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...

Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire. Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*

Sunday night is retro TV night in this house so I’m finally watching my DVD boxset of IT’S GARRY SHANDLING’S SHOW. One episode a week as god intended.

In about ten minutes, my latest episode of At the Movies for RNZ goes to air: MR. SCORSESE, ROOFMAN and BLACK PHONE 2. I’d love you to listen and tell me what you think.

Just back from FRANKENSTEIN and thinking it should be called FRANKENSTEIN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE.

50. 2006

I feel for Nuno. He doesn’t coach the defence not to compete for headers or rebounds off the keeper but these are the players he has inherited. #coyi #epl #leewhu

Attn: @dillamonster.bsky.social

I’m filling in on RNZ At the Movies tonight (online tonight - broadcast on Sunday). Reviewing BLACK PHONE 2, ROOFMAN and the awesome an essential portrait of the director, MR. SCORSESE. At the RNZ site from 7.30pm.

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

Attn: @chrishipkins.bsky.social

The AWS outage means the automated offside VAR isn’t operating at West Ham today.

That retention fee really paid off.

Is it silly to think that New Zealand's science funding changes may yield too much influence to one person? newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/16/f...

And the volunteers have their flag at half mast.

Watching the Acacia-less ad for that mobile phone company and it’s such a dog’s breakfast. They should be boycotted on the basis of taste let alone political squeamishness.

Finally caught up with the All Whites superb draw with Norway this morning. Bazely has us headed in the right direction and the years of Phoenix Academy etc players learning skills mean we can stand against the best now. Any team below 40 in the rankings should be concerned playing against us.

At the pictures the other day, I thought SP was there to learn what it was like to be a Prime Minister but instead he turned out to be a Downton Abbey man.