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Writer of various things (film and TV reviews, occasional op-eds, co-wrote two novels). Intellectual lightweight. Once wrote a short story about the future of road resurfacing that was on a "years best" list
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My favourite disconnect in all of art is when a creative type talks an amazing game in interviews / newsletters - obscure and bizarre references, surprising cross-connections, really insightful views on dramatic storytelling - then you check out their work and it's just average, utterly generic shit

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

There's plenty of older movies that can probably don't need a home release on 4K, but Steven Soderberg's SOLARIS is definitely not one of them. Not even available on blu-ray outside of Germany!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Just remembered the phrase “economic girlie man” and in these troubled times we don’t hear it anywhere near enough

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

People are saying Neighbours getting the axe is going to devastate the local film industry, which raises the question: what industry? Australia supplies technicians for overseas projects - culturally the industry died 15 years ago

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Increasingly clear that a lot of very rich dickheads opened a history book just once in their lives & when it fell open at "Europe - the 17th century" they thought "it *is* good to be the king, let's bring that back" without bothering to flick through any of the pages covering what happened next

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. Having sucker MCs call you sire does

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah every single creative job no matter what it involves should just become constant endless podcasting, can’t wait for Paul Thomas Anderson to do live reads promoting crypto in between asking his 3rd AD to tell everyone that funny story about her incontinent dog

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A movie about a group of people trying to rescue a stranded pod of whales but it's also a metaphor for the American political system so the whales just keep on beaching themselves and the end credits roll over footage of the final decaying carcasses being blown up

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Seems like every second anti-ALP post on here is focusing their ire on Richard Marles. As he’s my local member, I’m excited at the prospect of an army of his haters swooping down on Geelong to campaign against him in the coming election, right?

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Every time I see Americans say stuff like “when we come back from this” about their current political upheaval, I remember there’s not a lot of historical examples of empires making a big comeback after this kind of thing

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Spent the last few days thinking “this is it, old age terminal decline is here, I had a good run but it’s the dirt nap for me” only to discover that it’s just that hot weather really fucking sucks

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Even now we keep being told that the big achievement of the MCU (in its prime) was that it managed to tell one massive story over more than a dozen individual movies building up to a conclusion so big it stretched across two Avengers movies. So what was that story about?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"Double haters"? They don't let you review movies unless you're a confirmed quintuple hater and even then it's just kids movies with love hearts on the poster

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Most of our democratic processes were designed at a time when almost all representatives were largely unknown to voters - the system gave them the benefit of the doubt because it was hard to inform the voters who elected them of their crimes. These days? Not hard! If someone's useless, pull the pin

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

In contrast to this previously mentioned failed tear-jerker, I can now confirm that if you are in any way sad about the demise of a recent loved one then BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY is somewhat surprisingly a near non-stop onslaught on the tear ducts. Multiple characters face death in hospital!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I am waiting for an expensive package due exactly now that I have to sign for or else it’ll go back to “the depot” forever and suddenly I realise I am sitting doing nothing in my backyard literally as far as I can be from my front door with no possible way to hear a delivery what is wrong with me

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This is spot on and yet it’s perfectly possible to write a review that’s 95% positive and have people tell you they thought you hated the thing you reviewed because mentioning *any* flaw or downside reads as a blanket condemnation to them

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

It's going to be a weird few years for trashy thriller action movies where the ass-kicking hero would usually be getting his orders to go secretly murder a bunch of bad guys from a sombre, serious-looking, coherent-sounding, morally-upright President

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment