Daniel Martin

Coming soon(ish) to bookstores everywhere: my volume for the BFI Film Classics series on my all-time favourite film, KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE.

I’m taking advantage of my nephew’s PS4 to finally play DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN and I’m incredibly impressed so far. I just want to replay the first ten minutes over and over again, the game’s reputation as a cyberpunk masterpiece already seems well-earned.

This really isn't an understatement. Tony Rayns was a titan in the distribution and celebration of films and filmmakers from South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and China. He was also incredibly kind when I first met him decades ago, and our paths crossed many times over the years.

Better late than never! My first monograph, EXTREME ASIA: THE RISE OF CULT CINEMA FROM THE FAR EAST, is *finally* coming out in a trendy and affordable paperback edition. Get yours on September 30th!

Heading to Singapore for two days for this year’s Mechademia conference! @mechademia.bsky.social

For my sins, I wrote about THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU. latestartrek.substack.com/p/the-mandal...

Just went on Korean TV. Crushed it.

Hot off the press! The latest book by the wildly overproductive @danhf.bsky.social is now in-hand!

“I have no point to make” is an astonishing thing for a science fiction writer to admit.

Of course, what they actually mean is “Hate Starfleet Academy (even though you haven’t watched it)?” It’s so incredibly asinine.

It’s always fantastic being on TrekRanks, and this was a *very* special one for me. Jim and Jenn were on amazing form with their picks, and the conversation couldn’t have been more fun. The perfect way to celebrate the lovable titan that is Montgomery Scott!

The new Kiki’s Delivery Service poster for its impending IMAX re-release in North America is spectacular. I love that they’ve used one of Yoshifumi Kondo’s pieces of concept art rather than a still from the film. I need this framed and on my office wall!

Weirdly thrilled to see a ship named the USS Miyazaki in this week's episode of Starfleet Academy! It's nice to know there are some Studio Ghibli fans in the Federation of the distant future (and reciprocally, I did manage to sneak a Star Trek reference into my book on Kiki's Delivery Service).

This week’s Starfleet Academy offers a beautiful story of a warrior’s ongoing journey to self-actualization, and one of Star Trek’s best Klingon episodes in decades. What we’re getting with Jay-Den Kraag’s character development is already on a par with Ma’ah’s superb arc on Lower Decks.

Happy Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Xbox Release Day to all who celebrate!

My first impressions of STARFLEET ACADEMY are very positive. The premise bubbles with optimistic momentum, and the performances are predictably superb. Holly Hunter and Gina Yashere are already set to be one of Star Trek's all-time great Captain/First Officer duos.

Castle in the Sky is the latest Ghibli film to get a theatrical re-release in South Korea (following Nausicaa and Princess Mononoke last year). Absolutely cannot wait to finally see this masterpiece on a big screen.

When I was ten years old I was absolutely obsessed with the Buck Rogers TV series, so I’m incredibly moved by Gil Gerard’s last words: “My life has been an amazing journey. Don’t waste your time on anything that doesn’t thrill you or bring you love. See you out somewhere in the cosmos.”

For me, it’s The Princess Bride that will always be his untouchable masterpiece. This is such genuinely horrifying news, it’s just awful.

Unboxing the advanced copy! 💚 💚 K-Pop Fandom: Performing Deokhu from the 1990s to Today 👩🏻‍💻 By Areum Jeong 📚 University of Michigan Press, February 2026 @uofmpress.bsky.social press.umich.edu/Books/K/K-Po... 🙌🏻 Available for pre-order now!

No question, the greatest modified Christmas ornament ever.

Took my nine-year-old to see this first thing this morning, on a lovely massive Dolby screen, and it’s the most I’ve ever enjoyed it. Sam’s little speech at the end really got me.

I’m massively proud to have contributed some new writing to the booklet included in this incredible release of SAVE THE GREEN PLANET! coming soon from @arrowvideo.bsky.social. All credit for making this happen to @pierceconran.bsky.social, for whom this has been a real bucket-list passion project.

VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST is enjoying a very brief theatrical rerelease in SK right now, and I’m stupidly excited to get to see it on the big screen.

Trying not to get my hopes up for this - but look at that arm!

@michaeljleader.bsky.social On proud display in the Ghibli section at Kyobo Books in Seoul (the biggest bookshop in the country)!

What movie do you consider perfect?

@andydiggle.bsky.social Green Arrow Year One is joining the compact line! Congratulations dude!

#SUPERMAN is super fun! It doesn’t need to be a perfect film to perfectly set the tone for the new DC movieverse, and I’m enthusiastically optimistic about what will come next.

Yes! The first arc of this series was sensational! Complex but satisfying plotting and some of the most charming and well-written versions of DC’s icons ever. I’m totally invested in what’s next.

FINALLY seeing Sinners.

Deeply impressed with the work of Project A34K on ALIEN 3: THE LEGACY CUT. It's probably the most I've ever enjoyed the film; it's still disquietingly bleak, but I do admire its adamant refusal to be the sequel anyone wanted or expected.

Delighted to see my favourite character from the first season of #Andor is back!

Drawing my Fictional Crushes in Order of How Many Other People Liked Them on Bluesky Part 1: Fukuo the Baker from Kiki's Delivery Service- he was by far the most popular in this very scientific method of sorting my fictional crushes by outside popularity haha. (Drew this on stream earlier)!

These Dune: Part Two posters by Hans Woody for Mondo are INCREDIBLE. #Dune #Mondo #Harkonnen #Fremen

My #comicsdna - four favourites from my youth that have stayed with me, to varying degrees, ever since.

The definitive text on Lynch’s DUNE and genuinely one of the best books about filmmaking I’ve ever read. Physically it’s a thing of beauty but it’s also incredibly engaging and alive with the vibrant personalities of everyone involved.

It’s December 1st! That means it’s time to put up the Christmas tree and hang my newest and favourite ornament! #Dune #LongLiveTheOrnaments

Genuinely a perfect PERFECT film.

It’s December 1st! That means I’ll be incessantly playing my favourite Christmas album for the next month!

It really was an especially good one! Extra-nostalgic and timeless, with a wonderfully well-used guest star.

The new The Old Fools has a timeless Bob Dylan impersonation and some wholly unnecessary mockery of pretty much everything. Don't blame us, this is "your world" and we "just live in it" boomerphobes. We don't need you to like it, we just "want the hurt to stop..." pod.link/1774465485

I’m unwisely excited about this. It’s new DUNE day! #DuneProphecy

Time flies! Today marks exactly SIX YEARS since one of the best-ever uses of my academic resources: organizing a Star Trek 'study day' at KAIST and bringing the amazing Bo Yeon Kim (@extspace.bsky.social) to talk about her screenwriting experiences.

Switching to Pepsi for the rest of my life. This is so gross.

Now framed and hanging on my office wall, the pride of my #Dune collection: "Vanguard Battalion,” an original work of art by Walter Velez, used for the fondly-remembered Dune CCG produced by Last Unicorn Games in the late 1990s.

My big laugh in this week’s #LowerDecks was the turbolift proudly depositing two increasingly lost characters in the “Maintenance Labyrinth.”

I’m here! Not sure if I’ll be more active now than I was on Twitter; likely mostly posting mini-reviews of episodes of Star Trek and pictures of the weird shit I buy.