PORTFOLIO - DEREK GODIN

BLOG POSTS

• Baccarat Baseball: A Solitaire Baseball Sim (2021.01.03)
• Kaye, Tony (musician) (2021.01.11)
• Mononoke Steamroller, or Prognosticating the 1997 Movie Bowl (2022.07.27)
• My Personal Rock and Roll Hall of Pretty Good (2025.09.25)
• "Rainbow Road," Ranked (2026.05.22)
• A Tale of Two Bingos (2025.07.31)

CASPSULES

• 'The Iron Claw' review by Derek Godin • Letterboxd (2024.03.10)
• Ten Things, 2023-09 (Short Good Secret Edition) (2023.03.07)
• Pick Six: A City Pop Primer (2019.05.21)
• Dark Star, John Carpenter's Weed-Dad Opus, Turns 45 (2019.03.30)
• Lewis, Jerry (2018.07.15)
• Happy belated birthday, Graham Gouldman (2018.06.15)
• Short Cuts: Derek’s 2017 Catch-Up Capsule Bonanza (2017.12.09)
• Short Cuts: Derek Does February (2017.03.07)
• 'The Duke of Burgundy' review by Derek Godin • Letterboxd (2015.11.21)
• The Field Guide to Netflix Canada: 2000 (2015.11.02)

ESSAYS

• "I Hope You Remember Me" (2025.06.26)
• A Cat Lost and a Cat Found (2022.07.08)
• In Praise of Giant Ox (2021.09.15)
• Short, Good, Secret. (Towards a Method of Movie Recommendation) (2021.03.29)
• Jaylen Hotdogfingers Rides Again: Brief Notes on Blaseball (2020.09.15)
• The World's Okayest Hero (2017.11.30)
• The Method and the Madness: The Politics and Aesthetics of the List (2016.02.16)

FILM CRITICISM

• Heroic Bloodshed American Style: Notes on Face/Off at 25 (2022.07.28)
• Who Needs a Light Touch When Smothering Will Do: The Weaponized Stereotypes of Basic Instinct (2019.05.16)
• Fantasia 2018: Mandy (2018.08.01)
• Fantasia 2018: Relaxer (2018.07.15)
• The Princess’ New Clothes: Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (2016.09.21)
• What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘Pulse’ (2016.08.14)
• A Cinema of Relics: ‘The Phantom’ at 20 (2016.06.08)
• The Mind's Eye (2016.05.31)
• Pinholes in the Curtain of Night: “Highlander” @ 30 (2016.03.15)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015.05.17)
• Roar (2015.05.14)
• ‘Ace Attorney’ is king among game-to-movie adaptations (2015.01.27)

POETRY

• "On an Island" (2021.05.04)
• "Dream #9 (The Book on a Chain)" (2020.12.29; later appears in my chapbook My House but Not My House)
• "Oxblood" (2020.05.27)

THESES

• Buzz Bombs: The Room, Snakes on a Plane, and Cult Audiences in the Internet Era (2013.07.01)