Matthew Littlewood
@matthewdunedin84.bsky.social
Reporter, wanderer and cricket/music/cinema obsessive. Here because everyone else seems to be!
True, but these days Cusack seems way less cool in this than the marvellous Minnie Driver. Great soundtrack though!
film-authority.com@film-authority.bsky.social · 8h agoIn fact, let's set the DeLorean back to 1997, when angst about high school reunions was our biggest worry. Grosse Pointe Blank is the kind of sunny comedy in which John Cusack can kill 12 people, make up with Minnie Driver and still walk into the sunset. 4 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/08/05/g...
Their finest, which makes it epochal. Arrogant, melodic and full of sharp corners and sharp edges. Every note means something, and lyrically it’s a quantum leap. Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream…
Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 9h agoThe Boys recording one of the greatest albums of all time — REVOLVER — at Abbey Road in 1966. This seminal album was released 60yrs ago today.
Ron Mansfield attempts to dismantle the police theory of a ghastly charade in the Polkinghorne case.
Polkinghorne: It's all in the forensics
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=HoMO... Absolute genius and proof it’s not only Jon Stewart who is a valuable player in the revamped Daily Show.
RFK Hospital: An Original Series Inspired by the Medical Advice of RFK Jr. | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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www.davidslack.net/only-half-a-... This is brilliant, brilliant writing!
Only half a dozen wrong words
My favourite observation in David Lange's memoir was that he was always mindful waiting to go on TV that he could be only half a dozen wrong words away from imploding his political career. Those were...
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ACT: “It’s a graphic not a graph” Professor Thomas Lumley: “It’s clearly giving bar charts” www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #NZPol
ACT's 'visually misleading' post: Is it a graphic or a graph?
An ACT Party post about the gap between new medicines funded in Australia and New Zealand is "visually misleading," according to a statistics professor.
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Like everyone else, Brownlee is just waiting for Winston to die, in he hope that that will end the problem.
White racists: "For most of New Zealand’s history we were over 90% of the population" For most of Aotearoa's history it was utterly dominated by birds. Mammals should stay on the beaches or in the ocean where they belong, or piss off back to Pangea (bats are birds. Its official).
Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 5d agoPart one of my investigation into a group of young men trying to import “remigration” into New Zealand politics www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
Winston used to dogwhistle generically - 'ostentatious houses' etc. Now he's doing blatant birtherism and racist tirades, and stating that Asian immigrants do not have the right to be in Parliament, to zero consequence. Motherfucker thinks he's won, and so far he's right.
www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin... “Mr Park said “adrenaline was running high”, but he had experience in similar situations — this was not the first time he had performed a citizen’s arrest.”
Crime spree brought to halt by citizen’s arrest
Crime spree brought to halt by citizen’s arrest
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LOUDER FOR THE NEW ZEALAND FIRST COOKERS
Ministry of Health NZ@health.govt.nz · last wk.The Ministry of Health will work with other agencies to rapidly deliver on the commitments outlined in Government's Response to the Royal Commission of Inquiry COVID-19 Lessons Learned. For more information see below.
Elon Musk is calling for the execution of the Economist editor who interviewed him. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.
THIS, on general principle. But in this specific instance, let's remember that while the Taxpayers' Union (sic) is screaming to flog off everything in public ownership that isn't nailed down, it refuses to disclose the sugar daddies paying its bills. Who I'm sure would love a cheap McCahon or two.
Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland@patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 2w agoZero understanding of value. Only cost. Who elevated the cost accountant to primacy over human flourishing? These self-important miserablists can get in the sea - feeding themselves to fishes would add more value to the world than these life-denying calculations www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
Lupita Nyong'o: The face that triggered a thousand dipshits. (None of who will get the allusion because forever culture warriors don't read .)
Watcher Guru@watcher.guru · 2w agoJUST IN: Elon Musk says Grok will make a "full-length movie" of The Odyssey that is "historically accurate" by the end of this year.
Liz, a teacher friend of mine, points out that Damon is Nomad spelled backwards. 🤣
It’s incredibly small and incredibly astroturfed.
A.A. Dowd@aadowd.bsky.social · 3w agoTHE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.
A quick look at Elon Musk's, Ben Shapiro's and Matt Walsh's timelines on social media reveals: Up until Nolan's new movie "The Odyssey", they didn't gave a shit about Homer's epos at all. Not a single post. It's because non-white people have roles in the movie, and the fascists can't have that.
The regime is trying to bury data in the lead-up to the election www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
The mysterious case of the missing hospital waiting list data
When I asked Health NZ where its detailed waiting list data had gone in the last quarter’s reporting, they said it was accidentally left off. And then it happened again.
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Unlucky to miss out: The Man Who Would Be King, Nashville, Three Days in the Condor, Picnic At Hanging Rock…1975 was essentially the year where the mainstream and critical consensus (and the vanguard) were all working in tandem. Phenomenal year for films, as was 1976 and 1974 for that matter.
The 70s Guy@stevenw888.bsky.social · 4w agoThe top five best selling films of 1975: No 5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (The best selling UK film) No 4. Dog Day Afternoon No 3. Barry Lyndon No 2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest No 1. Jaws #Jaws #70srule
Saturday afternoon listening to this LP because there’s too much division in this world, and side two is an all-time jam…
RIP bonnie tyler. lotta folks tonight are gonna learn the extent to which 'total eclipse of the heart' is outside their karaoke range
