he/him. Theatre maker. Host of INK & PAINT podcast (
@inkpaintpod
). Film critic for SWITCH (
@maketheswitchAU
). Art is subjective and so are my opinions.
LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS is still for me the finest childrens film to emerge in the immediate wake of Harry Potter, a thematically rich, aesthetically breathtaking and genuinely moving fantasia on life after the death of those we love. A true forgotten gem.
We went through a whole awards season for WEST SIDE STORY, and this is the first time Rachel Zegler gets to sing live?! We have been denied.
Also when she looks back at the image of Sondheim, my heart.
A year ago today, I packed up my life and moved to Brisbane. I’ve made incredible new friends, reconnected with my family and made a wonderful new life for myself. Most of all though, I’m happy. Genuinely happy. It’s probably the best thing I could have done. It feels like home.
What's one example of where you saw a performer in a show before they made it big?
have many but incidentally one was definitely Jonathan Bailey in The York Realist
Remember that time a major Hollywood studio let a trans filmmaker make a $190 million meta-sequel about their deeply personal relationship with the cultural landmark they created and the collective response to it over the past 20 years… and it fucking ruled?
Hey
@JoshFrydenberg
, pretty rich of you to make Instagram posts telling Andrews to “please give Victorian their freedom back” when you’re cutting back Jobkeeper payments when many Victorians don’t have a job and gutting whole industries. You and your party are full of shit.
It’s funny all these people marching around complaining that locking people up because of COVID is “UnAustralian”, when locking people away for long periods of time (First Nations citizens, refugees etc.) is something we do all the time for far less valid reasons.
@mattzollerseitz
Yes, agreed. At the start of COVID, I marathoned the series in release order. When I got to the end of JEDI, I realised I was perfectly happy to leave it there and haven't watched the next one since. It feels like a more genuine thematic ending to everything before it.
THE BOY AND THE HERON: Monumental. Unlike anything Miyazaki has made and yet the complete culminating statement of his life’s work, grappling with what we leave for the generations to follow, the mistakes and the mess and the possibilities. I just sat there in silence, stunned.
Hold on, let me fix that for you...
BREAKING: A TEENAGE BOY WAS ASSAULTED AND HELD IN A HEAD LOCK ON THE GROUND BY FIVE FULL-GROWN MEN after egging controversial Senator Fraser Anning...
See? Doesn't that read better?
I know I’m posting a lot of photos of me in speedos at the moment but I’m on holiday and also this is one of the loveliest pictures of me I’ve seen, thanks to
@drew__as
, so we’ll just go with it.
At this stage, working in the arts in any capacity in Melbourne simply isn’t feasible. A lot of people already don’t have careers anymore, many more won’t by the end of this year.
I’ve started dressing properly every day to stave off the monotony of this endless lockdown. Today’s shirt was cute. Here’s a picture of it. GET VACCINATED.
FUCK! Her control, her clarity, her ability to be there for him as both actor and director simultaneously, the way she slips from character to director with ease, how alert she is, how open and generous she is, how she responds in the moment… that’s a fuckin’ DIRECTOR.
Hey America. ‘The Lighthouse’ is out in your country. Congratulations!
Now be nice and DON’T RUIN THE FUCKING THING FOR THE REST OF US, WE KEPT OUR MOUTHS SHUT ABOUT ‘PARASITE’ FOR MONTHS, WE DON’T HAVE A RELEASE DATE IN AUSTRALIA, IF YOU RUIN IT WE SEND ALL OUR NASTIEST SNAKES.
EXTREME: Royal Caribbean is planning for what it calls the longest and most comprehensive world cruise ever. Passengers will be onboard the Serenade of the Seas for 274 nights - that's nine months!
I usually don’t post crap like this on Twitter, but you know what, I’m feeling pretty proud of myself for how I’m doing, so enjoy this before I inevitably delete this out of crippling embarrassment.
Don’t think we’re essential? Then turn off your fucking tv. Stop going to the fucking movies. Stop listening to music, reading books, reading the newspaper, listening to podcasts, watching stand-up, going to galleries, going to museums. Then see how fucking non-essential we are.
Both Spielberg and Del Toro say that the chase scene in this film is one of the best ever made and they are right, the insanity to do this in stop motion too
I am a single gay man who lives in Melbourne and I just walked past a construction site full of topless men, you do the math for how I’m feeling right now.
COCAINE BEAR: Delightfully what was promised on the packet. Very silly, very gory, very much in on the joke and with sharp performances hitting the right tone. One set piece in particular is truly bananas, and Christian Convery as Henry totally steals the film. Good times.
I’ve had my first AZ shot, with no side effects until the next day. Dizziness and lethargy, and a bit of pain in my arm, but honestly? I have stronger, more severe reactions to the flu shot.
A few days of discomfort isn’t an excuse to not get vaccinated. GET FUCKING VACCINATED.
People who have gotten vaccinated please share your experience so we can retweet. Aggressively.
The narrative of unconfirmed disproportionate horror stories is flooding the socials and it’s causing a lot of hesitancy.
THE BIKERIDERS: I was quite taken by this one, the way Nichols uses the transition of a motorcycle gang from masculine romanticism to unchecked aggression as a portrait of the death of 60’s optimism and the rise of 70’s cynicism. Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy are really terrific.
Insane.
This is completely fucking insane.
They are completely fucking insane.
And they know no-one is going to stop them, which is the most completely fucking insane part of it all.
BOOKS AND FILMS ARE TWO DIFFERENT MEDIUMS, IT IS ABSURD TO JUDGE ONE AS SUPERIOR THAN THE OTHER, IT’S LIKE DECIDING IF A CHEESE GRATER IS BETTER THAN A BADGER.
THE LOST DAUGHTER: A rich and thrilling film, like reading a great novel. You don’t even notice as it calmly puts its hands around your neck with its knotty conceit and its endlessly intriguing characters. Olivia Coleman is, of course, as always, fucking radiant.
@EliMatthewson
The sex with Marzia is about sexual gratification, the sex with Oliver is something deeper. That’s why we aren’t supposed to see them have sex.
Today I presented a paper at the ADSA conference in Auckland, the first time I’ve ever presented a paper at an academic conference. I honestly can’t remember a single thing, but I think it went well?
If Naatu Naatu gets performed at the Oscars on the scale it deserves, people are going to die. It will kill them dead. The people in the auditorium will literally explode in rapture, body parts and blood everywhere. They will completely lose their minds. This simply must happen.
You say nothing for weeks, offer no leadership or emotional support for Victorians in lockdown, and now that the job is done, you emerge from your hole with something to say?
Scott, how about you just go and fuck off?
Well done Australia. How good! Let’s keep it that way. We’ve seen here, and are seeing again overseas, how quickly this virus spreads, so please stay COVIDSafe.
TELL US WHAT YOU’RE GOING TO DO ABOUT LEASES AND RENTING.
TELL US.
FOR FUCK SAKE, STOP DRAGGING THIS OUT, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE EVICTED.
SAY SOMETHING, YOU FUCKING IDIOT.
So I have some news.
This year, I’ll be starting a Masters in Philosophy in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland. Which means… I’m moving to Brisbane in March!