She’s definitely not a positive in this one - her old act doesn’t really work in 2026

It is pretty retro, and not in a fun way

Rebel’s single solitary Australian comedy friend

I recently read a lengthy post examining how publicity and promotion works (or doesn't) to get people into Australian movies, and there was vague puzzlement that Rebel Wilson's THE DEB had (for an Australian film) high awareness but only average box office and gee, I think I can solve that mystery

I assume it's kind of a test - if any other judges laugh at his one-liners, he gives them a dirty look for breaking comportment at best and at worst makes a note to give them the oracle spice next time it comes round

From what I dimly remember of the last few recent Tarzan movies I saw, they didn't seem able to figure out a modern take on the character that really worked (unlike a character like Robin Hood, who seems to have multiple angles that still click today)

It's his sole creative outlet! You can imagine the other judges going "here comes Dredd, this'll be good" when he arrives on the scene of a crime that's basically a comedy set-up

Yes, it's very much "yes, and" storytelling, where everyone is required to build on (or at least, ignore) previous developments. That's why I wasn't a big fan of The Small Room, that kind of major, long-term retcon really felt like it went against what makes Dredd's storytelling work

It's definitely shifted from "Dredd - he's a stickler but he's the best" to "Dredd - get out of the way, old man", which I'm not a huge fan of but I can see how it does open the door for slightly more stories

I suspect the nature of Dredd - where his personality sneaks in around the edges of action stories a lot of the time - tends to keep the character fairly consistent, even when the glimpses of personality we now get under other writers are often quite different from even recent John Wagner stories

Still waiting for MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART 2

You know it’s a modern thriller because the download countdown screen now says “decrypting blockchain”

Re: this movie’s incoherent plotting, we just had a huge lecture about how difficult it was going to be for Cruise to jump on a train and how it would be insanely dangerous and extreme, directly followed by a scene where a bad guy just dropped from a bridge support onto the train in 5 seconds

Also, I haven’t seen this since I saw it in IMAX so I don’t know if it’s my TV settings or what but compared to everyone else Cruise here looks like his CGI make up software is being pushed to its limits and then some

You could replace every line of dialogue in the last two M:I movies with the wah-wah adult voices from a Charlie Brown TV special and things would actually make more sense because everyone could just make up a fun reason for Tom Cruise to hang onto the side of a launched nuclear missile

Every single conversation that explained or progressed the plot had to take place in the same crumbling church basement because they had to reshoot those scenes every time they figured out a new dumbass reason for the big stunt sequence they’d been working on for years

The second-to-last Mission: Impossible movie is on TV and it’s hard to remember now but for a few years this franchise was sold as the future of movies based on the idea that “story” was barely necessary and making it up as you go was genius-level thinking

The Daddo Industrial Complex wages war on many fronts. The World’s Greatest Commercials was merely a diversion

I don’t think that’s physically possible

Those compilations died out once Gruen started doing the same thing every damn week

The problem with rail in Geelong is that it's entirely designed for commuters traveling to and from Melbourne - aside from South Geelong / the footy ground, none of the Geelong stations are near much of anything aside from car parks and bus stops. Even the main station is 2 blocks away from stuff

Tulip being "fifteen minutes walk from Geelong station" fails to mention those fifteen minutes require to you first cross an extremely busy major road then walk a full block through a pretty dodgy industrial area, especially at night. Also, the direction you think it's in? It's the opposite

It certainly sounds like it's currently dead in the water - hopefully there's a way to get the book published and out there in some form

That's my reading of it - he may have assumed every cent coming in was available to spend on the book, without realising that other expenses (usually taken care of by the publisher in trad publishing) also had to be covered. Being v generous, this seems like miscommunication to a large extent

It reads like he worked out the costs of publishing the kickstarter as advertised and whatever $ was left over went into his fees, then Pratt decided (possibly he saw what $ was coming in & figured he could afford it) to bump up the page count etc, only to be told that the budget wouldn't cover it

I have a theory that the average wage when you enter the workforce is the one that sticks with you, especially if you end up working part-time / freelance / outside of the traditional system. Even now I'm surprised by people I know who are struggling on wages I stupidly think are still "high paid"

“In the Year of Darkness, 2029, the rulers of this planet devised the ultimate plan. They would reshape the Future by changing the Past. The plan required something that felt no pity. No pain. No fear. Something unstoppable. They created The Terminator”

Should have been the cover for NAILED IT!

Still waiting for a chance to reference Jimi the Human and Spectre 7

While the government has announced that Australia's supplies of Johnny Diesel remain secure into the medium term, they have extended no such guarantee over The Injectors