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
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 📽️
Babygirl (2024) Nicole Kidman plays a high-powered CEO with a deep-down need to be dominated in bed, and when her husband (literally Antonio Banderas) won't do it, she has a torrid affair a hot intern at her company. If this means we can do erotic thrillers again I am here for it. #Filmsky
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Babygirl (2024) Nicole Kidman plays a high-powered CEO with a deep-down need to be dominated in bed, and when her husband (literally Antonio Banderas) won't do it, she has a torrid affair a hot intern at her company. If this means we can do erotic thrillers again I am here for it. #Filmsky
Stories We Tell (2012) A very personal documentary from Canadian actress/director Sarah Polley, about her discovery that the man who raised her is not actually her biological father and she is the product of an affair her long-deceased mother had. #Filmsky 📽️
November 4, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Stories We Tell (2012) A very personal documentary from Canadian actress/director Sarah Polley, about her discovery that the man who raised her is not actually her biological father and she is the product of an affair her long-deceased mother had. #Filmsky 📽️
Babette's Feast (1987) A French refugee decides to make a fancy French meal for the bleak, ascetic Danish village where she has ended up and teaches them that God actually wants them to be happy, or something. "The food film of food films," it won the Foreign Language Oscar for its year. #Filmsky 📽️
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Babette's Feast (1987) A French refugee decides to make a fancy French meal for the bleak, ascetic Danish village where she has ended up and teaches them that God actually wants them to be happy, or something. "The food film of food films," it won the Foreign Language Oscar for its year. #Filmsky 📽️
Saturday Night (2024) It's November and we're back to our normal rotation. This movie is told almost in real time in the lead-up showing behind the scenes in the chaotic lead-up to the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975. Its not a revelation but I enjoyed it quite a bit. #Filmsky 📽️
November 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Saturday Night (2024) It's November and we're back to our normal rotation. This movie is told almost in real time in the lead-up showing behind the scenes in the chaotic lead-up to the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975. Its not a revelation but I enjoyed it quite a bit. #Filmsky 📽️
Horrortober #39: The Seventh Victim (1943) A very strange Val Lewton film about a cabal of devil worshippers in Greenwich Village, and also about how life is meaningless and we're all alone. The film's obvious lesbian undertones and extreme nihilism have made it a bit of a cult classic. #Filmsky 📽️
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Horrortober #39: The Seventh Victim (1943) A very strange Val Lewton film about a cabal of devil worshippers in Greenwich Village, and also about how life is meaningless and we're all alone. The film's obvious lesbian undertones and extreme nihilism have made it a bit of a cult classic. #Filmsky 📽️
Horrortober #38: The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) Theoretically the final entry in its money-printing horror franchise, this edition features Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga dealing with a very haunted mirror in a 1980s Pennsylvania factory town, along with their psychic adult daughter. #Filmsky 📽️
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Horrortober #38: The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) Theoretically the final entry in its money-printing horror franchise, this edition features Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga dealing with a very haunted mirror in a 1980s Pennsylvania factory town, along with their psychic adult daughter. #Filmsky 📽️
Horrortober #37: The City of the Dead (1960) An atmospheric but otherwise very not good movie about a New England town possibly cursed by witches, from the UK but everyone’s doing spotty American accents. Christopher Lee is in exactly 2 scenes. #Filmsky 📽️
October 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Horrortober #37: The City of the Dead (1960) An atmospheric but otherwise very not good movie about a New England town possibly cursed by witches, from the UK but everyone’s doing spotty American accents. Christopher Lee is in exactly 2 scenes. #Filmsky 📽️
Horrortober #36: Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) Werner Herzog and his muse/enemy Klaus Kinski doing a vampire movie should be enough to get you in the door, and it is very Herzog while also having the exact same beats you will be familiar with if you saw the most recent version. #Filmsky 📽️
October 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Horrortober #36: Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) Werner Herzog and his muse/enemy Klaus Kinski doing a vampire movie should be enough to get you in the door, and it is very Herzog while also having the exact same beats you will be familiar with if you saw the most recent version. #Filmsky 📽️
Horrortober #35: Weapons (2025) One of the buzzier horror releases of recent months, centering around a community's reaction when a young teacher's entire classroom of students disappear from their homes in the middle of the night. Works best on a metaphorical level but that's OK maybe. #Filmsky 📽️
October 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Horrortober #35: Weapons (2025) One of the buzzier horror releases of recent months, centering around a community's reaction when a young teacher's entire classroom of students disappear from their homes in the middle of the night. Works best on a metaphorical level but that's OK maybe. #Filmsky 📽️
Horrortober #34: Attack the Block (2011) A alternative take on the alien invasion movie in which a youth gang in a South London apartment block must protect their turf from crazy monsters coming out of falling asteroids. One of those movies that has grown in stature since its release. #Filmsky 📽️
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Horrortober #34: Attack the Block (2011) A alternative take on the alien invasion movie in which a youth gang in a South London apartment block must protect their turf from crazy monsters coming out of falling asteroids. One of those movies that has grown in stature since its release. #Filmsky 📽️
Horrortober #33: The Power (2021) A nurse on her first night at a London hospital during a 1970s miner's strike finds herself alone in the dark with the supernatural. Super duper tense and creepy, with many scenes mostly in the encroaching darkness. Plot-wise, it's About Trauma. #Filmsky 📽️
October 29, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Horrortober #33: The Power (2021) A nurse on her first night at a London hospital during a 1970s miner's strike finds herself alone in the dark with the supernatural. Super duper tense and creepy, with many scenes mostly in the encroaching darkness. Plot-wise, it's About Trauma. #Filmsky 📽️
Horrortober #32: Halloween II (1981) I was surprised at the extent this movie is so bad it's good while also a little being actually good. There are several truly memeworthy scenes, Michael Myers murders a bunch of hot young nurses while his doctor fires his gun at any opportunity. #Filmsky 📽️
October 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Horrortober #32: Halloween II (1981) I was surprised at the extent this movie is so bad it's good while also a little being actually good. There are several truly memeworthy scenes, Michael Myers murders a bunch of hot young nurses while his doctor fires his gun at any opportunity. #Filmsky 📽️
Horrortober #31: The Bad Seed (1956) A 50s suburban mom gradually realizes that her cute blond little girl with pigtails is a sociopathic murderer. Young Patty McDonough is a standout as sort of a proto-M3gan, who will curtsy to you one moment and burn you alive the next. #Filmsky 📽️
October 27, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Horrortober #31: The Bad Seed (1956) A 50s suburban mom gradually realizes that her cute blond little girl with pigtails is a sociopathic murderer. Young Patty McDonough is a standout as sort of a proto-M3gan, who will curtsy to you one moment and burn you alive the next. #Filmsky 📽️
Horrortober #30: Peeping Tom (1960) Was such a disaster on its release that it basically ended the career of Michael Powell, one of the great English directors, but since that time it has become kind of a seminal horror text about a serial killer who films his murders. #Filmsky 📽️
October 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Horrortober #30: Peeping Tom (1960) Was such a disaster on its release that it basically ended the career of Michael Powell, one of the great English directors, but since that time it has become kind of a seminal horror text about a serial killer who films his murders. #Filmsky 📽️
Horrortober #29: The Mummy's Hand (1940) Billed as the sequel to the original Boris Karloff classic, it has absolutely nothing to do with that movie and instead makes up a lame mummy controlled by this priest guy who of course wants to keep the hot white lady with him forever. #Filmsky 📽️
October 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Horrortober #29: The Mummy's Hand (1940) Billed as the sequel to the original Boris Karloff classic, it has absolutely nothing to do with that movie and instead makes up a lame mummy controlled by this priest guy who of course wants to keep the hot white lady with him forever. #Filmsky 📽️
Horrortober #28: La Llorona (2019) Guatelaman director Jayro Bustamante uses the tools of the horror genre and the Latin American legend of the weeping woman to deal with his country's history of genocide. This likely sounds more like homework than it actually plays, it's very well done. #Filmsky 📽️
October 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Horrortober #28: La Llorona (2019) Guatelaman director Jayro Bustamante uses the tools of the horror genre and the Latin American legend of the weeping woman to deal with his country's history of genocide. This likely sounds more like homework than it actually plays, it's very well done. #Filmsky 📽️
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) I think this might be the movie I would show to someone as an intro to the higher level stuff that goes in to making a movie, because it's pretty much perfect in directing, acting, music, etc. It remains seminal for me as a film fan. #Filmsky 📽️
October 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) I think this might be the movie I would show to someone as an intro to the higher level stuff that goes in to making a movie, because it's pretty much perfect in directing, acting, music, etc. It remains seminal for me as a film fan. #Filmsky 📽️