pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Roxy in Wellington is playing one of the funniest movies in many years this Friday, Hundreds of Beavers. Highly recommended by me. 000
Reposted by pearceDavid Ritchie @dritchie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026newzealandcurriculum.tahurangi.education.govt.nz/new-zealand-... 042
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Halfway through Dirty Work, going to bed and will finish in the morning. Jordan Williams doesn't seem like a very nice person. 000
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The story of how the book came to be is fuckin' priceless I'm sure irs already being shared far and wide 000
Reposted by pearceFelix Geiringer @barristernz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“First and most damaging is the influence of private donors. Private money needs to be banned in our electoral system.” 214123
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 22/09/2026That recent documentary on Anderton was excellent. I saw people complain that it didn't include enough from people who disagree with him, but that is what like all mainstream news outlets are for. 010
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is true, but it only works if they actually do appeal to centrists instead of, increasingly, to nobody. 020
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Instead of making the third filmed adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist, Mike Flanagan should make the first filmed adaptation of James Herbert's 1975 novel The Fog. 010
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Sometimes what looks like vandalism is just making an editorial correction, e.g. the billboard on the Hutt Motorway that someone changed from "No New Taxes" to "10 New Taxes" 240
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Finished my 100th book of 2026 the other day, The Route of Ice and Salt by José Luis Zárate. It retells the voyage of the Demeter in Dracula from the POV of the unnamed Russian captain, who Zárate portrays as a gay man viewing the experience through the lens of the homophobia he experienced. 120
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I know it's been a few years, but what soulless bureaucrat decided to rename the Wellington Museum of City and Sea to Wellington Museum? 030
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Trains in Wellington are expensive, but they're on on time, right? No. Are they comfortable and spacious? Uh-uh. Well are they at least seldom cancelled? Listen buddy, 030
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Here I am once again at Aro Video Secret Cinema, last Wednesday of every month, at Massey Cinema in Wellington. Why aren't you here? 010
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Without saying your age, what's your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?static.klipy.comBefore Sunrise: Awkward ConversationAlt: Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in Before Sunrise 000
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"Did Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem meet on Vicky Christina Barcelona?" @josholson.bsky.social please let me recommend Jamon Jamon to you, they already have amazing chemistry in that in 1992. It's co-written & directed by Bigas Luna, who had made Anguish and it is so much fun. 040
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I just recorded a two and a half hour podcast guest spot talking about Barb Wire (1996), who would have thought I had so much to say about that movie? 020
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Plan a horrorfest using only your first name Perfect Blue (1997) Eko Eko Azarak II: Birth of the Wizard (1996) At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964) Razorback (1984) City of the Dead (1960) Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980) 010
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I'll pick up any book by or about an Aotearoa political figure if it's cheap enough, even if I find them loathsome. Found this one for $1 at a book fair some years ago, and just opened it for the first time. Prebble had recently won the Wellington Central electorate over Labour's Alick Shaw. 110
Reposted by pearceStabbins McGee: Mack Daddy; Math Zaddy 🇵🇸 @stabbinsmcgee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Windows 98 finding out you don’t go to Start → Shut Down to turn off your computer. 121
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Never thought I'd voluntarily read another book by an economist, but Escape From Capitalism: Economics is Political, and Other Liberating Truths by Clara Mattei was an inspiring & surprisingly breezy read, basically a manifesto for alternatives to austerity. Can't wait to dig into The Capital Order. 110
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 23/08/2026"One party wants to tax and spend more, one party wants to tax and spend less" is certainly a choice of how to frame the difference between the major parties' economic policies. Another could be, "one wants higher wages and lower unemployment, the other wants the opposite." 120
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 16/08/2026🧵 Every year I have about a week and a half when I can go to see a lot of indie movies at the cinema. It's called the New Zealand International Film Festival and it's happening right now in my city, Wellington. 050
Reposted by pearcepetrisaurus.bsky.social @petrisaurus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026THIS IS WHY WE DON'T LISTEN TO THE CENTRISTS. Alt text version: 11034410
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Hope tonight's late film by a septuagenarian director (The Blood Countess by Ulrike Ottinger) is better than last night's (Father Mother Sister Brother by Jim Jarmusch) 020
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Instead of adding a couple of dozen new movies in the week after the New Zealand International Film Festival ends, I wonder if NZIFF could consider just making it two weeks long again like it used to be. 110
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 07/08/2026There was an announcement on the train just now that there will be mo disruptions to services this weekend, wild that it's so rare they need to inform us 010
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I know the election is late this year, but Labour probably should start campaigning. 110
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 06/08/2026What I would say to you is, less democracy is a party policy, and I'm definitely not just saying that because I'm a weak leader being walked over by minor parties. 010
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Your favourite horror film of every year in the '60s? 60: City of the Dead 61: Night Tide 62: The Brain That Wouldn't Die 63: The Whip and the Body 64: Onibaba 65: Planet of the Vampires 66: The Diabolical Dr Z 67: Spider Baby 68: Whistle and I'll Cone To You 69: Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 200
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Just found out that Billy Martin has been publishing horror fiction again under his old pen name, Poppy Z. Brite. I was a huge fan back in the '90s. No doubt this is old news for many. 120
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 01/08/2026There was a time when Aotearoa had reason to be proud of what was being accomplished in the arts on the world stage. To the point where it was actively driving tourism. The burning down of funding means there'll soon be very little that even exists, apart from hobbyists and the independently wealthy 163
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I really do need to get into reading Swan Boy and not just his letterboxd reviews 020
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"The last person I ever wanted to talk to as a CEO [of a state-owned enterprise] was [our majority shareholder] the Government." Sounds a bit different in that context, eh? 000
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Wait, which business did he build? He worked at Unilever from 1993 until 2011 and at Air New Zealand from 2011 until 2019. Both were around for decades before he was born. I can't find any record of him ever founding or owning a business. 130
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Yes, and I'd love for anyone criticising the "meanness" of Emily Wilson's Odyssey review to have to sit down and read the attacks on her for the the first line of her translation to see what "shockingly harsh language" really looks like. 030
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It seems to me that a renowned classicist who's translated both of Homers's epics should be allowed to have some reckons about an adaptation of The Odyssey. Wilson had to endure far meaner and much more personal attacks for her translations than anything she's directed at the movie. 065
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Pop quiz: which New Zealand politician said this? "I’m sorry, I only came to politics in 2020. I don’t know what happened in the past." 120
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Most Wuthering Heights Day had me pulling out all my Kate Bush records and reminding myself that The Dreaming is about as avant garde an album as a popular hit maker ever released. Reckon I've loved her music since being entranced by her music videos at three years old. youtu.be/cxxd5JNweUkyoutu.beGet Out Of My HouseYouTube video by Kate Bush - Topic 030
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Haven't logged in for a while, wonder what's going on? *click, click* "New Zealand should genetically engineer miniature Haast Eagles to control the rat population." 040
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Actual footage of Stuart Nash attempting to engage in politicsstatic.klipy.comSideshow Bob RakeAlt: Sideshow Bob continually taking a rake to the face 021
pearce @pearced.bsky.social · 22/07/2026And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know 010
Reposted by pearceElle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 21/07/2026When you've defeated the cone they put you in the Hannibal Lector 377198503825