then goes home and kills himself. #Filmsky 📽️
Rushmore (1998) The first Wes Anderson movie to break into the mainstream, starring Jason Schwartzman (in his movie debut) and Bill Murray as an extremely precocious 15-year-old and a wealthy industrialist competing for the affections of a kindergarten teacher (Olivia Williams). #Filmsky 📽️
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Rushmore (1998) The first Wes Anderson movie to break into the mainstream, starring Jason Schwartzman (in his movie debut) and Bill Murray as an extremely precocious 15-year-old and a wealthy industrialist competing for the affections of a kindergarten teacher (Olivia Williams). #Filmsky 📽️
My Neighbor Totoro (1988) In my opinion likely one of the best movies ever made for small children, though I am not a small child and perhaps not entitled to a vote. Directed by the great Hayao Miyazaki, it is something of an homage to village life in Japan, between the friendly monsters. #Filmsky 📽️
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
My Neighbor Totoro (1988) In my opinion likely one of the best movies ever made for small children, though I am not a small child and perhaps not entitled to a vote. Directed by the great Hayao Miyazaki, it is something of an homage to village life in Japan, between the friendly monsters. #Filmsky 📽️
Diana: The Musical (2021) Hungry for content amid COVID, Netflix pointed a camera at this stage musical and put it up online. It's incredibly misjudged, the equivalent of singing a Wikipedia article with absolutely no memorable music or point of view. Pretty objectively terrible. #Filmsky 📽️
December 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Diana: The Musical (2021) Hungry for content amid COVID, Netflix pointed a camera at this stage musical and put it up online. It's incredibly misjudged, the equivalent of singing a Wikipedia article with absolutely no memorable music or point of view. Pretty objectively terrible. #Filmsky 📽️
Pirahna (1978) Called "the best of all the Jaws knock-offs" by Spielberg, it is aggressively b-movie silly but I found it enjoyable despite this, or perhaps because of it. Directed by special effects maven Joe Dante, it involves the fish being accidentally released into a Texas river. #Filmsky 📽️
November 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Pirahna (1978) Called "the best of all the Jaws knock-offs" by Spielberg, it is aggressively b-movie silly but I found it enjoyable despite this, or perhaps because of it. Directed by special effects maven Joe Dante, it involves the fish being accidentally released into a Texas river. #Filmsky 📽️
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) Director RaMell Ross started taking videos while teaching photography in rural Alabama and eventually edited them into this poetic thing. Purely avant garde but somehow using that to get at some deeper truth. #filmsky 📽️
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) Director RaMell Ross started taking videos while teaching photography in rural Alabama and eventually edited them into this poetic thing. Purely avant garde but somehow using that to get at some deeper truth. #filmsky 📽️
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Depicting the hunt for and eventual killing of Osama bin Laden by the US govt, starring Jessica Chastain as the obsessed CIA agent who can't let things go. The last half hour where the military guys go get him is a pretty good movie, I found the rest impenetrable. #Filmsky 📽️
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Depicting the hunt for and eventual killing of Osama bin Laden by the US govt, starring Jessica Chastain as the obsessed CIA agent who can't let things go. The last half hour where the military guys go get him is a pretty good movie, I found the rest impenetrable. #Filmsky 📽️
Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) The titular alien fights Vikings, ninjas, and WW2 pilots in this animated anthology directed by Dan Trachtenberg, who heled the last 2 live action Predator films. The action has some fun parts but the animation is video game cut scene level at best. #Filmsky 📽️
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) The titular alien fights Vikings, ninjas, and WW2 pilots in this animated anthology directed by Dan Trachtenberg, who heled the last 2 live action Predator films. The action has some fun parts but the animation is video game cut scene level at best. #Filmsky 📽️
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) The LotR movies remain the ones I can watch over and over and over, and I think this one has increasingly become my favorite over the past several years. All the Rohan stuff is so so good. #filmsky 📽️
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) The LotR movies remain the ones I can watch over and over and over, and I think this one has increasingly become my favorite over the past several years. All the Rohan stuff is so so good. #filmsky 📽️
High Art (1998) The debut feature from writer/director Lisa Cholodenko has Radha Mitchell as an editor at a photography magazine who discovers a famous photographer (Ally Sheedy) who suddenly stopped working is her neighbor and falls hard for her. All a little languid and NY artsy for me. #Filmsky 📽️
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
High Art (1998) The debut feature from writer/director Lisa Cholodenko has Radha Mitchell as an editor at a photography magazine who discovers a famous photographer (Ally Sheedy) who suddenly stopped working is her neighbor and falls hard for her. All a little languid and NY artsy for me. #Filmsky 📽️
Eephus (2024) A "baseball hangout movie" about two rec league teams playing their last game at the town field before it's demolished. No dramatic crescendos, a lot of out of shape guys groaning about their knees while their kids wonder why they care. Aimed exactly at me. #Filmsky 📽️
November 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Eephus (2024) A "baseball hangout movie" about two rec league teams playing their last game at the town field before it's demolished. No dramatic crescendos, a lot of out of shape guys groaning about their knees while their kids wonder why they care. Aimed exactly at me. #Filmsky 📽️
Arrival (2016) A very cerebral sci-fi story in a mode you can find in many short stories and the occasional novel but hardly ever at the movies. Amy Adams stars at a linguist picked by the military to help them talk to aliens who have suddenly arrived in huge, monolithic ships. #filmsky 📽️
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Arrival (2016) A very cerebral sci-fi story in a mode you can find in many short stories and the occasional novel but hardly ever at the movies. Amy Adams stars at a linguist picked by the military to help them talk to aliens who have suddenly arrived in huge, monolithic ships. #filmsky 📽️
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973) The first Black FBI agent, quits when he isn’t given much to do and returns to Chicago, where’s he’s a social worker by day and by night trains local street gangs in guerrilla fighters to lead a violent rebellion. It is serious about this. #filmsky 📽️
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 AM
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973) The first Black FBI agent, quits when he isn’t given much to do and returns to Chicago, where’s he’s a social worker by day and by night trains local street gangs in guerrilla fighters to lead a violent rebellion. It is serious about this. #filmsky 📽️