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Amy Hall-oween 👻

@amyhall.bsky.social
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film & TV nerd, lover of all dogs, voracious reader, recovering film tutor...trying to be a good person in the world. Fiend for mojitos. Pronouns: she/her. Letterboxd: boxd.it/7swkx

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 30/09/2026
september 30 vs october 1 🎃
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If anyone wants to share the Digger spoiler, please slide on into my DMs. (Yeah I could Google it but it’s more fun this way)
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I tapped out of Iñárritu after Babel and truly no regrets.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/09/2026
These 7 men at Cornell drugged & raped a woman for hours, then called their friends to come rape her. 2 men got expelled. 5 had to write letter of apology. 0 faced any consequences. Men throughout the societal ladder are complicit. Women are not safe around men.
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At the Hamilton PSA debate, candidates were asked about disability NZF: Incoherent answer Labour: We don't have a policy announced Opportunities: We have no policy whatsoever Me: this govt's attacks on the disabled community are unacceptable, here's our policy, it was co-written by disabled people
The Green Party will build an Aotearoa where disabled people are valued and they and their whānau live with dignity and autonomy. An Aotearoa where disabled people and whānau have access to the services they need — like transport and good quality housing — means everyone can thrive in caring communities. 

Our current laws, policies and social norms mean disabled people are often denied the same rights as others and are excluded from places and activities non-disabled people take for granted. These barriers are often worse for tāngata whaikaha Māori and for disabled people from marginalised communities. 

The current Government has made it harder for disabled people to access the support they deserve and which enables them to participate equally in life and their communities. 

The Green Party is ambitious in its plan to create a more accessible Aotearoa by building on the Enabling Good Lives framework and grounding our approach in Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Our approach will operate on a high-trust model and apply to all disabled people, including those with disabling conditions who do not currently access support. The Green Party is committed to an Aotearoa where disabled people and whānau thrive in caring communities.
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pōneke Peeps! Do you know anyone who does makeup effects who could put some very realistic vampire bite marks on my neck?!
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just noting it’s the Australian Greens pushing to ban smart glasses, and who have prompted moves to regulate. Something for New Zealand to consider as we go to the polls soon is who consistently looks out for women and girls - and who consistently does not, through silence, inaction or bad policy.
"Smart glasses - otherwise known as pervert glasses - are hitting New Zealand, but as Australia announces moves to regulate this Invasive technology, how can we ensure New Zealanders - especially women - are safe?" privacy expert Frith Tweedie said.
Tweedie acknowledged that smart glasses - whose Al features can be used in concert with their cameras to give verbal descriptions of objects or read text - had benefits for those who were blind or had low vision.
"But there is also significant scope for misuse," Tweedie said.
"Think covert, sexualised filming at gyms, beaches, schools and changing rooms, exposure of identities and locations online, stalking and image-based sexual abuse."
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
so i’m on the train this morning and a guy gets on with a little dog and pops open a tiny folding chair and THE DOG SITS IN IT
a small grey folding canvas chair with a fluffy off-white dog curled up in it like a perfect lil angel close-up of the previous photo of a small grey folding canvas chair with a fluffy off-white dog curled up in it like a perfect lil angel
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Truly this thread is the best absurdist thriller novel I have read this year
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why does this not surprise me?
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This will be a catastrophe for both filmed entertainment and news, and it's a great shame that the California AG caved. Trump and his people will celebrate this news today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition (Gift Article)
The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh hey, so update on this…I’m off to Japan in 23 days 🤩
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Went to the gym and did my first cold plunge/sauna combo. My feet still feel like 🧊
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Had to get hit in the wallet before he grew a spine
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
the fact we've BARELY seen footage like this from NZ media for THREE YEARS is completely beyond the pale
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19/09/2026
Cuba's power grid has collapsed, leaving millions of people across the island without electricity.
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Cuba hit with another blackout as millions across the island are left without electricity
Cuba’s power grid has collapsed, leaving millions of people across the island without electricity. The Ministry of Energy and Mines announced the blackout on its official X account without mentioning the cause and added that officials had begun “activating service-restoration protocols.”
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In my opinion, this is possibly the best film that carefully interweaves the film and game worlds together. It’s hilarious with Evil Dead 2 style humour. Also doesn’t overstay its welcome at a tight 1 hour 34 minutes.
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Bauhausandmies 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇿 @bauhausandmies.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s a shame we’re not getting those new ferries today. Also a shame that no journalist in a national paper wants to remind the government that they spitefully threw away a fuck tonne of money.
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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The difference between Christopher “cry me a river” Luxon and Marie “let them eat cake” Antoinette is that she was misquoted
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I ❤️ my hometown.
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Saw the new Resident Evil tonight! Thoughts to come tomorrow…
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The best line of this episode goes to @mangiotto.bsky.social for referring to The Player as “Shrek for film bros”. No lies detected 🤣
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just hilariously wrong wording to use in an instance like this. "I had nothing to do with it." "It was out of my hands." These are the boilerplate passing-the-buck statements. "I am not complicit" is your opening statement at Nuremberg
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Jonathan Hansen, but scary @jonathanhansen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Looking good, Senator #MitchMcConnell!
The Vourdalak speaks in a forest while holding a spear. He looks like a skeleton manThe Vourdalak dozes at a table in a scarf. He looks like a skeleton manThe Vourdalak wears a big Lenny Kravitz scarf. He looks like a skeleton manThe Vourdalak sits dreamily amongst candles and a rainbow hue, chin resting on one hand. He looks like a skeleton man
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Absolutely no qualms about this Emmy win.
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Absolutely positively here for a #WidowsBay sweep.
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Thank You For Saying That Widows Bay
ALT: Thank You For Saying That Widows Bay
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
YAAAAAAASSSSSSS
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rexforever.bsky.social @rexforever.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Imagine going both sides and one side is like, I’m a 75 year old billionaire and my feelings are hurt and the other is a bunch of dead Palestinian children. And you’re still like, idk they both make good points. The road to hell is paved with Ed Sheeran albums.
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh fuck ALLLLLLLLLLL the way off.
Variety headline “Robert Kraft defends banning Macklemore from Ed Sheeran tour after ‘free Palestine ‘ comments: “We do not provide a platform for hate speech”
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popular science robinson @saraiya.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
the americans (2013-2018)
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“He’d kill us if he got the chance”
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I adore Betty Gilpin with every fibre of my being.
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Update for those of you invested in my physical media collection:
4K edition of The Fall.
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Incredibly stoked with this win. Her line delivery of “My children? I have but just met them” never ceases to make me cackle.
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Confession: I am a lover of 6’5” Lee Pace yet I have never seen The Fall. Should I just go buy the 4K sight unseen?
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
HERE FOR FULL MAMDANI.
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I have not, and probably will not, see Dog Stars, BUT…I did listen to @ohmpods.bsky.social One Hot Take. And lemme tell ya, as a Hozier girlie, I knew…just KNEW in my soul exactly what song they said was unearned. The audacity!
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Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
[benoit blanc in twin peaks] lordy there’s a burrito lookin girl on the beach
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
BIG policy from the Greens, this is legitimately exciting and would make a real difference Love to see a commitment to making this change, rather than other parties' regular "consider a review" that has left NZers being ripped off for decades www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Greens vow to break up supermarket duopoly, set up publicly owned 'KiwiMart'
The Green Party is campaigning on establishing a publicly owned supermarket chain to break up the duopoly and drive down food prices.
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Amy Hall-oween 👻 @amyhall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BRILLIANT.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
AI is not inevitable. resistance works!
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Mamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schools
Kids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She
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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you Empire State Building. NYC ❤️ Dolly.
Empire State Building lit up in bright pink in honor of Dolly Parton. Beautiful.
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