Stephen A Russell

Hating on animals is worse than hating on the arts imho (this awards season really has unmasked some twats)

Speak up On the devastating clarity of Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab

The Voice of Hind Rajab’s testimony is integral to this refusal to allow her voice to be annihilated. This reconstruction is a refusal to allow her murderers to rewrite her story with their lies bit.ly/40O8nU2

I know Hollywood has long been complicit in the myth-making of empire but this is truly horrifying. Filmmakers have fought and critiqued this vision for the USA, even from within the system, sometimes at great cost. We can never accept the idea this what art is or how it should be used. #filmsky

Adomako Aman’s Dancing in the Dark is about Black and Brown club culture.

Obvs bunch of ballroom docs where the music is integral. Strike a Pose, Paris is Burning etc

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution

Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution

Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music

Love all the responses and tryna think of some queer examples, with Queer as Punk a recent and fantastic look at religion, politics, gender, representation and music in Malaysia. Daring in spirit if not necessarily style, but gorgeous and empowered.

Tomorrow's wrap-around front page of The National.

This is the human cost.

As the UK Government talks a big game of being ready to join the US and Israel in war, over 150 families are mourning their children.

Their little girls were mostly aged 7-12.

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

Just your reminder that if you don't want to watch noted horrible person Kevin Spacey, the UK original House of Cards miniseries exists, is awesome, and can be watched for free (in Australia) on ABC iview.

I *will* die on this soap box I’ve stood on since childhood

Return of the Jedi is the best Star Wars film – come at me | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games Forty years on from the epic (first) conclusion of the Skywalker saga, Stephen A Russell mounts a heartfelt challenge to naysaying critics and fans.

This!!! I have such a bee in my bonnet about this. So much so I wrote an indulgent essay lol bit.ly/3VelUku

Noem Alone (2026)

‘The Moment’ review: Charli xcx is taking over our cinemas with this brattish, cuttingly funny mockumentary The queen of snarky pop delivers her ‘Truth or Dare’

Was v impresed by Charli XCX's comic chops in Aidan Zamiri’s anarchic mockumentary, The Moment, which harnesses The Thick of It's omnishambles energy bit.ly/4ajg9ej

The Bride! review: monstrously good fun | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games Director Maggie Gyllenhaal delivers a ferocious and feral update on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in The Bride!

Hamnet star Jessie Buckley reunites with The Lost Daughter director Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Bride!, a wild and ulruly reinvigoration of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by way of the James Whale sequel bit.ly/4lfwXqC

This sounds like an ad, but it's about murder.

‘The Moment’ review: Charli xcx is taking over our cinemas with this brattish, cuttingly funny mockumentary The queen of snarky pop delivers her ‘Truth or Dare’

Was v impresed by Charli XCX's comic chops in Aidan Zamiri’s anarchic mockumentary, The Moment, which harnesses The Thick of It's omnishambles energy bit.ly/4ajg9ej

Return To Silent Hill (2026) 4K & Blu-ray Collector's Edition When a mysterious letter calls him back to Silent Hill in search of his lost love, James finds a once-recognisable town and encounters terrifying figures both familiar and new, and begins to question ...

If you're digging the renaissance of computer game to horror movie adaptations, I went (Hell) deep on the booklet essay for @umbrellaent.bsky.social's Return to SIlent Hill box set bit.ly/3N6xvCh

Ah yes, cutting funding to Muslim groups because of a social media post by the far-right Australian Jewish Association. The textbook definition of social cohesion

The Bride! review: monstrously good fun | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games Director Maggie Gyllenhaal delivers a ferocious and feral update on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in The Bride!

Hamnet star Jessie Buckley reunites with The Lost Daughter director Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Bride!, a wild and ulruly reinvigoration of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by way of the James Whale sequel bit.ly/4lfwXqC

Not even hiding his maniacal villainy

I can't stop thinking about THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE...

If you're unsure whether to see it, this chat with Amanda Seyfried gives you a sense of what you'd be missing:

Isn’t it special??

Very much so! LOVELY too

Preaching kindness, Amanda Seyfried went all in on her latest role The Oscar-nominated star adored working with director Mona Fastvold to resurrect an astonishing religious figure in The Testament of Ann Lee.

Somehow I completely forgot to share a lil chat with someone you may have heard of… ab.co/407dFd7

My latest Substack newsletter is out. A report back on some of the crime fiction, film, as well as other culture that has preoccupied me over a long, cold Berlin winter.

andrewnette.substack.com/p/the-only-l...

Israeli president Isaac Herzog visited ASIO headquarters during Australian visit Australia's intelligence agency has confirmed Herzog met with ASIO director Mike Burgess after senator David Pocock pressed for answers.

#BREAKING: Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Australia's domestic spy agency during his state visit last month.

www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Did you happen to mention to any of these people while you were taking advantage of their hospitality that you'd already agreed with the President of Israel to support another campaign to obliterate Muslim children?

the Greens keep saying the kinds of things that people who vote Labour agree with and Labour keep calling it dangerous extremism, and I’m not sure you could plan a better voter alienation strategy

sex matters trustee charlotte cadden

gorton and denton by-election result: she gets 706 votes, 1.9% of the total

underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit

Labour’s *majority* in Gorton and Denton in 2024 – just 19 months ago – was 13,000+. Tonight it got fewer than 10,000 votes total, on an almost identical turnout. In its heartland. That’s what a collapse of your core vote looks like.

Once again every shitposter on the socials was yelling this at Labour and the response was "sorry I can't hear you over how smart and sensible I am you scum"