Dan Slevin

Here's a quick pinned intro post for all those welcome new arrivals. I'm a film and tv critic for RNZ in Aotearoa New Zealand, broadcasting every Thursday at 8.40 on Nights with @emiledonovan.bsky.social, and in the rotation on Sunday afternoons’ Culture 101.

this is categorically insane

Do not discount the possibility that Wilson get a cut of all the crap that is done in their name.

This is still what the future sounds like.

This is great news.

Bullet dodged.

Ended up voting at Queensgate shopping centre where they are taking non-special votes from six or seven different electorates. There were queues but the wait time wasn’t too bad.

I’m watching The Prisoner for the first time and have arrived at the episode where he drives Patrick Carroll’s No.2 mad and the weird trampoline martial arts (with motorcycle crash helmets) is the daftest thing I’ve seen in eons.

Woman dies after being hit by train in west Auckland

According to Steven Knight (the writer of the next Bond) and Gary Oldman (well-connected), the decision was made back in September. It is already done.

I have to admit that I was not very fond of World Shut Your Mouth at the time, but it comes to mind on a regular basis these days.

Happy 69th birthday, singer, songwriter, musician and author - Julian Cope. 🎂

Coincidentally announced three weeks before a general election.

Malpass: What if China invades Taiwan Luxon: "It'd be a huge hit to GDP" omg many human people living in this country have family in Taiwan you dumbfuck

I regret to announce that the McDonald’s garlic and black pepper McNuggets are more than a dollar each and taste of absolutely nothing. That is all.

Wondering whether there will be any consequence for such blatant lies. Apart from winning the election, obviously.

In a very Wellington Phoenix development, new star striker is crocked after less than half an hour of the first match. #alm #aleagues #coyn

Tonight’s Hollywood at Home: JACKIE BROWN (Tarantino, 1997). @imprintfilms.bsky.social have come out with this in 4K UHD and I am really looking forward to this. viavision.com.au/products/jac...

That’s going to require a fuckton of arnica.

Today was a good day. Started with the Hammers having their biggest away win in over a century and finished with a good long rant about the amazing documentary NAZA on RNZ Nights. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Just tried to post a cat photo to Instagram. When did it get so damn complicated?

Today was a good day. Started with the Hammers having their biggest away win in over a century and finished with a good long rant about the amazing documentary NAZA on RNZ Nights. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

🧵 goes for NZ too. Remarkable Place to Die, Blue Murder Motel, etc.

The floating LNG tank will be designed to very rigorous maritime engineering standards so that the front doesn't fall off. But to be on the safe side, it will be towed out beyond the environment. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This election (like every election) is a contest between two ideas: extraction vs investment. The idea that you should be planting trees whose shade you will never sit beneath OR we should cut down that tree now because there’s a quid in it.

It either is or it isn’t. Perhaps someone could look into it for us and confirm.

Make a war film rubbish The Guns of Toblerone

Not that Spielberg is a chump with that kinda thing but I worked for several years in a satellite TV newsroom and the control room scene in DISCLOSURE DAY is so authentic that they literally hired one of our sat operators to play one

I understand the desire to always be at the front of the news cycle, but this drip-feeding of policy just makes it look like you are pulling ideas out of your arse. Nothing strategic or coordinated about it. Just whatever you feel like announcing that day.

Weird surprising fact*: none of the actors who have played James Bond have ever been in a movie** together. *as near as I can tell, go ahead and prove me wrong **except for documentaries about being James Bond

Book Hero also threatening the sustainability of many local independent book retailers through predatory pricing.

It would make more sense to change the name from AI to AIEEEEEE!, which is the way I pronounce it in my head

F&S 20th birthday festival: Day 5. Today I remember one of my (many) failed predictions. funeralsandsnakes.net/p/celebratin...

Why does Netflix even bother having the letters NZ in the name of their ANZ Content Team? Adding insult to injury.

I hope the CFO resigned because RNZ didn’t pay freelancers for two months at the beginning of the year.