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Chris
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Glenn Close saying “giving cunt” is the best thing you’ll hear all weekend
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When you’ve pissed off WeRateDogs so much they’re calling you “fucking losers” on Main you have absolutely lost all merit in the court of public opinion
#ComedyTh In the Heights. Wonderful night in the theatre, a musical that actually sings; what an absolute pleasure.
#latergram Gathering in the lovely #ComedyTh where there’s barely a bad seat in the house.
The old NAB between Grill’d & N.Lee
Quite bizarre rear/north facade of the redeveloped #AustralianCatholicUniversity onto the new open space created by the demolition of a multi-storey carpark.
#Netflix Dept Q, 2025. Excellent police mystery drama over 9 episodes, with unrepentant, damaged protagonists and multiple knotty problems. Acting is great (as are all departments) and Scotland looks both wonderful and troubled.
#PrimeVideo Blacula, 1972. The first 20mins is almost unbearably awful, but then it settles nicely and is pretty effective. The 23-yo first-time director and the experienced star both ended up doing well.
Promised #SmithSt development (seemingly ultra-luxurious; I’m finding it hard just to get more details but here are some images).
Neighbourhood developments: new #EclipseCinema, empty shops full, used shops empty, promised #SmithSt development (1/2)
#OKru To the Devil a Daughter, 1976. Music influencing Children of the Stones, a plot echoing Rosemary’s Baby, and a sequence presaging 1979’s Alien, cut like a dance from the Suspiria remake - this is a bag of spare parts. Effective; nearly a worthy of earlier #Hammer Wheatley except ploddy pacing.
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Injecting some facts into the 'Victoria is the crime capital of Australia' debate - these are the latest (2023-24) offenders per 100,000 ppl figures from the ABS. Even if they've gone up by 16% in the last year, as reported, they're still the lowest of any state.
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happy 10 year anniversary to one of the most prophetic tweets of all time @cavalorn.bsky.social
That’s a remarkably unflattering photo of the gym changing room!
#streetart roundup including Carrotman, now with added heart. About the final sign: I can never not pronounce this to myself as “exciting”.
Dinner date with a Welshman at #Salona #SwanSt #Richmond. Sadly the food, although pleasant, was not very exciting.
#Stan Sinister, 2012. Unpleasant things astir in a house where the light switches never seem to work. Very nasty in a Hitchcock Frenzy way: we are complicit in the characters’ discomfort. Scary.
Some AI slop showing an essential use of our resources: a male face ‘from’ different countries, demonstrating clichés & assumptions, flattening variety & multiculturalism, reinforcing nationalism, & producing weird results: - who says Australia (etc) isn’t Indigenous? - WTF is ‘Montonegro’?
#Netflix The Thursday Murder Club, 2025. Wannabe Knives Out is a clunker with star actors a-sea in cosy rural murders. The hapless director shows no sense of cinematic vision & puts page to screen in the flattest, most literal way possible. Only Helen Mirren can be bothered to act, occasionally.
On recommendation I ordered some shoes online (which I normally would never do!): New Zealand designed Oszea, waterproof fabric, all-black for work via the gym, the only drawback so far is that the sole peels away showing white after only slight wear…
Mind blown: the Clangers came from Noggin the Nog!! 1967’s book Noggin and the Moonmouse introduced a prototype Clanger; then they got their own series 1969-72 and became immortal. 💕
#SumnerTheatre #MTC Destiny. Poorly written and acted, with an interesting set spoilt by not-knowing-when-to-stop (revealing of the whole production), to me this was a terrible way to commemorate the brave people who resisted and existed under apartheid. Extremely disappointed.