Dennis Tafoya
@dennistafoya.bsky.social
Crime writer. Author of DOPE THIEF, coming to Apple TV+ in 2025.
www.dennistafoya.com
www.dennistafoya.com
I saw Paul Dano opposite Ethan Hawke in True West and still think about how amazing that was. In his only outing on stage in Wait Until Dark, Tarantino was thoroughly panned.
‘One of the best actors of his generation’: Daniel Day-Lewis defends Paul Dano after Tarantino criticism
‘One of the best actors of his generation’: Daniel Day-Lewis defends Paul Dano after Tarantino criticism
Day-Lewis, who suggested Dano for his part in There Will Be Blood, praised the actor, as did Ben Stiller and Batman director Matt Reeves
Paul Dano’s There Will Be Blood co-star Daniel Day-Lewis has defended the actor after he was criticised by Quentin Tarantino.
The director took issue with Dano’s talents while discussing his list of the best films of the century on Bret Easton Ellis’s podcast. Tarantino said he would have moved Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 drama higher than No 5 had a different actor played preacher Eli Sunday. Continue reading...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I saw Paul Dano opposite Ethan Hawke in True West and still think about how amazing that was. In his only outing on stage in Wait Until Dark, Tarantino was thoroughly panned.
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Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social
Anyone have a good relationship with an entertainment/media reporter they trust? DM me.
December 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Anyone have a good relationship with an entertainment/media reporter they trust? DM me.
One of the big reasons DOPE THIEF got made was Ridley Scott and Scott Free signing on. I still think all the time about watching Alien for the first time, 70mm on a massive screen.
Happy 88th Birthday to 🇬🇧British film director Ridley Scott, born #OnThisDay, here with Ian Holm and Sigourney Weaver during a break in filming a scene on the ‘Mother’ set of the science-fiction horror film "ALIEN" (1979) at Shepperton Studios in England
🎬 20th Century-Fox 🛸
🎬 20th Century-Fox 🛸
December 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
One of the big reasons DOPE THIEF got made was Ridley Scott and Scott Free signing on. I still think all the time about watching Alien for the first time, 70mm on a massive screen.
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673
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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
1, cut a hole in a box
2, put your cat in that box
3, make her open the box
And that's the way you do it
2, put your cat in that box
3, make her open the box
And that's the way you do it
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
1, cut a hole in a box
2, put your cat in that box
3, make her open the box
And that's the way you do it
2, put your cat in that box
3, make her open the box
And that's the way you do it
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Passionate, unique take on John Ford by @honorszombie.bsky.social that looks at the films through modern eyes without condescension or moral posturing. Excellent craft analysis. We carry it signed by the author. A steal at $20. mzs.press/SIGNED-But-G...
SIGNED But God Made Him a Poet: Watching John Ford in the 21st Century by Scout Tafoya (Paperback, NEW)
John Ford's reputation today can be summed up perhaps best by a quote from the poster of Orson Welles Citizen Kane. "Some called him a hero...others called him a heel." Welles himself said Ford was on...
mzs.press
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Passionate, unique take on John Ford by @honorszombie.bsky.social that looks at the films through modern eyes without condescension or moral posturing. Excellent craft analysis. We carry it signed by the author. A steal at $20. mzs.press/SIGNED-But-G...
Hopefully, the judge responded:
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Hopefully, the judge responded:
Hard to recreate how cool watching this was for 12-year-old me.
Steven Spielberg's feature-length directorial debut in the made-for-television action thriller movie "DUEL" starring Dennis Weaver premiered #OnThisDay in 1971 on the ABC television network
📺 Universal Television 🚛 🚗
📺 Universal Television 🚛 🚗
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Hard to recreate how cool watching this was for 12-year-old me.
It’s hard not to feel that the last fifty years of American history is about how, when the disenfranchised, the poor and the powerless caught even a small, unrealized glimpse of shared opportunity, the powerful decide it would be better to burn it all.
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It’s hard not to feel that the last fifty years of American history is about how, when the disenfranchised, the poor and the powerless caught even a small, unrealized glimpse of shared opportunity, the powerful decide it would be better to burn it all.
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🥳 SCOTUS refuses to take up Kim Davis’s case that was set to overturn same-sex marriage. This marks Davis’s fourth divorce, this time from reality.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🥳 SCOTUS refuses to take up Kim Davis’s case that was set to overturn same-sex marriage. This marks Davis’s fourth divorce, this time from reality.
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@datlow.bsky.social Tachyon has your anthos on sale 😇
October 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
@datlow.bsky.social Tachyon has your anthos on sale 😇
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I'm over at Art Taylor's blog, as part of his First Two Pages series, talking my story “The Skies Are Red” from ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER: A CLIMATE CHANGE ANTHOLOGY (RHP Press), edited by @curtisippolito.bsky.social
h/t my friend @arttaylorwriter.bsky.social
arttaylorwriter.com/2025/10/28/t...
h/t my friend @arttaylorwriter.bsky.social
arttaylorwriter.com/2025/10/28/t...
The First Two Pages: "The Skies Are Red" by Richie Narvaez - Art Taylor
In April 2015, B.K. Stevens debuted the blog series “The First Two Pages,” hosting craft essays by short story writers […]
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October 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I'm over at Art Taylor's blog, as part of his First Two Pages series, talking my story “The Skies Are Red” from ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER: A CLIMATE CHANGE ANTHOLOGY (RHP Press), edited by @curtisippolito.bsky.social
h/t my friend @arttaylorwriter.bsky.social
arttaylorwriter.com/2025/10/28/t...
h/t my friend @arttaylorwriter.bsky.social
arttaylorwriter.com/2025/10/28/t...
For me, it’s easy: Born of Man And Woman, by Richard Matheson. I read it when I was 11 or 12 and growing up in a house where it was a lot easier to identify with the deformed protagonist than the ‘normals.’
October 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
For me, it’s easy: Born of Man And Woman, by Richard Matheson. I read it when I was 11 or 12 and growing up in a house where it was a lot easier to identify with the deformed protagonist than the ‘normals.’
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Now this is a review! :) theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/10/17/l...
Little Horn: Choir Practice For The Damned
Gemma Files has been slinging nightmare fuel across the page for damn near two decades, ever since she kicked off her career in the late ’90s with short stories that clawed their way into ant…
theblogwithoutaface.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Now this is a review! :) theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/10/17/l...
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Noir at the Bar! NYC October 26 Shade
October 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Noir at the Bar! NYC October 26 Shade
Covid again. Because my spouse just changed jobs and deductibles reset, CVS wants $1488 for Paxlovid. Guess we’ll see how untreated Covid treats me.
October 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Covid again. Because my spouse just changed jobs and deductibles reset, CVS wants $1488 for Paxlovid. Guess we’ll see how untreated Covid treats me.
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I thought of a great business idea. It involves stealing all your work and reselling it, and I keep the money.
FanTASTIC news let’s get this done
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
October 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I thought of a great business idea. It involves stealing all your work and reselling it, and I keep the money.
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The health insurance industry doesn't care who you voted for — only how much money they can extract from you.
Insurance premiums are set to double, and Republicans shut down the government to make sure it happens.
Now is the time to demand universal healthcare with Medicare for All.
Insurance premiums are set to double, and Republicans shut down the government to make sure it happens.
Now is the time to demand universal healthcare with Medicare for All.
October 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The health insurance industry doesn't care who you voted for — only how much money they can extract from you.
Insurance premiums are set to double, and Republicans shut down the government to make sure it happens.
Now is the time to demand universal healthcare with Medicare for All.
Insurance premiums are set to double, and Republicans shut down the government to make sure it happens.
Now is the time to demand universal healthcare with Medicare for All.
Can we agree now not to read the inevitable articles (or buy the inevitable books) by people who took the money and then found themselves doing ‘unconscionable things they now regret?’ Can we agree in advance you should have fucking known better?
October 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Can we agree now not to read the inevitable articles (or buy the inevitable books) by people who took the money and then found themselves doing ‘unconscionable things they now regret?’ Can we agree in advance you should have fucking known better?
Thanks to @penguinpress and Victoria Laboz for early access to David Nasaw’s brilliant THE WOUNDED GENERATION, a comprehensive reexamination of how America dealt with returning veterans and the persistence of trauma. Especially excellent on how black veterans were sold out and gay veterans purged.
October 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Thanks to @penguinpress and Victoria Laboz for early access to David Nasaw’s brilliant THE WOUNDED GENERATION, a comprehensive reexamination of how America dealt with returning veterans and the persistence of trauma. Especially excellent on how black veterans were sold out and gay veterans purged.