Chris
@chrismbr.bsky.social
art-architecture-food-theatre-history-delight and other pleasing things
#DisneyPlus Andor, Season 1, 2022. Astonishingly good ‘Star Wars’ pre-prequel, with a theme of growing organised resistance to more and more intransigent authoritarianism, balancing politics, action and emotion.
January 28, 2026 at 3:49 AM
#DisneyPlus Andor, Season 1, 2022. Astonishingly good ‘Star Wars’ pre-prequel, with a theme of growing organised resistance to more and more intransigent authoritarianism, balancing politics, action and emotion.
#Stan Sherlock, Season 2, 2012. Entertaining, if not as effortlessly light and glowing as the first season - this has a little too much of self-conscious Important Event about it.
January 27, 2026 at 7:49 PM
#Stan Sherlock, Season 2, 2012. Entertaining, if not as effortlessly light and glowing as the first season - this has a little too much of self-conscious Important Event about it.
#Beamafilm Orlando, 1992. Lovely film with refreshingly unfussy gender blending. Sally Potter was influenced by Peter Greenaway’s lush & idiosyncratic period films and Derek Jarman’s low budget creative anachronisms. Tilda Swinton is mesmerising with her 4th wall-breaking glances & asides.
January 27, 2026 at 7:46 PM
#Beamafilm Orlando, 1992. Lovely film with refreshingly unfussy gender blending. Sally Potter was influenced by Peter Greenaway’s lush & idiosyncratic period films and Derek Jarman’s low budget creative anachronisms. Tilda Swinton is mesmerising with her 4th wall-breaking glances & asides.
Seasonal messages from #SoundMerch #Collingwood
January 27, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Seasonal messages from #SoundMerch #Collingwood
5 concerts you've seen with women lead singers:
Lady Gaga
Kylie Minogue (x3)
Adele
Katie Perry
Sneaky Sound System
Bonus: BABBA (pub gig)
Lady Gaga
Kylie Minogue (x3)
Adele
Katie Perry
Sneaky Sound System
Bonus: BABBA (pub gig)
5 concerts you've seen with women lead singers:
- Madonna
- Tori Amos
- Sarah McLachlan
- Bernadette Peters
- Kristin Chenoweth
- Madonna
- Tori Amos
- Sarah McLachlan
- Bernadette Peters
- Kristin Chenoweth
5 concerts you've seen with women lead singers:
Florence + the Machine
The Jezabels
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Portishead
Lizzo
Bonus: Garbage
Was also going to add Janelle Monae until I remembered they are non-binary!
Florence + the Machine
The Jezabels
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Portishead
Lizzo
Bonus: Garbage
Was also going to add Janelle Monae until I remembered they are non-binary!
January 26, 2026 at 4:16 AM
5 concerts you've seen with women lead singers:
Lady Gaga
Kylie Minogue (x3)
Adele
Katie Perry
Sneaky Sound System
Bonus: BABBA (pub gig)
Lady Gaga
Kylie Minogue (x3)
Adele
Katie Perry
Sneaky Sound System
Bonus: BABBA (pub gig)
Hooray, the ugliest building on #GertrudeSt has finally gone! Don’t know if the Snøhetta design really will get built though.
January 26, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Hooray, the ugliest building on #GertrudeSt has finally gone! Don’t know if the Snøhetta design really will get built though.
#Netflix Stranger Things, Seasons 1-5, 2016-25. While S1 is still the best, I liked the follow-ups more this watch - S4 jumped the shark after all. S5 brought the whole agglomeration to coherence, while still leaving questions. The final episode has Return of the King syndrome but they’d earned it!
January 26, 2026 at 3:03 AM
#Netflix Stranger Things, Seasons 1-5, 2016-25. While S1 is still the best, I liked the follow-ups more this watch - S4 jumped the shark after all. S5 brought the whole agglomeration to coherence, while still leaving questions. The final episode has Return of the King syndrome but they’d earned it!
Jasper to sooth the heart: companionable, alert, “Draw me like one of your French girls”, lying on the shopping bags to stop us leaving, apprehensive of *that* self-bouncing ball…
January 26, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Jasper to sooth the heart: companionable, alert, “Draw me like one of your French girls”, lying on the shopping bags to stop us leaving, apprehensive of *that* self-bouncing ball…
#Kanopy Flow, 2023. Beautiful and mysterious animation about animals surviving in a post-human water-filled world. But I worried so much about food throughout!
January 26, 2026 at 2:30 AM
#Kanopy Flow, 2023. Beautiful and mysterious animation about animals surviving in a post-human water-filled world. But I worried so much about food throughout!
#Netflix K-Pop Demon Hunters, 2025. Outrageous bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you animation that has so much fun sending up K-pop while serving K-pop with OTT animation that it wizzes by before you know it. I loved the pet tiger and its 6-eyed magpie companion, based on traditional folk images.
January 26, 2026 at 2:26 AM
#Netflix K-Pop Demon Hunters, 2025. Outrageous bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you animation that has so much fun sending up K-pop while serving K-pop with OTT animation that it wizzes by before you know it. I loved the pet tiger and its 6-eyed magpie companion, based on traditional folk images.
#NewYearsDay 2026 brunch at #TerrorTwilight as it was open!
January 26, 2026 at 2:19 AM
#NewYearsDay 2026 brunch at #TerrorTwilight as it was open!
#latergram #NewYearsEve 2025-2026 drinks at friendly local neighbourhood bar #Bebines (yes that dessert-looking thing is a traditional French cocktail!) and joined by Julian & Elliot for midnight.
January 26, 2026 at 2:13 AM
#latergram #NewYearsEve 2025-2026 drinks at friendly local neighbourhood bar #Bebines (yes that dessert-looking thing is a traditional French cocktail!) and joined by Julian & Elliot for midnight.
Traditional #NewYearsEve hot cross bun display in the supermarket
January 26, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Traditional #NewYearsEve hot cross bun display in the supermarket
#OKru The Entity, 1981. What I thought might be a jolly little horror turned out to be very uncomfortable, as patriarchal misogyny asserts its supernatural rights by repeatedly raping Barbara Hershey. Yukkily effective, although not quite enough to sustain it to the end.
January 26, 2026 at 12:35 AM
#OKru The Entity, 1981. What I thought might be a jolly little horror turned out to be very uncomfortable, as patriarchal misogyny asserts its supernatural rights by repeatedly raping Barbara Hershey. Yukkily effective, although not quite enough to sustain it to the end.
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There are two Americas. Pick your side wisely. One ideology always loses.
January 25, 2026 at 3:20 AM
There are two Americas. Pick your side wisely. One ideology always loses.
Looking back on decades of dancing…
January 25, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Looking back on decades of dancing…
#latergram #Dandenongs walk to #SherbrookeFalls and back and a drink and dinner at the #MicawberTavern with friends from the 80s!
January 25, 2026 at 3:36 AM
#latergram #Dandenongs walk to #SherbrookeFalls and back and a drink and dinner at the #MicawberTavern with friends from the 80s!
#OKru See No Evil (AKA Blind Terror), 1971. Or, how not to be as good as Wait Until Dark while submitting Mia Farrow to as many indignities as possible. Blind-girl-against-killer flick has many good ideas but also too much flagposting of events/red herrings to come.
January 25, 2026 at 3:27 AM
#OKru See No Evil (AKA Blind Terror), 1971. Or, how not to be as good as Wait Until Dark while submitting Mia Farrow to as many indignities as possible. Blind-girl-against-killer flick has many good ideas but also too much flagposting of events/red herrings to come.
#Beamafilm The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders, 2019. OK doco giving a potted history of the gallery and its collection. But nice to see some of those amazing paintings!
January 25, 2026 at 3:20 AM
#Beamafilm The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders, 2019. OK doco giving a potted history of the gallery and its collection. But nice to see some of those amazing paintings!
#PrimeVideo Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar, 2019. After her divorce Agatha Christie visits Iraq archaeologists and meets future husband, the *much* younger Max: spark fly/people die. Amiable and with a fine sense of wit and self-mockery, this is refined fun.
January 25, 2026 at 3:09 AM
#PrimeVideo Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar, 2019. After her divorce Agatha Christie visits Iraq archaeologists and meets future husband, the *much* younger Max: spark fly/people die. Amiable and with a fine sense of wit and self-mockery, this is refined fun.
#Kanopy Les Diaboliques, 1955. Pre-Psycho murder-thriller-horror, with Georges Clouzot directing his wife (who died only 5 years later) and a fabulously haughty Simone Signoret as women bonding over a shared enemy. Nasty, clever and effective.
January 25, 2026 at 2:58 AM
#Kanopy Les Diaboliques, 1955. Pre-Psycho murder-thriller-horror, with Georges Clouzot directing his wife (who died only 5 years later) and a fabulously haughty Simone Signoret as women bonding over a shared enemy. Nasty, clever and effective.
Delightful & delicious BBQ at Glyn’s - especially delicious when such desserts were provided! I hadn’t heard about John’s “all over social media” cherry karpatka before - until after the BBQ and suddenly my social media were full of it…
January 25, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Delightful & delicious BBQ at Glyn’s - especially delicious when such desserts were provided! I hadn’t heard about John’s “all over social media” cherry karpatka before - until after the BBQ and suddenly my social media were full of it…
Openwork’s rather lovely new corner of #GertrudeSt & #BrunswickSt for #YarraCityCouncil, with rocks forming seats distributed in groups across the site rather than in a single corner auditorium as the masterplan suggested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Openwork’s rather lovely new corner of #GertrudeSt & #BrunswickSt for #YarraCityCouncil, with rocks forming seats distributed in groups across the site rather than in a single corner auditorium as the masterplan suggested.