You can listen to INXS any time you want. No one can stop you
Sarah Manvel
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Once I dreamed a cake recipe that could summon a bear, and then a bear appeared in my dream
Good evening to the older American tourist in a Woody Guthrie THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS t-shirt and a red pedicure who told me how nice it is to see people reading books, and good evening to him (and his wife) only
Thrilled to have written the accompanying essay for @criterion.bsky.social’s release of "Resurrection," Bi Gan’s enrapturing treatise on cinema, modern Chinese history, and the collective human experience. Out on Blu-ray and DVD April 21st www.criterion.com/films/35491-...
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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It's safe to say that THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA is one of the more influential works of art in the last five years, which its surprise Booker win probably did not anticipate (my review certainly didn't) but it seems to have altered how death appears in art minorliteratures.com/2022/12/27/t...
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka — Sarah Manvel
It’s not appropriate to call the most recent Booker Prize-winning novel ‘minor’ literature, but it’s only thanks to the great taste of this year’s judges that Shehan Karunatilaka’s unusual, rule-br…
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As someone who admires Sarah Kane but DOES NOT admire Rebecca Frecknall, should I go see Cleansed
If you'd like a good lesson in how capitalism works, Elon promised a mars colony by 2025 and in 2026 he is just crashing rockets into the moon.
If you have ever wondered what life inside a Cameroonian prison is like, JAIL TIME RECORDS 🎥 is a fascinating though not always successful glimpse into this hidden world (and just look at that photo) movieswetextedabout.com/jail-time-re...
'Jail Time Records' Sings the Prison Blues (Tribeca 2026 Film Review)
The trouble with prison documentaries is the elephant in the room. Either you must find the reasons people are incarcerated beneath mentioning, or you must be right up front with the conviction that l...
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just a note that the shop is going to be closing on Friday for about a month or so whilst we hopefully welcome a new housemate, so this is your last week to pick up some lovely handmade art for a while www.etsy.com/ie/shop/pray...
I was in a friend’s rental car and in place of a rear-view mirror there was a mirror-sized digital video feed of the back of the car. They replaced one of the most reliable & intuitive safety features in a car with a digital surrogate that could glitch at any moment. KEEP ANALOG SAFTEY FEATURES
My work day would be made immeasurably easier and smoother just by the removal of AI from Adobe Acrobat.
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 12h agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
There is a duty of care in the hotel industry, this is news to absolutely nobody, and for Travelodge to do nothing about their appalling failure at the most basic part of their jobs until there was a rape conviction is so disgusting their business deserves to be destroyed over it
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
I just saw a piece in @thebookseller.com about this fundraiser - to protect and share a collection of over one million Black books in the UK, a labour of love by one collector, Baba Pepukayi, but a vital resource for the nation. www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil... Please share, and donate if you can.
Donate to Save 1 Million Black Books, organized by Black British Book Festival
Save 1 Million Black Books One of Britain's Largest Collections of Black Books… Black British Book Festival needs your support for Save 1 Million Black Books
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Bracing start to this morning: being uncomfortably close to a man holding himself like a bantam rooster while he hissed into a phone in a strong saffa accent "Fuck you motherfucker you can't tell me shit, you're not the fucking boss"
I have great news for all of you about an upcoming TV show I can't spoil
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 22h agoi don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
Out in the UK shortly, Lady is a lot of fun
Sarah Manvel@cairdiul.bsky.social · 8mo agoMy final London Film Festival review (look, we're all busy) is of LADY 📽️, an outrageous piece of property porn which also has a stupendous central comic performance from Sian Clifford, which cannot be praised highly enough movieswetextedabout.com/lady-review-...
2023's FANCY DANCE is the first movie I've ever seen to feature ICE; the two heroines have to prove their citizenship when an ICE officer overhears them speaking Cayuga intheirownleague.com/2023/10/18/l...
LFF 2023 Review: Fancy Dance
Runtime: 90 minutes Written by: Erica Tremblay, Miciana Alise Directed by: Erica Tremblay Starring: Lily Gladstone, Isabel Deroy-Olson, Shea Whigham, Audrey Wasilewski, Ryan Begay By Sarah Manvel L…
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In my first review from the ground, AUDREY #MIFF2024 #MIFF is the newest Australian comedy grotesque, about a family improved by their teenage daughter falling into a coma, and with enough Bible-themed filth for everyone's tastes intheirownleague.com/2024/08/19/m...
Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 review: Audrey
Year: 2024 Runtime: 97 minutes Written by: Lou Sanz Directed by: Natalie Bailey Starring: Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Hannah Diviney, Josephine Blazier, Fraser Anderson, Jackie van Beek, Gael Ballantyne, A...
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And here come the angry comments on my review of BOOKWORM, a movie about how children are meant to forgive and excuse the mistakes of dads no matter the harm caused. The personal insults only prove my point and make me double down intheirownleague.com/2024/08/20/m...
Melbourne International Film Festival 2024 review: Bookworm
Year: 2024 Runtime: 103 minutes Written by: Toby Harvard Directed by: Ant Timpson Starring: Nell Fisher, Elijah Wood, Morgana O’Reilly, Michael Smiley, Vanessa Stacey By Sarah Manvel It’s a little sim...
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📽️ HE AIN'T HEAVY is out in Australia today. Sam Corlett is so good here, as an addict whose survival is mainly down to his codependent sister, he's likely to harm his career. It's not as depressing as that sounds fortunately movieswetextedabout.com/he-aint-heav...
'He Ain't Heavy' Review (Melbourne International Film Festival)
The performances in He Ain’t Heavy are so emotional that it takes a while to notice the movie is essentially a three-hander, between Jade (Leila George), her little brother Max (Sam Corlett), and thei...
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Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
Writing fiction in any genre should be a purely human exercise. If you use AI to generate *any* dialog, story ideas, character shapes, *anything* creative, you're betraying the very concept of artistic expression. This is a bright flashing red line for me. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood
Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next.
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High recommended read ( thread)
Sarah Manvel@cairdiul.bsky.social · 5d ago"Actually I live in Australia" 🙃
I think I am too old for TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA 📽️ This tribute to/reinvention of slasher film wants to have its cake and eat it, and despite Hannah Einbinder's great big performance it just falls flat www.moviemarker.co.uk/cannes-2026-...
Cannes 2026 – Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma ★★★
Released: 21 August 2026 Director: Jane Schoenbrun Starring: Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson Right now there is a sense in the world that attitudes to gender and sex are better and smarter than the...
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Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
