Caden Mark Gardner
@cadenmgardner.bsky.social
FTM freelance film critic
Co-writer of Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema out now!
The Dog Dad Jeanne Dielman
Co-writer of Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema out now!
The Dog Dad Jeanne Dielman
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Back to regularly scheduled programming
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Back to regularly scheduled programming
In all seriousness:
American public television
The American soap opera (we need to teach the younger generation)
Political think tanks
The Beach Boys because I haven’t liked any doc about them that wasn’t a taped concert
American public television
The American soap opera (we need to teach the younger generation)
Political think tanks
The Beach Boys because I haven’t liked any doc about them that wasn’t a taped concert
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In all seriousness:
American public television
The American soap opera (we need to teach the younger generation)
Political think tanks
The Beach Boys because I haven’t liked any doc about them that wasn’t a taped concert
American public television
The American soap opera (we need to teach the younger generation)
Political think tanks
The Beach Boys because I haven’t liked any doc about them that wasn’t a taped concert
The Thanksgiving Parade came into existence to offset the threat of Ragamuffin Day. Look it up!!
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The Thanksgiving Parade came into existence to offset the threat of Ragamuffin Day. Look it up!!
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The Thanksgiving parade is the highest form of American art. Driven by capitalism but entirely earnest, bizarre in ways you can never expect, absolutely packed with Broadway stars freezing their asses off. There is really nothing we do better than
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has always been a surreal journey through its own twisted reality.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit A:
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The Thanksgiving parade is the highest form of American art. Driven by capitalism but entirely earnest, bizarre in ways you can never expect, absolutely packed with Broadway stars freezing their asses off. There is really nothing we do better than
Bye, Sister
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Bye, Sister
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If you saw the Instagram clip TCM posted with me talking to Dave Karger, you probably noticed I had on a yellow T-shirt. This was my James Dean T-shirt I bought off eBay. I wore it for good luck.
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
If you saw the Instagram clip TCM posted with me talking to Dave Karger, you probably noticed I had on a yellow T-shirt. This was my James Dean T-shirt I bought off eBay. I wore it for good luck.
I’m heading to bed. Thank you all for tuning in. ✌🏻
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I’m heading to bed. Thank you all for tuning in. ✌🏻
If that Candy Darling film actually gets made, and hear me out: Mike Faist for Jackie
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If that Candy Darling film actually gets made, and hear me out: Mike Faist for Jackie
Pierson didn’t write the script for that TV movie. It was written by Ron Nyswaner, best known as the screenwriter of Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia. After the film premiered at Sundance, Addams got some consulting gigs on film productions that featured trans characters.
Not in my TCM discussion but of note is that the Oscar-winning DDA screenwriter, Frank Pierson, would later direct the TV movie Soldier's Girl, based on the true story of PFC Barry Winchell's murder by another soldier which was motivated by Winchell's relationship with trans woman Calpernia Addams.
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Pierson didn’t write the script for that TV movie. It was written by Ron Nyswaner, best known as the screenwriter of Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia. After the film premiered at Sundance, Addams got some consulting gigs on film productions that featured trans characters.
Catch y’all on the other side. I’ll be watching again with my dog.
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Catch y’all on the other side. I’ll be watching again with my dog.
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The real Sonny was John Wojtowicz who among members of the activist group the GAA (the Gay Activist Alliance) went by John Basso and the nickname Littlejohn who was indeed a married man to a woman who bore his children when he did this and the attempted Chase Bank robbery.
For tomorrow night's TCM appearance, I just want to highlight that when researching the true story of Dog Day Afternoon, the 'gay wedding' referenced within the news report of the film did happen and Lee G. Brewster's DRAG Magazine covered it only to follow up on it later. Photos from DTA.
November 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The real Sonny was John Wojtowicz who among members of the activist group the GAA (the Gay Activist Alliance) went by John Basso and the nickname Littlejohn who was indeed a married man to a woman who bore his children when he did this and the attempted Chase Bank robbery.
Oreo says watch TCM tonight
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Oreo says watch TCM tonight
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If you do not have a DVR system but **really** want to see Dressed in Blue, the BluRay is available and features both @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I in the supplements. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-dresse...
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
If you do not have a DVR system but **really** want to see Dressed in Blue, the BluRay is available and features both @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I in the supplements. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-dresse...
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This is tonight 🫣
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is tonight 🫣
In what was perhaps the most CF&M coded type of day, it is Candy Darling’s birthday and the anniversary of the release date of George Stevens’ Giant, the last of James Dean’s screen performances which also served as inspiration for Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.
If you saw the Instagram clip TCM posted with me talking to Dave Karger, you probably noticed I had on a yellow T-shirt. This was my James Dean T-shirt I bought off eBay. I wore it for good luck.
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In what was perhaps the most CF&M coded type of day, it is Candy Darling’s birthday and the anniversary of the release date of George Stevens’ Giant, the last of James Dean’s screen performances which also served as inspiration for Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.
If you saw the Instagram clip TCM posted with me talking to Dave Karger, you probably noticed I had on a yellow T-shirt. This was my James Dean T-shirt I bought off eBay. I wore it for good luck.
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
If you saw the Instagram clip TCM posted with me talking to Dave Karger, you probably noticed I had on a yellow T-shirt. This was my James Dean T-shirt I bought off eBay. I wore it for good luck.
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Seeing @willowcatelyn.bsky.social + @cadenmgardner.bsky.social ON THE BIG TV has been one of the gr8 thrills of fall so far.
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Seeing @willowcatelyn.bsky.social + @cadenmgardner.bsky.social ON THE BIG TV has been one of the gr8 thrills of fall so far.
This is tonight 🫣
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is tonight 🫣
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I wrote about DOG DAY AFTERNOON and its complicated legacy among trans viewers for my reader's choice series. My co-writer Caden Mark Gardner will be discussing many of these same topics tonight on TCM before this film is shown. Please tune in!
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November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I wrote about DOG DAY AFTERNOON and its complicated legacy among trans viewers for my reader's choice series. My co-writer Caden Mark Gardner will be discussing many of these same topics tonight on TCM before this film is shown. Please tune in!
www.patreon.com/posts/144308...
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Oreo says good afternoon
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Oreo says good afternoon
My Thanksgiving foods prompt is this:
What is an item (or items) that was/were not in your family’s rotation growing up that you later got around to and came to love and sought to include?
I basically willed cheddar bay biscuits and pecan pie into existence at my family’s Thanksgiving.
What is an item (or items) that was/were not in your family’s rotation growing up that you later got around to and came to love and sought to include?
I basically willed cheddar bay biscuits and pecan pie into existence at my family’s Thanksgiving.
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
My Thanksgiving foods prompt is this:
What is an item (or items) that was/were not in your family’s rotation growing up that you later got around to and came to love and sought to include?
I basically willed cheddar bay biscuits and pecan pie into existence at my family’s Thanksgiving.
What is an item (or items) that was/were not in your family’s rotation growing up that you later got around to and came to love and sought to include?
I basically willed cheddar bay biscuits and pecan pie into existence at my family’s Thanksgiving.
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I was thrilled to be invited onto the SUPPORTING CHARACTERS podcast to talk about numerous topics including Trans film images, Corpses, Fools and Monsters and our appearance on TCM. Tune in tonight for @cadenmgardner.bsky.social 's program!
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Episode 70: Willow Catelyn Maclay
Bill talks to author and podcaster Erica Shultz about her endeavors in film culture, from creating shows like Unsung Horrors to writing and publishing her book THE SWEETEST TABOO and contributing spec...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I was thrilled to be invited onto the SUPPORTING CHARACTERS podcast to talk about numerous topics including Trans film images, Corpses, Fools and Monsters and our appearance on TCM. Tune in tonight for @cadenmgardner.bsky.social 's program!
www.nowplayingnetwork.net/supportingch...
www.nowplayingnetwork.net/supportingch...
After the infamous Ringer Rom-Com list I think I just hand wave any other site/trade/pub throwing together a best of genre list
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
After the infamous Ringer Rom-Com list I think I just hand wave any other site/trade/pub throwing together a best of genre list