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
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 📽️
Currently listening to “Epic” by Faith No More played as Muzak in a Kohl’s.
November 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Currently listening to “Epic” by Faith No More played as Muzak in a Kohl’s.
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 📽️
Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) Considered one of the best Godzilla films of the 80s/90s era. This time the big guy fights a giant crazy genetically engineered plant thing that at one point looks like a rose with teeth in the middle. It’s sometimes more interested in being a spy movie. #filmsky 📽️
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) Considered one of the best Godzilla films of the 80s/90s era. This time the big guy fights a giant crazy genetically engineered plant thing that at one point looks like a rose with teeth in the middle. It’s sometimes more interested in being a spy movie. #filmsky 📽️
Rebecca (1940) Hitchcock's first American studio film and his only Best Picture winner. Joan Fontaine is a young woman who marries a super rich guy (Laurence Olivier) on vacation in Monte Carlo, only end up stuck in his giant gothic mansion with crazy servants and possibly his ex's ghost. #Filmsky 📽️
November 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Rebecca (1940) Hitchcock's first American studio film and his only Best Picture winner. Joan Fontaine is a young woman who marries a super rich guy (Laurence Olivier) on vacation in Monte Carlo, only end up stuck in his giant gothic mansion with crazy servants and possibly his ex's ghost. #Filmsky 📽️
Frances Ha (2012) Noah Baumbach directs his then-wife Greta Gerwig in this black and white film about an aspiring dancer trying to get her life together in New York. It feels very much like a French New Wave film except I related much more closely to the characters. Gerwig is amazing. #filmsky 📽️
November 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Frances Ha (2012) Noah Baumbach directs his then-wife Greta Gerwig in this black and white film about an aspiring dancer trying to get her life together in New York. It feels very much like a French New Wave film except I related much more closely to the characters. Gerwig is amazing. #filmsky 📽️
Star Trek: First Contact (1998) Pretty obviously the best of the Next Generation movies, the one where they go back in time and fight the Borg so that James Cromwell can make the first Warp flight so the Vulcans will notice Earth, with numerous classic moments. Always super fun. #Filmsky 📽️
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Star Trek: First Contact (1998) Pretty obviously the best of the Next Generation movies, the one where they go back in time and fight the Borg so that James Cromwell can make the first Warp flight so the Vulcans will notice Earth, with numerous classic moments. Always super fun. #Filmsky 📽️
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972) I picked up the Lone Wolf and Cub box set in the most recent Criterion sale and I am here for it. A ronin samurai travels the countryside with a baby, killing lots and lots of evildoers. Lots of very impressive fountains of bright red blood. #Filmsky 📽️
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972) I picked up the Lone Wolf and Cub box set in the most recent Criterion sale and I am here for it. A ronin samurai travels the countryside with a baby, killing lots and lots of evildoers. Lots of very impressive fountains of bright red blood. #Filmsky 📽️
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Not the first film of Hitchcock's career but the first to get him noticed in the US and the first to really feel like what we think of as a "Hitchcock film." Peter Lorre gives an all timer of a villain performance shortly after fleeing Nazi Germany. #Filmsky 📽️
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Not the first film of Hitchcock's career but the first to get him noticed in the US and the first to really feel like what we think of as a "Hitchcock film." Peter Lorre gives an all timer of a villain performance shortly after fleeing Nazi Germany. #Filmsky 📽️
The Kid Brother (1927) Another in silent star Harold Lloyd’s always fun oeuvre playing a nerdy guy with glasses who pretends to be something he’s not (in this case an Old West sheriff) in order to impress a girl. As far these things go I really enjoyed it. #filmsky 📽️
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Kid Brother (1927) Another in silent star Harold Lloyd’s always fun oeuvre playing a nerdy guy with glasses who pretends to be something he’s not (in this case an Old West sheriff) in order to impress a girl. As far these things go I really enjoyed it. #filmsky 📽️
Teorema (1968) The always controversial Pier Paolo Pasolini goes maybe more abstract than usual in the possibly allegorical film about a bourgeoisie family who receives a mysterious visitor (Terence Stamp) who sleeps with all of them and then suddenly leaves them to each fall apart. #filmsky 📽️
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Teorema (1968) The always controversial Pier Paolo Pasolini goes maybe more abstract than usual in the possibly allegorical film about a bourgeoisie family who receives a mysterious visitor (Terence Stamp) who sleeps with all of them and then suddenly leaves them to each fall apart. #filmsky 📽️
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) A classic noir with John’s Garfield and, famously, Lana Turner, as a drifter and a married woman having an affair who decide to murder her husband. They are so bad at this it would be comical if the movie didn’t take it super seriously. #filmsky 📽️
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) A classic noir with John’s Garfield and, famously, Lana Turner, as a drifter and a married woman having an affair who decide to murder her husband. They are so bad at this it would be comical if the movie didn’t take it super seriously. #filmsky 📽️
Ex Machina (2015) A billionaire tech bro (Oscar Isaac again) brings a naive employee (Domhnall Gleeson) to his isolated bunker to serve as the human side of a Turing test for his latest invention, an AI in the form of an attractive female robot (Alicia Vikander). More relevant every year. #filmsky 📽️
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Ex Machina (2015) A billionaire tech bro (Oscar Isaac again) brings a naive employee (Domhnall Gleeson) to his isolated bunker to serve as the human side of a Turing test for his latest invention, an AI in the form of an attractive female robot (Alicia Vikander). More relevant every year. #filmsky 📽️
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The reason for the season. Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day to all who observe.
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The reason for the season. Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day to all who observe.
Frankenstein (2025) Guillermo Del Toro's new take is far more based on the novel than any previous film version, and also makes up a bunch of stuff, but I had a lot of fun with being a big old gothic romance (in the Byronic sense). Probably closest to Crimson Peak of Del Toro's films. #Filmsky 📽️
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Frankenstein (2025) Guillermo Del Toro's new take is far more based on the novel than any previous film version, and also makes up a bunch of stuff, but I had a lot of fun with being a big old gothic romance (in the Byronic sense). Probably closest to Crimson Peak of Del Toro's films. #Filmsky 📽️
Catwoman (2004) Back to our Terrible Movies List! Just before the modern comic book movie boom came this misbegotten movie starring Halle Berry as a version of the title character who has nothing to do with any comic. It has no idea who it's for and contains some of the worst CGI ever. #Filmsky 📽️
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Catwoman (2004) Back to our Terrible Movies List! Just before the modern comic book movie boom came this misbegotten movie starring Halle Berry as a version of the title character who has nothing to do with any comic. It has no idea who it's for and contains some of the worst CGI ever. #Filmsky 📽️
In a Lonely Place (1950) A sort of noir with Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, that has become much more widely seen in the past couple decades, I think because it’s interested in the same stuff as people in 2025. Grahame suspects her new boyfriend is actually a psychopath. #filmsky 📽️
November 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
In a Lonely Place (1950) A sort of noir with Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, that has become much more widely seen in the past couple decades, I think because it’s interested in the same stuff as people in 2025. Grahame suspects her new boyfriend is actually a psychopath. #filmsky 📽️
The Killers (1946) Based on a Hemingway story, it starts with the murder of “the Swede” (Burt Lancaster) by two professional hitmen, followed by an insurance investigator (Edmond O’Brien) trying to figure out what happened with numerous flashbacks. With Ava Gardner as a femme fatale. #filmsky 📽️
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The Killers (1946) Based on a Hemingway story, it starts with the murder of “the Swede” (Burt Lancaster) by two professional hitmen, followed by an insurance investigator (Edmond O’Brien) trying to figure out what happened with numerous flashbacks. With Ava Gardner as a femme fatale. #filmsky 📽️
The Children of the Corn (1984) A weirdly tame 1980s horror movie about a town where the children kill all the adults in an isolated Nebraska town at the behest of some sort of spirit or god thing. Then a couple shows up. The guy never once realizes he’s in a horror movie. #filmsky 📽️
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The Children of the Corn (1984) A weirdly tame 1980s horror movie about a town where the children kill all the adults in an isolated Nebraska town at the behest of some sort of spirit or god thing. Then a couple shows up. The guy never once realizes he’s in a horror movie. #filmsky 📽️