Superb conversation between two of the literal best Australians @alicemaiomackay.bsky.social and @stephenarussell.bsky.social 💜💜💜

Settled in for the SSAAANZ online conference, and Jani Wilson's opening keynote. Excellent to hear more about her fascinating work on the continuing evolution of Kapa Haka on screen. I have very fond memories of sharing a panel with Jani at the Screen Conference in Glasgow a couple of years back.

I mean, I didn't mean to suggest they were ALL tax write-offs, but also, some tax write-offs are better than others. 😂

No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.

Jeez, Citeh's bribery bill for this game is going to be astronomical.

A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.

Literally the “he did nazi that coming!” joke

Masterful use of Trash Humpers. I'm in awe.

any faculty encouraging this are being enormously irresponsible

Just realised that Signature Entertainment have both FEAR BELOW and BEAST OF WAR on their books, and now I want to know which cinema in London (or elsewhere) wants me to host a double bill of 1940s-set Australian killer shark films. Actually, maybe this is one for you @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social?

Today, 144 years ago, 1600 Crown troops invaded a pacifist settlement that was the centre of resistance against British colonialism. The leaders were arrested, the settlement sacked, the people violated. For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.

Filmmaker Shane Belcourt’s most recent documentary is Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising, a documentary about an Indigenous-led occupation in Anicinabe Park over nearly 40 days in 1974. He tells Face to Face it was an electric time in history.

Of course Trump will lean on NYC if Mamdani wins (and will even if he doesn’t), but maybe place the blame on Trump rather than on Mamdani. Kinda like saying “the way she was dressed, she was asking for it,” which might be a sentiment Cuomo is familiar with.

When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.

I agree with this sentiment. Canada is a wonderful place, and I love living here. However, some of the most egregious examples of anti-Native racism I've faced have been from Canadians. That's not even getting into the virulent anti-South Asian racism, and before that, historic anti-Asian racism.

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

I post this every time there’s a call to unsubscribe but it never gets much traction: Spotify’s owner also invests in military AI technology.

My comment? I'm proud of Green councillors who are doing everything they can to bring attention to stopping the genocide. www.thejc.com/news/uk/hack...

Fascism is a participation sport, and this guy has all the gear.

we're living in fucking Starship Troopers

The legacies of Empire. 😂

Tapping the sign: professors today have enough trouble getting students to *read* - let alone "stepping them in leftist dogma"? (NYTimes says what?)

“This film isn’t just a horror story. It’s a ceremony, a confrontation, and a mirror.” They Wait, directed by David J. Aberle (Diné) and starring Jon Santaanta Proudstar, is an Indigenous horror film that blends spirit, story, and truth. redpopnews.com/this-film-is...

There are no examples of genocidaires willingly ending a genocide and Israel is no exception. Unless Israel is turned into a pariah state and diplomatic and trade relations severed, the genocide will continue.

Australian colleagues have been exploring the redirection of British slave-owners capital from the Caribbean into the colonisation of Australia. As Britons ended slavery they intensified the destruction of Indigenous societies. Latest addition from Zoe Laidlaw: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Includes a lot of Ozploitation for your soul.

Paging all those people to whom I've been recommending Aboriginal vampire series FIREBITE, only to lament that it's not available in the UK. Well, I've just discovered that it's now streaming on Tubi and ITVX! Get on it! @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social @suchmayer.bsky.social www.itv.com/watch/firebi...

Ready to dip your toe into more Ozploitation over the spooky season? @drsmorgan.com has put together a Letterboxd list for you of all the films he mentioned in his intros! boxd.it/PKVG6

"Dugongs, dolly zooms, melting heads and Holden cars." [sung to the tune of the "football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars" jingle]

I haven't had a chance to dig into the report itself, but this is a fascinating set of insights from Nick Hayes. Certainly, any serious attempt at securing the long-term sustainability of the Australian screen industry, needs to be in tune with the Australian population. if.com.au/as-indian-fi...

"It's Ozploitation Day!" Packing my swag & choofing off to Brizzle in the drizzle for two days of Aussie culty goodness at @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social's Big Scream fest! The face melting, head exploding fun starts tonight at the Bristol Megascreen. Get on it! www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk

Just arrived! The first copies of our #FilmNoirFest Festival Catalogue! If you’re a festival pass holder, you’ll get a free copy. Contribs include @pamhutch.bsky.social, @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social, @drsmorgan.com and more! Get your #FilmNoir festival passes here: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

Francesca Albanese has written a new report which documents how countries have enabled genocide; Australia watered down draft resolutions 17 countries including Au, who have signed the arms trade treaty, supplied parts for the F- 35 stealth fighter program www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

Such a busy day today (bouncing between teaching ethics and holocaust films, a close analysis session on The Babadook, a departmental research seminar, & Kelli Cole's Menzies Lecture at Tate), that I haven't even had the chance to brag about buying a flipping Wu-Tang Clan ticket this morning!

Also invests in military AI technology

If you happen to be in the Bristol area this weekend, our co-programmer @drsmorgan.com will be introducing a bunch of films at @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social's two day Ozploitation extravaganza!

And poppies?

Yeah

This seems to me very telling. Davie does not claim this has happened; it may or may not have done, but he does not. Instead, he plucks this out of the air as his example of an unacceptable 'political' statement. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Darren Hanlon live in London klaxon! www.tickettailor.com/events/flipp...

One upside to this internet outage (and Tidal being down), is that I'm now working my way back through the entire Extortion back catalogue on Bandcamp. The downside: I keep having to stop what I'm doing to change albums because, lets face it, Extortion albums are the noisiest form of brevity.

Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy food on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.

I mean, now that Arnotts have likewise changed the Tim Tams recipe and launched in the UK, it's only right that the Penguin recipe also changes for the worse to maintain the normal order of things.

This is pretty niche, I know, but Marnie and Gabe from MUSTANGS FC definitely had a secret baby and that secret baby definitely grew up to be Alex Badalato. I will not be taking questions.

Commentator in the Adelaide United match just remarked about it being a wonderful night for football in Adelaide, and how locals will tell you it always is and, I don't know man, I've been to more than enough games in horrific weather to tell you that it ain't always so. Anyway, carn the Reds!

A busy second half of October coming up, hosting/introing film screenings, starting with two this week for @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social (Chilean animation tonight, an Aussie WWI doc on Sat), then heading south-west for Ozploitation and Aussie heist noir later in the month. Details in the thread...

One of the worst things about the academic job market is the creepy & frankly racist obession with posh white academics hiring other posh,white academics to whitesplain racial and colonial histories over minority academics. Its not progressive, its not post colonial - its just colonial.

🗓️ On 18 October, join us for a special screening of By Far Kaymakchalan (2024), a documentary tracing Australia’s forgotten role alongside Serbian forces in WWI. This screening will be followed by a discussion with historian Bojan Pajić, hosted by @drsmorgan.com. Register now to attend ⬇️

Everything you’d expect from Halloween… but with an Aussie twist. 24-25 October: The Big Sceam - Six Feet Down Under www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk