Daniel Martin
@drdsm.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Film Studies at KAIST. Author of "Extreme Asia" (EUP, 2015). Coming soon: a BFI Film Classics book on Kiki's Delivery Service.
VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST is enjoying a very brief theatrical rerelease in SK right now, and I’m stupidly excited to get to see it on the big screen.
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST is enjoying a very brief theatrical rerelease in SK right now, and I’m stupidly excited to get to see it on the big screen.
Seated for PREDATOR: BADLANDS!
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Seated for PREDATOR: BADLANDS!
Trying not to get my hopes up for this - but look at that arm!
"The Ghost In The Shell" new anime series (by Science Saru) will air in January 2026 in Japan in a new TV block called "Hi-Anibal!!" on Kantele/FujiTV.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Trying not to get my hopes up for this - but look at that arm!
@michaeljleader.bsky.social On proud display in the Ghibli section at Kyobo Books in Seoul (the biggest bookshop in the country)!
October 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM
@michaeljleader.bsky.social On proud display in the Ghibli section at Kyobo Books in Seoul (the biggest bookshop in the country)!
What movie do you consider perfect?
September 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
What movie do you consider perfect?
@andydiggle.bsky.social Green Arrow Year One is joining the compact line! Congratulations dude!
August 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
@andydiggle.bsky.social Green Arrow Year One is joining the compact line! Congratulations dude!
#SUPERMAN is super fun! It doesn’t need to be a perfect film to perfectly set the tone for the new DC movieverse, and I’m enthusiastically optimistic about what will come next.
July 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
#SUPERMAN is super fun! It doesn’t need to be a perfect film to perfectly set the tone for the new DC movieverse, and I’m enthusiastically optimistic about what will come next.
Yes! The first arc of this series was sensational! Complex but satisfying plotting and some of the most charming and well-written versions of DC’s icons ever. I’m totally invested in what’s next.
GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT: A LEAGUE FOR JUSTICE begins with a recap of THE KRYPTONIAN AGE — so if you haven't read that yet, consider this a spoiler warning!
DC Preview: Batman: Gotham by Gaslight – A League for Justice #1 - THE GROUNDBREAKING ELSEWORLDS EPIC CONTINUES!
@andydiggle.bsky.social #comicbooks #Batman #comicsky
Read the preview here:
@andydiggle.bsky.social #comicbooks #Batman #comicsky
Read the preview here:
July 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Yes! The first arc of this series was sensational! Complex but satisfying plotting and some of the most charming and well-written versions of DC’s icons ever. I’m totally invested in what’s next.
FINALLY seeing Sinners.
June 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
FINALLY seeing Sinners.
Deeply impressed with the work of Project A34K on ALIEN 3: THE LEGACY CUT. It's probably the most I've ever enjoyed the film; it's still disquietingly bleak, but I do admire its adamant refusal to be the sequel anyone wanted or expected.
April 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Deeply impressed with the work of Project A34K on ALIEN 3: THE LEGACY CUT. It's probably the most I've ever enjoyed the film; it's still disquietingly bleak, but I do admire its adamant refusal to be the sequel anyone wanted or expected.
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Drawing my Fictional Crushes in Order of How Many Other People Liked Them on Bluesky Part 1:
Fukuo the Baker from Kiki's Delivery Service- he was by far the most popular in this very scientific method of sorting my fictional crushes by outside popularity haha. (Drew this on stream earlier)!
Fukuo the Baker from Kiki's Delivery Service- he was by far the most popular in this very scientific method of sorting my fictional crushes by outside popularity haha. (Drew this on stream earlier)!
February 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Drawing my Fictional Crushes in Order of How Many Other People Liked Them on Bluesky Part 1:
Fukuo the Baker from Kiki's Delivery Service- he was by far the most popular in this very scientific method of sorting my fictional crushes by outside popularity haha. (Drew this on stream earlier)!
Fukuo the Baker from Kiki's Delivery Service- he was by far the most popular in this very scientific method of sorting my fictional crushes by outside popularity haha. (Drew this on stream earlier)!
January 30, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My #comicsdna - four favourites from my youth that have stayed with me, to varying degrees, ever since.
January 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
My #comicsdna - four favourites from my youth that have stayed with me, to varying degrees, ever since.
The definitive text on Lynch’s DUNE and genuinely one of the best books about filmmaking I’ve ever read. Physically it’s a thing of beauty but it’s also incredibly engaging and alive with the vibrant personalities of everyone involved.
2nd printing of my book from @1984prods.bsky.social! Note the blue “eyes of Ibad” gilding. Made corrections/added a few celeb cameos but it’s mostly the same tome. No paperback plans yet, so this is another chance for #dune fans to get the hardback… with Lynch’s DUNE turning 40 this December 14!
December 9, 2024 at 11:43 PM
The definitive text on Lynch’s DUNE and genuinely one of the best books about filmmaking I’ve ever read. Physically it’s a thing of beauty but it’s also incredibly engaging and alive with the vibrant personalities of everyone involved.
It’s December 1st! That means it’s time to put up the Christmas tree and hang my newest and favourite ornament! #Dune #LongLiveTheOrnaments
December 1, 2024 at 7:33 AM
It’s December 1st! That means it’s time to put up the Christmas tree and hang my newest and favourite ornament! #Dune #LongLiveTheOrnaments
Genuinely a perfect PERFECT film.
December 1, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Genuinely a perfect PERFECT film.
It’s December 1st! That means I’ll be incessantly playing my favourite Christmas album for the next month!
December 1, 2024 at 12:46 AM
It’s December 1st! That means I’ll be incessantly playing my favourite Christmas album for the next month!
It really was an especially good one! Extra-nostalgic and timeless, with a wonderfully well-used guest star.
I just watched the latest episode of #StarTrekLowerDecks "Fully Dilated" im my Freistunde (planning period) and now I'll have to explain to my students why I'm all teary-eyed. 🥲 I'll just say I watched a wonderful episode of #StarTrek - they know me well enough, they'll understand! :-)
November 28, 2024 at 1:49 PM
It really was an especially good one! Extra-nostalgic and timeless, with a wonderfully well-used guest star.
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The new The Old Fools has a timeless Bob Dylan impersonation and some wholly unnecessary mockery of pretty much everything. Don't blame us, this is "your world" and we "just live in it" boomerphobes. We don't need you to like it, we just "want the hurt to stop..."
pod.link/1774465485
pod.link/1774465485
The Old Fools
Ian Martin, David Quantick and guests. Sort of topical, cultural rants and conversation from the point of view of older people who still give a damn about the world around them. The inside pages of th...
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November 20, 2024 at 9:06 AM
The new The Old Fools has a timeless Bob Dylan impersonation and some wholly unnecessary mockery of pretty much everything. Don't blame us, this is "your world" and we "just live in it" boomerphobes. We don't need you to like it, we just "want the hurt to stop..."
pod.link/1774465485
pod.link/1774465485
I’m unwisely excited about this. It’s new DUNE day! #DuneProphecy
November 18, 2024 at 6:28 AM
I’m unwisely excited about this. It’s new DUNE day! #DuneProphecy
Time flies! Today marks exactly SIX YEARS since one of the best-ever uses of my academic resources: organizing a Star Trek 'study day' at KAIST and bringing the amazing Bo Yeon Kim (@extspace.bsky.social) to talk about her screenwriting experiences.
November 16, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Time flies! Today marks exactly SIX YEARS since one of the best-ever uses of my academic resources: organizing a Star Trek 'study day' at KAIST and bringing the amazing Bo Yeon Kim (@extspace.bsky.social) to talk about her screenwriting experiences.
Switching to Pepsi for the rest of my life. This is so gross.
Coca-Cola's annual Christmas commercial this year is AI-generated 🤢
November 16, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Switching to Pepsi for the rest of my life. This is so gross.
Now framed and hanging on my office wall, the pride of my #Dune collection: "Vanguard Battalion,” an original work of art by Walter Velez, used for the fondly-remembered Dune CCG produced by Last Unicorn Games in the late 1990s.
November 15, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Now framed and hanging on my office wall, the pride of my #Dune collection: "Vanguard Battalion,” an original work of art by Walter Velez, used for the fondly-remembered Dune CCG produced by Last Unicorn Games in the late 1990s.
My big laugh in this week’s #LowerDecks was the turbolift proudly depositing two increasingly lost characters in the “Maintenance Labyrinth.”
One of my earliest big laughs from #StarTrekLowerDecks came in the sixth episode ("Terminal Provocations") with this soft voice in the distance saying, "Damn, Starbase 80?!"
Finally getting to visit the infamous SB80 this week did not disappoint.
Finally getting to visit the infamous SB80 this week did not disappoint.
November 14, 2024 at 9:35 PM
My big laugh in this week’s #LowerDecks was the turbolift proudly depositing two increasingly lost characters in the “Maintenance Labyrinth.”