The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

SURPRISE LOL 😝

There is no battle. There is truth and then there are the administration's lies, and the media's determination to legitimise them via obfuscation, false equivalence, fake objectivity. This is an instinct for corporate media now. It is the seedbed of post-truth every bit as much as the internet.

Had a lovely chat with the filmmakers behind the gorgeous animated adventure, Imagine, which is led by First Nations children bit.ly/49VGCxg

Folks, make a mad dash to Australian Open. Not that one, but the sparkling, sassy wit of Angus Cameron’s monogamy-serving play at Theatre Works bit.ly/4bhof8g

I’m so happy Sinners made Oscars history. It better take a bunch of them home bit.ly/4cGYhtt

The amazing @stephenarussell.bsky.social is back as special correspondent for @ohmpods.bsky.social with a great new interview (for the now Academy Aware nominated - THE SECRET AGENT): www.oneheatminute.com/articles/fea...

The Secret Agent writer/director Kleber Mendonça Filho is in love either the art of cinema. Was an honour to talk Jaws, Harryhausen and more with the Oscar nominee bit.ly/4jX4p4u

It’s so interesting that the comet pizza-Q-Anon folks have disappeared just as their deeply held concerns about a widespread elite child trafficking conspiracy has been proven correct

Had fantastic chats with Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater about Blue Moon, mutual respect and the art of filmmaking. Check it out @ohmpods.bsky.social bit.ly/45o3qnQ

The amazing @stephenarussell.bsky.social plays special correspondent for @ohmpods.bsky.social with a great new interview: "The Moon and the Stars: Ethan Hawke and director Richard Linklater talk friendship, pushing boundaries and the drama of Blue Moon" www.oneheatminute.com/articles/fea...

Had fantastic chats with Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater about Blue Moon, mutual respect and the art of filmmaking. Check it out @ohmpods.bsky.social bit.ly/45o3qnQ

Transphobia really does rot your brain.

Saturday Night Fever the musical sweeps most of the story's guts off the dance floor bit.ly/45WZASI

Will be on ABC 702 soon, talking Marty Supreme and comparing it to Call Me By Your Name

I won’t lie, I’ve found Chalamet’s Oscar campaign intensely annoying, but a few important niggles aside, I wound up really digging Marty Supreme (or Extreme, as I keep typing it) bit.ly/3NpTnZi

Frothy fun, Sugar @artscentremelb.bsky.social is a Midsumma delight bit.ly/4b28Zff

Saturday Night Fever the musical sweeps most of the story's guts off the dance floor bit.ly/45WZASI

The Advertiser has the letter Malinauskas wrote to the board of Adelaide Festival. It is very hard to see how this is not a direction to remove Abdel-Fattah, despite a line saying board decisions are independent. drive.google.com/file/d/169Pi...

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

It's not hate to oppose systematic mass murder. Even if it was, a felt emotion is not worse than the literal killing fields sustained by the West’s murder colony in occupied Palestine. It is insane that this needs to be said. How about, if you do not like being 'vilified' maybe stop being villains?

With Iran in turmoil, worth hearing from It Was Just an Accident director Jafar Panahi on how film can champion change, even at great personal risk bit.ly/4sHylFD

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

What fresh horror and strangely beguiling beauty will be uncovered in Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later chapter, The Bone Temple? bit.ly/4jKcCJ8

Frothy fun, Sugar @artscentremelb.bsky.social is a Midsumma delight bit.ly/4b28Zff

What fresh horror and strangely beguiling beauty will be uncovered in Nia DaCosta’s 28 Years Later chapter, The Bone Temple? bit.ly/4jKcCJ8

With Iran in turmoil, worth hearing from It Was Just an Accident director Jafar Panahi on how film can champion change, even at great personal risk bit.ly/4sHylFD

"Public submissions on the laws are due to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security by Thursday afternoon. That leaves fewer than three days for public consultation. This timeline is wholly inadequate to consider such significant changes." theconversation.com/with-its-new...

Last summer movie spot on Radio National this morning soon. Hoping to chat Hamnet and the Bone Temple. Join us?

I giggled at this because I am not a mature person

The SA arts minister finally shows up to her job after almost a week hiding under her desk and her only contribution is to defend the premier’s censorial vandalism that has destroyed the oldest writers festival in the world. She’s not fit to be anywhere near cultural leadership.

The fascism keeps on creeping

Defamation papers in three, two, one… this rancid man is not fit to lead the state into the election

Had a lovely blether with Virginia Gay and Clare Watson about Mama Does Derby playing Sydney Festival bit.ly/4qhdTKh

A lil snippet of me on ABC radio tonight breaking down Rose Byrne’s Golden Globes win ab.co/45IpMAn

“Moscow on the Torrens” Louise Adler is a champion of the arts. It is a disgrace that she has been forced into this situation and a credit to her that she’s taken the only action possible, while taking out these insidious forces, including the malignant premier bit.ly/457tJ1x

"The Foreign Secretary said exercising the right to free speech and assembly should never come with the threat of.. reprisals"

The SA premier pretending he didn’t have all his dirty little fingers in this rancid pie is quite the thing 🥧

"In language that Premier Malinauskas would understand, it is the most spectacular own goal that I have witnessed in my time working in the arts." @instanterudite.bsky.social ICYMI, excellent overview of the Adelaide Festival debacle. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

A lil snippet of me on ABC radio tonight breaking down Rose Byrne’s Golden Globes win ab.co/45IpMAn

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Australia’s first big win as the incomparable Rose Byrne winning the Golden Globe for (dark) comedy for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You “We shot this film in 25 days for $8.50” an indie triumph by Mary Bronstein ab.co/49nxuD0

One Golden Globe After Another as PTA takes home best director at the Golden Globes bit.ly/48rhhMg

If you haven’t seen Pluribus on Apple TV yet, Rhea Seehorn is astounding, carrying it almost single-handedly. Bless her nerdiness, with her speech reminding her to get beta blockers (she forgot) bit.ly/4sphc3e

And another Golden Globe for The Studio, and again presented by a cameo star in Adam Scott, so I guess that means Marlon Wayans needs written into season two please (shout out to catering) bit.ly/4iRC4uC

Jessie Buckley wins best actress in a drama film for her beautiful performance in Hamnet “The 400 extras, I adore you, I’d rave in that Globe with you forever more.” Also gorgeous shout out to Tomak, the grip, for making soup for everyone bit.ly/4axpsry

Had a lovely blether with Virginia Gay and Clare Watson about Mama Does Derby playing Sydney Festival bit.ly/4qhdTKh

Doesn’t look like director Chloe Zhao expected to go home with the Golden Globe for best drama, bless her. Sam Mendes sect the book to Spielberg and he knew it had to be her. Beautiful speech, partly borrowed from Paul Mescal, and a gorgeous salute to Coogler bit.ly/4axpsry