Director Zak Hilditch talks to us about We Bury The Dead - an unmissable, emotional zombie thriller starring Daisy Ridley. filmstories.co.uk/features/we-...

Me & 🐉 on the road this spring! 21/02, 7pm, @thecommonpress.bsky.social London w/ Adam Zmith 26/02, 7pm: The Dormouse, Belper 4/03, 7pm, Mount Florida Books, Glasgow w/ Adam Benmakhlouf 5/03, 7pm, @argonautbooks.bsky.social Edinburgh w/ Alycia Pirmohamed Links👇 www.somayer.net/2026/02/05/s...

Land Invaders, a groundbreaking experimental 8-bit video game by Anishinaabe Algonquin creator Cass Gardiner and designer Juan Mateo Menendez, will make its world premiere as an Official Selection of Berlinale Forum Expanded 2026. redpopnews.com/land-invader...

This Saturday evening I’m thrilled to announce I’ll be joined by a personal hero 😊 @robinince.bsky.social at the fantastic @slapstickfest.bsky.social for #OneCutoftheDead join us for all things ‘Zombie’ 🧟🧟‍♂️💜📽️ @brisblakhorrorclub.bsky.social Ticket link/info🔻 slapstick.org.uk/events/slaps...

Starmers worried about the Green Party challenging this governments failures. He's right to be. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Very, very much appreciating the news that a reformed Faraquet will be playing London in July (and so close to my birthday). But the Dischord band I REALLY want to reform and see live again is Q & Not U. Their brand of dance punk was truly never bettered.

You want BUFFY x LOST BOYS x MAD MAX x Alexis Wright with a shit-kicking soundtrack & a performance from Rob Collins that literally eats up the screen? FIREBITE

We have another film festival coming up at the end of the month because I'm a glutton for punishment. There is some excellent stuff in here, though, even if I do say so myself. Opening night doc about the legendary John Clarke is nearly sold out though, so get in quick! #ANZFF2026

Now that everyone is talking about SINNERS again, I'm going to remind you that if you want a more sustained fix of Indigenous vampire hunters, Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher have got you covered.

Another step closer to publication of our new book with the release of the cover on the Allen & Unwin website. The First Inventors: How people shaped a continent Billy Griffiths, Larissa Behrendt & Sean Ulm www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...

#AFCON? Absolute cinema.

Not every day that you hear the mighty You Am I on British radio, even if it does require BBC 6 Music to be undertaking some sort of 1990s nostalgiafest.

Finally catching up with S5 of Stranger Things. When Max emerges from a rock crevice, I immediately thought of Picnic at Hanging Rock, and now ep.4 has picked up the thread and, lo and behold, there be panpipes! 😂

If you have 12 bad cops and 1300 good cops, but those 1300 good cops don't turn in the 12 bad cops, you have 1312 bad cops.

“The Adelaide Festival’s decision to dump Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah gives us a grim foretaste of the Australian cultural landscape in 2026.” David Brophy on “ambient antisemitism” and the institutional mechanisms for curtailing protest and political expression.

After successfully campaigning for a Royal Commission into antisemitism, The Age seamlessly moves to making that synonymous with criticism of Israel. Watching it happen so transparently is next level.

Happy Gravy Day #gravyday

RIP #Bazball. via Steve Smith

A massacre is a massacre is a massacre. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Have a quiet think. Let it be a guiding lesson for you Whatever regretful comments you may have made in your life, whatever actions you wish you could take back, let your benchmark for the lowest of the low be using the deaths of 15 people for the relaunch of your political career

Ding ding ding

Sure, you *could* now adopt that evidence-free report by far-right activist Jillian Segal that you know is garbage or you wouldn't have ignored it after spending a fortune on her whole dodgy operation. Or should you put money into *de-radicalising* the far right instead of, you know, employing them?

Speaking on behalf of dual citizens of Australian origin, let me just say #NotAllUKPassportHolders. #SnickoCircus 😂 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Remarkable kindness and empathy from the Jewish community of Bondi and abroad in light of this horrific anti-semitic shooting. Instead of pouring fuel on the fire and joining hatemongers to condemn all Muslims, they are openly and loudly rejecting it. We stand in solidarity against hate and terror.

media in this country is so completely cooked

What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.

Pack it up folks, we’re done, the worst take has been found

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

Buy these discs, see my face.

New title announcements are being developed and will be ready to collect tomorrow... In the meantime, let's revisit the tense Ozploitation thriller, Snapshot, and the wild ways different territories promoted it. 4K & Blu-ray now available in UK & US: tinyurl.com/ya8jsfrj

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

This wildly tacky World Cup draw is a grimly fascinating preview of what happens if the aesthetics of fascism finally get their way.

Are world cup draws always this tedious? It's like watching a corporate away day. Anyone know how long until the orange ballbag actually starts drawing balls out of the bag?

A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons): 1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...

Really not much of a surprise to see the former Bank of England governor and current Canadian PM riding roughshod - full settler capitalist stylee - over pesky little things like moratoriums and treaties. 😬🙄🤬

Mitchell Starc having an absolute blinder of an opening session here.

A wicket maiden in the opening over? I'll take that.

Super-duper late to this, but how good is that Ninajirachi album?

Well, that was a fucking rollercoaster of a game. Scotland are in the World Cup! AMAZING! #WellBeComing

Scott McTominay you absolute legend! Carn Scotland!

Just complained to the BBC about their reporting on the horrific Sara Sharif story tonight, in which the reporter said her mistreatment took place in the family's 'new council house'. Why specify 'council'? Why 'new'? Seems like a massive racist dogwhistle to me, given the current climate.

I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

Zack Polanski on President Trump, "It's difficult to call him anything other than a fool" "This is sociopathic behaviour" "He is toxic, misogynistic, racist" "I'm not a fan of Trump" Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"

Two centuries before the Trail of Tears, English colonists drove Maryland's Indigenous tribes from their land. The Piscataway Nation wants people to know their story. "We're still here," says tribe member Gabrielle Tayac. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

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.