Robert Joseph
@robertgjoseph.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication at the University of Dayton. Focus on cinematic geography, American independent cinema, mediations of hell and the apocalypse, and other things. On Letterboxd at https://boxd.it/iB7b.
Pinned
Rust belt grindhouse: Deadbeat at Dawn and the gentrification of East Dayton’s warehouse district
The deindustrialization of the Dayton, Ohio warehouse district, now known as Webster Station, preceded the area’s gradual conversion into a space of consumption marketed to the so-called ‘creative ...
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For my second Bluesky post, more shameless self-promotion: an article about the gentrification of my home city of Dayton and how it’s mediated by the 1988 exploitation classic Deadbeat at Dawn www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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“and the Plato readings that may include these.”
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 6, 2026 at 9:49 PM
“and the Plato readings that may include these.”
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2020: Lovers Rock
2021: West Side Story
2022: Tár
2023: Showing Up
2024: Dune: Part 2
2025: One Battle After Another
2021: West Side Story
2022: Tár
2023: Showing Up
2024: Dune: Part 2
2025: One Battle After Another
2020: The Kid Detective
2021: The Power of the Dog, The Matrix Resurrections
2022: Top Gun: Maverick, The Woman King
2023: Perfect Days, Godzilla Minus One, Oppenheimer
2024: Queer
2025: 28 Years Later
2021: The Power of the Dog, The Matrix Resurrections
2022: Top Gun: Maverick, The Woman King
2023: Perfect Days, Godzilla Minus One, Oppenheimer
2024: Queer
2025: 28 Years Later
Halfway through the decade! What are your favourite films each year so far?
2020: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
2021: Memoria
2022: Pacifiction
2023: Eureka
2024: Queer
2025: The Ice Tower
2020: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
2021: Memoria
2022: Pacifiction
2023: Eureka
2024: Queer
2025: The Ice Tower
January 2, 2026 at 2:05 PM
2020: Lovers Rock
2021: West Side Story
2022: Tár
2023: Showing Up
2024: Dune: Part 2
2025: One Battle After Another
2021: West Side Story
2022: Tár
2023: Showing Up
2024: Dune: Part 2
2025: One Battle After Another
Favorite first-time viewings of films in December:
Riefenstahl (Andres Veiel, 2024)
Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet, 1988)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, 2025)
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie, 2025)
Riefenstahl (Andres Veiel, 2024)
Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet, 1988)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, 2025)
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie, 2025)
January 1, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Favorite first-time viewings of films in December:
Riefenstahl (Andres Veiel, 2024)
Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet, 1988)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, 2025)
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie, 2025)
Riefenstahl (Andres Veiel, 2024)
Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet, 1988)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, 2025)
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie, 2025)
No telling how many times I watched the file of this I downloaded from Kazaa back in the day, but it was a lot
December 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
No telling how many times I watched the file of this I downloaded from Kazaa back in the day, but it was a lot
December 31, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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i had to drop what i was doing to make this
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
i had to drop what i was doing to make this
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Bonus:
Charles Hutchins as Scrooge in the I Think You Should Leave sketch ‘The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas’. Sadly Scrooge doesn’t have any dialogue out of his window, but he does kill bone monsters from the future, which is some compensation.
youtu.be/Dt-L6BfpYrc
Charles Hutchins as Scrooge in the I Think You Should Leave sketch ‘The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas’. Sadly Scrooge doesn’t have any dialogue out of his window, but he does kill bone monsters from the future, which is some compensation.
youtu.be/Dt-L6BfpYrc
December 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Bonus:
Charles Hutchins as Scrooge in the I Think You Should Leave sketch ‘The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas’. Sadly Scrooge doesn’t have any dialogue out of his window, but he does kill bone monsters from the future, which is some compensation.
youtu.be/Dt-L6BfpYrc
Charles Hutchins as Scrooge in the I Think You Should Leave sketch ‘The Night Scrooge Saved Christmas’. Sadly Scrooge doesn’t have any dialogue out of his window, but he does kill bone monsters from the future, which is some compensation.
youtu.be/Dt-L6BfpYrc
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#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched Three films about criminals (two of them on the run), and two indies set in Massachusetts
December 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched Three films about criminals (two of them on the run), and two indies set in Massachusetts
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I like the way he thinks..
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I like the way he thinks..
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One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
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A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.
without Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock production company we wouldn’t have:
City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Curiously enough, all four of my #LastFourWatched feature highly critical visions of law enforcement. #LetterboxdFriday
December 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Curiously enough, all four of my #LastFourWatched feature highly critical visions of law enforcement. #LetterboxdFriday
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To review:
Sincerely : formal
Best : neutral
All the best : positive
All the very best : can we be friends???
Regards : from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee
Sincerely : formal
Best : neutral
All the best : positive
All the very best : can we be friends???
Regards : from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
To review:
Sincerely : formal
Best : neutral
All the best : positive
All the very best : can we be friends???
Regards : from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee
Sincerely : formal
Best : neutral
All the best : positive
All the very best : can we be friends???
Regards : from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee
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Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
December 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
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A perfect sign of how fucked Hollywood is: Warner Bros. has one of its most successful years -- in terms of quality and box office success -- in a while, and that all happens while its owner sells it to the avatar of devaluing the theatrical experience.
December 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A perfect sign of how fucked Hollywood is: Warner Bros. has one of its most successful years -- in terms of quality and box office success -- in a while, and that all happens while its owner sells it to the avatar of devaluing the theatrical experience.
Four Christmas movies to know me by
December 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Four Christmas movies to know me by
Has QT seen a foreign language film in 25 years? This guy was a champion of Chungking Express and martial arts cinema for American audiences; his regression into normcore is a little disappointing!
I'm not going to pretend these are bad films (I don't even mind the Woody film) but this doesn't exactly scream "voracious cinephile with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of genre and world cinema" so much as "dad who watches a lot of TNT."
December 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Has QT seen a foreign language film in 25 years? This guy was a champion of Chungking Express and martial arts cinema for American audiences; his regression into normcore is a little disappointing!