Daniel Hardy
@daniel23.bsky.social
Screenwriter, film junkie, dad.
Anyone putting 2010’s thoroughly mediocre Predators above any of the Trachtenberg joints (Prey, Badlands, Killer of Killers) should immediately have their Predator card revoked. (Cough Indiewire cough).
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Anyone putting 2010’s thoroughly mediocre Predators above any of the Trachtenberg joints (Prey, Badlands, Killer of Killers) should immediately have their Predator card revoked. (Cough Indiewire cough).
*****
Predator
Prey
****
Badlands
Killer of Killers
***
Predator 2
Predators
**
The Predator
Predator
Prey
****
Badlands
Killer of Killers
***
Predator 2
Predators
**
The Predator
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
*****
Predator
Prey
****
Badlands
Killer of Killers
***
Predator 2
Predators
**
The Predator
Predator
Prey
****
Badlands
Killer of Killers
***
Predator 2
Predators
**
The Predator
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Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
July 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
5 Fave in black & white:
The Battle of Algiers
The Hustler
The Third Man
Seven Samurai
Persona
The Battle of Algiers
The Hustler
The Third Man
Seven Samurai
Persona
Five favorite black & white movies
Godzilla
Casablanca
Seven Samurai
Night of the Living Dead
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Godzilla
Casablanca
Seven Samurai
Night of the Living Dead
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Five favorite black & white movies:
Häxan
The Uninivited
It’s a Wonderful Life
His Girl Friday
Ugetsu
Häxan
The Uninivited
It’s a Wonderful Life
His Girl Friday
Ugetsu
May 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
5 Fave in black & white:
The Battle of Algiers
The Hustler
The Third Man
Seven Samurai
Persona
The Battle of Algiers
The Hustler
The Third Man
Seven Samurai
Persona
Who are the five writers that made you?
Stephen King
Kurt Vonnegut
Paul Auster
James Ellroy
Cormac McCarthy
Stephen King
Kurt Vonnegut
Paul Auster
James Ellroy
Cormac McCarthy
Who are the five writers that made you?
Arthur Conan Doyle
P.G. Wodehouse
Pauline Kael
Ernest Hemingway
Allen Ginsberg
Arthur Conan Doyle
P.G. Wodehouse
Pauline Kael
Ernest Hemingway
Allen Ginsberg
Who are the five writers that made you?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Robert A Heinlein
Arthur C Clarke
Robert B Parker
Stan Lee
Bonus: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Arthur Conan Doyle
Robert A Heinlein
Arthur C Clarke
Robert B Parker
Stan Lee
Bonus: Edgar Rice Burroughs
May 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Who are the five writers that made you?
Stephen King
Kurt Vonnegut
Paul Auster
James Ellroy
Cormac McCarthy
Stephen King
Kurt Vonnegut
Paul Auster
James Ellroy
Cormac McCarthy
Miami Vice reboot - If Kosinski is recasting Crocket & Tubbs, Austin Butler & Daniel Kaluuya is about as cool as it gets.
April 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Miami Vice reboot - If Kosinski is recasting Crocket & Tubbs, Austin Butler & Daniel Kaluuya is about as cool as it gets.
Sinners is automatically best movie of the decade so far, up there with best of all time. Just stunning king shit every thrilling second of screen time.
April 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Sinners is automatically best movie of the decade so far, up there with best of all time. Just stunning king shit every thrilling second of screen time.
My top 20 of the 20s so far:
Sinners
Dune 2
The Northman
Furiosa
Tenet
The Green Knight
Across the Spiderverse
Flow
Dune
Nickel Boys
Dead Reckoning
Avatar way of water
Oppenheimer
Worst Person in World
Fabelmans
Decision to Leave
Top Gun Maverick
West Side Story
Killers of Flower Moon
RRR
Sinners
Dune 2
The Northman
Furiosa
Tenet
The Green Knight
Across the Spiderverse
Flow
Dune
Nickel Boys
Dead Reckoning
Avatar way of water
Oppenheimer
Worst Person in World
Fabelmans
Decision to Leave
Top Gun Maverick
West Side Story
Killers of Flower Moon
RRR
April 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
My top 20 of the 20s so far:
Sinners
Dune 2
The Northman
Furiosa
Tenet
The Green Knight
Across the Spiderverse
Flow
Dune
Nickel Boys
Dead Reckoning
Avatar way of water
Oppenheimer
Worst Person in World
Fabelmans
Decision to Leave
Top Gun Maverick
West Side Story
Killers of Flower Moon
RRR
Sinners
Dune 2
The Northman
Furiosa
Tenet
The Green Knight
Across the Spiderverse
Flow
Dune
Nickel Boys
Dead Reckoning
Avatar way of water
Oppenheimer
Worst Person in World
Fabelmans
Decision to Leave
Top Gun Maverick
West Side Story
Killers of Flower Moon
RRR
RIP Val Kilmer
Heat
Top Secret
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Doors
Spartan
Tombstone
Top Gun
Willow
Real Genius
Top Gun Maverick
Look at the range across those performances.
Heat
Top Secret
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Doors
Spartan
Tombstone
Top Gun
Willow
Real Genius
Top Gun Maverick
Look at the range across those performances.
April 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
RIP Val Kilmer
Heat
Top Secret
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Doors
Spartan
Tombstone
Top Gun
Willow
Real Genius
Top Gun Maverick
Look at the range across those performances.
Heat
Top Secret
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Doors
Spartan
Tombstone
Top Gun
Willow
Real Genius
Top Gun Maverick
Look at the range across those performances.
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men writing songs about women: I love you baby can we have sex
women writing songs about men: you fucking bastard, you absolute piece of shit
women writing songs about men: you fucking bastard, you absolute piece of shit
February 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
men writing songs about women: I love you baby can we have sex
women writing songs about men: you fucking bastard, you absolute piece of shit
women writing songs about men: you fucking bastard, you absolute piece of shit
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The last two weeks feel like we’ve been playing a Batman game called OOPS! ALL VILLAINS
February 6, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The last two weeks feel like we’ve been playing a Batman game called OOPS! ALL VILLAINS
The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) is excellent. Tells a story I thought I knew inside out with such flair, relentless pace and big con thrills that it all felt new again. What a treat, a blockbuster with brains, poetry and muscle.
February 6, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) is excellent. Tells a story I thought I knew inside out with such flair, relentless pace and big con thrills that it all felt new again. What a treat, a blockbuster with brains, poetry and muscle.
Top 20 of 2024 (adjusted):
Flow
Nickel Boys
Furiosa
Dune part 2
The Brutalist
Civil War
A Complete Unknown
Challengers
Rebel Ridge
Emilia Perez
Anora
The Wild Robot
Wicked
Nosferatu
The Substance
A Different Man
The Order
Alien Romulus
The Fall Guy
Last Stop in Yuma County
Flow
Nickel Boys
Furiosa
Dune part 2
The Brutalist
Civil War
A Complete Unknown
Challengers
Rebel Ridge
Emilia Perez
Anora
The Wild Robot
Wicked
Nosferatu
The Substance
A Different Man
The Order
Alien Romulus
The Fall Guy
Last Stop in Yuma County
January 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Top 20 of 2024 (adjusted):
Flow
Nickel Boys
Furiosa
Dune part 2
The Brutalist
Civil War
A Complete Unknown
Challengers
Rebel Ridge
Emilia Perez
Anora
The Wild Robot
Wicked
Nosferatu
The Substance
A Different Man
The Order
Alien Romulus
The Fall Guy
Last Stop in Yuma County
Flow
Nickel Boys
Furiosa
Dune part 2
The Brutalist
Civil War
A Complete Unknown
Challengers
Rebel Ridge
Emilia Perez
Anora
The Wild Robot
Wicked
Nosferatu
The Substance
A Different Man
The Order
Alien Romulus
The Fall Guy
Last Stop in Yuma County
Film Twitter likes to complain about the Oscars but I’m just gonna say I think the BP 10 are a great lineup of movies, each one a miracle in this time of fear-driven IP/content/algorithm based film making.
January 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Film Twitter likes to complain about the Oscars but I’m just gonna say I think the BP 10 are a great lineup of movies, each one a miracle in this time of fear-driven IP/content/algorithm based film making.
20 for 2025:
Final Reckoning
Battle of Baktan Cross
Marty Supreme
Highest 2 Lowest
Avatar Fire & Ash
Sentimental Value
Wake up Dead Man
Running Man
Eddington
Caught Stealing
Warfare
Phoenician Scheme
Die My Love
Sinners
Mickey 17
After the Hunt
Mother Mary
Weapons
Predator Badlands
Bugonia
Final Reckoning
Battle of Baktan Cross
Marty Supreme
Highest 2 Lowest
Avatar Fire & Ash
Sentimental Value
Wake up Dead Man
Running Man
Eddington
Caught Stealing
Warfare
Phoenician Scheme
Die My Love
Sinners
Mickey 17
After the Hunt
Mother Mary
Weapons
Predator Badlands
Bugonia
January 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
20 for 2025:
Final Reckoning
Battle of Baktan Cross
Marty Supreme
Highest 2 Lowest
Avatar Fire & Ash
Sentimental Value
Wake up Dead Man
Running Man
Eddington
Caught Stealing
Warfare
Phoenician Scheme
Die My Love
Sinners
Mickey 17
After the Hunt
Mother Mary
Weapons
Predator Badlands
Bugonia
Final Reckoning
Battle of Baktan Cross
Marty Supreme
Highest 2 Lowest
Avatar Fire & Ash
Sentimental Value
Wake up Dead Man
Running Man
Eddington
Caught Stealing
Warfare
Phoenician Scheme
Die My Love
Sinners
Mickey 17
After the Hunt
Mother Mary
Weapons
Predator Badlands
Bugonia
My top 15 TV shows of 2024:
Shogun
Industry S3
Ripley
Mr and Mrs Smith
Say Nothing
The Penguin
Interview with a Vampire S2
The Old Man S2
3 Body Problem
English Teacher
The Gentlemen
The Diplomat S2
Rings of Power S2
House of the Dragon S2
The Bear S3
Shogun
Industry S3
Ripley
Mr and Mrs Smith
Say Nothing
The Penguin
Interview with a Vampire S2
The Old Man S2
3 Body Problem
English Teacher
The Gentlemen
The Diplomat S2
Rings of Power S2
House of the Dragon S2
The Bear S3
January 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
My top 15 TV shows of 2024:
Shogun
Industry S3
Ripley
Mr and Mrs Smith
Say Nothing
The Penguin
Interview with a Vampire S2
The Old Man S2
3 Body Problem
English Teacher
The Gentlemen
The Diplomat S2
Rings of Power S2
House of the Dragon S2
The Bear S3
Shogun
Industry S3
Ripley
Mr and Mrs Smith
Say Nothing
The Penguin
Interview with a Vampire S2
The Old Man S2
3 Body Problem
English Teacher
The Gentlemen
The Diplomat S2
Rings of Power S2
House of the Dragon S2
The Bear S3
My top 15 movies of 2024:
Dune 2
Furiosa
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Civil War
Challengers
Rebel Ridge
The Wild Robot
Emilia Perez
Nosferatu
Anora
Wicked
The Substance
A Different Man
Alien Romulus
Dune 2
Furiosa
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Civil War
Challengers
Rebel Ridge
The Wild Robot
Emilia Perez
Nosferatu
Anora
Wicked
The Substance
A Different Man
Alien Romulus
January 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
My top 15 movies of 2024:
Dune 2
Furiosa
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Civil War
Challengers
Rebel Ridge
The Wild Robot
Emilia Perez
Nosferatu
Anora
Wicked
The Substance
A Different Man
Alien Romulus
Dune 2
Furiosa
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Civil War
Challengers
Rebel Ridge
The Wild Robot
Emilia Perez
Nosferatu
Anora
Wicked
The Substance
A Different Man
Alien Romulus
Box Office Weekend Estimates:
12/5-12/7
1. Moana 2 (50M/298M total)
2. Wicked (32M/318M total)
3. Gladiator II (12M/133M total)
4. Pushpa 2 (10M)
5. Interstellar (4M/188M total!)
#boxoffice
12/5-12/7
1. Moana 2 (50M/298M total)
2. Wicked (32M/318M total)
3. Gladiator II (12M/133M total)
4. Pushpa 2 (10M)
5. Interstellar (4M/188M total!)
#boxoffice
December 7, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Box Office Weekend Estimates:
12/5-12/7
1. Moana 2 (50M/298M total)
2. Wicked (32M/318M total)
3. Gladiator II (12M/133M total)
4. Pushpa 2 (10M)
5. Interstellar (4M/188M total!)
#boxoffice
12/5-12/7
1. Moana 2 (50M/298M total)
2. Wicked (32M/318M total)
3. Gladiator II (12M/133M total)
4. Pushpa 2 (10M)
5. Interstellar (4M/188M total!)
#boxoffice
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Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike.
I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it.
Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia
I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it.
Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia
November 27, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike.
I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it.
Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia
I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it.
Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia
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I do think it's interesting that all sides have agreed to the framing that having a block list of nazis and transphobes = entirely shutting out all conservative discourse.
This is an ignorant and toxic and wrong-minded framing in both the short term and the long term, in every particular and as a whole, failed before it even begins as either strategy and tactic, and is I believe the core reason Democratic leadership has failed us so badly.
November 24, 2024 at 3:24 PM
I do think it's interesting that all sides have agreed to the framing that having a block list of nazis and transphobes = entirely shutting out all conservative discourse.
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I like when the "medicine is satan's work" and "knowledge is ungodly" and "women are broodmares for my seed" soldiers are all like "y'all need to broaden y'all's horizons."
November 22, 2024 at 6:34 PM
I like when the "medicine is satan's work" and "knowledge is ungodly" and "women are broodmares for my seed" soldiers are all like "y'all need to broaden y'all's horizons."
It’s nice that the handful of people who follow me here are not Russian A.I. porn bots.
November 16, 2024 at 8:48 PM
It’s nice that the handful of people who follow me here are not Russian A.I. porn bots.
Jacques Audiard, ranked:
*****
A Prophet
Rust and Bone
****
Emilia Perez
Read My Lips
The Beat my Heart Skipped
A Self Made Hero
***
Deephan
The Sisters Brothers
*****
A Prophet
Rust and Bone
****
Emilia Perez
Read My Lips
The Beat my Heart Skipped
A Self Made Hero
***
Deephan
The Sisters Brothers
November 16, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Jacques Audiard, ranked:
*****
A Prophet
Rust and Bone
****
Emilia Perez
Read My Lips
The Beat my Heart Skipped
A Self Made Hero
***
Deephan
The Sisters Brothers
*****
A Prophet
Rust and Bone
****
Emilia Perez
Read My Lips
The Beat my Heart Skipped
A Self Made Hero
***
Deephan
The Sisters Brothers