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Film type from Australia. Documentaries. Gay shit. Music. AFL Geelong Cats. Occasional writer. OFCS. GALECA. AFCA. FIPRESCI. Live and work in Melbourne/Naarm on Boon Wurrung land.
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In ANTITRUST, Synapse is basically Twitter and Tim Robbins is basically Elon Musk. It's not good, but it is a bit of a trip to watch in 2025. The internet is for the people!! Rachael Leigh Cook is one of the least-written characters in film history. And I am including silent film extras in that.

These three frames perfectly encapsulate the entire appeal of Reacher.

BLUE SKY is a strange, rushed movie. Strands that don't coalesce into something more. A Jessica Lange performance that isn't given the chance to develop beyond the same few notes. Blanche Devereaux would've loved it, but would probably have critiqued Lange for not once offering anybody a mint julet.

I hate this thing with every fibre of my being.

At some point in 2024, Inner City released a remix LP for their excellent We All Move Together album from four years prior (their first since 1992!!). It’s pretty decent, but the Cinthie remix of “Stop and Stare” is a bit of a barnstormer. The title track, too. open.spotify.com/track/6yntpm...

Love.

“The goal is no longer to capture or even represent reality but to recontextualize it as a story or, more specifically, as entertainment.” I wrote about what ails nonfiction filmmaking. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/life-the...

Nobody (in America) wants to distribute an academy award nominated film. Have the Berlin Film Festival said anything since their doc winner that they had to investigate eventually became the cause célèbre of award season and could win an Oscar?

Had an absolute blast at the Kylie Minogue concert last night. The crowd was deafening and I danced my butt off. I’ve heard complaints about the, shall we say, threadbare staging. While I get it, it ultimately doesn’t matter when you’ve got the songs, stage presence and the talent to pull it off.

A bunch of white girls started to sing the Stevie Wonder birthday song instead of the usual happy birthday song and they petered out at some point when they realised they didn’t know the rest of the lyrics beyond “happy birthday to you! happy birthday!”

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One day about 18 years ago I was looking around a Yoko Ono exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum when an old wall phone in the gallery rang. This phone was part of the show. I looked around & I saw that it was just me & a security guard in the gallery. He said, “oh my god you need to answer it! 1/5

Loving the new Mallrat album. Feels very contemporary and of the moment, but with enough of a distinctive touch and unexpected audio references. Top few tracks are “Hocus Pocus”, “My Darling, My Angel”, “Pavement” and “Hideaway”. open.spotify.com/album/7MCnch...

Yoko Ono is 92 today. She is also a great artist whose dignity and compassion in the face of more than half a century of unearned disdain, much of it unequivocally racist and/or misogynistic in character, is genuinely astonishing.

As ever, people whose jobs are small but important and aren’t costing the employer much at all are the ones that lose out with AI.

Found FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT rather retrograde both in style and substance. At least we can now put "The Day the Clown Cried" to bed. It looks to have been largely misjudged and in extremely poor taste. Still, I'll be damned if some of the language used by the talking heads didn't rub the wrong way.

Jealous of those in Sydney who get to see the new film by one of my favourite documentarians, Kimberly Reed, I'M YOUR VENUS at Queer Screen fest this weekend. You are going to see it, right? Right? No idea when Melbourne will get the chance, sadly. queerscreen.org.au/sessions/im-...

The MEAA needs to start calling strikes over all these outlets teaming up with ai companies Outlets are setting up to destroy the workforce while actively making news coverage worse for a quick buck and our union does nothing about it

Oh, I’ve seen this one before…

Confirmation of a new film by Alena Lodkina called TWICE OVER on its way!

Unfortunately, I suspect AFL Twitter hasn’t migrated over to Bluesky and won’t in time for the start of the regular season. Maybe I just don’t know how to find it, but there’s nothing about this weekend’s Indigenous Allstars game. Disappointing.

Good grief. First watch of ZODIAC since it was in cinemas (and on 35mm, too; two for two, I guess) and holy hell what a movie. I remember liking it but I clearly underestimated it (or just being older). I’ve been missing out on having this as the best Fincher.

SEVEN is obviously is a very, very good movie (I’m always surprised by how it’s oppressive style never quite overwhelms the storytelling) but god damn that final half hour is just impeccable. No notes. Genuinely just an awe-inspiring great stretch of filmmaking. Freeman it’s underrated secret sauce.

The Daily Telegraph prepared for a story featuring an ‘undercover Jewish man’ using covert recording eyewear. CCTV footage and internal files seen by Crikey show it didn’t go as planned.

it's February 14th, so you know what that means: time to repost the only comic I have ever drawn, which is now 14 years old lmao

The Daily Telegraph took part in a stunt in which a provocateur tried and failed to *stir up* antisemitism at an Egyptian restaurant in order to have it caught on camera. How's this for "social cohesion"? I wonder if any politicians will bother to comment www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Seeing JACKIE BROWN again last night reconfirmed that Max Cherry is my #1 aspirational character in fiction. He's calm and content, square (but in a cute way), not an asshole, wears slacks with crew neck sweatshirts, and fucks off of work to go to the movies in the middle of the day.

A high holy day 🙏🏻

“Victoria’s lure as a locations-rich hub for Hollywood filmmakers has gone to the next level, with action man Liam Neeson shooting high-flying stunts in Bacchus Marsh… Al Corley, a producer on The Mongoose, said Bacchus Marsh was a perfect match for Afghanistan.” A PERFECT MATCH FOR AFGHANISTAN!