Daniel R. Budnik
@dannyslacks1.bsky.social
Writer, Podcaster, Will Watch Anything Once, Will Watch Most Things Multiple Times.
I would like to thank me for joining Rob to talk about THE BLACK SIX. In great detail!
Justice rides in on two wheels — and it’s not backing down! This Limited Edition comes with a full-length commentary by film historian Robert Kelly and author/podcaster Daniel Budnik, and liner notes by Don Stradley!
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January 23, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I would like to thank me for joining Rob to talk about THE BLACK SIX. In great detail!
I am back on T&TVC for another discussion of S1 Gunsmoke. We are halfway through the season... and still talking.
@dannyslacks1.bsky.social and I break down these episodes, recommend Dodge City's best hotel, and pitch a spinoff series where Doc is "Judge, Doctor, and Executioner".
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Episode 41: Gunsmoke Episodes 19-21 w/ Dan Budnik
Podcast Episode · Tumbleweeds and TV Cowboys · 01/20/2026 · 1h 35m
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January 20, 2026 at 4:54 PM
I am back on T&TVC for another discussion of S1 Gunsmoke. We are halfway through the season... and still talking.
Rob and I provide a commentary for Matt Cimber's THE BLACK SIX. And we are awesome. Pick up a copy today! (Or in February)
Featuring a commentary by me and @dannyslacks1.bsky.social! @filmmasters.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Rob and I provide a commentary for Matt Cimber's THE BLACK SIX. And we are awesome. Pick up a copy today! (Or in February)
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My newest REEL RETRO CINEMA column for 13thDimension is on the forgotten 1960 all-star comedy epic PEPE! 13thdimension.com/1960s-pepe-o...
1960’s PEPE: One of HOLLYWOOD’s Biggest, Weirdest Flops — Which of Course DELL Adapted
REEL RETRO CINEMA: New looks at old flicks and their comics connections…
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December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My newest REEL RETRO CINEMA column for 13thDimension is on the forgotten 1960 all-star comedy epic PEPE! 13thdimension.com/1960s-pepe-o...
Just came back from seeing FACKHAM HALL at the Burbank Mall. It was hilarious. Laugh a minute. Actually, probably more than one a minute. The closest to a ZAZ film I have seen in years. (I have not yet seen the remade NAKED GUN.)
December 14, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Just came back from seeing FACKHAM HALL at the Burbank Mall. It was hilarious. Laugh a minute. Actually, probably more than one a minute. The closest to a ZAZ film I have seen in years. (I have not yet seen the remade NAKED GUN.)
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Blog Post: A Chapbook of Grief
I have one more project to finish before the end of the year.
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I have one more project to finish before the end of the year.
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A Chapbook of Grief
Instead of torturing you with yet another poem this month, I’m going to tell you about a chapbook I’ve been working on with the goal of having the first draft done by the end of the yea…
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December 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Blog Post: A Chapbook of Grief
I have one more project to finish before the end of the year.
kikiwritesabout.com/2025/12/11/a...
I have one more project to finish before the end of the year.
kikiwritesabout.com/2025/12/11/a...
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New on our bookshelf:
The New Slavery: Accounts of Human Trafficking in Eastern Europe
By Kate Transchel
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The New Slavery: Accounts of Human Trafficking in Eastern Europe
By Kate Transchel
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December 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
New on our bookshelf:
The New Slavery: Accounts of Human Trafficking in Eastern Europe
By Kate Transchel
mcfarlandbooks.com/product/The-...
The New Slavery: Accounts of Human Trafficking in Eastern Europe
By Kate Transchel
mcfarlandbooks.com/product/The-...
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For DAY 339 of my year long retrospective on made for TV movies that need a DVD/Blu Ray release, I went with another made for cable thriller, Deadly Love. This Lifetime Original stars Susan Dey as a lonely vampire who falls in love with the police detective investigating a murder she committed
December 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
For DAY 339 of my year long retrospective on made for TV movies that need a DVD/Blu Ray release, I went with another made for cable thriller, Deadly Love. This Lifetime Original stars Susan Dey as a lonely vampire who falls in love with the police detective investigating a murder she committed
One more time: My action film book is still available and still on sale. tinyurl.com/45nsucs5
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
One more time: My action film book is still available and still on sale. tinyurl.com/45nsucs5
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For DAY 333 of my year long retrospective on made for TV movies that need a DVD/Blu Ray release, I chose Nowhere to Run (1978), a drama about a man who fakes his own death to start a new life & begins by devising a system to make his fortune playing blackjack. David Janssen is terrific (as always)
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
For DAY 333 of my year long retrospective on made for TV movies that need a DVD/Blu Ray release, I chose Nowhere to Run (1978), a drama about a man who fakes his own death to start a new life & begins by devising a system to make his fortune playing blackjack. David Janssen is terrific (as always)
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Hey, we made it.
Thanks to everyone who sat down and watched How Awful About Allan with us. It's a good one, and really works as an early marker for the kind of classic and gothic beats most of Curtis Harrington's telefilm work would lean into.
Plus, Joan Hackett. ❤️
#TVMParty
Thanks to everyone who sat down and watched How Awful About Allan with us. It's a good one, and really works as an early marker for the kind of classic and gothic beats most of Curtis Harrington's telefilm work would lean into.
Plus, Joan Hackett. ❤️
#TVMParty
November 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Hey, we made it.
Thanks to everyone who sat down and watched How Awful About Allan with us. It's a good one, and really works as an early marker for the kind of classic and gothic beats most of Curtis Harrington's telefilm work would lean into.
Plus, Joan Hackett. ❤️
#TVMParty
Thanks to everyone who sat down and watched How Awful About Allan with us. It's a good one, and really works as an early marker for the kind of classic and gothic beats most of Curtis Harrington's telefilm work would lean into.
Plus, Joan Hackett. ❤️
#TVMParty
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November 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Joan Hackett would become a familiar face in the made for TV genre movie and appeared in some great films, including Five Desperate Women, Reflection of Murder, Dead of Night and The Possessed
I love her. Did I mention that?
#TVMParty
I love her. Did I mention that?
#TVMParty
November 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Joan Hackett would become a familiar face in the made for TV genre movie and appeared in some great films, including Five Desperate Women, Reflection of Murder, Dead of Night and The Possessed
I love her. Did I mention that?
#TVMParty
I love her. Did I mention that?
#TVMParty
If this were a modern-day movie, a dark shape would have shot up out of the blurriness and we would have cut to black in that last shot. #TVMParty
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If this were a modern-day movie, a dark shape would have shot up out of the blurriness and we would have cut to black in that last shot. #TVMParty
The fire in the kitchen was started by one of four things: 1) a Jawa 2) A scrunched up Phantasm person 3) one of the DON"T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK things or 4) Julie Harris. #TVMParty
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The fire in the kitchen was started by one of four things: 1) a Jawa 2) A scrunched up Phantasm person 3) one of the DON"T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK things or 4) Julie Harris. #TVMParty
I'm glad this aired in a 90-minute timeslot. The length is just right. At the moment I started to lose it a bit, he gets locked in the closet with fire. What!? Allan! #TVMParty
November 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm glad this aired in a 90-minute timeslot. The length is just right. At the moment I started to lose it a bit, he gets locked in the closet with fire. What!? Allan! #TVMParty
OK, let's do a Curtis Harrington TVM Poll. I'll leave a thread of his telefilms and you just like the post with your favorite film!
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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OK, let's do a Curtis Harrington TVM Poll. I'll leave a thread of his telefilms and you just like the post with your favorite film!
November 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
OK, let's do a Curtis Harrington TVM Poll. I'll leave a thread of his telefilms and you just like the post with your favorite film!
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How Awful About Allan's screenwriter Henry Farrell was best known as a novelist and shortly before his death had completed A Piece of Clarisse, which is about a man receiving a woman’s body parts in the mail! It is still unpublished, which feels criminal to me.
#TVMParty
#TVMParty
November 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
How Awful About Allan's screenwriter Henry Farrell was best known as a novelist and shortly before his death had completed A Piece of Clarisse, which is about a man receiving a woman’s body parts in the mail! It is still unpublished, which feels criminal to me.
#TVMParty
#TVMParty