Chris
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art-architecture-food-theatre-history-delight and other pleasing things
#Netflix The Åre Murders, 2025. Two Swedish tales: a city female cop rests in a remote ski town and helps the locals investigate two murders. Like The Bridge-lite, with a clash of approaches and personalities helping resolve the cases. Chilly but fairly mysigt (like Danish hygge).
November 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
#Netflix The Åre Murders, 2025. Two Swedish tales: a city female cop rests in a remote ski town and helps the locals investigate two murders. Like The Bridge-lite, with a clash of approaches and personalities helping resolve the cases. Chilly but fairly mysigt (like Danish hygge).
#LawlerTheatre #Fringe The Lucky Country. How do ‘minorities’ - racial, cultural, sexual, etc - fit into this fine country, built by chance by the second rate? This lovely musical/song cycle explores some knotty problems through wit, melody and the talents of the beautifully diverse cast.
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
#LawlerTheatre #Fringe The Lucky Country. How do ‘minorities’ - racial, cultural, sexual, etc - fit into this fine country, built by chance by the second rate? This lovely musical/song cycle explores some knotty problems through wit, melody and the talents of the beautifully diverse cast.
#PalaisTheatre #VictorianOpera Katya Kabanova. Delicious Janacek opera given a powerful live cinematic treatment - and the cast are up to the close scrutiny of the cameras too (operator from Kip Williams’ Dorian Grey/Jekyll & Hyde/Dracula). Amazing playing & singing and a very successful production.
November 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
#PalaisTheatre #VictorianOpera Katya Kabanova. Delicious Janacek opera given a powerful live cinematic treatment - and the cast are up to the close scrutiny of the cameras too (operator from Kip Williams’ Dorian Grey/Jekyll & Hyde/Dracula). Amazing playing & singing and a very successful production.
After all these years the dreadfully/joyfully kitsch 1991 Seiko Giant Pocket Watch is still in #MelbourneCentral (from #Daimaru days) and still performing, albeit with the brand half-rubbed away, one figure broken, and the long, draping watch chain removed temporarily permanently.
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
After all these years the dreadfully/joyfully kitsch 1991 Seiko Giant Pocket Watch is still in #MelbourneCentral (from #Daimaru days) and still performing, albeit with the brand half-rubbed away, one figure broken, and the long, draping watch chain removed temporarily permanently.
#PrimeVideo Midsomer Murders, Season 5, 2002. Surely there can’t be more serial killers out there? But golly, the settings are gorgeous and it delivers a strong dose of nostalgia.
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
#PrimeVideo Midsomer Murders, Season 5, 2002. Surely there can’t be more serial killers out there? But golly, the settings are gorgeous and it delivers a strong dose of nostalgia.
The mystery of the disappearing letterboxes. Eventually I went into a Post Office to post, and was entertained by a slice of wintery childhood: robins in the snow.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The mystery of the disappearing letterboxes. Eventually I went into a Post Office to post, and was entertained by a slice of wintery childhood: robins in the snow.
🐦⬛🌨️
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#ThisIsNoFantasy #GertrudeSt Kevin Chin ‘From the Ruins’
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
#ThisIsNoFantasy #GertrudeSt Kevin Chin ‘From the Ruins’
#Malthouse Season 2026 launch event, celebrating 50 years of Hoopla, Playbox & Malthouse Theatre. And the sweet (lolly) cart afterwards!
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
#Malthouse Season 2026 launch event, celebrating 50 years of Hoopla, Playbox & Malthouse Theatre. And the sweet (lolly) cart afterwards!
#Beamafilm Mad About the Boy, The Noel Coward Story, 2023. Surprisingly fascinating and even moving portrait of a man who wore studied upper-class flippancy as a mask to his true identities. And always an outsider pretending to be inside, despite his considerable talents.
November 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
#Beamafilm Mad About the Boy, The Noel Coward Story, 2023. Surprisingly fascinating and even moving portrait of a man who wore studied upper-class flippancy as a mask to his true identities. And always an outsider pretending to be inside, despite his considerable talents.
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Announcing a six-month CBD police state order two weeks after signing Treaty is a pretty good bit
Trying to get the crime numbers down before the next election. Make sure you have your papers with you. It’s police state stuff.
Public notice: Melbourne CBD - Sunday 30 November 2025 to Friday 29 May 2026
A public notice for Melbourne CBD and surrounds from Sunday 30 November 2025 to Friday 29 May 2026.
www.police.vic.gov.au
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Announcing a six-month CBD police state order two weeks after signing Treaty is a pretty good bit
#Netflix Copycat, 1995. Rather stupid serialkillsploitation but very well done, with good performances from Helen Hunt & Sigourney Weaver, and even a little nod to Vertigo. Has its cake and slices/dices/eats it too (perhaps a Darrell Lea cake?)
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
#Netflix Copycat, 1995. Rather stupid serialkillsploitation but very well done, with good performances from Helen Hunt & Sigourney Weaver, and even a little nod to Vertigo. Has its cake and slices/dices/eats it too (perhaps a Darrell Lea cake?)
#OKru The People Under the Stairs, 1991. Extremely similar to Home Alone the previous year, and with just as much intelligence, wit & satire. Which is to say: I hated it.
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
#OKru The People Under the Stairs, 1991. Extremely similar to Home Alone the previous year, and with just as much intelligence, wit & satire. Which is to say: I hated it.
#SBSOnDemand Caravaggio’s Shadow, 2022. Atmospheric take on the painter’s turbulent life, though it has a lot to do: - straightforwardly sensational bio? - artistic summary? - personal interpretation? - queer reckoning? In the end a bit of everything and, so, not satisfying everyone 🤷♂️
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
#SBSOnDemand Caravaggio’s Shadow, 2022. Atmospheric take on the painter’s turbulent life, though it has a lot to do: - straightforwardly sensational bio? - artistic summary? - personal interpretation? - queer reckoning? In the end a bit of everything and, so, not satisfying everyone 🤷♂️
While I was in #Richmond I crossed over to #Cremorne and checked out #FF Fitness First’s new digs and the redevelopment site in the old Bryant & May matches factory (1909, designed by William Pitt who also did the Princess Theatre & Rialto Building), now the site of the Hoxton Hotel.
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
#SophieGannonGallery Natasha Bieniek ‘Cocoon’ opening, miniature paintings (& one giant one) representing the inner city’s garden lungs.
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
#SophieGannonGallery Natasha Bieniek ‘Cocoon’ opening, miniature paintings (& one giant one) representing the inner city’s garden lungs.
#DaineSingerGallery Lane Cormick ‘Nicola Daniel Otellario’. Enigmatic and inert installation of huge panels of text (a 1998 interview with an influential muso) and hanging glass tubes of glacial oak.
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
#DaineSingerGallery Lane Cormick ‘Nicola Daniel Otellario’. Enigmatic and inert installation of huge panels of text (a 1998 interview with an influential muso) and hanging glass tubes of glacial oak.
#DaineSingerGallery Alice Wormald ‘Window Dressing’. Aesthetically and intellectually engaging puzzle paintings of 3D collages, mysterious window view scenes using veils of transparent paper and cut & folded magazine photos.
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#DaineSingerGallery Alice Wormald ‘Window Dressing’. Aesthetically and intellectually engaging puzzle paintings of 3D collages, mysterious window view scenes using veils of transparent paper and cut & folded magazine photos.
Trip to #Brunswick via tram and a walk through once-familiar streetscapes, then walk and tram into the city.
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Trip to #Brunswick via tram and a walk through once-familiar streetscapes, then walk and tram into the city.
#PrimeVideo Midsomer Murders, Season 4, 2001. A bit more gory this season and an ever-topical bit of mushroom poisoning to spice things up.
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#PrimeVideo Midsomer Murders, Season 4, 2001. A bit more gory this season and an ever-topical bit of mushroom poisoning to spice things up.
I saw this Japanese soccer top in a cafe, liked it, found it online while eating brunch, ordered it & it was delivered days later - isn’t the modern world remarkable? Of course delivered to the wrong address, as all parcels are no matter how carefully labelled, so something still to be fixed, Elon!
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I saw this Japanese soccer top in a cafe, liked it, found it online while eating brunch, ordered it & it was delivered days later - isn’t the modern world remarkable? Of course delivered to the wrong address, as all parcels are no matter how carefully labelled, so something still to be fixed, Elon!
#tubi Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell, 1995-2010. Japanese writer-director-star filmed in his parents’ house on no budget and seems to have had a lot of fun, which comes across via tomato salsa, plasticine, stop motion & imagination! Stupid, bonkers, & so-bad-it’s-almost good.
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#tubi Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell, 1995-2010. Japanese writer-director-star filmed in his parents’ house on no budget and seems to have had a lot of fun, which comes across via tomato salsa, plasticine, stop motion & imagination! Stupid, bonkers, & so-bad-it’s-almost good.
#Plex The Man in the White Suit, 1951. Lesser Ealing Comedy in a minor key, but that still means it’s a superior and quietly enjoyable ride, though a befuddled Alec Guinness is not quite convincing enough.
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
#Plex The Man in the White Suit, 1951. Lesser Ealing Comedy in a minor key, but that still means it’s a superior and quietly enjoyable ride, though a befuddled Alec Guinness is not quite convincing enough.
#SumnerTh #MTC Rebecca. More the book than the film, with astonishing Kip Williams-like staging, but instead of his piercing, cruel characterisations, Sarks is softer & more forgiving. But it reduces the thrilling tensions & ambiguities developed by Hitchcock due to production Code restrictions.
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM