Daniel Joyaux
@thirdmanmovies.bsky.social
Pop Culture critic/journalist/historian
Writing: The Ringer, IndieWire, Vanity Fair, Roger Ebert, Cosmo, The Verge
Former: Sundance Copy Editor
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Writing: The Ringer, IndieWire, Vanity Fair, Roger Ebert, Cosmo, The Verge
Former: Sundance Copy Editor
OCPD 🫠
Letterboxd: Djoyaux
Also love and may post about: basketball, comics, democracy, dogs
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Daniel Joyaux
@thirdmanmovies.bsky.social
· Sep 25
Re-upping my proposal for a five-hour Oscars, because that’s what we deserve:
www.theringer.com/2023/03/06/o...
www.theringer.com/2023/03/06/o...
Just tried to apply for an editor job that was posted on TUESDAY and it’s already gone.
For context, yesterday was fucking Thanksgiving.
FML.
For context, yesterday was fucking Thanksgiving.
FML.
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Just tried to apply for an editor job that was posted on TUESDAY and it’s already gone.
For context, yesterday was fucking Thanksgiving.
FML.
For context, yesterday was fucking Thanksgiving.
FML.
Just met a blue collar, in-law of an in-law of an in-law at Thanksgiving and he’s raving to everyone about Train Dreams.
Hell yeah, brother.
Hell yeah, brother.
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Just met a blue collar, in-law of an in-law of an in-law at Thanksgiving and he’s raving to everyone about Train Dreams.
Hell yeah, brother.
Hell yeah, brother.
The Smashing Machine (2025)
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The Smashing Machine (2025)
Are we counting Hamnet as Chloe Zhao’s Best Picture followup?
Obviously Eternals came out the year after Nomadland, but it was shot before Nomadland and just shelved for a year because of Covid.
So yeah, I think Hamnet is her official Best Picture followup.
Obviously Eternals came out the year after Nomadland, but it was shot before Nomadland and just shelved for a year because of Covid.
So yeah, I think Hamnet is her official Best Picture followup.
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Are we counting Hamnet as Chloe Zhao’s Best Picture followup?
Obviously Eternals came out the year after Nomadland, but it was shot before Nomadland and just shelved for a year because of Covid.
So yeah, I think Hamnet is her official Best Picture followup.
Obviously Eternals came out the year after Nomadland, but it was shot before Nomadland and just shelved for a year because of Covid.
So yeah, I think Hamnet is her official Best Picture followup.
The fact that one of our most prominent sources of cinema culture and punditry just named 25th Hour the third best movie of the century further underscores how fucking insane it is that the movie has never even had a proper blu-ray release.
Why do we have to live like this?
Why do we have to live like this?
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The fact that one of our most prominent sources of cinema culture and punditry just named 25th Hour the third best movie of the century further underscores how fucking insane it is that the movie has never even had a proper blu-ray release.
Why do we have to live like this?
Why do we have to live like this?
I would have ten other filmmakers direct their version of the True Romance script, so that we could all agree Tony Scott made the worst possible version.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I would have ten other filmmakers direct their version of the True Romance script, so that we could all agree Tony Scott made the worst possible version.
All people that have two first names combined into one first name should be legally prohibited from punditry
Markwayne Mullin on healthcare: "What the president would like to do is say, hey, if you take care of yourself -- you don't smoke, you don't dip, you're not drinking, you're not overweight, you're working out -- then you should pay less than the guy that obviously is not taking care of himself."
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
All people that have two first names combined into one first name should be legally prohibited from punditry
People seem to really be focusing on the absurdity of Dershowitz being labeled as “charismatic” and in the political middle, but describing Dana Loesch that way strikes me as even more insane.
Loesch is a kids cereal mascot shilling for fascism. Like Tony the Tiger with an insatiable gun fetish.
Loesch is a kids cereal mascot shilling for fascism. Like Tony the Tiger with an insatiable gun fetish.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
People seem to really be focusing on the absurdity of Dershowitz being labeled as “charismatic” and in the political middle, but describing Dana Loesch that way strikes me as even more insane.
Loesch is a kids cereal mascot shilling for fascism. Like Tony the Tiger with an insatiable gun fetish.
Loesch is a kids cereal mascot shilling for fascism. Like Tony the Tiger with an insatiable gun fetish.
Casting Gabriel Basso in a major role in A House of Dynamite was an inexcusable mistake. No one deserves to think about JD fucking Vance during a hyper-realistic movie about impending nuclear war.
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Casting Gabriel Basso in a major role in A House of Dynamite was an inexcusable mistake. No one deserves to think about JD fucking Vance during a hyper-realistic movie about impending nuclear war.
Are any of you that read film and pop culture books active on Good Reads? I’d like to follow more people over there.
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Are any of you that read film and pop culture books active on Good Reads? I’d like to follow more people over there.
John Prine deep dive has been activated. Hit me up with your favorite Prine album (other than the first, because I want some answer variety).
Mine is 1973’s Sweet Revenge.
Mine is 1973’s Sweet Revenge.
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
John Prine deep dive has been activated. Hit me up with your favorite Prine album (other than the first, because I want some answer variety).
Mine is 1973’s Sweet Revenge.
Mine is 1973’s Sweet Revenge.
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg & his nanny look like the villain & his sidekick in a Bond movie directed by Wes Anderson
November 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Jacob Rees-Mogg & his nanny look like the villain & his sidekick in a Bond movie directed by Wes Anderson
Listening to yesterday’s Fresh Air episode about Kash Patel somehow caused me to be the most depressed I’ve been in a while.
I just can’t believe these fucking people get away with nearly everything.
I just can’t believe these fucking people get away with nearly everything.
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Listening to yesterday’s Fresh Air episode about Kash Patel somehow caused me to be the most depressed I’ve been in a while.
I just can’t believe these fucking people get away with nearly everything.
I just can’t believe these fucking people get away with nearly everything.
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PICTURES AT A REVOLUTION
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
PICTURES AT A REVOLUTION
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I’m starting to feel reasonably confident that the ten Best Picture nominees will be:
1. One Battle After Another
2. Hamnet
3. Sinners
4. Sentimental Value
5. Marty Supreme
6. Frankenstein
7. It Was Just an Accident
8. Jay Kelly
9. Wicked: For Good
10. Avatar: Fire & Ash
1. One Battle After Another
2. Hamnet
3. Sinners
4. Sentimental Value
5. Marty Supreme
6. Frankenstein
7. It Was Just an Accident
8. Jay Kelly
9. Wicked: For Good
10. Avatar: Fire & Ash
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I’m starting to feel reasonably confident that the ten Best Picture nominees will be:
1. One Battle After Another
2. Hamnet
3. Sinners
4. Sentimental Value
5. Marty Supreme
6. Frankenstein
7. It Was Just an Accident
8. Jay Kelly
9. Wicked: For Good
10. Avatar: Fire & Ash
1. One Battle After Another
2. Hamnet
3. Sinners
4. Sentimental Value
5. Marty Supreme
6. Frankenstein
7. It Was Just an Accident
8. Jay Kelly
9. Wicked: For Good
10. Avatar: Fire & Ash
I’m starting to feel reasonably confident that the ten Best Picture nominees will be:
1. One Battle After Another
2. Hamnet
3. Sinners
4. Sentimental Value
5. Marty Supreme
6. Frankenstein
7. It Was Just an Accident
8. Jay Kelly
9. Wicked: For Good
10. Avatar: Fire & Ash
1. One Battle After Another
2. Hamnet
3. Sinners
4. Sentimental Value
5. Marty Supreme
6. Frankenstein
7. It Was Just an Accident
8. Jay Kelly
9. Wicked: For Good
10. Avatar: Fire & Ash
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I’m starting to feel reasonably confident that the ten Best Picture nominees will be:
1. One Battle After Another
2. Hamnet
3. Sinners
4. Sentimental Value
5. Marty Supreme
6. Frankenstein
7. It Was Just an Accident
8. Jay Kelly
9. Wicked: For Good
10. Avatar: Fire & Ash
1. One Battle After Another
2. Hamnet
3. Sinners
4. Sentimental Value
5. Marty Supreme
6. Frankenstein
7. It Was Just an Accident
8. Jay Kelly
9. Wicked: For Good
10. Avatar: Fire & Ash
Another outlet for film criticism bites the dust
a terrible shame, for many reasons.
and the job market is so bloated with culture reporters with no places to write
www.thewrap.com/paste-layoff...
and the job market is so bloated with culture reporters with no places to write
www.thewrap.com/paste-layoff...
Paste Cuts Film, TV Teams to Recenter on Only Music Coverage
Paste President and Editor-in-Chief Josh Jackson tells TheWrap the site will continue to collaborate with The A.V. Club for film and TV.
www.thewrap.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Another outlet for film criticism bites the dust
“We used to be a proper society. Like in Eyes Wide Shut.”
November 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“We used to be a proper society. Like in Eyes Wide Shut.”
Doesn’t even need the “near-“ caveat.
Just a complete breakdown. No cover-your-ass modifiers necessary.
Just a complete breakdown. No cover-your-ass modifiers necessary.
This line in the NYT:
“.. the near-complete breakdown of the Justice Department’s traditional independence to prosecute cases based on facts and the law, as opposed to presidential fiat.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
“.. the near-complete breakdown of the Justice Department’s traditional independence to prosecute cases based on facts and the law, as opposed to presidential fiat.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Justice Department to Investigate Epstein Ties, but Not to Trump
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Doesn’t even need the “near-“ caveat.
Just a complete breakdown. No cover-your-ass modifiers necessary.
Just a complete breakdown. No cover-your-ass modifiers necessary.
No idea if this is my actual answer, but it’s what immediately came to mind
November 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
No idea if this is my actual answer, but it’s what immediately came to mind
The whole “Having sex with a girl who’s 17-and-10-months-old doesn’t make you a pedophile” argument might be intellectually and morally debatable if we were talking about a man who was 22 at the time.
But we are talking about a man who was in his 50s.
Say it with me folks: PEDOPHILE
But we are talking about a man who was in his 50s.
Say it with me folks: PEDOPHILE
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The whole “Having sex with a girl who’s 17-and-10-months-old doesn’t make you a pedophile” argument might be intellectually and morally debatable if we were talking about a man who was 22 at the time.
But we are talking about a man who was in his 50s.
Say it with me folks: PEDOPHILE
But we are talking about a man who was in his 50s.
Say it with me folks: PEDOPHILE
Benicio del Toro has had a great 30+ year career with a ton of wonderful movies, but for the rest of his life when people see him in public they’re going to call him Sensei and yell “VIVA LA REVOLUTION” at him.
And I think that’s beautiful.
And I think that’s beautiful.
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Benicio del Toro has had a great 30+ year career with a ton of wonderful movies, but for the rest of his life when people see him in public they’re going to call him Sensei and yell “VIVA LA REVOLUTION” at him.
And I think that’s beautiful.
And I think that’s beautiful.
Why in the hell does Merriam Webster (and my phone’s spellcheck, for that matter) recognize “outcall” as a word but not “incall”?
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Why in the hell does Merriam Webster (and my phone’s spellcheck, for that matter) recognize “outcall” as a word but not “incall”?
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I think people underestimate how many republicans in congress have been pining for a permissible reason (to their voters) to turn on him. Now they have one.
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I think people underestimate how many republicans in congress have been pining for a permissible reason (to their voters) to turn on him. Now they have one.