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Journalist in Christchurch, New Zealand. Senior writer with The Press. Reviewer of the year (Voyager Media Awards 2022). Author of The Quiet Hero (Allen & Unwin, 2023), the story of a peaceful volunteer’s death in Ukraine. Films, books, music.
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Basel Adra, Farisa Abu Aram, and Kifah Adara from No Other Land with their Academy Award 🏆 The film took home Best Documentary Feature at tonight’s #Oscars

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Regardless of winners, I'd like to have heard the speeches prepared by Timothee Chalamet, Demi Moore and Jeremy Strong

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Nicest moment: Isabella Rossellini bringing Laura Dern

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Most cringeworthy moment: Andrew Garfield getting weird about Goldie Hawn

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Conclave is the kind of film that used to win Oscars.

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One of the interesting things about the school lunch debacle is that Compass has been serving up similar - maybe not quite so horrific - sludge in our hospitals for a decade or so. When Canterbury ditched them it showed not only could it provide more nutritious and tasty food it could do it cheaper.

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Can Billy Crystal host it again?

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OH MY GOD biggest upset of the night I thought Demi Moore had this in the bag

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“Brody’s exceptional Greek tragedy mask of a face is perfect for a role like this, more tortured with age than it was in The Pianist in 2002, a movie in which somehow he had fewer issues than in this one.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

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Only one “Slava Ukraini” so far? (Daryl Hannah.) Thought Adrien Brody might do it.

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Timmy was robbed

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No Other Land

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Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

The Custard Square is both the smallest and best used-book shop in Christchurch. And everything is $5.

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Sir Ian Taylor vs David Seymour www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

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Labour's arts spokesperson struggles to think of NZ authors

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One day the remote control device we put up Trump's ass will take pride of place in KGB museum.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Everyone should read this, about that debacle in the Oval Office, and what it means

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Always a highlight of the Oscars season

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Who was the MAGA reporter who asked the dumb question about Zelenskyy’s suit? www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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What are the Tankies saying about that disgraceful scene in the Oval Office?

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The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

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Good stuff, JC. Better at putting up with this shit that I was …

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NEW: The first front pages of Saturday’s newspapers in the UK. “Ukraine Hero Ambushed” “Trump stuns world with vile rant at Zelensky” “A spectacle to horrify the world” Trump is obliterating the global reputation of the US.

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"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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“Trump just presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history. Tempers flared, voices were raised & protocol was shredded…As Trump got into a shouting match with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a horrified Europe watched the post-second world war order crumble before its eyes.”

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Trump and Vance wait for their meeting with Zelenskyy

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What a couple of assholes

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This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

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Zelenskyy flew to Washington and got a meeting with the Kremlin. A day of national shame.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

Tonight's screener (full review coming soon to AV Club)

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