Daniel Dockery
@dandock.bsky.social
Writer at Crunchyroll, Polygon, WIRED, Vulture, GamesRadar, Inverse, Pokemon, Paste Magazine and other places / Rep'd by Aevitas Creative / Author of Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught A Generation To Catch Them All / Picked Charmander
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Daniel Dockery
@dandock.bsky.social
· Oct 10
I AM VENGEANCE.
I AM THE NIGHT.
I AM (writing a) BATMAN (book!)
I AM THE NIGHT.
I AM (writing a) BATMAN (book!)
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This book is out today. It was a pleasure and an honor to help a little bit in the process of creating it. REFLECTIONS tells the story of Roger Deakins' life and storied career in his words—with a lot of behind-the-scenes details and, of course, many pictures.
Reflections - Roger A. Deakins
In REFLECTIONS: On Cinematography, Deakins offers his fans and film enthusiasts the improbable journey of the “boy from Torquay, England” to Hollywood.
www.rogerdeakins.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This book is out today. It was a pleasure and an honor to help a little bit in the process of creating it. REFLECTIONS tells the story of Roger Deakins' life and storied career in his words—with a lot of behind-the-scenes details and, of course, many pictures.
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It will never not be funny to me that an important writer like Joyce Carol Oates who writes captial S Serious Literature is also really good at posting. It's like if Stravinsky had lived long enough to be really good at Animal Crossing too.
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
It will never not be funny to me that an important writer like Joyce Carol Oates who writes captial S Serious Literature is also really good at posting. It's like if Stravinsky had lived long enough to be really good at Animal Crossing too.
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Have you ever paid for an in-game Pokémon with real-world money? Have you sold one for cash? Whether that be on places like eBay, or just within fan communities, or as a kid on the playground? Wanna talk about it for a Kotaku story? Hit me up here or at kshepard@kotaku.com! RTs appreciated.
a cartoon pikachu is holding a stack of money in its paws .
ALT: a cartoon pikachu is holding a stack of money in its paws .
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Have you ever paid for an in-game Pokémon with real-world money? Have you sold one for cash? Whether that be on places like eBay, or just within fan communities, or as a kid on the playground? Wanna talk about it for a Kotaku story? Hit me up here or at kshepard@kotaku.com! RTs appreciated.
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I salute In-N-Out Burger for launching a whole ass Book-It program
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I salute In-N-Out Burger for launching a whole ass Book-It program
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Some people are able to let go of their baggage. Others carry it around in a basket while it goes on a murder spree and psychically harasses them when they go on dates. My review of Frank Henenlotter's BASKET CASE (1982).
Basket Case | VERN'S REVIEWS on the FILMS of CINEMA
BASKET CASE (1982) is one of those cult movies everybody knew about in the ‘80s and ‘90s. It stayed alive by having a couple sequels and being in video stores
outlawvern.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Some people are able to let go of their baggage. Others carry it around in a basket while it goes on a murder spree and psychically harasses them when they go on dates. My review of Frank Henenlotter's BASKET CASE (1982).
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*a quick aside: I'm in Edinburgh for Scotland Loves Anime, introducing a strand of films I curated (I also did one in London): www.lovesanimation.com/cinema/edinb...
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
*a quick aside: I'm in Edinburgh for Scotland Loves Anime, introducing a strand of films I curated (I also did one in London): www.lovesanimation.com/cinema/edinb...
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Happy pub day to this wonderful book! bookshop.org/p/books/back...
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Happy pub day to this wonderful book! bookshop.org/p/books/back...
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Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
I think every James Bond actor going forward should be forced to do a Sean Connery accent. Not even a good one - the kind of SNL Jeopardy impression you'd hear a deeply annoying guy do over and over at a college party. But it needs to happen. For continuity.
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I think every James Bond actor going forward should be forced to do a Sean Connery accent. Not even a good one - the kind of SNL Jeopardy impression you'd hear a deeply annoying guy do over and over at a college party. But it needs to happen. For continuity.
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One reason I don't buy into the later Jurassic films' insistence that "mankind is losing its sense of wonder/interest in dinosaurs" is that Spielberg shoots this scene so sweepingly that for a second, you're like "Man, I wish helicopters and islands were real."
July 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
One reason I don't buy into the later Jurassic films' insistence that "mankind is losing its sense of wonder/interest in dinosaurs" is that Spielberg shoots this scene so sweepingly that for a second, you're like "Man, I wish helicopters and islands were real."
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RIP to a film legend
Tatsuya Nakadai has passed. One of the greatest Japanese actors who ever lived. Watch SWORD OF DOOM. It rules. variety.com/2025/film/ob...
Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Film Legend That Starred in ‘Ran,’ ‘Harakiri’ and ‘The Human Condition’ Trilogy, Dies at 92
Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan's most celebrated actors who was a frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi, died. He was 92.
variety.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
RIP to a film legend
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It's been 3 years since Kevin Conroy passed away and I don't know if we'll ever find a more soulful, baroque Batman performance. A voice full of bravery and anger and pain in equal measure.
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It's been 3 years since Kevin Conroy passed away and I don't know if we'll ever find a more soulful, baroque Batman performance. A voice full of bravery and anger and pain in equal measure.
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Vincent Price is one of my favorite actors of all time - His cat-that-ate-the-canary grin, his singular, attention-grabbing weirdness, a voice that seemed to control every corner of the room. He appears as if the horror genre itself conjured him.
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Vincent Price is one of my favorite actors of all time - His cat-that-ate-the-canary grin, his singular, attention-grabbing weirdness, a voice that seemed to control every corner of the room. He appears as if the horror genre itself conjured him.
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Paleontologists have just announced a prehistoric sawshark named after - you guessed it - Pochita.
Check out my latest blog post for more! 🧪
Check out my latest blog post for more! 🧪
All Devils Are Born With a Name — Riley Black
Paleontologists have named a new prehistoric sawshark after the iconic Chainsaw Man.
rileyblack.net
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Paleontologists have just announced a prehistoric sawshark named after - you guessed it - Pochita.
Check out my latest blog post for more! 🧪
Check out my latest blog post for more! 🧪
Some of my anime friends don't follow politics as much, so let me explain it this way: Chuck Schumer is like the guy in every One Piece flashback who says we should trust the bad guy, and then in the next episode, the bad guy has hit foot on Chuck's back while Chuck says "BUT...BUT YOU PROMISED ME!"
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Some of my anime friends don't follow politics as much, so let me explain it this way: Chuck Schumer is like the guy in every One Piece flashback who says we should trust the bad guy, and then in the next episode, the bad guy has hit foot on Chuck's back while Chuck says "BUT...BUT YOU PROMISED ME!"
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For most of the original 1954 Godzilla, the monster serves as a horrific nuclear metaphor - atomic doom incarnate. However, for one scene at the end, you get to see him rather aimlessly walking around on the ocean floor, and it's always struck me as such a profoundly lonely moment.
September 17, 2024 at 8:19 PM
For most of the original 1954 Godzilla, the monster serves as a horrific nuclear metaphor - atomic doom incarnate. However, for one scene at the end, you get to see him rather aimlessly walking around on the ocean floor, and it's always struck me as such a profoundly lonely moment.
It's been 3 years since Kevin Conroy passed away and I don't know if we'll ever find a more soulful, baroque Batman performance. A voice full of bravery and anger and pain in equal measure.
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It's been 3 years since Kevin Conroy passed away and I don't know if we'll ever find a more soulful, baroque Batman performance. A voice full of bravery and anger and pain in equal measure.
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is a great game if you enjoy a delightfully cartoonish aesthetic, refreshing gameplay, interesting puzzles, and repeating the same central dungeon roughly 4,000 times.
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is a great game if you enjoy a delightfully cartoonish aesthetic, refreshing gameplay, interesting puzzles, and repeating the same central dungeon roughly 4,000 times.
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I just want to be as confident as the Red & Blue sprite for Blastoise
September 22, 2023 at 6:55 PM
I just want to be as confident as the Red & Blue sprite for Blastoise
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There was a point where I was writing a blog revolved around trying to watch an episode of every show that had ever won an Emmy (didn't get far) but one of the biggest delights of it was finding a test episode of Pantomime Quiz, in which Price plays Charades.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABFW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABFW...
Mike Stokey’s Pantomime Quiz (which became “Stump the Stars”) 1949
YouTube video by SabuCat
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There was a point where I was writing a blog revolved around trying to watch an episode of every show that had ever won an Emmy (didn't get far) but one of the biggest delights of it was finding a test episode of Pantomime Quiz, in which Price plays Charades.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABFW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABFW...
Vincent Price is one of my favorite actors of all time - His cat-that-ate-the-canary grin, his singular, attention-grabbing weirdness, a voice that seemed to control every corner of the room. He appears as if the horror genre itself conjured him.
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Vincent Price is one of my favorite actors of all time - His cat-that-ate-the-canary grin, his singular, attention-grabbing weirdness, a voice that seemed to control every corner of the room. He appears as if the horror genre itself conjured him.
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Become your best self! It's #MinillaMonday!
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Become your best self! It's #MinillaMonday!
Whenever I see a headline like "Why is EVERYONE reading PERFORMATIVELY these days?", I immediately disregard the article because that is not the work of a serious person but rather someone that has been driven mad by the fact that they don't have enough attention.
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Whenever I see a headline like "Why is EVERYONE reading PERFORMATIVELY these days?", I immediately disregard the article because that is not the work of a serious person but rather someone that has been driven mad by the fact that they don't have enough attention.
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Ptero-line-up
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Ptero-line-up