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NZ/Can writer/director, consultant, and recovering film/games critic (RIP BMD). 1/2 of Freak Development. NZ Writers Guild board member. Made GHOST SHARK 2; working on SO LONELY I COULD DIE and others. Inspired by actual events.
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DO NOT BUY JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION 3 They’re using ai generation in their game, boycott this shit and force their hand to remove this garbage from their game entirely. store.steampowered.com/app/2958130/...

King bed, Queen bed - how about we call the single bed what we all know it is: a Jack bed

🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Join us for a tour around our new game. Coming 2026.

Gotta love the Ministry for Culture and Heritage using what I strongly suspect is an AI generated image to advertise the fact they're looking for an image made by a human. If only stock imagery of artists doing art existed...

Not sure it counts given how big they were, but Queens of the Stone Age circa 2008 did a better show opening for the Smashing Pumpkins than the Smashing Pumpkins did being the Smashing Pumpkins

Every gamer is now exactly 36 years old and everyone else just plays 5 free to play games that are inscrutable to everyone over the age of 55.

Got to spend this week being good at my job (making movies and plays), doing community service (union organising), and eating delicious things (food and, as of today, posts). Life is good

Just because Jason doesn't like Freddy anymore doesn't mean he's suddenly good for campers, you know?

I woke up feeling like garbage and I still feel like garbage but at least I have the best Internet day since October 2nd 2020 to enjoy

The leopards They are eating each other yes YES The leopards are HUNGRY

funniest day online since the billionaire submersible went missing

you're right here! and you're ready to Post

once again I must tap my own sign

The reason generative AI is so popular with wannabe creatives is best illustrated by something every pro writer has encountered: getting pitched an idea by someone saying "You write it and we'll split the profits!" because they think the idea is what has value, not the writing. The opposite is true.

For those of you who might use ChatGPT or any kind of GenAI for your writing, give this a read and maybe reconsider

Out to a work dinner at a restaurant in a hotel so brutalist it feels like a Denis Villeneuve movie

Must be infuriating being a publicist for a Stephen King horror movie and being unable to put a pullquote from Stephen King on the poster

I'm already on my third or fourth major-war-crimes-getting-swept-under-the-rug-on-live-TV, my second major economic recession, and I'm actively watching the collapse of the remaining vestiges of Western society and the birth of high-tech corpo-feudalism I don't have time for a midlife crisis

We need sweeping, punitive regulation on AI companies fucking yesterday

The bicycle is one of the greatest inventions of all time.

Fighting the good fight for onscreen sexuality rn I promise you all

A post about The Rehearsal that is literally what The Rehearsal season 2 is about

Mark Zuckerberg will spend tens of billions of dollars on metaverses and chatbots nobody wants but he won't chuck his nephew a tenner to make gifs work properly on Facebook

I don't know where the line between truth and fiction is on THE REHEARSAL season 2, but frankly I don't care - it coalesced into something hilarious, insane, cinematic, and beautiful.

Wish Wampler were here to witness the reJaissance so fucking bad #jaibless

Yes it's a triumph of brute-force engineering that it can thread words together so convincingly but Christ these things are dumb as rocks

Love that the new movies from @rianjohnson.bsky.social and @realgdt.bsky.social could both reasonably be titled WAKE UP DEAD MAN

Post A Problematic "Would": Horror Edition

I've waited a decade to finally have the chance to work with this ghost #shark 👻🦈 legend. While we were geeking away on this giant beast, we also got word that the first and only Ghost Sharks of the World book finally has a released date. Coming to you January 2026!

Can we just be honest with ourselves and finally admit that Mission Impossible has better Bond girls than Bond.

Started the day reading about a former acquaintance being convicted of horrible crimes; ended it writing a professional letter to an Academy Award winner. The two events are extremely unrelated and I am so glad they came in that order.

motherfucker isn't even sorry, that is the face of a guy who is totally gonna do it again

No, honestly, I only listen to OK Go for the music

No matter how slippery the SpaceX fans get in their defenses ("you don't understand, we learned so much!") the fact is these tests are waaaaay past the "experiments sometimes fail" stage. These are tests of what's supposed to be a working design and build. But it doesn't work. It blows up.