what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Shame no one ever told Bob Katter about the “Streisand effect”. #AusPol #AusPol25 #BobKatter

If you love animals or live with a furry family member, I recommend joining the AJP. It’s fun + rewarding to be a member of a political party that cares about welfare, climate, housing & human rights. Just $44 p/y, or $5 to join the Young AJP (29 & under). No obligations. Just supports their work.

LIFE IN CONFINEMENT Hens spend their 18 months of life crammed into tiny battery cages to produce eggs for human consumption. No sunlight. No room to move. We are in parliament pushing the NSW govt to commit to a phase-out date. But we need your help. PLS SIGN & SHARE: bit.ly/3IIpNf4 #AusPol

SEA HORSES RELEASED Good news story! Over 1200 White's seahorses liberated in Port Stephens - believed to be the largest release in the world. They'll live in “hotels” that provide safety for a species decimated by major flooding events on the East Coast. #MarineLife #AnimalWelfare #Wildlife

Was on ABC 1233 this morning chatting #Fantastic4 and the #BillyJoel ‘And So it Goes’ doco. Download the ABC Listen app to hear the replay. My segment is always about two hours in. #Fantastic4FirstSteps #MCU @abcnewsbot.bsky.social

Oh my god...

‪"VIRTUAL FENCING" = SHOCK COLLARS ⚡ Don't let the jargon fool you. The NSW Govt plans to reverse bans on shock collars to allow their use on farmed animals. Yes. Seriously. Emma Hurst MP is fighting the reintroduction of this cruel device. PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION: bit.ly/44ZdcM3 #AusPol

Unearthed footage that Fox News refused to air during the election last year shows Trump nervously refusing to commit to releasing the Epstein files. “I don’t know about Epstein so much as I do the others.”

Had a lovely time at the Australian premiere of #Superman last night. Even met #Krypto the Super Dog. Good boy. Here’s my full review of #Superman2025: boxd.it/agzQnP #FilmSky 🎥📽️ #DCU #JamesGunn #DavidCorenswet #DCUniverse #FilmReview

I’m so stoked to report that #JurassicParkRebirth is a winner. A big-screen popcorn monster movie back-to-basics reset that completely works. It’s a big, dumb, fun jungle survival adventure with laughs and thrills. And dinosaurs! And mutant dinosaurs! Pure. Simple. Classic. Enjoy. 🛥️🦖🦕 #FilmSky 📽️🎥

Australian premiere of #JurassicWorldRebirth. Out Thursday. #FilmSky 📽️🎥

It’s kinda insane to think that it’s 2025 and we still have battery hens in Australia. Unfathomable cruelty. Please sign the below petition. 🙏🏻

Tough choices were made. My top picks for best 10 movies of the 21st Century. @nytimes.com #FilmSky 📽️🎥

Thank you to Universal for the chance to see a preview of M3GAN 2.0 - a raucous sequel to the hit 2022 cyborg slasher. It drops tomorrow. I’ll share some more thoughts once the embargo lifts. #M3gan2 #FilmSky #M3gan #M3ganMovie #SciFi 🎥📽️🦾🤖💁🏼‍♀️

Had a wonderful four days at @sydfilmfest.bsky.social this year. Saw 13 films. Here is my chat on ABC Radio about wicked Ozploitation flick DANGEROUS ANIMALS. With its nasty sense of humour and bravura moments, this bloody flick is a winner. In cinemas now. #FilmSky #SFF #SFF2025 #Horror 📽️ 🎥

MATERIALISTS, Celine Song's follow-up to the stunning Past Lives is a more accessible mainstream love triangle but still rife with insights into human frailty, longing and weighing the heart over the mind. Song finds a sweet spot between nuanced character study and predictable schmaltz. #FIlmSky 📽️🎥

Day 2 of @sydfilmfest.bsky.social 2025 was another pearler. The highlight was Kevin Macdonald’s moving John + Yoko doco, a mosaic time capsule of a film. Breathtaking. Also caught Josh O’Connor in The Mastermind, the intriguing neo-noir Islands and the endearing body horror Together. #FilmSky 📽️🎥

I like to do @sydfilmfest.bsky.social right. Twelve movies in three days. Stay at QT Sydney. Cocktails. Great plant-based food. Treat myself. Films seen so far - Spirit World, Blue Moon (incredible) and Dangerous Animals. Let’s connect on #Letterboxd: boxd.it/1D4Jx #FilmSky 📽️🎥🎞️📸

Loretta Swit has passed, aged 84. Rest in peace, Hot Lips. ❤️ #FilmSky #TVSky 📽️🎥

BRING HER BACK (2025). In Oz we have VERY strict pool fence regulations. ESPECIALLY in a foster home. The Philippous know this. So the only possible interpretation of #BringHerBack is a two-hour PSA about the potential dangers of not having a pool fence - all of this was preventable. #FilmSky 📽️

Questlove’s SLY LIVES! is an overdue homage to the legacy and influence of a musical genius. But the director only views Stone’s career through the ideological prism of his blackness. He asks famous talking heads leading questions to affirm his narrative. Not a “show don’t tell” approach. #FilmSky

Ben 10, Bubbles and Shaggy walk into a bar… you know the rest. Happy birrrrrthday, @loveangelmaddiebby.bsky.social! 🥳😗 ps be assured the Shaggy goatee has already been removed. #CartoonNetwork

I've slept way, way too long on #KurtVonnegut. Going down the rabbit hole. It's imperative I make up for lost time. And so it goes. Cat's Cradle is a work of satirical genius. A metafictional farce about the end of times. Vonnegut builds a fictional nation and religion. LOL funny. #BookSky 📚

Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, my fave movie of 2021) brings a lot of heart to the #LiloandStitch remake. Almost enough to douse my cynicism. Stitch's immortal line, "This is my family. I found it, all on my own...", cut me up all over again. A winner for Disney. #FilmSky 📽️

Incredible news. This amazing event must go on.

Tix locked for the Aussie premiere of Ari Aster's new flick EDDINGTON (2025) at @sydfilmfest.bsky.social. Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler. Australia is the first to get the film after Cannes. F-yes. SFF keeps delivering the goods. #FilmSky 📽️🎥 #SFF #Eddington

Sign up to my BlueSky posts to find out what costume I'm wearing to @loveangelmaddiebby.bsky.social's birthday bash tomorrow night. Theme: Comedy Network. #ComedyNetwork #TVSky

Our little scruffy man likes to sleep in the front window. This is him stretching and yawning (not roaring, as it appears 😆) after a nap. And, yes, I exclaim “big stretch” every time Jinx stretches. That is mandatory. #CatSky #Ragdoll #CatRescue 🐱🐈‍⬛🐈😻😺😽

Back on air this morning talking movies. Every Friday at 7.35am on ABC 1233. Tune in on the wireless locally or nationally via the ABC Listen app. #FilmSky 🎥📽️

This is how it begins. And it’s overdue.

Wake in Fright meets Long Weekend in Ozploitation homage THE SURFER. While the finale pulls its punches, Cage’s mad descent in the face of tribal surf-gang antagonism is a romp. It’s good vs evil in a sweltering purgatorial car park. Does for Oz tourism what Milat did for backpacking. #FilmSky 📽️🎥

Wow. Wow. #FilmSky #Gaming #GameNews

Our floppy children, Willow and Jinx. #CatSky #RagdollCat

Newcastle friends, Signed First Edition copies of GUARDIAN are available at ABICUS on Darby Street and MACLEAN’S on Beaumont Street. Grab a copy, support an indie author (me) and support an indie retail business (them)! If you live further afield, grab a copy online! ❤️📚 #BookSky #IndieAuthor #Horror

One of the great alligators, imo. #FilmSky 📽️

Brimming with breathtaking imagery, OCEAN is a doco you MUST see on the big screen. In cinemas now. Dredge marks seen from space. David Attenborough, a moral authority on the natural world, has a dire warning - we are pillaging the sea into annihilation. But there is hope if we act now. #FilmSky 📽️🎥

This was such a joy to witness and organise. Thank you to everyone who came. Hopefully I’ll see you at Words & Music next year. Cheers to my mate Perry for the pics.

I watched RUST and really enjoyed it. Halyna Hutchins' cinematography is absolutely STUNNING. What is, on paper, a trope-heavy Western is elevated by the breathtaking photography. I'm so grateful that Hutchins' family pushed to have the movie completed - her final work needed to be seen. #FilmSky 📽️🎥

@sydfilmfest.bsky.social program drop is always a special day. I'm back this year to cover for ABC 1233. Spent the whole morning pouring over the offerings. I've got 13 movies locked in so far. It's honestly the one time I wished I lived in Sydney. Cinephile heaven. Check it out. #FilmSky 🎥📽️

Just thinking about Saturday's election result. Such a resounding rejection of experimental and democratically erosive Trumpian politics. Well done, Australia. Expect to see the collapse of the Republican party in America at their next election. The experiment is over. #AusPol #Election2025

THUNDERBOLTS* gets the MCU freight train back on the rails. It's funny and has heart, with unambiguous messaging on mental health, loneliness and childhood trauma. Sure, it's hokey at times, and maybe goes too far into the weeds with its Inception-esque finale, but it's rollicking fun. #FilmSky 📽️

JOHNSTON CITY - DECIE'S PRIDE New wax. Long-awaited debut record from the Hunter Valley's answer to Bruce Springsteen. Dan Johnston is a serious songwriter. Honest, no-bullshit rock songs and ballads about life, love and family. Do yourself a favour. LISTEN HERE: open.spotify.com/album/0dgBqg...

Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.

Rainy days are best spent on the couch. Even if it’s made of cardboard. Jinx, our little bundle of joy. #CatSky #Ragdoll 😻

Gareth Edwards (The Raid), writes/directs Tom Hardy vehicle HAVOC. Sin City meets John Woo crime fantasia. A balletic bursting of blood and bullets set in a heightened CGI reality where everyone - good, bad or indifferent - knows a little kung fu. Cartoon characters. Ballistic action. #FilmSky 📽️🎥

Despite pressing on through intermittent rain, I enjoyed getting out for fresh air and exercise to letterbox drop for the @animaljusticeparty.bsky.social yesterday around Booragul and surrounds. Still more to do. I encourage you to vote #1 for Victoria Davies if you’re in the Hunter electorate.

Bushfire ravaged koala habitat in Vic - how did ALP Vic prem Jacinta Allan respond? A helicopter was used TO SHOOT INJURED KOALAS FROM THE AIR. Over 700 dead. Some of these koalas could have been saved. Some would have had joeys, now left to die in unchecked pouches. Give koalas a voice. Vote AJP

SINNERS is Ryan Coogler’s sexy, bluesy and black reimagining of FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, which owes a huge debt to other siege schlockers ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Great to see the filmmaker express himself outside of the MCU. Familiar and original in equal measure. #FilmSky 📽️

Finished #WhiteLotus S3. The weakest season by some margin, riddled with wild implausibilities, vast suspensions of disbelief and lazy contrivances. And yet, it works as entertainment. As always, some character sub-plots work better than others, and they tend to be those untethered to the mystery.