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Jonathan King

@jonathanking.bsky.social
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I make films and comics in Wellington, New Zealand. BLACK SHEEPS out soon!

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ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 20h
Overseas Kiwis: enrol to vote if you're eligible. Deadline to enrol is mid to late Oct. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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A tight election looms in New Zealand. This time, overseas voters could be bad news for the big parties
More than 100,000 have enrolled to vote from abroad in the November poll, and many are unhappy with how things look back home
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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 23h
A caricature  of Peter Thiel sweating with 666 on his forehead
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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 23h
That one Clive Barker story where crucial world events are determined by senile weirdos on a commune betting on toad races makes a lot more sense these days.
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It'll be quite the tell when we see which fawning choads start calling it 'SI' ...
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Feeling like maybe I shouldn't have watched BACKROOMS on the plane ...
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well you may be in a position to dictate that Chris, and you may not.
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Daily Dead @dailydead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fantastic Fest 2026 Review: COMPLIANCE is an Uncomfortable Found Footage Conspiracy Thriller By @donatobomb.bsky.social dailydead.com?p=317009
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Fantastic Fest 2026 Review: COMPLIANCE is an Uncomfortable Found Footage Conspiracy Thriller - Daily Dead
Give me a divisive film over a safe, 3-stars-across-the-board title any day. At Fantastic Fest this year, that movie is Compliance.  A quick gander at Letterboxd shows my mutuals in two camps—either t...
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Eddie Campbell @eddiecampbell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three months from now you'll be lamenting that you only got socks and underpants for xmas and wishing you'd signed up for this. www.kickstarter.com/projects/moo...
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The Arts of Eddie Campbell, Comicker
The first ever Eddie Campbell Artbook
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here was the next time I interviewed him; this time for @ebertvoices.bsky.social upon the 4K release of LONE STAR at @criterion.bsky.social : www.rogerebert.com/interviews/w...
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We’re So Short on Time: John Sayles on Lone Star
An interview with the legendary writer/director on the eve of the Criterion release of one of his best films.
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On John Sayles' birthday, here's my first interview with him for the muthasite, @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social : filmfreakcentral.net/2002/07/worl...
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World Traveler: FFC Interviews John Sayles & Maggie Renzi - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
July 7, 2002|There are a great many similarities between John Sayles and Billy Wilder (save, obviously, Wilder’s affection for the Hollywood studio system). Both: are writers who became directors; exh...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it would be like watching a racist episode of leave it to beaver and then being so fucking dumb you thought it was a documentary.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
like the german nazis, american conservatives have oriented themselves around a "return" to america that never existed. a whites-only wonderland where women were happily subservient and there was widespread prosperity with zero crime and straight white men at the center of the universe.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ida Lupino was the first woman to direct a Film Noir.
"The Hitch-Hiker" 1953 original poster one sheet
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please, please will the next government please put my taxes up a bit – so that hospitals work and hungry kids get a decent lunch?
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Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hansard
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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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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just on time, there’s another fucking caravan. You can’t make this shit up. Anyone buying this is a complete moron
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Brett Nicholson @aggiebrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, found another open window through which to hurl VAMPICONDA! One day, darlin'. One day. #ScriptSky
VAMPICONDA! poster by Brett Nicholson
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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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What The Fukc Is Happening? @dudeseriouslywtf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#VoteGreenPartyAotearoa26 #ChlöeSwarbrick #MaramaDavidson #nzpol #DitchThePricksIn26 #NationalNotFitToGovernNZ
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There's a moment early on that's just footage of Elon Musk balding and in khakis walking down an office hallway in the late 90s and the entire audience burst out laughing. If Musk is made aware of audience reactions like this I think he might actually crash out.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 26/09/2026
When Joe Biden took office, America’s allies were willing to treat the first Trump term as an aberration. That ship has sailed. The world is no longer waiting for us to come to our senses, and the trust we squandered may take a generation to rebuild if anyone still believes we are capable of it.
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Jerry @allhailjerry.myatproto.social · 05/07/2024
It's funny in Return Of The Jedi when the gang tricks the Ewoks with a false golden god so that many will die in a war that doesn't involve them.
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A few years ago some student filmmakers told me they’d “try” and do something and I put on a Yoda voice and said, “there is no try. Only do.” And the other day it just occurred to me that they might have had no fucking idea why I suddenly put that really weird voice on.
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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Kermit the Frog Riding a Bike
Alt: Kermit the Frog Riding a Bike
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Asher @asherwilsongoldman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is exactly how I talk about it too! I've seen Gen AI try to write good comms and it's always completely terrible (see - most of LinkedIn, a bunch of the newer FB 'nz politics influencer' types.
Screenshot of a tumblr post reading: recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Greens just mop the floor with every other party in terms of lucid, prepared, compassionate, visionary policy … and yet till get jeered at as ‘those wacky Greens’ by their generally lazy, crowing, complacent counterparts in the other parties.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
One of my students, 13, once said to me (god knows why) 'I hate immigrants.’ I said calmly 'I'm an immigrant' & he went red and apologised. I said 'It's ok but watch this.' Asked my form (who just thought I was being random as usual - didn't want to humiliate him) how many of their parents- (1/3)
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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since it was created in 1975, the Waitangi Tribunal has awarded $2.8bn to Iwi. In one year, the govt Peters is part of gave away $3bn to landlords in socially worthless tax breaks. Peterson and this govt should be abolished. #NZpol
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Marked Safe from seeing U2 busking in Dublin today
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The cassette and the turntable gave us dub and hip-hop. They did that because they made things possible without making them easy, so only people who were really committed to not sucking could make a real go "Possible but not easy" remains the sweet spot for excellence in just about every field
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The media in every country on the world – *like New Zealand* – should ask their ambassador for comment on this.
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here it is! The BLACK SHEEPS poster – featuring our spectacular star, Tabatha Killick, the incredible Joe Witkowski and the mighty (honorary) Dane Nathan Meister! Opens mid-November in NZ!
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Abby Sliva @abbysliva.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The iced coffee discourse is a psyop by big employer to present the illusion that they are holding job interviews
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A woman is someone who wants you to fuck off, Karl
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Whenever fucking U2 release new music, I think about someone from The Clash saying ruefully in the Westway to the World doco, “we didn’t know that you could just, you know, take a little break. Have a holiday.”
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absofreakinlutely 💯% True......
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Denise @denisest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Labour has just shown off their new mobile billboard on FB. #nzpol
Labour Party mobile billboard reading "Cry me a river" with Luxon's face on it
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Phoef Sutton @phoefsutton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's National Gorilla Day!
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Jonathan King @jonathanking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here it is! The BLACK SHEEPS poster – featuring our spectacular star, Tabatha Killick, the incredible Joe Witkowski and the mighty (honorary) Dane Nathan Meister! Opens mid-November in NZ!
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tristam @tristam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chlöe Swarbrick gives an almighty summation of the current governing coalition’s record. Her speech, given as parliament closes for the election, also outlines why the @greens.org.nz need to lead the next government… the video is well worth your time. #nzpol
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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