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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes. The Titanic. Not the premier metaphor for man's hubris at all.

Bevan Shortridge @bevanshortridge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chris Hero, on the other place, answers a couple of questions I've had about the name PAC. #AEWDynamite #AEW x.com/ChrisHero/st...

Chris Hero tweet:
Just an FYI:

PAC is pronounced PACK, not pock. It’s from a nickname his Dad gave him when he was just a boy. Six Pack Ben Satterley

I get it- 2Pac, X-Pac. People have been saying it that way for years. That’s fine. Some will continue to say ‘Pock’ & that’s fine too!

Second Chris Hero tweet:
Ben would cringe at the idea of correcting someone so I don’t mean to be the Pronunciation Police here. I just think some people aren’t aware & I feel it’s important & respectful to say (or spell) someone’s name correctly.

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The Movie Guys @themovieguysonline.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

FUN FACT OF THE DAY: A re-release of Ken Russell's THE DEVILS has warranted a lobby standee! #NC17

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My two features, GUT INSTINCT and JAKE, and my short YOU COULD HAVE SEEN THE MONA LISA are now available for streaming worldwide on Amathus. amathus.vhx.tv/directed-by-...

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Directed by Doug Dillaman - AMATHUS

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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JCP⭐Designs 👺 A Professional Who Gives A Shit @jcpxdesigns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The entire crew at AEW does a wonderful job paying respect and tribute to their fallen comrades, but I wish they didn't have to be. #AEWDynamite

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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For those who have wanted to see GUT INSTINCT but haven't been able to get AroVision to work for them: from tomorrow, it (as well as my first feature JAKE) will be available on indie streamer Amathus. amathus.vhx.tv

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Amathus

Amathus is a collection of rare films, lost films, and undiscovered masterpieces of arthouse cinema.

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Lee Kyle @imleekyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Read this article from my friend Lewis about Ben, the real person behind PAC. I was there for a decent amount of this, was at his first matches and was great seeing him, for it turns out, the last time at Les's funeral. Still in shock. cultaholic.com/posts/rememb...

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Remembering My Friend Ben, The International Wrestling Superstar

To most of the rest of the world, he was PAC. Or Neville. Or ‘The Man That Gravity Forgot’. But, to me, he was simply Ben, the local lad I spent a great deal of time with during some of my most format...

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Bevan Shortridge @bevanshortridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was delayed watching #AEWAllOut so was avoiding the internet/spoilers. Partway through I thought I saw a stupid click bait headline. But it wasn't. PAC had died. But he was just *there*, in another great match. As good as those shows are, I wish AEW didn't need to do another tribute show.

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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 22/09/2026

This feels like the nub of it, to me.

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So funny that the Taxpayers' Union issuing a press release wrongly claiming that Nicky Hager was writing a book about them conjured the book into existence straight away Gonna have to name this the TPU Variation on the Streisand Effect or something—at least the Streisand house pics already existed!

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Fun Fact: Tommy Wiseau was actually considered something of a child prodigy. In school, he constantly got high marks.

Tommy Wiseau holding a football in "The Room."

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Bevan Shortridge @bevanshortridge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Possibly a rare screening for Auckland. SECONDS (1966). Directed by John Frankenheimer. Sunday 27 September, 6pm. The Hollywood in Avondale. www.hollywoodavondale.nz

What seems to be a French poster for the 1966 film Seconds.

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

‘What am I doing? I’m quietly judging you.’

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Bevan Shortridge @bevanshortridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

COYOTE VS. ACME is great on the big screen. So glad it was freed from being shelved. Deserves to be seen. So much fun!

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Bevan Shortridge @bevanshortridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Andrade El Idolo vs Daniel Garcia for the #AEW National Championship. AKA The Pants vs The Dance. #AEWCollision

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Bevan Shortridge @bevanshortridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I don't know the rules" says Switchblade Jay White about the NFL. Spoken like a New Zealander (complimentary).

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Bevan Shortridge @bevanshortridge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Finally caught up on #AEWDynamite and Myles Hawkins made an impression. Not just on Tommaso Ciampa's knee either. Talk about maximising your minute(s) on TV, especially in a squash.

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Akl City Centre Residents' Group @ccrg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. ☕️

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Bevan Shortridge @bevanshortridge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The 27th Annual 24 Hour Movie Marathon has been announced for The Hollywood in Avondale, Auckland, for Saturday 28 - Sunday 29 November 2026. Starts at 3pm on the Saturday. ticketing.oz.veezi.com/purchase/137...

Image for the 27th Annual 24 hour Movie Marathon.

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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re so excited to share the trailer for BLACK SHEEPS with the world! This film was handmade with love and care (and many litres of fake blood) and I can’t wait for people to see it.

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Black Sheeps | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Umbrella Entertainment

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Stephen Colbert casually mentions that he lives in NZ currently while at the Emmys

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Bevan Shortridge @bevanshortridge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Hollywood in Avondale, Auckland, has *quite* the double feature coming up on Sunday 4 October: THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963), 4pm; EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC (1977), 6.30pm. www.hollywoodavondale.nz

Screenshot from The Hollywood, Avondale, Auckland, ticketing page listing The Nutty Professor and Exorcist II: The Heretic with their posters.

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Akl City Centre Residents' Group @ccrg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fyi free coffee till the day 🚆😎🏙️

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Oral Carter 💙 @oralcarter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#AEWDynamite: Rebel Heart; Rebel hands Britt her glove to victory; This win is for you, Rebel

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Our power fantasy used to be "what if we could download helicopter piloting, kung fu and hacking into our brains and be able to do all the things". Now it's "what if we could offload working, learning parenting, relationships and friends to the computer so we don't have to do any of the things"

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today is #NationalTeddyBearDay which reminded us of that time we found this old book full of terribly terrifying teddies to traumatise and terrorise. Sweet dreams everyone. Don't have nightmares.

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Bevan Shortridge @bevanshortridge.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

HERMAN'S HEAD. Kind of a live action version of INSIDE OUT.

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Umberto Eco’s checklist for signs of fascism. It makes for disturbing reading regarding our current national and international situation.

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Trey @internettrey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Will try not to post too much from the bad place but there's been some wonderful tributes to Butcher over there from pretty much all of Andy's peers and I think it would be ok to share those if they aren't posting them here.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

TL:DR, in 2020, I got to ask Werner Herzog whether the story about him being forced to speak French to some child soldiers was true, and he gave me the most poetic, most Herzogian response I could ever have hoped for.

“Hello. Can you hear me?” asks a black screen on my laptop. I am using Zoom for the 4,000th time since the beginning of the pandemic and enjoying approximately the 4,000th technical glitch in the same time period. A few seconds later, Werner Herzog bursts into view, his familiar face framed by bookshelves and sliding drawers, which I long to believe contain a spear and the animatronic prostheses of a fully working Loch Ness Monster. For 20 minutes, I withstand the ego-shredding horror of a five-second delay in video communication, which leaves my every question stranded in total silence as if the stupidity has rendered him dumbstruck.

Feeling increasingly stupid myself, I bite the bullet. “Werner,” I ask, “were you really held at gunpoint and made to speak a few regrettable sentences in French?” Is the story you tell in the Incident at Loch Ness outtake real?
“No,” he says. “Look, I do speak those languages, sure. I mean, I do not speak Latin or ancient Greek because they are dead languages, but I can read them. It’s of minor importance; as always, there’s some layers, few facts, a few distortions. It’s inventive. I do have fundamental problems with speaking French because I am very Bavarian, and it’s a very different attitude to spoken language or discourse. Discourse is different from French. I did have to do with child soldiers in Honduras and Nicaragua for one film. I’m actually planning a project in Sierra Leone with child soldiers — completely staged, of course — but it concerns some U.N. troops and a small group of child soldiers who hold a checkpoint at a bridge. So, of course, child soldiers have always had a certain appeal to me because something deep comes across there.”

Perhaps sensing my dejection at his runaround answer and the end of our allotted time together on Zoom, Herzog launches into an unbroken paean to fakery’s favorable position over the so-called truth, citing the French Nobel Prize winner André Gide and William Shakespeare, two figures who’ve expressed a preference for feigning. “Only those who are deeply religious would tell you what the truth is,” he says at one point. “And they are obviously as wrong as it gets because the biggest of all fake news is religion.”
And what of this outtake, I ask. Is it not itself, for all the joy of its execution, merely fake news of the same order?
“I always quote Michelangelo as my key witness” he replies, “whose Pietà is in Rome. When you look at the statue, you see the dead body of Jesus in Mary’s lap. Jesus’ face is the tormented face of a 33-year-old man. And when you look at the face of his mother, she is 15. So my question is, Did Michelangelo try to cheat us? Did he try to give us fake news? Did he try to defraud us, lie to us? No. I think he made a clear statement.”

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ten years ago, ‘You Took the Last Bus Home’ was published. It was my first collection of poetry and incredibly, it’s still going strong. To celebrate the anniversary, I thought I’d share a poem from it every day this month, starting with the title poem.

You Took the Last Bus Home

you took the last bus home don’t know how  you got it through the door

you’re always doing amazing stuff

like the time
you caught that train

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A pic of the cover of ‘You Took the Last Bus Home’ featuring a red bus with the backdrop of a beautiful moonlit night.

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Bevan Shortridge @bevanshortridge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you haven't seen Get Crazy (1983), a film she co-starred in, I recommend doing so.

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Phil Fletcher @philfletcher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A puppet performing a puppet on the radio!! Yes please… #behindthescenes

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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I don’t generally approve of graffiti, but…

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is appalling. 47 full time equivalent roles is massive. It's more than 1 in 8 people working at the Library & Archives NZ. Archives is already understaffed and not capable of ensuring compliance with the Public Records Act. Democracy & functioning govt depends on access to info. #nzpol

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Brilliant stuff, even without the Faulknerian alt text

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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JCP⭐Designs 👺 A Professional Who Gives A Shit @jcpxdesigns.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I never got a chance to work with Persephone during my time with AEW, so here's my take on her! 🤼 #aew #cmll

AEW & CMLL wrestler Persephone, drawn in the style of the AEW kids tees I used to do.

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Bevan Shortridge @bevanshortridge.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Zero Hour, Buy-In or PPV, or any show, I always enjoy seeing Shane Taylor Promotions in action. #AEWAllIn #ROH

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Bevan Shortridge @bevanshortridge.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I watched last year's #AEWAllIn in bits and pieces in my Hospital bed, in between medical and other visitors. My concentration span was also *very* low then. My viewing was very stop start. This year I'm ready (I think).

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