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Elijah Davidson

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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember in Back to the Future when Marty gets to 1955 and says to his infant uncle in a play pen, "Better get used to those bars kid," because his uncle will be incarcerated in 1985? The baby is even wearing black and white stripes. I think about how cruel that joke is all the time.
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Joel Mayward @jmayward.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's Anti-Prime Day at @bookshop.org, where you can order my newest book, "Religious Cinema for Non-Believers," and get free shipping. bookshop.org/p/books/reli...
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Religious Cinema for Non-Believers
Religious Cinema for Non-Believers is a collection of longform film criticism essays written over the span of a decade by theologian and film critic Joel Mayward. Ranging in scope and style from Silen...
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LarsenOnFilm @larsenonfilm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why watch horror movies, especially if you're a person of faith? I offer an answer in Fear Not!, my theological guide to spooky season. Available at @bookshop.org and elsewhere.
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Abby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Free shipping from Bookshop.org today! Did you know I have a book that you can buy? I HAVE A BOOK. THAT YOU CAN BUY. Some have said it's pretty good!
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Films for All Seasons: Experiencing the Church Year at the Movies
The Spiritual Practice of Watching MoviesWhat's your favorite Christmas movie? Easter movie? Pentecost movie? Casual viewers and movie buffs alike have favorite movies to watch at certain times of the...
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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 07/10/2026
It’s anti-Prime day and I just got another scam email drafted by an LLM regurgitating the back matter of my book at me. Help me stick it to the tech ghouls by picking up a copy of my book (or leaving a review of it!)
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Becoming Alien, Second Edition: The Beginning and End of Evil in Science Fiction's Most Idiosyncratic Film Franchise
The Alien films are perceived to be a fractured franchise, each one loosely related to the others by the titular monster. They are nonlinear, complicated, convoluted: a collection of genre movies rang...
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“On the Nature of Daylight” played on the classical station and we groaned because we were suddenly Oscar bait.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ghost Rider but for earwax.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ll never forget the day my mom revealed she likes Pitbull.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Will no one be there for me? The rain begins to pour. Will no one be there for me? You've been there before. Will no one be there for me? I would be there for you...
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No one told me life was going to be this way. My job's a joke. I'm broke. My love life is dead on arrival. It's like I'm always stuck in second gear. It hasn't my day, my week, my month, or even my year.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Seriously, Wes, you watch Wim Wenders’ Anselm and then tell me you wouldn’t make a great 3D movie. Work with the same people.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Come on, Wes Anderson, now that there’s nothing commercial in it, and now that there’s plenty of skill in it in the global industry, it’s time for you to make a 3D movie.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a good prompt. Who could do anything like it? Debra Granik? Ramin Bahrani?
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One must imagine stop motion animators happy.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I like in The Force Awakens when Rey opens the mystery box and there’s a lightsaber inside because I think that’s what‘s always been inside J.J. Abrams’ mystery boxes.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OMG! I’ve been thinking about reading it again even though I just read it a few months ago.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hi! I’m Elijah Davidson, a writer in California obsesses with the intersection between art and our devotional life. The way Robin Pecknold sings the word “for“ in “for anyone else” at the end of the second verse of “Helplessness Blues” is the sound of my generation.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Chad Powers is Glen Powell’s Mandalorian.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I think so? But then you lose The Big Lebowski and Children of Men and The Hours and The End of the Affair. It’s tough!
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Right!?! Like those Haynes films and her work in them is great BUT do I want to live in a world without The Big Lebowski?
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You get to preserve Julianne Moore’s work with only one director. The rest are lost. Whom do you pick?
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We moved!
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Green-Gold - Elijah Davidson
Who knows what life will bring? But for now we intend to live in this house, to dwell in this place, for the rest of our lives.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
That’s the moment life truly begins.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It's Really All About the Peppers A simple sausage stir-fry with an obscene amount of green bell peppers, chopped in inch square pieces + a quarter of an onion and a clove of garlic, chopped rough. Stir-fry until the onions wilt. Then stick the whole skillet in the oven at 450 for about 10 minutes.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Today my son was asking questions about Skeletor. (He saw a MotU) ad. He was especially interested in Skeletor’s castle. He noted that villains like to put their faces on everything.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Let Dan Trachtenberg make an Avatar and Destin Daniel Cretton make Akira, you cowards.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
If y'all don't like that Nolan adapted The Odyssey to fit the times, you are not ready to learn more about my man Billy Shakespeare.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I looked at this photo and immediately thought "Southern California theology student" and I was shocked to find I was not incorrect!
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The thing about this prompt is that the French New Wave happened. And I’m pretty sure Soderbergh had it in mind when he made the Ocean’ses.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Now I want to do a triple-feature of THE LAST DUEL, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE, and WOMEN TALKING. www.npr.org/2026/07/16/n...
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'Gossip' had godly origins. Here's how it gained its sinful reputation
We've all engaged in a little 'gossip.' But did you know its origins were tied to family and friendship?
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
How/where are you watching it? I’ve always wanted to since I heard Peter Rollins using it as an analogy years ago.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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A review of Frankenstein (2025)
Literally Guillermo del Toro’s Silence.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Give a Nobel prize to the person who figures out a way to let you remove yourself from an email chain.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
YES!
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Minions & Monsters: my son was most excited about the quick Buster Keaton cameo. I’m doing something right.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Shout out to the local Regal for having an 8AM showing of Minions & Monsters. It’s summer “vacation” and parents with small children have lived whole lives by 8AM and yes we NEED somewhere to take the kids.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
One of the weirdest things of the past few years is that liking a Spielberg movie feels like a contrarian take.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Disclosure Day is also a movie about the importance of nurses, nuns, and the local nightly news.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Happy Father’s Day.
Religious Ecstasy
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Me watching the new Toy Story.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
TOY STORY 5 was my daughter's first theater experience. She brought her Jessie doll to the movie and bounced it up and down as Jessie rode to the rescue. On the way back to the car she didn't say she was going home to "be Jessie." She said she was going home to "be the horse."
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
All these movies and while we know how fast they are we still don’t know why they’re so angry.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Abby! I loved that show! Did you have the toys? It was my favorite knock off of Mighty Ducks which was a knock off Street Sharks which was a knock off of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
realize* I would* totally watch... You know.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
You gotta admire Pixar for just slapping the next number on the end of every Toy Story sequel instead of calling the latest one Toy Story: Fury Road or something. Though now that I type that I realized I was totally watch Toy Story: Fury Road.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Me standing over that table watching little Cubs play like I'm Jack Torrance.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I’ve never been as happy as Dennis Nedry being shown that can of shaving cream.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I’ve read a few pieces by him in essay collections and journals, but I haven’t read any of his longer works. It sounds like I should read more.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
What am I but a vessel of observation, stewardship, and awe? What am I besides a celebrator of life? Yes, there is competition and destruction - the life of one striving in conflict with the life of another. Yes, death, the great incongruity, seems inescapable. But life! My God, life! How glorious!
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Recently I went to the desert with a friend who is a highly skilled amateur astronomer. We watched the procession of the cosmos from sunset to sunrise. When the sun returned and overcame everything with its light I was overwhelmed by how singular this world is. All this life but only here! My God!
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