Not sure but think there's going to be symbolism involved in this film

Dude I’m sorry but this is not something you should be able to professionally survive if your job is predicting election results. This is like if a basketball player put the basketball under their jersey and pretended to be pregnant instead of passing and shooting.

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This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

The icing on the cake here is that they're showing it as a double bill with Sex House, one of the greatest pieces of TV satire ever created.

Any Fennesz fans out there? Drifted off after Black Sea but just threw on his newish MOSAIC on a whim and it's beautiful and wondering what other highlights I've missed in the last twenty years...

These photos of Claudia Cardinale feeding cats spaghetti should honestly replace the Italian flag

What if Claudia Cardinale was the only person raptured

What a career. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, 8 1/2, THE LEOPARD, FITZCARRALDO, GIRL WITH A SUITCASE, THE PROFESSIONALS ... and literally 150 more films.

Today at The Reveal I wrote about a haunting scene in THE LIFE OF CHUCK that the events of 2025 bring to mind just about every day.

Closing out being 51 with a b&w scope double: THE APARTMENT (just watched at Academy) and CRUEL GUN STORY.

Everyone go read NEUROTRIBES by Steve Silberman. Autism has been around for fucking ever.

Did a satisfying weird little screening at home today: THE MYSTERY OF THE THIRD PLANET RED MIDNIGHT HOKURIKU PROXY WAR ALL IS LOST ADELA HAS NOT HAD SUPPER YET SANTET All enjoyed, all except the Redford tribute are films I'd have never discovered without the work of boutique Blu labels.

It would be hilarious if it weren't so bleak

I spoke with @tonylstamp.bsky.social on RNZ's mixtape. Some of the chat was about my book - Songs From The Shaky Isles - but mostly we spoke about NZ music history & how my life has intersected with it at various stages. Plus played some laidback tunes! www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Every US comedian needs to go this hard, starting right now (& so do the behind-the-scenes teams who write the jokes & create brilliant clip montages like this one. If your job is to mock, to satirize, to parody and spoof, this is your time to shine. We have your backs (& we badly need the laughs).

Semi-related: one of the best things I did early on in my filmmaking "career", psychologically speaking, was get on IMDb, look up my twenty favourite films, and read all the violently negative reviews. The lesson: even if I made something that reached those peaks, some people would detest it.

attn: New York-and-NY-adjacent-ers: screenings of One Battle After Another in ultra-rare VistaVision projection are up for sale, and yet not entirely sold out. Not yet clear how different it will be, but worth it for bragging rights alone. www.regmovies.com/movies/one-b...

Delighted my response to people finding out I’m an “old movies and/in old theaters” guy and asking “Do you know what’s up with the Grand Lake’s 9/11 festival?” can now be “Well, do you know about The ORB?”

There's probably a real story here, for someone smarter than me, that Nexstar and Sinclair have more pull in the broadcast business than Disney/ABC.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Following the money literally never misses

The money quote:

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

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Highly recommend watching BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN with the subtitles on.

the takeaway is that philanthropy is fucking hot

Well played, @deafcrocodile.bsky.social

Show Me Shorts schedule is out, and big congrats to GUT INSTINCT's animator @liammaguren.bsky.social whose new film THE CHARM OF THE MAGPIES premieres in the "My Kind" section. (Gutting there's only a Friday arvo screening in Welly tho.) www.showmeshorts.co.nz/attend/2025-...

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Between SPLITSVILLE, SKETCH, and THE LONG WALK it's a super-solid movie weekend in Auckland. Add retro screenings of DIVA, HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, and THE EVIL DEAD trilogy? That's cooking with gas (even if the latter two are, maddeningly, scheduled against each other).

And idk if it's 'weird' or 'extremely fitting' that the better explainers are coming from outlets with names like 'garbage day' while the BBC is just shitting its pants in public. We are where we are. www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

The thing about this wave of political violence is that, even moreso than in previous waves, when you get the manifesto you still don't know wtf it was all for. Previous wave manifestos were impenetrable earnest posting. Now we have deliberately impenetrable shit posting of contradictory signifiers

From a news report on how someone in Utah got attacked & beaten by a mob at a vigil, I give you the most American line of dialogue for 2025 www.kivitv.com/downtown-boi...

Man, SKETCH was a really pleasant surprise. Kid-led horror/comedy that works a treat. Great conceit. Tony Hale is revelatory, Kid actors are fantastic. Some exquisite edit timing. Pushes to the limits of its budget and maybe overeggs its themes a bit, but definitely worth your time.

When you put podcasters in charge of the FBI, they run the FBI like a podcast.

20s: Swarm Intelligence 10s: Philip Dadson: Sonics From Scratch 00s: 1nite 90s: The Atlantic 80s: To Taste A Hundred Herbs 70s: Unknown Powers 60s: Don't Let it Get You 50s: Women and Soldiers 40s: Border Patrol 30s: The Loyal 47 Ronin 20s: Finis Terrae 10s: Hypocrites Lots of NZIFF here.

This explains it better than I can

GUT INSTINCT composer Jason Wach has a new project, and these haunted minimal melodies and ruined spectral textures are something very special to my ears europeinflames.bandcamp.com/album/one

Went to Academy Cinemas last night for a secret screening of STRANGLER VS STRANGLER, a nuts 80s Belgrade-set horror comedy, and it is insane how Auckland went from basically zero retro programming in 2010 to nonstop awesomeness in 2025, thanks largely to AC, The Capitol, and The Hollywood.

Thank god AI has finally solved the problem of there not being enough podcasts

The thing is, he wasn't wrong. It was just that the rock star was Keith Moon.

So anyone who wants to see me sing along at the top of my lungs and messy cry at certain songs is hereby warned, as are those who wish to avoid such an experience

Been thinking a lot of obscure choices, and then realised the answer to this is literally "Shallow"

Hi team if you don't hear from me it's because I'm drowning in 29 CDs worth of electroacoustic bliss (note: actual bliss results may vary from subject to subject)

Fantastic piece about the whole point of a movie most critics missed while it was hiding in plain sight.

I known profit margins are rough, but if I show up for your taco truck and you have AI generated signs boasting about your "tacoos", I am running the other direction regardless of your Google rating