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David A. Smith | Photographer of weddings, portraits, concerts, events, and places | Lover of movies | Birmingham, Alabama + Nationwide | https://dsmithimages.com | Print store - https://dsmithimages.darkroom.com | Movie Reviews - https://cinemadaze.com
My first Star Trek entry to Cinema Daze is the best of the Star Trek films because it is the film that forces Kirk to face his own mortality and the mortality of those he loves.

Review: cinemadaze.com/star-trek-ii...

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982) | Movie Review — Cinema Daze
The concept of the no-win situation, the Kobayashi Maru, is at the heart of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 review of Nicholas Meyer's 1982 science fiction film.
cinemadaze.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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i don’t play pundit and try to guess how stuff will play to voters whose politics generally make no sense to me, but if ending the shutdown was about the important business of getting SNAP benefits and air travel back online, it also rewards hostage taking in a way that seems pretty ominous to me
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
My confidence in flying after this weekend's experience has resulted in me committing to driving to Houston this week for Saturday's wedding.

That's where we're at right now.
So... I go to Savannah yesterday just fine, and the shoot went great.

Getting home was a different story.

Long story short - with a stoppage in Atlanta because of weather and everything else - I got to drive a Mustang for the first time ever to do the 5+ hours between Savannah and Birmingham.
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Anyways... I'm doing very little today after how yesterday went. I got the F1 race on one screen and the NFL on the other. I'm good to go.
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Those last reposts:

I'm as lapsed a Catholic as they come, but, man, the tradCaths will quickly bring up all those years of Catholic upbringing and BASIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL RELIGIOUS EDUCTION back to the forefront.
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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So many tradCaths are converts who want to impose a reactionary priesthood of believers on the hierarchy, in which the laity must submit to conservative messaging is obeyed and treat messages as areligious.
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Immigration is a central if not primary feature of American Catholicism. For its often-awful flaws, it gave people new to these shores a sense of belonging and dignity in a country frequently determined to deny them both. This is antithetical to nearly two centuries of religious practice.
state of the trad catholic discourse on the other site is debating whether undocumented immigrants should be able to receive the Eucharist if you were wondering how that was going
November 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
So... I go to Savannah yesterday just fine, and the shoot went great.

Getting home was a different story.

Long story short - with a stoppage in Atlanta because of weather and everything else - I got to drive a Mustang for the first time ever to do the 5+ hours between Savannah and Birmingham.
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Yeah… Vince Gilligan is cooking that good stuff with Pluribus.
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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"loss of our own dick was not in our projections while pulling the 'shoot off your own dick' lever"
White House economic ‌adviser Kevin Hassett tells Fox Business that the impact of the government shutdown is far ​worse than expected.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A few from the Harnden family's portrait session in Huntsville, Alabama captured on Kodak Portra 400 film...

More Photos: dsmithimages.com/harnden-fami...

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November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The Mr. Beast theme park in Saudi Arabia, you say.

*Sound of me starting the clock*
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I rather enjoyed "Predator: Badlands" and how Dan Trachtenberg uses it to explore the concept of toxic families.

My review: cinemadaze.com/predator-bad...

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Predator: Badlands (Dan Trachtenberg, 2025) | Movie Review — Cinema Daze
Predator: Badlands makes a Predator the protagonist in a film about overcoming one's toxic family - a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of Dan Trachtenberg's 2025 film.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A few from Chaparelle in Birmingham, Alabama last night...

More Photos: dsmithimages.com/chaparelle-1...

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November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Nearly everyone who ran an e-fed, myself included, had a show called Shockwave.
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Delta really needs to stop sending promotional emails right now because I’m jumping in dread every time I get one.
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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barely a metaphor lmao
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Tupac Shakur is equally magnetic and terrifying in Juice, his debut performance.

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Juice (Ernest R. Dickerson, 1992) | Movie Review — Cinema Daze
"Juice” looks at how an unforgiving world can produce someone who is willing to tear down everyone around him just to feel like they are on top - a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ of Ernest R. Dickerson's 1992 film.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A great thread about Alabama voting against their self interests because heaven forbid other people might benefit... and an appearance by the People's Jug!
When I'm trying to explain to white people about how their own will willingly shoot themselves in the foot if it means the ricochet will kill us, I tell them the story of Don Seigelman and the Alabama Lottery.
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A few from Mo Lowda & The Humble last night in Birmingham, Alabama...

More Photos: dsmithimages.com/mo-lowda-the...

📷 = Fujifilm X-T5

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#ConcertPhotography
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#FujiXT5
#FujiXSeries
#XT5
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Yeah... Gremlins isn't Gremlins without Joe Dante's touch.
November 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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ross douthat looks exactly like the kind of guy who would say such a thing. did women ruin the workplace or are you just a hideous asshole
November 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I knew Atlanta and George Bush Intercontinental in Houston (The two major airports I'll be dealing with this weekend and next) were going to be on the list, but, yeah, it sucks just waiting for that inevitable notification from Delta regarding "flight changes".
Fox & Friends displays a graphic of the 40 airports where flights will be reduced starting today during interview with Sean Duffy
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM