holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Seated for HAMILTON at the movies. Seen it twice on Disney+ but this is how it was meant to be screened.

The text is correct but the headline still spells the name of the governor general incorrectly.

THE GODFATHER: THE COMPLETE NOVEL FOR TELEVISION debuted on NBC this week in 1977. The chronological recut of GODFATHER I and II aired over 4 nights — with more than an hour of previously unseen footage. #FilmSky

Today’s recommendation newsletter was close to home: substack.funeralsandsnakes.net/p/something-...

Watching IND v RSA test cricket in this pub and they have a runs per ball graphic which reads 0-48-0-6-0-0 and I thought “48 is a lot off one ball”.

This is still cheaper than a one-way ticket from Silverstream to Wellington.

I’ve made you all a new reaction meme for when something interesting happens. I’d like this to replace Michael Jackson with the popcorn, and the guy from Trailer Park Boys with the folding chair. Thanks.

Watching BBC collection of archive Springsteen and realising what Jeremy Allen White didn’t bring to his performance in S:DMFN. That stiff jaw. Even speaking, Bruce is tense through his neck and jaw and it gets tighter when he sings. JAW never got that.

The White House briefing room. Four Hs. Three of them are upside down. And it’s been that way since 2007.

Daftest film I’ve seen all year!

Daily bunny no.3136 is going home at last

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I had the thought last night that "give the white lead in the action film/thriller a partner of color" has become the new "cast a Black actor as the judge"

Right. Here's my big pitch: Muppet James Bond James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye Dominic Cooper as Bond Kermit M Frog Mrs Moneypiggy Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.

So we’re just agreeing that they misrepresented Trump? Based on one Telegraph writer’s opinion? It’s now historical truth?

Just arrived in the mail. I last saw it more than 40 years ago. That’s going straight in the Blu-ray player! Connery. Caine. Huston.

I see that Coster has been put on leave from his current job because of concerns about his performance in his last one. Before him we had Mike Bush who has just been reprimanded from his role as Commish in Victoria for taking a police helicopter to a conference in Tasmania…

12 - 16 Nov 2025 in Pōneke a new Theatre Marae experience. Written by Helen Pearse-Otene, directed by Jim Moriarty, choreographed by Tānemahuta Gray and produced by me and Jim. "Out the Gate" about incarceration in Aotearoa from lived experience. Tickets from Te Rākau's website. "Wow, just wow"

The combo of walled-garden social media and AI replacing search means the death of the useful/open/free internet. Why would anyone create anything when it will just be summarized by AI and no one will ever see it? When social media deprecates outbound links, how will anyone find original content?

Just spotted that my review of BUGONIA for RNZ has just been posted. www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens...

Just spotted that my review of BUGONIA for RNZ has just been posted. www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens...

“wickett”?

Seated for PREDATOR: BADLANDS at 3D IMAX. Always a mistake to give a reviewer a recliner seat as there’s a better than even chance we’ll fall asleep.

For those Wellingtonians who miss the days of drunken hoons in fancy dress marauding around the city during the Sevens, you’ll be pleased to know that there’s a darts tournament at TSB Arena tonight.

Perhaps if the president of the National Māori Principals’ Association butchers the word curriculum this badly, some changes might be appropriate.

Was this the Auschwitz episode of Dancing With the Stars?

Thinking about Mamdani’s possible futures. There’s the disappointing drift to the establishment (Blair, Obama). There’s being hounded out of office (Ardern). Or there’s wearing fatigues and combat boots giving nightly radio addresses to the citizens (Zelenskyy).

Oh. Oh my.

I’ve delivered this week’s episode of @radionz.nzcow.com At the Movies and all the reviews will be online tonight. BUGONIA, GOOD FORTUNE & HEDDA. Tonight, personally, I’m going to relax in front of Match of the Day because West Ham didn’t get beat this weekend. Red wine, crackers, cheese, ah!

Not this terrible version, no.

It’s a beautiful sunny afternoon in the suburbs so, of course, someone is setting off loud firecrackers and you can hear the stressed out neighbourhood dogs barking in response.

For a few years our ironic coffee table book of choice was Dictators Homes by Peter York. A guide to the interior and exterior design choices of the world’s worst people. atlantic-books.co.uk/book/dictato... Looks like a new edition is necessary.

This is what happens when you don’t have a metadata policy and you don’t enforce whatever you have.

Has he got his hands in his pockets again?!

I know it has been a very long day but my first thought when I saw this picture was that this camera was saying, “fuck you!”

I hired it here: ondemand.arovideo.co.nz

This is now the most popular social media post I have ever been responsible for! Amazing.

I wrote about the Netflix smash The Perfect Neighbor, and why its runaway success makes me a little uneasy.

Have you heard of actors? We have very good ones in this country.

Just finished recording tonight’s RNZ At the Movies show. Tonight (online at 7.30pm) I’ll be reviewing PIKE RIVER, SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE and FRANKENSTEIN. Show airs on Sunday but the podcast feed will be live this evening.

Also, Stats NZ reports the annual inflation rate in Q3 was 3.4% for beneficiaries, 3.8% for pensioners, but was 0.8% for the highest spending 20% and CPI, the rate used for beneficiary indexation, was 3% in Q3. 2/2 #nzpol

I love writing for NZ On Screen and they recently posted my backgrounder on the great NZ film, The Dark Horse. Link in the comments. I hope you enjoy it.

Once more for the breakfast crowd with a reminder that I didn’t choose the star rating. It’s much better than 3.5 stars.

Tonight’s Hollywood at Home: THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE (El espinazo del diablo: Del Toro, 2001). On 4K UHD from the great Sony Pictures Classics 30th Anniversary boxset.

My wife has discovered origami cats and now they all want to be fed.

My first thought scrolling past this was, since when is Kane Williamson starring in sexy sci-fi mysteries.

Ooh, this is one of mine. (I did not choose the star rating and I don’t agree with it.)

Ooh, this is one of mine. (I did not choose the star rating and I don’t agree with it.)

The Education Minister is due to announce a 'refreshed' social studies curriculum on Tuesday with the Aotearoa NZ histories curriculum likely to be significantly watered down. Jim Bolger's advocacy for facing up to out history will be trampled on if that is the case. buttondown.com/unsettling/a...