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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 11h

Sure don't hear much from James "the hound dog" Young these days

Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 12h

The cops raided / shut down every illegal vape store in Geelong this week and now every single Geelong-centric part of social media is a constant stream of requests for places to buy what is technically an illegal drug. So basically just like regular off-line Geelong

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I always remember reading someone saying they'd walked out of a (good IMHO) movie because the story was just hitting the same beats movies always use to create a "good" movie, and while DIGGER definitely has problems I'll always go to bat for a movie flailing around trying to figure out what to say

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just misread a book title as TALES OF LATRINE HORROR and geez, as a public transport user from way back I could probably write that one all on my own

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really excited about a future where the only kinds of art we ever get to hear about are either AI-generated money laundering schemes by associates of the three people who own all media outlets or AI-generated publicity scams by associates of the three people who own all media outlets

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My entire approach to social media is based on Ice-T songs where the second you post a photo of anything three guys in ski masks show up at your house to pistol whip you while stealing whatever you photographed

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The reason AI is constantly sold to us this way and not by focusing on the things it can actually do is because its creators think the real selling point of AI is as a way to deliberately make bad or harmful decisions while avoiding all responsibility and liability for making those decisions

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Increasingly it seems like the big thing that Cyberpunk as a genre didn't get about that whole "corporations run everything" future was that those corporations would only make useless crap that made everyone who encountered it want to die

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Herr Donkey Gunther Büergers @calamityjon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wild thing I learned earlier today -- the phrase "This is a job for Superman" predates Superman. I found citations as early as 1909.

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Six (nine?) months into a creative project and tonight I suddenly remember the actual overall central idea I had planned to base my whole approach on but totally forgot about, no wonder the only kind of writing I've ever had any success at has been 400 words or less

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mel is not wrong but this has reminded me that I am so old / started pro reviewing so young (at 20!) that when I started distributors only ever held public previews at specific cinemas - Roadshow at Village Bourke st, Fox/Columbia/Tri-Star at Hoyts Bourke st, and UIP at Greater Union Russell st

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

With the demise of the Jam Factory, central Melbourne no longer has one single obvious cinema where distributors can hold their preview screenings. That means that their choice of location now is linked to the perceived quality of the film - like whether it's a dud or something they need to upsell

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Chris Weston @westonfront.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If there's any consolation it is: the whole enterprise will be an utter disaster and they will lose a ton of money. I don't believe these people know how to make good and/or successful films. They've bought a dried-up well. The creative springs are spouting elsewhere.

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Isn't there meant to be some huge Trump-driven production tax break for the US film industry on the way? Sure sounds like a handy boost for one of his buddies who's now got a super-studio labouring under massive debt

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When I was the carer for my mum I repeatedly had my well meaning but out-of-town sister asking me to get “support” so I could get a break from the 14 hour days. She didn’t believe me when I said that the support would give me maybe 3 daytime hours off once a fortnight

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every single panel in every single page of Fred Gassit should have won the Archibald Prize

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The fun thing about newspaper front pages now is that unless you invite them into your home by subscribing, you pretty much never see them out in the wild. They're aimed at people who already agree with the message, not any kind of on-the-fence reader

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The standard by which all William Gibson adaptation should be judged is “how fancy are the hotel rooms?”. Which is why NEW ROSE HOTEL - which takes place almost entirely in hotel rooms - will always be the best screen version of his work

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't mind noir mysteries and 2024's High Country was a surprisingly strong local entrant. I'm pleased to announce that season 2 (starting today on Binge / Foxtel) keeps delivering the goods, as my review for @screenhub.bsky.social points out at great length: www.screenhub.com.au/news/reviews...

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Leah Purcell makes a powerful return to hit crime series High Country | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games

High Country: What Lies Beneath doesn't put a foot wrong.

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Is it a bad sign that the second a book isn’t in the first place I look I immediately think “guess I’d better buy another copy then”

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My favourite genre of "new development in the arts" report is when someone goes through a massive list of possibly useful things about the new development then says "I have one major caveat" and they mention the one thing that absolutely will happen and will put loads of people out of work

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thinking once again about how DREDD exists and you can watch it whenever you want. www.patreon.com/scumbelievab...

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I rarely post my film reviews here (this one is for @screenhub.bsky.social ) but I'm going to bat for Alan Ritchson's new one RUNNER, mostly because it's a solid action movie that knows to start small then build and it just keeps on building: www.screenhub.com.au/news/reviews...

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Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson team up in Gold Coast action movie Runner | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games

Surprisingly, Runner is a rare win for locally-shot action movies.

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thinking about how in the 60s Star Trek was about explorers and now it's the Space Military, and how in the 60s Green Lantern was about a space peacekeeper and now he's an ICE Agent for Aliens, and I'm starting to get a little worried about what's going to happen in those upcoming Beatles biopics

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I used to tell people I had predictive text turned off because no machine could predict what I was going to say next

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Over on substack a writing advice dude just posted “I spent $300 on AI that wrote me a 90,000 word novel that’s totally publishable, I only read the first chapter and humans could tell it’s AI but publishers won’t know and my AI simulations say it’ll sell for seven figures”

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Ari3226 @armen90.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How many of the One Nation candidates in the Victorian and NSW elections will be gym owners? Taking bets.

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Watching NEVER LET ME GO and sadly the premise of a school full of parentless children in 1970s England now requires a scene where someone explains how they kept out Jimmy Saville and his mates

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yet more cheery optimism from the writer of Viz’s (excellent) Drunken Bakers, a comic that once featured a punchline where someone deliberately drowned themselves in a canal after performing a sex act in exchange for a swig from a bottle of vodka

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is arse but it’d still be an improvement in Geelong, which has no ongoing ABC presence despite being Victoria’s second biggest city

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just out here remembering those old Sam Henderson comics where “The Brube” was kind of a dick, as you do.

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I know Kanye West is human garbage but “I feel Iike I’m stuck in The Matrix / where the fuck’s my nitrous” is definitely an exciting new direction for the upcoming reboot of the movie franchise

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

All you need to know about the arts in Australia is that a new Savers opened near me and all my friends working in the arts have asked me about it and everyone I know with a non-arts job doesn’t even know what Savers is

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One of the things I feel that history texts don't cover enough when they're covering the rise and fall of empires is "what if an empire just really, really pissed off everyone else around it for decades at a time and then one day everyone else realised the empire was now a bit shit"

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Saving this for when the LNP / One Nation coalition takes power in 2028 and Health Minister Pete Evans makes vaccines illegal

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Just got shown more Threads writing advice against my will (this time from a woman so it's just crap rather than sexist creep crap) and it seems when it comes to style you should aspire to the concise brevity of Ernest Hemmingway while heaping scorn on the concise brevity of Sally Rooney

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If I had a few weeks spare I'd love to compile a list of all the high concept thrillers (and rom-coms and whatever) that had a really strong idea that got people in the door but then they had no idea how to pay it off and the whole thing fizzled out

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Saw a BLADE RUNNER take that was "this movie isn't saying anything interesting". It's a story where someone hired by the government to murder escaped slaves because they're legally not human comes to realise that humanity isn't something defined by the law, which feels kind of interesting to me

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Rewatching VAMPIRES KISS and honestly the only living actor who could do what Nicolas Cage is doing here is Shaun Micallef

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The latest Jason Statham movie is going to get maybe 1% of the attention (& respect) of the next Avengers movie even though it was filmed on an actual location which it uses for dramatic and storytelling purposes while Avengers was filmed in a warehouse with some green curtains hung up

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Matt Fulton @mattfulton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The Late Show @tlschampagne.bsky.social covered Andrew Denton on A Country Practice back in 1993. #Logies

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My partner (who does not work in the Australian media) is making me (a person who does technically work in the AU media) watch The Logies and if anyone wants to film an angry version of Gogglebox you should get here quick

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

that's right, Bruce Campbell www.mensjournal.com/entertainmen...

When asked how it’s been for him to see the series transform since its indie beginnings way back in 1981 with director Sam Raimi, Campbell revealed his one issue with the recent installments.

“I’d like more humor back in. The three features have been mostly humorless, and I personally have a problem with that,” he said, echoing a sentiment shared among some of the franchise’s fans. “There’s no point for these to get too grim. You can be scary without being grim.”

“A little more humor wouldn’t kill you,” he added. “And one hero that you really can root for. Ash is an idiot, but you want him to survive.”

“Modern filmmakers love to color their movies like a David Fincher movie, like a hospital room, you know?” Campbell continued. “Gray-green, like a garage. Garage lighting. And so, okay, it’s a choice. It’s not mine. I think even a horror movie can look pretty. Why not throw them off? Make it all look pretty and wonderful, and then let them have it.”

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The movies Judge Dredd (1996) and Dredd (2012) are fiction, but the comic series Judge Dredd (1977-ongoing) is a documentary

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Speaking as an out-and-proud Anthony, there's a moment towards the end of TONY where I stood up and yelled "fuck yeah", before being escorted out of the cinema

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What gets me is that these cancelled sex monsters always come back with the exact same kind of work they were producing before. There's no "shit, I just went through something massive, I should use my art to examine it". It's almost as if the whole point of "art" for them is to use it to fuck people

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

New version of the Trainspotting “Choose life” speech just dropped

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