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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 17h

I’m still pushing for an episode about the time TISM came to Geelong

Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 18h

I take that back: "The Rabbitohs’ Fight Against Extinction" is no more - and probably less - newsworthy than the South Melbourne Swans' or the Fitzroy Lions' battles to stay in Melbourne, and honestly anything to do with a sporting club is barely newsworthy at all unless they crash in the Andes

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 18h

There's two national stories (Julia Gillard's Misogyny speech and Harold Holt's disappearance), and the rest - Threadbo landslide; Cangai Siege; Lismore Floods; and "The Rabbitohs’ Fight Against Extinction" - are events that took place in NSW. All newsworthy, but maybe spread the love a bit?

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 18h

Looking at the stories covered in the upcoming season of the ABCs pop history show I WAS ACTUALLY THERE and it might be an idea if someone told the national broadcaster that Australian non-political stories occasionally take place outside of NSW

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just remembered I had a dream last night where I was at this weird publicity event in a giant and visibly crumbling underground carpark and a tiny drunk publicist dressed entirely in black came up to me, sniffed my armpit and said I "smelled like cocaine" so yeah, my career's going great

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My anxiety has been hitting record highs these last few weeks and yet my fingernails have never been better (I'm growing actual claws over here), which honestly makes no sense at all but I'm going to take the win

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Alice Clarke @alicedkc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Melbourne friends! If you happen to find a Pikachu somewhere between Elizabeth St and MCEC, could you please let me know? It has this tag on it and is one of my 2yo’s favourites. Please spread far and wide to help find it.

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was kinda joking in my review of THE SOCIAL RECKONING but the more I think about it the more I really do wish Sorkin had gone all Tarantino ahistorical with the ending and had a malfunctioning ED209 “you have 20 seconds to comply” the FB board

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you make a movie in 2026 about a whistleblower - any kind of whistleblower - that doesn’t end with text on a black screen telling us they “committed suicide” right after they told family and friends they were worried about being killed, you’re having a lend

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Really starting to think that a movie where evil is brought to justice by the bright light of public exposure in the mainstream media just might not be plausible in this day and age

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Matt Fulton @mattfulton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Richard Morecroft and his comedic chops on The Micallef P(r)ogram(me) - Season 3 Episode 1, and Season 3 Episode 5. I've spliced them together. Worth the watch.

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"overseas interests" really just means rich people, once you hit a certain level of wealth Australia becomes a vague embarrassment amongst your peers

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

With much of Australian politics being just "we have to do this thing nobody here wants because of reasons", maybe we should just teach kids in school the reasons why so many local decisions seem to be made for the benefit of overseas interests

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Champagne Comedy @tlschampagne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you've lost / damaged / incinerated your copy of The Late Show DVD, you can buy a pre-loved copy from our ebay store which we've cleaned & polished. The extra coin raised goes towards the upkeep of ChampagneComedy.com & the podcast.

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

It’s been steadily coming down here for about eight hours, which is seven hours more than my storm water drainpipes can deal with

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

Most movies are basically the storytelling version of a polished powerpoint presentation at a corporate function; DIGGER is more like being dragged into a conversation at a bus stop with someone who means well but keeps getting distracted by a mining industry commercial playing on their phone

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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 · 28/09/2026

As a kid all the depictions of evil I was coming across were kind of dour and grim, and then along came Torquemada giving these massive rolling speeches and it suddenly became clear that evil could also be something that evil-doers really enjoyed doing

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Very exciting news! Hopefully it gets picked up by some canny distributor here

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I reckon him and the crew at Rebellion would be your best bet at the moment. Might not hurt to let a suitable local distributor or two know of the building local interest as well

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Was just playing this to my partner today, she was suitably impressed

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Anthony Morris @morrbeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There's no distribution anywhere as yet - it's just going from festival to festival trying to drum up wider interest. They actually made the thing without locking in any kind of distribution, which is... one way to do things, I guess

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

Those used book collectors don’t mess around

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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

Someone we know - maybe @cinemaautopsy.bsky.social - recently said they'd never seen a Final Destination movie, and I just can't imagine what it would be like to live without 40% of your brain terrified that a giant tree or pipe was going to smash through your windshield whenever you're in a car

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

The end goal with AI is to make some kind of crime robot that will steal and murder for you but even after the bodies are dumped at your door with their pockets emptied it won't be your fault because it "went rogue" and just accidentally happened to do exactly what you wanted

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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

Shock twist in the Apple TV version of Neuromancer when it turns out the AIs are obsessed with creating something they call a "Blorble" that you glue to your forehead and it makes an extended fart sound when you try to talk to anyone with a lower credit rating than the closest billionaire

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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 Spooky 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

Back to writing a review of a movie about a man and his dog without making it all about how awesome the completely unrelated MUZZLE movies are

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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 · 23/09/2026

He might have gotten away with it if his actual review hadn’t basically been “I think this movie is shit and I am so contemptuous of anyone who likes these films I’m going to ruin it for you purely out of spite”

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

Review embargo’s are near-universal now tho - it’s always “reviews are strictly verboten until the day of release, immediate social media reactions are encouraged!” Gotta make sure the influencers get their content up right away

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

There was a run of movie previews at Melbourne Central where for some reason there’d be a table full of pizzas on offer beforehand. This was when the lavish screenings at the end of the financial year often had a strong “we’ve got to use up our promotional budget fast” vibe

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

I know I went to Grimsby at the Jam Factory but remember nothing about it, in contrast to Borat (also at the Jam Factory) where I high-fived SBC and later on was punched in the face at South Yarra station by a meth head who'd run up to me out of nowhere then ran off into the arms of waiting police

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

I *think* it was when Disney split from Roadshow that cinema previews became more of a thing, then the internet meant invite lists grew too big for screening rooms, and all the Melbourne CBD cinemas were demolished (and Melbourne Central was built) - plus critics now rate lower than influencers

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

Back then all the main distributors had their own screening rooms (UIP in a Docklands-adjacent warehouse, Fox in a Bourke st office block, Roadshow in the offices at Bourke st) so an evening public preview was usually a sign they thought a film would benefit from seeing it with a crowd

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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

Looking at my invites list, Crown seemed to drop down the rankings in the mid-late teens compared to earlier, though they still had some big events each year. I remember thinking at the '21 Jungle Cruise preview that it had been a while since I'd been at Crown, but that may have been Covid related

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

Pentridge (the handful of times I've been there) is a nice venue, but I think the actual cinemas are probably too small for previews, as even the big Melbourne cinemas now are smaller than they used to be. I think that's caused some pressure on invite lists - influencers need their camera crews

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

It's more that The Jam Factory provided a consistent floor quality-wise - Crown was largely phased out after they upgraded the main Jam Factory cinemas, and IMAX was a rare treat for years. And before that, Village Bourke St had lots of things on - the current situation is probably the norm

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