I can’t imagine a better season finale of #HeatedRivalry than the one we got. I wrote about why I loved it so much, why Shane and Yuna’s scene hit way too close to home, and why this was the best way to end 2025. www.slashfilm.com/2060948/heat...

There are so few perfect seasons of TV, and #HeatedRivalry just had one. The best possible version of what it set out to be. And let me just say, Connor Storrie AND Hudson Williams deserve lead actor Emmy nominations. Whole worlds pass over their faces in those final episodes. Thrilling. THRILLING!

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

Heading to the cottage #HeatedRivalry

Also, a massive shout out to Connor Storrie’s dialect coach because WOW.

Incredibly pleased to report I have been fully indoctrinated into the Heated Rivalry fandom. Will be spending the whole day learning the Canadian national anthem.

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

"I had planned to send [the children] to boarding school, since their education at the moment seems to consist mostly of marching around Salzburg singing scales. I think it would have been particularly helpful for the eldest daughter, who seems intent on losing her virginity to the mailman."

It wouldn’t be Christmas without the classic Shane Black double feature of The Long Kiss Goodnight and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

Continuing the Rob Reiner tribute viewings, and also filling in a major cinematic blindspot for me.

Guess I'll post this again

Tonight viewing is the first of many in tribute to the late, great, Rob Reiner:

My response to anything over the next two weeks

"AI is inevitable" so were NFTs, fuckwit. how'd that turn out?

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

Over at @ebertvoices.bsky.social, we all wrote about our favorite Rob Reiner movies. I contributed with, what else, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY… ♥️ www.rogerebert.com/tributes/the...

This pup managed to sneak her way into a joyride with an unsuspecting delivery driver. Popped up to ask where they're headed and if there's time to get a pup cup on the way. 12/10 (TT: copperdoesstuffs)

I wrote about Rob Reiner: www.vulture.com/article/rob-...

HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering* ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin DETECTIVE: ME: are you getting apricot notes

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

I woke up to the news of Rob Reiner's murder. In thinking about his work, my experience with it, and its impact on my childhood, I decided to write this. He leaves a commendable, respectable legacy any storyteller can only hope to touch. This is free to all. 🎥 www.patreon.com/posts/rob-re...

One of my favorite scenes in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY… is this fun, little improvised moment in the museum. Notice how Meg Ryan looks off camera to Rob Reiner because she is so thrown off by Billy Crystal’s riffing.

Please no.

Take care online today. Following the terror attack in Australia, please be aware of: explicit videos of the attack, AI generated videos of the attack, any disinformation about the shooting, shooter, or victims. Report anything that seems suss to the platform you saw it on and Netsafe. ❤️❤️❤️

Stay safe Sydney-siders. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Big mood.

YES…let’s fucking GOOOOOO.

Glad I cancelled my Disney+ subscription - looks like it’ll be staying that way for the foreseeable future.

Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...

Stealworkers

Saw this in the theatre on Sunday evening and was absolutely thrilled to see it was sold out!

This whole thread just absolutely nails it.

We are so fucked.

New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

What a great headline

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Come on…4K release I beg you.

Fuck Chris Hipkins. Can we just get the Greens in power already?

This is Scotchy. He is here to collect the belly rub toll. Would like to remind you that failing to pay results in a fine of even more belly rubs. 12/10 (TT: scotchythedoxie)

What a coincidence! This evening I finally saw this on the big screen (yay for film societies!) so this is perfect bedtime reading ❤️

Went to the Tool concert last night. I’m not a MASSIVE fan, but I like some of their stuff and I knew they were renown for putting A. SHOW. What I really appreciated was…

“..a bunch of dirty old men started bullying her. Spreading salacious, baseless, downright creepy rumours about her. And not even bothering to hide it. Sending all staff emails about it.” And those men - some not so old - still sit at Council tables & got rewarded for that filthy behaviour. #nzpol

logging off is not enough I need to go back in time and kill lord byron

Can any of my Auckland mutuals give me any recommendations for a place to eat and have a couple of drinks near Spark Arena?

Rewatch of One Battle After Another has cemented it in my top three films of the year #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched 🍿