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Won’t someone think of the gas companies

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Is The Audacity meant to be a comedy?

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Karla Grant on 23 years of Living Black: 'It’s up to my generation to step up' | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games From her early days on community radio, the presenter Karla Grant has always understood the power of amplifying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices.

Was an honour to talk to NITV hero Karla Grant about the folks who inspired her, her determination to rewrite the narrative surrounding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and 20+ years of Living Black bit.ly/4u3AnzS

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Wolfram – Q&A Screening - Classic Cinemas We are thrilled to be joined by director Warwick Thornton and actor Deborah Mailamn for a special Q&A screening of the new Australian Western WOLFRAM, a sequel to 2017's SWEET COUNTRY.

A handful of tickets left for Wolfram at the Classic tomorrow with Warwick Thornton and Deborah Mailman in attendance! I’ll be hosting a Q&A after. Join us? bit.ly/4vzOZsl

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Thank you for your service in alerting me to a block-ready moron

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Damn. Just heard about Nathalie Baye. One of my faves. What a career, from Truffaut to Dolan and on. She really did ruin me in a fire exit outside Sydney’s State Theatre after seeing her in Juste la fin du monde

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Rebel Wilson's The Deb is a delight despite the ongoing legal drama Plus a powerful look Palestinian life through multiple generations and a buzzy Japanese video game adaptation makes it to Australian shores.

A few thoughts from me in here about creepy/cool Japanese video game adaptation, Exit 8, and generational Palestinian epic, All That's Left of You bit.ly/3QoYD0E

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Sex work gets the respect it deserves in Margo’s Got Money Troubles | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games The film and TV industry hasn’t always been kind to sex workers, but the new series Margo’s Got Money Troubles shows things are changing.

On Margo and me 🤑
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The book’s great too!

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Thank you!

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Sex work gets the respect it deserves in Margo’s Got Money Troubles | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games The film and TV industry hasn’t always been kind to sex workers, but the new series Margo’s Got Money Troubles shows things are changing.

On Margo and me 🤑
bit.ly/4cTGwYz

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The entire issue with the NDIS is that a generation of Australians (including almost everyone working in the political media) have become indoctrinated to believe the private sector is more efficient than the private sector.

Privatize disability care? What *could* go wrong???

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Come for the show review, stay for the cultural discourse in which Ron Jeremy pops up, amongst others.

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Sex work gets the respect it deserves in Margo’s Got Money Troubles | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games The film and TV industry hasn’t always been kind to sex workers, but the new series Margo’s Got Money Troubles shows things are changing.

Talk about (me, deliberately) burying the lede 🙌❤️ bit.ly/4cTGwYz

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I will die on this hill.

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Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle in The Fly

Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle in The Fly

The Brundlefly in The Fly

The Brundlefly in The Fly

Okay, one more:

Bluesky before Claude code/Bluesky after Claude code

Oh, the dangers of using technology you shouldn't

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Rebel Wilson's The Deb is a delight despite the ongoing legal drama Plus a powerful look Palestinian life through multiple generations and a buzzy Japanese video game adaptation makes it to Australian shores.

A few thoughts from me in here about creepy/cool Japanese video game adaptation, Exit 8, and generational Palestinian epic, All That's Left of You bit.ly/3QoYD0E

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The Libs Revive White Australia, Triple J/Usher Drama Explained, and Al Jazeera's Heidi Pett Joins Us to Talk Lebanon Podcast Episode · Lamestream · 15 April · 1hr 26min

The Canberra press gallery has been lecturing us on 'social cohesion', says @scottmitchell.bsky.social,
but when Angus Taylor rolls out a revival of the White Australian Policy, journalists obligingly publish his media release with little or no criticism. #auspol
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1/ Less than 24 hours before broadcast, the BBC called me and said: we're editing a line out of your lecture. The line? That Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.

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Performing Lines Tas at 20: 'For the survival of the human race, arts and culture are medicine' As Performing Lines Tas marks a milestone, what will it take to secure Lutruwita’s cultural future for artists, producers and presenters?

As Performing Lines TAS turns 20,the impact the organisation has is far-reaching bit.ly/4cg269a

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Can Ryan Gosling save cinema – or should we give up on movie theatres entirely? | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games The Project Hail Mary star says it’s up to studios to make the right movies to get bums on cinema seats, but is there more to the big picture?

With a nod to Ryan Gosling's sky-high career, a few thoughts from me on the challenges facing cinemas (and cinema-goers) bit.ly/4mxYEvk

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If you'd like a taster of the book, here's my original Film International article that led to it:

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Can Ryan Gosling save cinema – or should we give up on movie theatres entirely? | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games The Project Hail Mary star says it’s up to studios to make the right movies to get bums on cinema seats, but is there more to the big picture?

With a nod to Ryan Gosling's sky-high career, a few thoughts from me on the challenges facing cinemas (and cinema-goers) bit.ly/4mxYEvk

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I’m sure I spotted a few dead kids

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Absolutely astonishing. And the piles of bodies on the steps of St Paul’s!!! Wow

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First time watch of the fabulously camp sci-fi Dracula/Alien rip-off, Lifeforce, loved it, especially the cameo of a classic Glasgow tourism campaign in the Day of the Dead/Locust-like zombie apocalypse in London finale

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Brunswick Underground Film Festival: 'We might as well help each other out’ | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games BUFF's director Felix Hubble talks to ScreenHub about the ingenuity of today's filmmakers, and the new legacies now being written.

BUFF is back and I had a fun, far-ranging chat wth festival director Felix Hubble about the underground leading the mainstream, upskilling have-a-go heroes and an insatiable hunger for out-there cinema old and new that's rewriting the future bit.ly/4ckSfip

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