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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Had fun at the Sydney premiere of #MortalKombatII tonight. Most of the principal cast were in attendance and stayed to watch the film. My review is embargoed until Thursday morning, so I can’t comment other than to say fans are going to love this movie! #FilmSky #Movies #FilmReview #IMAX #Gaming

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Thank you to everyone that came along to Words & Music this year at Newcastle’s Conservatorium of Music. Another stunning line-up of readings and songs. Always so inspiring to be in the presence of such powerful storytellers. I have some exciting plans for next year. #Writing #Reading #Books 📚

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Was lovely to be a part of the “Pushing the Boundaries” panel talk with moderator Nina Cullen, and authors Cadence Bell and Yumna Kassab. Was my first opportunity to discuss my new book Guardian. Thanks to @newwritersfest.bsky.social for having me. #NWF2026 #Books #Author #Writing #Fiction

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

NEW SUBSTACK! My chat with NATHAN HUDSON of FAKER ahead of the band's long-awaited reunion tour after 13 years in the wilderness. New single. New record. New tour. New era. READ HERE! bit.ly/4sn6gm9 And please let me know what you think. #Music #MusicSky #Faker #AussieMusic #OzRock #RockMusic

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

WORDS & MUSIC returns in 2026! I have the pleasure of curating this event for @newwritersfest.bsky.social each year. Songwriters like Urthboy, Liz Stringer etc will perform original works inspired by books, poems etc. Sat, Mar 28 at the Conservatorium. TIX HERE: bit.ly/3Mf5dFz #BookSky #MusicSky

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Happy birthday to the great David Lynch. We all miss you. #DavidLynch #Movies #Film

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I occasionally get a snap of my two together. Sitting still. #Ragdoll #Cats #CatsofBsky

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

TOP 10 OF 2025! Here’s my fave movies from last year. Hopefully you find something you like. Please like and share, thank you. ❤️🎥 Let’s connect on Substack. #Films #Movies #FilmReview #Substack #Cinema #Horror #Letterboxd #Documentary #Hollywood #Actors #Blogs #FilmHistory

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

BEST MOVIES OF 2025 Time to once again count down my favourite movies of the year. But for the very first time on Substack! Here’s numbers 20 to 11, with the rest to follow. Please like and subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/nickmill... #Film #Movies #Cinema #FilmsofBsky 📽️ #FilmReviews #Substack

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I’m on Substack! Did I mention that already? Would be rad if you liked and subscribed and all that. I just put up my chat with Suzy Eddie Izzard ahead of her big visit to Australia next year. open.substack.com/pub/nickmill... #EddieIzzard #Substack #Comedy #Theatre #Entertainment #Comedian

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Bugonia is the Misery of our times, about the misery of our times. #Bugonia #Filmsky 🎥📽️ #Movies #Film #Cinema

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Was on ABC 1233 this morning chatting #Fantastic4 and the #BillyJoel ‘And So it Goes’ doco. Download the ABC Listen app to hear the replay. My segment is always about two hours in. #Fantastic4FirstSteps #MCU @abcnewsbot.bsky.social

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Had a lovely time at the Australian premiere of #Superman last night. Even met #Krypto the Super Dog. Good boy. Here’s my full review of #Superman2025: boxd.it/agzQnP #FilmSky 🎥📽️ #DCU #JamesGunn #DavidCorenswet #DCUniverse #FilmReview

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I’m so stoked to report that #JurassicParkRebirth is a winner. A big-screen popcorn monster movie back-to-basics reset that completely works. It’s a big, dumb, fun jungle survival adventure with laughs and thrills. And dinosaurs! And mutant dinosaurs! Pure. Simple. Classic. Enjoy. 🛥️🦖🦕 #FilmSky 📽️🎥

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Tough choices were made. My top picks for best 10 movies of the 21st Century. @nytimes.com #FilmSky 📽️🎥

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Thank you to Universal for the chance to see a preview of M3GAN 2.0 - a raucous sequel to the hit 2022 cyborg slasher. It drops tomorrow. I’ll share some more thoughts once the embargo lifts. #M3gan2 #FilmSky #M3gan #M3ganMovie #SciFi 🎥📽️🦾🤖💁🏼‍♀️

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

MATERIALISTS, Celine Song's follow-up to the stunning Past Lives is a more accessible mainstream love triangle but still rife with insights into human frailty, longing and weighing the heart over the mind. Song finds a sweet spot between nuanced character study and predictable schmaltz. #FIlmSky 📽️🎥

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Day 2 of @sydfilmfest.bsky.social 2025 was another pearler. The highlight was Kevin Macdonald’s moving John + Yoko doco, a mosaic time capsule of a film. Breathtaking. Also caught Josh O’Connor in The Mastermind, the intriguing neo-noir Islands and the endearing body horror Together. #FilmSky 📽️🎥

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I like to do @sydfilmfest.bsky.social right. Twelve movies in three days. Stay at QT Sydney. Cocktails. Great plant-based food. Treat myself. Films seen so far - Spirit World, Blue Moon (incredible) and Dangerous Animals. Let’s connect on #Letterboxd: boxd.it/1D4Jx #FilmSky 📽️🎥🎞️📸

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Loretta Swit has passed, aged 84. Rest in peace, Hot Lips. ❤️ #FilmSky #TVSky 📽️🎥

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

BRING HER BACK (2025). In Oz we have VERY strict pool fence regulations. ESPECIALLY in a foster home. The Philippous know this. So the only possible interpretation of #BringHerBack is a two-hour PSA about the potential dangers of not having a pool fence - all of this was preventable. #FilmSky 📽️

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Questlove’s SLY LIVES! is an overdue homage to the legacy and influence of a musical genius. But the director only views Stone’s career through the ideological prism of his blackness. He asks famous talking heads leading questions to affirm his narrative. Not a “show don’t tell” approach. #FilmSky

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Ben 10, Bubbles and Shaggy walk into a bar… you know the rest. Happy birrrrrthday, @loveangelmaddiebby.bsky.social! 🥳😗 ps be assured the Shaggy goatee has already been removed. #CartoonNetwork

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I've slept way, way too long on #KurtVonnegut. Going down the rabbit hole. It's imperative I make up for lost time. And so it goes. Cat's Cradle is a work of satirical genius. A metafictional farce about the end of times. Vonnegut builds a fictional nation and religion. LOL funny. #BookSky 📚

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

All over the map here, but enjoyable films.

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Dean Fleischer Camp (Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, my fave movie of 2021) brings a lot of heart to the #LiloandStitch remake. Almost enough to douse my cynicism. Stitch's immortal line, "This is my family. I found it, all on my own...", cut me up all over again. A winner for Disney. #FilmSky 📽️

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Tix locked for the Aussie premiere of Ari Aster's new flick EDDINGTON (2025) at @sydfilmfest.bsky.social. Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler. Australia is the first to get the film after Cannes. F-yes. SFF keeps delivering the goods. #FilmSky 📽️🎥 #SFF #Eddington

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The greatest zombie film ever made. Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) #FilmSky 📽️🎥 #Zombie #Zombies #Romance #Film #Movies #Italian

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Our little scruffy man likes to sleep in the front window. This is him stretching and yawning (not roaring, as it appears 😆) after a nap. And, yes, I exclaim “big stretch” every time Jinx stretches. That is mandatory. #CatSky #Ragdoll #CatRescue 🐱🐈‍⬛🐈😻😺😽

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Back on air this morning talking movies. Every Friday at 7.35am on ABC 1233. Tune in on the wireless locally or nationally via the ABC Listen app. #FilmSky 🎥📽️

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Wake in Fright meets Long Weekend in Ozploitation homage THE SURFER. While the finale pulls its punches, Cage’s mad descent in the face of tribal surf-gang antagonism is a romp. It’s good vs evil in a sweltering purgatorial car park. Does for Oz tourism what Milat did for backpacking. #FilmSky 📽️🎥

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Newcastle friends, Signed First Edition copies of GUARDIAN are available at ABICUS on Darby Street and MACLEAN’S on Beaumont Street. Grab a copy, support an indie author (me) and support an indie retail business (them)! If you live further afield, grab a copy online! ❤️📚 #BookSky #IndieAuthor #Horror

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Brimming with breathtaking imagery, OCEAN is a doco you MUST see on the big screen. In cinemas now. Dredge marks seen from space. David Attenborough, a moral authority on the natural world, has a dire warning - we are pillaging the sea into annihilation. But there is hope if we act now. #FilmSky 📽️🎥

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I watched RUST and really enjoyed it. Halyna Hutchins' cinematography is absolutely STUNNING. What is, on paper, a trope-heavy Western is elevated by the breathtaking photography. I'm so grateful that Hutchins' family pushed to have the movie completed - her final work needed to be seen. #FilmSky 📽️🎥

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

@sydfilmfest.bsky.social program drop is always a special day. I'm back this year to cover for ABC 1233. Spent the whole morning pouring over the offerings. I've got 13 movies locked in so far. It's honestly the one time I wished I lived in Sydney. Cinephile heaven. Check it out. #FilmSky 🎥📽️

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

THUNDERBOLTS* gets the MCU freight train back on the rails. It's funny and has heart, with unambiguous messaging on mental health, loneliness and childhood trauma. Sure, it's hokey at times, and maybe goes too far into the weeds with its Inception-esque finale, but it's rollicking fun. #FilmSky 📽️

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

JOHNSTON CITY - DECIE'S PRIDE New wax. Long-awaited debut record from the Hunter Valley's answer to Bruce Springsteen. Dan Johnston is a serious songwriter. Honest, no-bullshit rock songs and ballads about life, love and family. Do yourself a favour. LISTEN HERE: open.spotify.com/album/0dgBqg...

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Rainy days are best spent on the couch. Even if it’s made of cardboard. Jinx, our little bundle of joy. #CatSky #Ragdoll 😻

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Gareth Edwards (The Raid), writes/directs Tom Hardy vehicle HAVOC. Sin City meets John Woo crime fantasia. A balletic bursting of blood and bullets set in a heightened CGI reality where everyone - good, bad or indifferent - knows a little kung fu. Cartoon characters. Ballistic action. #FilmSky 📽️🎥

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

SINNERS is Ryan Coogler’s sexy, bluesy and black reimagining of FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, which owes a huge debt to other siege schlockers ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Great to see the filmmaker express himself outside of the MCU. Familiar and original in equal measure. #FilmSky 📽️

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Finished #WhiteLotus S3. The weakest season by some margin, riddled with wild implausibilities, vast suspensions of disbelief and lazy contrivances. And yet, it works as entertainment. As always, some character sub-plots work better than others, and they tend to be those untethered to the mystery.

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Sad to hear of the passing of Ted Kotcheff, responsible for the greatest Aussie film ever made, WAKE IN FRIGHT. A lost film that Scorsese put some effort into finding and restoring. The only film ever to be screened twice at Cannes. He also did that Rambo flick. Ted was 94. #FilmSky 📽️🎥

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

There's a thrill in seeing your book for sale at a writer's fest. Thank you to everyone that bought a copy of my spooky novella Guardian at @newwritersfest.bsky.social this year. Hope you enjoy the read. Limited FIRST EDITION copies remain. #BookSky 📚 AUS: bit.ly/42b3x54 WORLD: amzn.to/3G45CHg

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

They’re saying that Saturday’s Words & Music for @newwritersfest.bsky.social was the best yet. Maybe they’re right. So much hard work goes into this event. Thank you to everyone that attended, the incredible songwriters, authors and the AMAZING Conservatorium crew. More pics/vids to come. #BookSky

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Nick Milligan @nickmilligan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

“You’ve moved furniture? I’m going to have to sit on it. Received a delivery? It will be inspected. These are just some of my tasks as a senior member of this household.” - Willow #CatSky #Willow #Ragdoll

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