The Clockwork Penguin

Daniel Binns is a media theorist and filmmaker tinkering with the weird edges of technology, storytelling, and screen culture. He is the author of Material Media-Making in the Digital Age and currently writes about posthuman poetics, glitchy machines, and speculative media worlds.



The Archives

  • Bridge of Spies (2015)

    Bridge of Spies is up there with Spielberg’s best.

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  • Whiplash (2014)

    Critics, of all people, are certainly entitled to their opinion. And Richard Brody is by no means an unqualified critic. What Brody’s done here, though,…

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  • The 10th Victim (1965)

    I found The 10th Victim on Letterboxd. I’m not sure exactly how it emerged in my field of view, but probably some crazy collision of Blade…

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  • A day of catching up

    Not exactly emptying the Netflix queue, or making a dent in the Letterboxd watchlist, but still productive, I think. I also half-watched Mad Max: The…

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  • GI No: The Rise of Nope-ra

    A bout with an entirely new illness (to add to my five-week-long tussle with sinusitis) has left me with little desire to do anything productive…

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