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Oh hey! That's me right now with Small Prophets on the BBC. I want to see this joyous thing so bad.

I'm in the live broadcast of the Actor Awards.

I'm somewhere way in the back, wearing a gown the kind press will refer to as "brave" and mean ones as "Zoom era".

I have my Sal Saperstein shout-out all ready to go.

A complete lunar eclipse (blood moon) is happening now on a perfectly clear and starry night.

As I was watching, a meteor streaked past, just underneath the moon. Perfect.

Seth Rogen accepting Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for The Studio #ActorAwards

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

I picture them as having precocial young. Like guinea pigs.

A three-film day at the cinema today with The Housemaid, Pillion, and Send Help. All very different tonally. All worth a watch.

The Housemaid was a particularly nice surprise: a throwback to '90s domestic thrillers that knows what you expect to happen and uses it against you. It's great.

#filmsky

The ending is haunting.

I want every single one of you who is an artist to find success and happiness making it, and I want every one of who loves to consume art to be swimming in an absolute sea of genius. Every attempt to shortcut that muddies those waters and robs real artists of success. That's my anti-AI stance.

My favourite horror miniseries. Superb story.

This is one of my films of the year. Phenomenal cinema experience.

Was it more Wuthering? Or Heights?

Pretty sure I learned this reading Ice Station by Matthew Reilly

Where did you watch it?

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The bedroom row halfway through episode 8 of The Beast in Me is off the charts. Matthew Rhys is outstanding in this show as are Claire Danes and Brittany Snow.

Highly recommend this.

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"Well, if I can blow up a cow with dynamite in ten minutes, but you need three hours to butcher it, who’s going to win the race?" - Chuck Wendig.

Love it.

Brilliant film

Thank you. I feel like I almost never see middle-grade books in hardback-form in bookshops, so I assumed PB was the norm.

But I'm in Australia, so maybe a chunk of our releases only come out when it is paperback time.

I certainly get what you are saying about the costs.

Can you request that a publisher release the book as a paperback (from the start)? Or is that not a thing? Not viable?

We used to kick a flaming, chicken-wire-wrapped toilet roll soaked in diesel around the backyard. We called it fire footy.

Yep. And it was only once too. Definitely only once.

Horses down the river, but same. Every now and then, I'd come back without a horse. Or the horse would come back without me. Didn't die. So: good times!

I lay in a railway ditch once as the grain train passed over me like the wrath of God. Never been so scared in my life.

Congratulations Adele!

As an Australian, this thread is so informative. I don't know a lot about Bad Bunny, but this performance looks like it was superb.

The Life of Chuck is gorgeous. Telling the story in reverse makes the dreamy opening act hit you right in the heart.

I cried so much during this film. For the wonder of Us. The miracle that is our one life; our lived-in internal world that is its own kind of universe... while we are here.

#filmsky

Just the simple question "how would the other person feel if that happened to them" is so key to writing believable characters.

if you don't spend your life considering or observing how actions impact others, you are greatly on a backfoot for crafting nuanced conflict and interactions.

The original font must have been special edition.

The "expert warning" pilot opener in The Last of Us where they discuss how climate change may help invasive fungi adapt to human body temperature is one of the most chilling and smart pilot openers I have seen.

It was a herald. Not part of the story but setting the stage for it.

#scriptsky