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Screenwriter, consultant, comedian, and recovering film/games critic from NZ+CAN. NZWG board member. Queerish autistic kinkster. Made GHOST SHARK 2; working on SO LONELY I COULD DIE and others. Half of Freak Development. Inspired by actual events.
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Imagine saying to someone in November 2022 "hey, all that shit Elon's doing at Twitter? Yeah, a couple years from now he's gonna do literally the exact same shit to the United States federal government. Yep, same email headers and everything."

being a writer feels slightly insane right now. "oh time to hallucinate a bit and write it down in a document in case we're still publishing books about chaotic bisexuals in 2026" 🤣 just told the group chat that this job requires the relentless belief that anything will matter in 12-18 months.

I'm begging, pleading with you to check the sourcing on the bullshit you repost because it sounds good to you

Dude, what the FUCK is going on in this Netflix OJ Simpson docuseries?

Hey, I'm maudlin' here!

The future is unknown, uncertain, perhaps frightening. But no matter what darkness may lurk before us, there will be glories along the way. Acts of bravery, acts of kindness, honorable deeds that will be remembered in better times. We will rise together, one day, to sing songs of glorious victory.

At this point anyone who owns Tesla stock is directly investing in fascism and should be pilloried accordingly

In a cafe observing small children pointing to the most colourful things in the cabinet and screeching "I WANT THAT" The two most colourful things in the cabinet are 1) a slice of marshmallow cake, and 2) a watermelon, feta, and cucumber salad Kids are so dumb, it's great

When it comes to neurodivergence, the only “cure” I can think of is to stamp it out at the genetic level. So…eugenics. That is clearly the logical endpoint of the White House’s stance, and Erin is right

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The audience experience is everything.

I am 37 years old today. To celebrate, here is a work-in-progress still from a short film I am animating

Love that there's a song on the new Manic Street Preachers album that lyrically amounts to "c'mon Morrissey stop being such a cunt" Closest thing they'll ever do to a diss track

with destiny church's abhorrent views in the press again, i think it's important not to forget all the white megachurches that hold identical views in new zealand: life church, city impact, arise etc. they are more discreet, but they all hang out and support each other: www.webworm.co/p/holyhell

idk, feels like "purging military commanders" is a pretty big domino guys

We arguably have an even more storied Nazi problem than punks do but "Nazi classical music fans fuck off" just doesn't roll off the tongue

Look, you don't get to afford Porsches by purchasing NON-discount vapor products

Disagree with the "mid" assessment, the show is packed with beautiful people, but yeah, stoked it's finally started to explore the sexual implications of its premise

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He currently has never had more A list filmmakers & actors turn down their offers or threaten to quit projects without getting a theatrical release

PADDINGTON IN PERU (2024)

Having a strong week of realising "oh yeah, I'm actually experienced and good at my job and people respect me for it," which is nice

Seriously one thing I think is really underrated about Fury Road is how the villains are a handful of gerontocrats, physically weak oligarchs who have resource hoarded / socially manipulated the young to doing their violent bidding.

the wheels on meals benny urquidez fight is one of the most pleasing to watch things involving the human body every put on film. up there with top levels of dance, pornos, champion athletics, whatever you name it

Umbrella have been COOKING lately, holy shit

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey:

There is an obviously fanmade poster for THE ODYSSEY going around that folks are getting bent out of shape about and I'm like WHERE is your MEDIA LITERACY

ATTENTION BIRKDALE: Fruit Fly Found. Click for more: mpi.govt.nz/fruitfly ⚠️ A single male Oriental fruit fly was found in a surveillance trap in a suburban back yard in Birkdale. ⚠️Do not move fruit or vegetables from your home. Investigations are ongoing. More to come.

I get sites are understaffed but to every other news site that just repeated the Xbox press release - this is how you cover a story like this.

German silent films have a Fritz Rasp quota. Do you want: Lots of Fritz Rasp? Some Fritz Rasp? Just a little Fritz Rasp? What's that? You don't want any Fritz Rasp at all? What are you? Some kind of weirdo?

I talked to developers about Microsoft's newly announced generative AI model, Muse, and its role in video games: "When we rely on this stuff we are implicitly empowering a class of people who own these tools and don’t give a fuck about how they reshape our lives." www.wired.com/story/xbox-m...

After that plane literally flipped upside down after smashing into the runway and 100% of people survived, I hope every person who ever said “what’s even the point of seatbelts on a plane” feels like a real doof.

You WILL use these products that hundreds of billions of dollars of desperate spending still haven't managed to make any good

Love that Scorpio Books is doing strong enough business that it can lease *three separate storefronts* in the same complex