Dan Slevin
@danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net
Gentleman of Silverstream. Writer, broadcaster and sometime CEO. Reviewer of films at substack.funeralsandsnakes.net and RNZ.
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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 Friday on Nights with @emiledonovan.bsky.social, and occasionally as a reliever on At the Movies.
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Right. Here's my big pitch:
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
December 4, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Right. Here's my big pitch:
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
Muppet James Bond
James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye
Dominic Cooper as Bond
Kermit M Frog
Mrs Moneypiggy
Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ
The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.
So we’re just agreeing that they misrepresented Trump? Based on one Telegraph writer’s opinion? It’s now historical truth?
BBC leaders resigned for misrepresenting Trump, but not for misrepresenting Corbyn
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/bbc-leader...
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/bbc-leader...
BBC leaders resigned for misrepresenting Trump, but not for misrepresenting Corbyn
The head of the BBC, Tim Davie, and the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness, have been forced to resign after misrepresenting Donald Trump.
www.councilestatemedia.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
So we’re just agreeing that they misrepresented Trump? Based on one Telegraph writer’s opinion? It’s now historical truth?
Just arrived in the mail. I last saw it more than 40 years ago. That’s going straight in the Blu-ray player! Connery. Caine. Huston.
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Just arrived in the mail. I last saw it more than 40 years ago. That’s going straight in the Blu-ray player! Connery. Caine. Huston.
I see that Coster has been put on leave from his current job because of concerns about his performance in his last one. Before him we had Mike Bush who has just been reprimanded from his role as Commish in Victoria for taking a police helicopter to a conference in Tasmania…
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I see that Coster has been put on leave from his current job because of concerns about his performance in his last one. Before him we had Mike Bush who has just been reprimanded from his role as Commish in Victoria for taking a police helicopter to a conference in Tasmania…
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12 - 16 Nov 2025 in Pōneke a new Theatre Marae experience. Written by Helen Pearse-Otene, directed by Jim Moriarty, choreographed by Tānemahuta Gray and produced by me and Jim. "Out the Gate" about incarceration in Aotearoa from lived experience. Tickets from Te Rākau's website.
"Wow, just wow"
"Wow, just wow"
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
12 - 16 Nov 2025 in Pōneke a new Theatre Marae experience. Written by Helen Pearse-Otene, directed by Jim Moriarty, choreographed by Tānemahuta Gray and produced by me and Jim. "Out the Gate" about incarceration in Aotearoa from lived experience. Tickets from Te Rākau's website.
"Wow, just wow"
"Wow, just wow"
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The combo of walled-garden social media and AI replacing search means the death of the useful/open/free internet. Why would anyone create anything when it will just be summarized by AI and no one will ever see it? When social media deprecates outbound links, how will anyone find original content?
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The combo of walled-garden social media and AI replacing search means the death of the useful/open/free internet. Why would anyone create anything when it will just be summarized by AI and no one will ever see it? When social media deprecates outbound links, how will anyone find original content?
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“wickett”?
Blair Tickner retains place in Black Caps after back to back four-wickett games
Blair Tickner retains place in Black Caps after back to back four-wickett games
The paceman, who was recalled after two years against England, has again been named in the one-day squad.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
“wickett”?
Seated for PREDATOR: BADLANDS at 3D IMAX. Always a mistake to give a reviewer a recliner seat as there’s a better than even chance we’ll fall asleep.
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Seated for PREDATOR: BADLANDS at 3D IMAX. Always a mistake to give a reviewer a recliner seat as there’s a better than even chance we’ll fall asleep.
For those Wellingtonians who miss the days of drunken hoons in fancy dress marauding around the city during the Sevens, you’ll be pleased to know that there’s a darts tournament at TSB Arena tonight.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
For those Wellingtonians who miss the days of drunken hoons in fancy dress marauding around the city during the Sevens, you’ll be pleased to know that there’s a darts tournament at TSB Arena tonight.
Perhaps if the president of the National Māori Principals’ Association butchers the word curriculum this badly, some changes might be appropriate.
A MUST listen.
You want a summary of the devastating list of recolonisation of our education.
waateanews.com/2025/11/05/b...
You want a summary of the devastating list of recolonisation of our education.
waateanews.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bruce Jepsen | Cuccirculum changes perpetuate racism and deepen inequities in education
waateanews.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Perhaps if the president of the National Māori Principals’ Association butchers the word curriculum this badly, some changes might be appropriate.
Was this the Auschwitz episode of Dancing With the Stars?
The week's big ratings headline belongs to ABC's red-hot, 20-year-old 'Dancing With the Stars' and the record it set.
Ratings Rundown: The Most-Watched and Top-Rated Shows | Week of Oct. 27
The big headline this week belongs to ABC's red-hot, 20-year-old 'Dancing With the Stars' and the record it set.
mattmitovich.ghost.io
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Was this the Auschwitz episode of Dancing With the Stars?
Thinking about Mamdani’s possible futures. There’s the disappointing drift to the establishment (Blair, Obama). There’s being hounded out of office (Ardern). Or there’s wearing fatigues and combat boots giving nightly radio addresses to the citizens (Zelenskyy).
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Thinking about Mamdani’s possible futures. There’s the disappointing drift to the establishment (Blair, Obama). There’s being hounded out of office (Ardern). Or there’s wearing fatigues and combat boots giving nightly radio addresses to the citizens (Zelenskyy).
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I’ve delivered this week’s episode of @radionz.nzcow.com At the Movies and all the reviews will be online tonight. BUGONIA, GOOD FORTUNE & HEDDA. Tonight, personally, I’m going to relax in front of Match of the Day because West Ham didn’t get beat this weekend. Red wine, crackers, cheese, ah!
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I’ve delivered this week’s episode of @radionz.nzcow.com At the Movies and all the reviews will be online tonight. BUGONIA, GOOD FORTUNE & HEDDA. Tonight, personally, I’m going to relax in front of Match of the Day because West Ham didn’t get beat this weekend. Red wine, crackers, cheese, ah!
Not this terrible version, no.
From @theathletic.com: The All Blacks shirt has its own mythology. Players wear it with a sense of allegiance akin to that of a military or a religion. nyti.ms/3Xa13jN
November 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Not this terrible version, no.
It’s a beautiful sunny afternoon in the suburbs so, of course, someone is setting off loud firecrackers and you can hear the stressed out neighbourhood dogs barking in response.
November 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM
It’s a beautiful sunny afternoon in the suburbs so, of course, someone is setting off loud firecrackers and you can hear the stressed out neighbourhood dogs barking in response.
For a few years our ironic coffee table book of choice was Dictators Homes by Peter York. A guide to the interior and exterior design choices of the world’s worst people. atlantic-books.co.uk/book/dictato...
Looks like a new edition is necessary.
Looks like a new edition is necessary.
November 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
For a few years our ironic coffee table book of choice was Dictators Homes by Peter York. A guide to the interior and exterior design choices of the world’s worst people. atlantic-books.co.uk/book/dictato...
Looks like a new edition is necessary.
Looks like a new edition is necessary.
This is what happens when you don’t have a metadata policy and you don’t enforce whatever you have.
October 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is what happens when you don’t have a metadata policy and you don’t enforce whatever you have.
Has he got his hands in his pockets again?!
Christopher Luxon and Donald Trump meet one on one for the first time, ahead of an Apec leaders' dinner in Gyeongju, South Korea
October 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Has he got his hands in his pockets again?!
I know it has been a very long day but my first thought when I saw this picture was that this camera was saying, “fuck you!”
London with a Leica - film photography using an old camera explored in my post at
alondoninheritance.com/london-photo...
alondoninheritance.com/london-photo...
October 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I know it has been a very long day but my first thought when I saw this picture was that this camera was saying, “fuck you!”
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I hired it here: ondemand.arovideo.co.nz
AroVision: Home
ondemand.arovideo.co.nz
October 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I hired it here: ondemand.arovideo.co.nz
This is now the most popular social media post I have ever been responsible for! Amazing.
My wife has discovered origami cats and now they all want to be fed.
October 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
This is now the most popular social media post I have ever been responsible for! Amazing.
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I wrote about the Netflix smash The Perfect Neighbor, and why its runaway success makes me a little uneasy.
A Chilling Netflix Documentary Has Become Streaming’s Biggest Hit. I’m Not Sure That’s a Good Thing.
The Perfect Neighbor tells an explosive true story—but you have to look deeper.
slate.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I wrote about the Netflix smash The Perfect Neighbor, and why its runaway success makes me a little uneasy.