Stephen A Russell
@stephenarussell.bsky.social
Glasgow-born, Naarm (Melbourne)-based arts journalist and award-winning critic obsessed with film, theatre and a whole lot more. Live on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation. Snorts generally included. He/him, quite gay.
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The movie Jennifer Lawrence (and Martin Scorsese) had to get made
After reading Die My Love in book club, Martin Scorsese knew it had to be made into a film. Now it's rewriting cinema portrayal of womanhood and postpartum depression.
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A chat with Die My Love director Lynne Ramsay about making gripping films that aren’t black or white ab.co/4nGVLHp
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Want a bloody good time with a darkly comic crime caper? Get onto Reckless at SBS bit.ly/47OeBX7
Reckless review: the best Australian comedy of the year | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
Directed by Beck Cole and starring the magnificent Tasma Walton and Hunter Page-Lochard, this First Nations-led dark comedy crime caper is a hoot.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Want a bloody good time with a darkly comic crime caper? Get onto Reckless at SBS bit.ly/47OeBX7
Want a bloody good time with a darkly comic crime caper? Get onto Reckless at SBS bit.ly/47OeBX7
Reckless review: the best Australian comedy of the year | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
Directed by Beck Cole and starring the magnificent Tasma Walton and Hunter Page-Lochard, this First Nations-led dark comedy crime caper is a hoot.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Want a bloody good time with a darkly comic crime caper? Get onto Reckless at SBS bit.ly/47OeBX7
Want a bloody good time with a darkly comic crime caper? Get onto Reckless at SBS bit.ly/47OeBX7
Reckless review: the best Australian comedy of the year | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
Directed by Beck Cole and starring the magnificent Tasma Walton and Hunter Page-Lochard, this First Nations-led dark comedy crime caper is a hoot.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Want a bloody good time with a darkly comic crime caper? Get onto Reckless at SBS bit.ly/47OeBX7
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Meet unlikely dining companions – Tytan the rhino and Notty the zebra! Rescued just a week apart, these two orphans are now inseparable. Where one goes, the other follows: during milk feeds, the two stand shoulder to shoulder, draining every last drop of their bottles. swt.bio/tytan
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Meet unlikely dining companions – Tytan the rhino and Notty the zebra! Rescued just a week apart, these two orphans are now inseparable. Where one goes, the other follows: during milk feeds, the two stand shoulder to shoulder, draining every last drop of their bottles. swt.bio/tytan
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Have you seen Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons battle in Bugonia yet? bit.ly/4hkY3ua
Bugonia review: incendiary and out of this world | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
Emma Stone goes all out once again in Bugonia, her latest close shave with Greek weird wave filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Have you seen Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons battle in Bugonia yet? bit.ly/4hkY3ua
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Sarah Snook faces every parent’s worst nightmare in All Her Fault bit.ly/3JJDZp4
All Her Fault review: frothy and fun thriller that will have you sloshing along | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
Sarah Snook plays a mother on the edge in the latest wine-mom thriller All Her Fault.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Sarah Snook faces every parent’s worst nightmare in All Her Fault bit.ly/3JJDZp4
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Musical theatre mayhem ensures Kiwi comedy show Happiness does what it says on the tin bit.ly/4oqm7ic
Happiness review: super-cute Kiwi musical comedy sings | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
If you love the pizzazz of amateur theatre’s razmataz, this is your new favourite binge.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Musical theatre mayhem ensures Kiwi comedy show Happiness does what it says on the tin bit.ly/4oqm7ic
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Deliciously devious, The Talented Mr Ripley @artscentremelb.bsky.social is diabolically good bit.ly/4hNVx00
Loved the classic film starring Matt Damon and Jude Law? You won't want to miss this
Playwright Joanna Murray-Smith serves up a brand-new take on the so-bad-he’s-wicked-good anti-hero.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Deliciously devious, The Talented Mr Ripley @artscentremelb.bsky.social is diabolically good bit.ly/4hNVx00
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We all have to face it, so dive headfirst into Dying: a Memoir at MTC bit.ly/4oJODuK
Dying: A Memoir review: a generous gift
Benjamin Law’s adaptation of his friend Cory Taylor’s dying wish flies high
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November 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
We all have to face it, so dive headfirst into Dying: a Memoir at MTC bit.ly/4oJODuK
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A chat with Die My Love director Lynne Ramsay about making gripping films that aren’t black or white ab.co/4nGVLHp
The movie Jennifer Lawrence (and Martin Scorsese) had to get made
After reading Die My Love in book club, Martin Scorsese knew it had to be made into a film. Now it's rewriting cinema portrayal of womanhood and postpartum depression.
ab.co
November 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A chat with Die My Love director Lynne Ramsay about making gripping films that aren’t black or white ab.co/4nGVLHp
Reposted by Stephen A Russell
THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1973)
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1973)
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We all have to face it, so dive headfirst into Dying: a Memoir at MTC bit.ly/4oJODuK
Dying: A Memoir review: a generous gift
Benjamin Law’s adaptation of his friend Cory Taylor’s dying wish flies high
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
We all have to face it, so dive headfirst into Dying: a Memoir at MTC bit.ly/4oJODuK
Deliciously devious, The Talented Mr Ripley @artscentremelb.bsky.social is diabolically good bit.ly/4hNVx00
Loved the classic film starring Matt Damon and Jude Law? You won't want to miss this
Playwright Joanna Murray-Smith serves up a brand-new take on the so-bad-he’s-wicked-good anti-hero.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Deliciously devious, The Talented Mr Ripley @artscentremelb.bsky.social is diabolically good bit.ly/4hNVx00
Musical theatre mayhem ensures Kiwi comedy show Happiness does what it says on the tin bit.ly/4oqm7ic
Happiness review: super-cute Kiwi musical comedy sings | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
If you love the pizzazz of amateur theatre’s razmataz, this is your new favourite binge.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Musical theatre mayhem ensures Kiwi comedy show Happiness does what it says on the tin bit.ly/4oqm7ic
Sarah Snook faces every parent’s worst nightmare in All Her Fault bit.ly/3JJDZp4
All Her Fault review: frothy and fun thriller that will have you sloshing along | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
Sarah Snook plays a mother on the edge in the latest wine-mom thriller All Her Fault.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Sarah Snook faces every parent’s worst nightmare in All Her Fault bit.ly/3JJDZp4
Have you seen Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons battle in Bugonia yet? bit.ly/4hkY3ua
Bugonia review: incendiary and out of this world | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
Emma Stone goes all out once again in Bugonia, her latest close shave with Greek weird wave filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Have you seen Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons battle in Bugonia yet? bit.ly/4hkY3ua
A chat with Die My Love director Lynne Ramsay about making gripping films that aren’t black or white ab.co/4nGVLHp
The movie Jennifer Lawrence (and Martin Scorsese) had to get made
After reading Die My Love in book club, Martin Scorsese knew it had to be made into a film. Now it's rewriting cinema portrayal of womanhood and postpartum depression.
ab.co
November 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A chat with Die My Love director Lynne Ramsay about making gripping films that aren’t black or white ab.co/4nGVLHp
Reposted by Stephen A Russell
When I found out that I'm intersex I knew, statistically, there were lots of other people like me out there, but only about a dozen were publicly visible. It has been a great joy to me to watch this movement grow over the decades and begin to exert real pressure for our human rights to be respected.
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
When I found out that I'm intersex I knew, statistically, there were lots of other people like me out there, but only about a dozen were publicly visible. It has been a great joy to me to watch this movement grow over the decades and begin to exert real pressure for our human rights to be respected.
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Need something lovely to watch? Musical theatre-set Kiwi comedy Happiness is an absolute delight! bit.ly/4oqm7ic
Happiness review: super-cute Kiwi musical comedy sings | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
If you love the pizzazz of amateur theatre’s razmataz, this is your new favourite binge.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Need something lovely to watch? Musical theatre-set Kiwi comedy Happiness is an absolute delight! bit.ly/4oqm7ic
Reposted by Stephen A Russell
Sarah Snook stars in the latest wine-mom book-to-TV thriller, All Her Fault bit.ly/3JJDZp4
All Her Fault review: frothy and fun thriller that will have you sloshing along | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
Sarah Snook plays a mother on the edge in the latest wine-mom thriller All Her Fault.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Sarah Snook stars in the latest wine-mom book-to-TV thriller, All Her Fault bit.ly/3JJDZp4
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Folks in the US, seek out the brilliant Ben Wishaw and Rebecca Hall in Ira Sachs’s sublime tribute to a talent taken too soon, Peter Hujar’s Day bit.ly/3QV6fFd
Peter Hujar’s Day review: A lost tape is rediscovered by a mesmerising Ben Whishaw in Ira Sachs’ ode to friendship
Rebecca Hall completes a captivating two-handed about artistic struggle
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Folks in the US, seek out the brilliant Ben Wishaw and Rebecca Hall in Ira Sachs’s sublime tribute to a talent taken too soon, Peter Hujar’s Day bit.ly/3QV6fFd
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Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is now on Netflix bit.ly/3Lg0KkL
Frankenstein review: Guillermo del Toro’s take is monstrously good | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
Del Toro’s focus on majestic craft is the perfect fit for Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, Frankenstein.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is now on Netflix bit.ly/3Lg0KkL
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is now on Netflix bit.ly/3Lg0KkL
Frankenstein review: Guillermo del Toro’s take is monstrously good | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
Del Toro’s focus on majestic craft is the perfect fit for Mary Shelley’s masterpiece, Frankenstein.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is now on Netflix bit.ly/3Lg0KkL
Folks in the US, seek out the brilliant Ben Wishaw and Rebecca Hall in Ira Sachs’s sublime tribute to a talent taken too soon, Peter Hujar’s Day bit.ly/3QV6fFd
Peter Hujar’s Day review: A lost tape is rediscovered by a mesmerising Ben Whishaw in Ira Sachs’ ode to friendship
Rebecca Hall completes a captivating two-handed about artistic struggle
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Folks in the US, seek out the brilliant Ben Wishaw and Rebecca Hall in Ira Sachs’s sublime tribute to a talent taken too soon, Peter Hujar’s Day bit.ly/3QV6fFd