8 years ago, ‘BLADE RUNNER 2049’ released in theaters.

Physics Nobel announcement tomorrow. If you know and dislike a famous physicist, this is the day of the year to call them up in the middle of the night, wait 10 seconds, and then do you best Swedish Chef impression...

I kinda… like this idea… even though I’ve not lived in the 09 for freaking AGES

A brand new podcast from befores & afters is out with Wētā FX CTO Kimball Thurston. We discuss a range of topics, including rendering, de-noising, data flows and…yes…AI. Listen in here: beforesandafters.com/2025/10/06/w...

I’m sure a million people will post this but I’ve always loved this cartoon. Apparently she loved it too. Every interview I inhaled with her seemed to have a profound sense of humour despite the challenges she inspired us to take up. Vale.

Tonight’s cricket is firmly on the tradie d’n’b vibe… and honestly that’s spot on. It really is the sound of a lot of Kiwi summers!

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Honestly I’m quite relieved that the rapture has, apparently, overlooked me. I’d inadvertantly failed to note it in my calendar and my ascension would have negatively impacted tomorrow’s meetings. Fortunately it would appear my near and dear also deprioritised it, so I retain their good company.

Very much looking forward to this!!

I am sad. The @radioactivefm stream is down. No coda for me. Might be a vinyl while I cook night! First world problem tbh… got food. Got a roof. No one’s shooting. Pretty great.

We are deeply saddened by the loss of our founder and friend Robert Redford.

Now 30 years young, what exactly makes #ToyStory a cinema miracle? As @liammaguren.bsky.social details, they aren’t just films for kids - they’re films you grow up with.

Very much interested to see how this new series pans out!

The song of my people!

I still sing this to myself. Much to the annoyance of my colleagues.

Leonard Rosenman, #BOTD in 1924 (d. 2008), wrote the scores for two-thirds of James Dean's films: EAST OF EDEN and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, both from 1955. He and Dean were good friends, and Dean was a piano student of his. They were also roommates for a time. 1/ #filmsky #musicsky #moviesky

Hi Kate @katehawleycostume.bsky.social you might not remember me it’s Tony Pratt. I used to be at Park Road Post - now part of Jim Cameron’s team. I think I can finally message and say I loved the wardrobe design for Frankenstein. Must have been fun. Hope you’re well :)

Dear minister. WTF?

I’m a bit of an Amy Berg fan since doing some incidental work on a doc of here a million years ago. She loves music. It shows. I need to leave more voicemails with the people I love. #2wr upgraded to #5wr Love Anger Depression Beauty Buckley

Gaylene’s #GraceAprayerForPeace just knocked my damn socks off. So glad I caught an #nziff encore screening. Such an elegantly made work - with space to walk alongside work, and making of it, Hone destroying me all over, so many moving homecomings. This sensational doco IS art. #2wr pacific fire

Remembering John Barnett, a colossus of New Zealand culture

The liminal void between latched and locked…

The sheer ongoing mahi John presented was inspiring. Rest well. Definitely earned. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The liminal space between latched and locked…

The proud tradition #nziff has with Jafar Panahi continues—I think Bill’d be happy #ItWasJustAnAccident won the Palme d’Or this year. Very much on the page - moving from farce to pure dread by the film’s finale, and and a conclusion crafted in our own minds by our own ears. #2WR Personal Political

Would love to see this…

My #nziff highlights were the Dag Johan Haugerud Oslo Stories films (no surprise there I know), Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value, and Jin Ong's Abang Adik. LOVED having lots of good Sundance content and there was diversity of view and origin especially asian was v cool. Ngā Whanaunga was super!

My #nziff lowlights were a programme that sometimes only had one screening and the short programme duration. Would be really great to have better negotiation for screenings again, and more films. Felt like lots of just in time this year.

I just keep rolling this line of script from Sentimental Value around in my mind-mouth: “It’s hard to love someone without mercy.” True bro. True.

#nziff closer #SentimentalValue is just so good. Quietly effective reflecting on self, family & the healing power of cinema. So much longing in the silences. Such exquisite selection of light as a physical object in the house. The house. The humour and the pain. And love. #2wr love mercifully

#nziff archival doco #IsraelPalistineSwedistTV1958to1989 was essential fare and does not feel like it’s nearly 4 hour runtime. Indeed its length is essential. The additional context of Swedish television’s reportage is a deftly selected and edited additional lens. #2wr collective instruction

Raul Pecks films are always stunning constructed - true of #Orwell2+2=5 in #nziff I really think everyone should read Wifedom: Mrs. Orwells invisible life to expand on this story - it does nothing to diminish the work. #2wr perpetually prescient

#nziff was in party mode for #LesbianSpacePrincess a total romp - delightful, corny as all hell, and all the better for it. She’s a lesbian ! She’s in space ! She’s a princess ! Oh… and she’s also very sad… I suspect this is a cult film made. #2wr Tiny Phonetastix

Great debut #CactusPears did that quiet honest first film thing with a slow burning and really rather well structured script not so much about self-discovery but revelation and the constraints of tradition, class, and family. A #nziff pleasure to watch a slice of India less seen #2wr special friend

I was so enamored of Haugerud’s #sex last year it was great to see #love in the years #nziff (dreams to come also!). #love interrogates with a novelists inquisitiveness the kindness and meaning made across the more incidental meeting. These films are so intoxicating! #2wr utopian interrogations

#nziff continues the haunting theme with possession #WentUpTheHill a beautifully designed work exploring the echoes of abuse and echoing a character (love that acting challenge). I wanted either more visceral harm or more emotional damage to be revealed but a brave film. #2wr finished business

Ok #nziff has a real crowd please on its hands with #DJAhmet not least because of the cutest casting in the whole festival but an utterly delightful and laugh out loud over and over take on boy meets girl #2wr startup charm

Agonising and note perfect direction and performances by Hawke and Scott on the stairs in #nziff #BlueMoon. Linklaters always been a master of perfect framing as this perfectly constained bar setting demonstrates. Metaphor much? #2wr theatrical lyricism

I’m such an easy target for Guiraudie’s exquisite scripting and #nziff #Misericordia was immensely satisfying. Disturbing - and oh so darkly funny - it could slip into farce were it not for the fact this could be happening right next door to any of us… yet again spooooooky! #2wr slippery neonoir

#nziff erotic neo noir thriller (?) #NightStage Looks and sounds great exploring professional and personal dualities and societal expectations - always interesting, but I wanted even more danger to balance up the horny cravings. Cool theatre set btw. #2wr perceived performance

I’m so glad #nziff continue to programme Petzold as #MirrorsNo3 is yet another exquisitey shaped narrative concerning the things that haunt us, and the space we need to accomodate them. And who doesn’t like Paula Beer and bicycles. #2wr Sublime Accomodation

Hypnotic #nziff and madmaxzabriskian #Siřat looks incredible and the film sure takes us on a journey along the knife edge bridge between paradise and hell with a plot full of surprises, where one’s decencies in life define the future. This one must be seen in a cinema. #2wr apocolyptic meditation

Bring back #incrediblystrange icons

#nziff Cronenberg’s #TheShrouds is a profoundly intellectual self examination of death and our fetishisation of the body. A clearer response to tech than Crimes offered was welcome and the titular shrouds are cool. This is brave cinema born from all too imaginable pain. #2wr grave macabre

#nziff has Bi Gan’s #resurrection an homage to cinema, and a celebration its audience. Their very resurrection in the film’s title is held as a possibility. Essential for some, probably too much for others. He’s really getting good at this one-shot-thing btw… heh heh. #2wr sensory meditation

#nziff Ari Aster’s #eddington is lots of fun, especially its third act, but really only dances over the complexities tensions apparent in the states during the pandemic (from this foreigners pov) #2wr Strange America