Daniel Montgomery 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
@danielmontgomery.bsky.social
Former senior editor at Gold Derby. Currently on the lookout for new job opportunities while I pursue writing independently. Pronouns he/him. Bipedal carbon-based organism. Person. Danielmontgomery3.substack.com
A disturbing number of people threw fits of rage at the merest suggestion of sacrificing for the common good.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d agoit’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
Giving "The Brutalist" another try. Taking my time with it. 38 minutes in so far, just 79 more hours to go
"We Bury the Dead" is a decent effort with some missed opportunities and one great scene:
Quick Take: 'We Bury The Dead' is best when it's about the living
It's at its best when it focuses on the living because its vision of the undead is less compelling.
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Humorous to me how, when a Dem candidate is a centrist, the narrative is about how leftists have to grow up and support them. When the candidate is a leftist, the question is whether they can rally adequate support. So some people are responsible for running a winning campaign, you say? Interesting.
A pleasant but imperfect sequel with too little class (consciousness)
'The Devil Wears Prada 2' spoiler review: Fan service sequel has loose threads
The gang's back together for a victory lap after 20 years marked by wild success for its cast. But does it find a reason to exist beyond nostalgia?
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"We Bury the Dead" is a decent effort with some missed opportunities and one great scene:
Quick Take: 'We Bury The Dead' is best when it's about the living
It's at its best when it focuses on the living because its vision of the undead is less compelling.
danielmontgomery3.substack.com
A pleasant but imperfect sequel with too little class (consciousness)
'The Devil Wears Prada 2' spoiler review: Fan service sequel has loose threads
The gang's back together for a victory lap after 20 years marked by wild success for its cast. But does it find a reason to exist beyond nostalgia?
danielmontgomery3.substack.com
Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.
I feel sad for the generations coming up, who are given so little culture of their own from film and TV. It's all reheated IP and nostalgia bait for my generation or older. MAKE NEW THINGS!
Rick Porter@rickporter.bsky.social · 7d agoThird time's a charm, I guess? After the '90s TGIF series, there have been two tries in recent years to mine the "Clueless" IP, including a version of what Paramount+ just picked up at Peacock. Story from @katiekilkenny.bsky.social
Anyone doing any kind of Harry Potter promotion in 2026 has looked at the options and deliberately chosen evil.
The Republican Party must be destroyed as a functional political entity. But conservatism itself must be eradicated in any way that resembles it's modern existence. There is nothing to save. There is nothing that deserves your respect.
The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.
Netflix being surprisingly honest about the state of the American dream.
"Avengers: Doomsday" making news at Comic Con kinda highlighted for me how over the MCU I am. I still watch the occasional Marvel movie, but I've never been a superfan, and now it just feels tedious.
"The filmmaker exchanges love for lust, showing us through erotic sequences that Catherine and Heathcliff are hot for each other, but their declarations of devotion feel perfunctory, so their psychological dueling just comes off as petty."
Is 'Wuthering Heights' as bad as it was made out to be?
What could account for such ire directed towards the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind 'Promising Young Woman' and 'Saltburn'?
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"To a lot of white people who haven’t checked their privilege, whiteness is the default, the standard issue, the neutral choice. It’s only when you hire a person of color that it becomes political. Then it’s 'ticking boxes.' Then it’s an agenda."
On 'Bait,' Andy Serkis, and representation in Hollywood
Both Serkis and the limited series raise questions about who gets to be represented onscreen, and who gets to decide.
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I'm not plugged into music the way I have been in the past, but I continue to be kinda baffled by this song's popularity. I've listened to it multiple times and still can't get that excited about it.
Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Adds Landmark 15th Week at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100
Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” notches a 15th week at No. 1 on the Hot 100, surpassing classics by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston for a record.
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being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.
Finally watching "Katrina: Come Hell and High Water." With 20 years of political hindsight, I am newly stunned by how evil and racist the handling of it all was. You will *never* see white people abandoned and criminalized like this in our country. Stunned. Straight line to Trump.
Andy Serkis's recent comments about diversity made me want to write about Riz Ahmed's"Bait" and the politics of representation:
On 'Bait,' Andy Serkis, and representation in Hollywood
Both Serkis and the limited series raise questions about who gets to be represented onscreen, and who gets to decide.
danielmontgomery3.substack.com
Andy Serkis's recent comments about diversity made me want to write about Riz Ahmed's"Bait" and the politics of representation:
On 'Bait,' Andy Serkis, and representation in Hollywood
Both Serkis and the limited series raise questions about who gets to be represented onscreen, and who gets to decide.
danielmontgomery3.substack.com
I finally caught up with the controversial #WutheringHeights adaptation: danielmontgomery3.substack.com/p/wuthering-...
"He makes my heart a cinemascope screen showing a dancing bird of paradise."
Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago
#HeartstopperForever is a hornier, but still wholesome tribute to queer youth. Read my review: danielmontgomery3.substack.com/p/heartstopp...
Heartstopper S2
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When it was released, I didn’t think #Interstellar got the reception it deserved, but has my own view of it changed watching it now for the first time in years? Well, I still think it’s a masterpiece, a gorgeous and gutsy movie: danielmontgomery3.substack.com/p/interstell...
Interstellar Tesseract Scene
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While waiting for an opportunity to see #TheOdyssey, I went back and rewatched my favorite Christopher Nolan film up to this point. #film #filmsky
Revisiting Christopher Nolan's masterpiece 'Interstellar' to prepare for his grand 'Odyssey'
'The Odyssey's' release on July 17 made me want to revisit Nolan's other epic about a mythic journey.
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Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?
Mulholland Drive: David Lynch Cinema Scene
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Soren Bowie@sorenbowie.bsky.social · 2w agoWithout saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?
I liked #HeartstopperForever every bit as much as the series that preceded it. Here's my review:
'Heartstopper Forever' review: A hornier, but still wholesome tribute to queer youth
The film retains the series’s signature warmth, optimism, emotional intelligence, and of course that superb music supervision.
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