I saw #Exit8 last night at the always excellent Roxy Cinema in Wellington, and can’t really top the @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net here - very satisfying and constructed filmmaking. #2wr Infinite Loop www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens...

INFERNO. 18 TRACKS. 70 MINUTES. 2xLP, CD, DIGITAL. 29 MAY 2026. boardsofcanada.com

Tearepa is such a wonderful fit for this mahi

So the updated #TVNZ+ tvOS app is bloody hopeless innit. How did this pass testing??? So many buffering issues. Unresponsive ‘back’. Gah. Not what I need during a stormy night #firstworldproblems

Medium sized pod of dolphins heading into the harbour past Karaka Bays 9:36am Reported by Alistair Holmes #WhaleWatch #Wellington

The aching love for this pale blue dot…

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

Compulsory today I guess… With a special nod to Kelly who used to sing this with me at the Kingslander after a beer or two… #WeLikeTheMoon youtu.be/I9MZNEXrElw?...

A really nice story about how 'Pō Atarau' ended up on the soundtrack of Project Hail Mary. One thing I would add is that the 1976 master tape was preserved and digitised by the Alexander Turnbull Library. That's why it was discoverable. thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...

People are buzzing about hearing ‘Pō Atarau’ by the Turakina Māori Girls' Choir pop up – often unexpectedly – in Project Hail Mary. It was originally released in 1976 on the Viking label, one of the most important and prolific NZ-owned record labels of all-time. As Simon Grigg says, "Viking was...

Normally it’s a cheese scone and perfect coffee at #SwimsuitCoffee - but I have to say this hot cross bun is a very very fine alternative ☕️

A lesson in alt text…

@nzonscreen is such a great resource! Super writers like Dan, our most special content… a platform for the culture and business of these crazy formats we love !

Who would have thought we’d see Max and Liam with the same points at this stage of the #F1 season!

Fun to look around the renewed Wellington City Library this afternoon… but dear goodness our City Council have turned civic square into a miserable grey expanse haven’t they! Super excited for the return of City Gallery later this year though, and the eventual jewel in the crown reopening, loudly!

I still think about this a lot.

Oh this is GLORIOUS. I’m a big fan of The Claire Denis Award for Achievement in Body Fluids 2026…

This introduction of a key to the executive washroom is one of a hundred Wilder structural masterstrokes of The Apartment. Everything you ever need to know about screenwriting is in this movie. The repetition and lyricism of the picture means that the film is as much music as anything. #TCMParty

Pong stage (Newtown Ave) is without a doubt the best kept secret at Newtown Festival!!! #MiCasaSuCasa playing lovely tunes to a knowing crowd Also - so good to see the exceptional Jen Kyle playing earlier!

Garage Project doing the right thing and holding back a batch of Party and Bullshit is exactly the right thing to do. 👍 Will also be super fresh and NOMS when the replacement batch drops.

Kinda the most Wellington place :)

Have I mentioned Thursday evening is pure joy on @RadioActiveFM before? I have? Heh heh. It’s always true tho!

Could not agree with this more! Critic Te Arohi was crucial to my Dunedin experience and has been a springboard for NZ culture.

Radiohead just randomly started streaming live performances and random songs from their catalogue yesterday, and it's still going..................... 👀👀👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6ga...

OK New York friends - all 4 of you lulz. Check this out of you can! filmforum.org/series/agnes...

Newtown festival on Sunday… always a great day! Hope the snow and ice stops… 😜

Can we just take a moment to acknowledge that #DJCoda is a national treasure? 😎

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

Glad that Randy and Jason are back as the hosts again at VES awards. Good fun.

@AroVideo Secret Cinema 2026 is on the last Wednesday of each month, and not only streaming via Aro's OnDemand service, but also on the Big Screen at the cool new Massey Cinema (old Dominion Museum - good laser projector, dolby atmos!) NZFest in the way 4 me… ondemand.arovideo.co.nz/collection/s...

This is pretty cool - ever wanted to explain what all the differences are between different kinds of cinemas/formats? IMAX vs Dolby etc? Also go see films in a cinema! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLDi...

New Zealanders bag two Bafta film awards

Tonight’s #WgtnFilmSoc screening was the extraordinary Peter Weirs gothic masterpiece #PicnicAtHangingRock - a good 4K 50th anniversary restoration. It’s such a thought provoking approach to reliability in narrative to this day. Great start to the Film Soc’s 80th Year! #2wr unstable ground

The Wellington poo plume seems to especially dislike surfers, dogs, and nudists! At least very few of them will be braving the outside today… pollutionmap.seascope.io

Finnish Ski Jumping Team Caught Tampering With Earth’s Gravitational Field https://theonion.com/finnish-ski-jumping-team-caught-tampering-with-earths-gravitational-field/

The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:

Seed was a good play, bet it’s a great read too!

Cold drink. Windows open. Drowning out the Cicadas with the #RadioActiveFM stream - Coda has his groove on.

I still delight in the 1979 Alien score. So progressive, interesting, avant garde and appropriate - integrating just as below seamlessly into the narrative.

I can’t wait to get back into this glorious venue for a gig again. It’s been so long! www.rnz.co.nz/life/culture...

Why oh why is the Vetruvian Man emasculated in the Olympic graphics??? It’s so bizarre. Is it really prudery? I’m utterly baffled, after all it’s one if the most famous objects in the world! And I say that coming from a country where the European settlers knocked off the knobs from our tekoteko!

Whoooooooot ZOI What a legend!

@letterboxd.social screening of the wonderful Park Chan-Wook’s No Other Choice this evening at the equally wonderful #RoxyCinema Miramar tonight. How many suburban cinemas have this quality of projection, sound, and damn good people… we’re so lucky! And a bloody good beer to boot.

Loving the time offset to italy for @thenzteam.bsky.social in Milano Cortina from New Zealand - can watch us compete over breakfast!

Let's play "What's the Score?" Listen to the 5 music clips here. Figure out the movie each one is from (but NOT using an audio search!), and POST your answers IN THE REPLIES! 1 point per movie, 2 points for composers. Guess the connecting theme for 5 bonus points! Good luck! #filmsky #moviesky