Hollywood is toxic if you’re not careful. Insanely cliquey and there is a strict adherence to the social tiers that each clique is organized into (most people in a certain tier won’t talk to tiers below). Deep insecurity is covered by bravado. Makes me physically ill. Takes work to avoid culprits.

Go Mexico!! I went up to Seattle to watch Australia play the US. While the result wasn’t what we Aussies wanted, the atmosphere in Seattle was insanely fun and it was a great weekend.

I hear you. Use the soul crushing mess as inspiration to create. Write something cathartic. Whether you’re expressing anger and sadness about an innocent child being shot by a soldier or viciously satirizing something you find hypocritical and gross about modern society, use your pen as a weapon.

So many. I know this is not an original answer but ever since I Memento in a theatre, I’ve been following Chris Nolan (pun not intended) and I just love his whole approach - his commitment to avoiding VFX, his dedication to theatrical film releases, his ambition. It’s been so inspiring.

I think the huge success of Project Hail Mary, Obsession, Backrooms has shown that original movies are thriving. As far as physical media goes, I just bought the 4K version of Perfect Blue which was gorgeous. And the 4K edition of At Close Range looked beautiful and had some great extras.

Hello friends. I have so many things to say that I can’t fit them into a Bluesky post. That’s what the world does to you these days - we’re all drinking from a firehose of ugly or tragic news and the occasional good news. So instead I’ll answer some questions of yours if you have any. Hugs.

There is no such thing as a “socialist” politician in a country that doesn’t have universal healthcare, living wages, elections free of corporate money, mandatory paid maternity leave, a focus on green energy infrastructure or a ban on all assault rifles - and never will have any of these things.

Hey friends. Check out the music video I directed for the very excellent Bloodwerk. Extremely fun to make and the song WILL attach itself to you like an intestinal worm. A dancey intestinal worm that smells like summer. Leave a comment on the YouTube page if you want to make my friend Ned happy. xo

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

Don’t do that to me, Bluesky.

Oh heeyyyyy

My dear friend Ned made this track and it instantly takes me back to summer circa 2010 when we REALLY didn’t know how good we had it. Do some time travel by cranking this banger. Fans of The Pitt may recognize Ned! He’s the guy singing who shouldn’t legally be allowed to have that jawline in his 40s

Sorry to be controversial but….I was into this Ethan Hawke life coach/spiritual leader renaissance before everyone else. I was watching his Ted Talk while you were still rewatching Training Day. I was planning on getting his quotes about art tattooed on me when you had already moved onto Maya Hawke.

Last rave review goes to YOU - the people I will most likely never have the privilege of meeting in person, the ticket buyers and movie fans who have allowed me to indulge my own day dreams and sometimes bash them into movies…the people I owe everything to. If you see me, say hi so I can say thanks.

Next rave review: a film called The Plague. Whilst not strictly a horror film, it is tense and unnerving in ways that dig under your skin with barbed hooks. Directed with such confidence by Charlie Polinger and featuring some of - if not THE - best acting from teenagers I’ve ever seen, this one hits

Time for some good reviews. I just finished reading this first rate crime thriller by S.A. Cosby. The whole book is a tense, white-knuckle ride from start to finish. And Cosby delivers a masterclass on how to make your readers be VERY afraid of your villains. Surely a limited series is in the works?

I just stopped looking at the news and put on a serial killer documentary to relax.

Thanks for all the birthday love, legends.

Rightwing influencers are so bad at interpreting source material that they can only do it correctly by accident, when they're trying to make a joke

Such is the Videodrome-esque gravitational pull of social media that I occasionally feel guilty for never posting here. In order to atone for my sins, ask me any questions and I’ll check in and answer them.

This is my favourite song from the album right now. Not sure if it was intentional but it gives The Sword vibes in the best way.

Absolutely fucking loving the new album Something To Consume from Die Spitz. It shreds. Please listen to it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s delivery of the line “…cos I work on the films so if you ever, you know…” in this scene is some of the greatest acting of all time. RIP to this genius.

Ahoy there! Most times when I use Bluesky it feels like mumbling into the void and I’m not sure who is actually out there listening…but for those who are: I hope you have a great 2026. The kind of year filled with personal victories and moments of joy that rekindles your faith in human beings. Hugs.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

So proud of my home country of Australia for banning social media for anyone under 16. I don’t give a shit about some kids finding sneaky ways to get around the ban or government ID’s or any of that crap. I’m just appreciating the same common sense that implemented a near total ban on guns in 1996.

*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

Watching The Silence Of The Lambs on VHS in order to add another layer onto the cocoon of nostalgia psychosis that I have woven around myself as a way to detach from the modern world.

After a banner year of Warner Bros putting unique, filmmaker driven original movies into theaters and getting giant audience turn out for them, the corporation that now owns them would like you to know that actually you didn’t like this and that what you really wanted was to watch at home.

On another random note, I think my favorite performance from Paul Dano is in Looper. Even in a smaller supporting role he brings such tragedy to his character. Tough competition from There Will Be Blood, which I also loved him in. Take a look at this scene for an example of his soft spoken honesty.

It’ll never be classy for an artist to publicly disparage the work of another artist. There are enough critics in the world; both paid, professional ones and the millions of people online who have deputized themselves as critics. Critics are necessary. There’s no need for our fellow artists to do it

(Zodiac killer phone voice) “Heyyy Bluesky”

Just finished this tome by the great Cameron Crowe. Like a Forrest Gump for 70s rock, he somehow managed to BE IN THE ROOM for so many seminal music moments that you’d hate him if he wasn’t so charming, self-deprecating and easy going. That’s likely how he GOT in the room. When’s his movie era book?

eating some thai curry ribs with sticky rice and watching predator

My 12 yr old daughter just told me that she and her friends refer to skeevy male adults that they suspect of being pedophiles as “PDF files” and with that I’m calling an end to all generational wars online. They win. Yeah, coming home when the street lights turned on was cool but we can’t beat that.

I know there’s bigger problems in the world but I’m just saying that the makers of Zootopia 2 missed a big opportunity to go with Twotopia

I mean…

Zohran Mamdani: “I promise to bring the Virgin Megastore back to Times Square. New Yorkers deserve to have their listening stations.”

It’ll never stop being funny/sad to me that to get labeled a “radical socialist” in US politics, all you have to do is gently ask for the basic minimum things that every other wealthy democracy has already had for years and years (paid maternity leave, minimum wage you can actually live on etc).

Laughing at the very expensive and now empty seats behind home plate. LA sports fans are still the only sports fans in the world who would leave a game like this early. Doing LA people’s two favourite things - beating traffic and getting in bed early.

Every now and again, it’s still worth picturing what US right wing media would be doing if Obama had done this.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

We might not be living in a good time but I hope that you’re at least having a good day.

I’m feeling great and I hope you are too, yes YOU

How far behind the times is this creep? I was a teenager in the 90s and, after Nevermind came out, dyeing your hair blue and getting nose rings was so mainstream that even the kids in the shitty suburb where I lived were doing it. In 2025, it’s about as transgressive as painting your nails.

Just finished the best book I’ve read this year. A collection of connected stories about the unique hellscape of our modern world, it is reminiscent of Todd Solondz style cruelty comedy. This isn’t “dark” humour - it’s a pitch black tunnel through the mind of the terminally online and totally alone.

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

Brilliantly written article that does the thing all brilliant writing on our current era does - gives you sudden clarity amidst the strategically numbing and purposefully confusing “flood the zone with shit” firehose we’re all drinking from when we read the news in the US.