cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/37561894

Dear ABC, both your A and B headlines suck.

Both films OK. That's about it.

Resident Evil is fine. Nothing you haven't seen before. Which begs the question, why? Maybe this is a "one for me (the director) and one for the studio" kinda film. The only reason I went to see this is because I have fond memories of watching my younger brothers playing the original game for the first time and all three of us screaming in the dark at the first zombie reveal.

Hope is the real disappointment. Coming after previous films The Chaser, The Yellow Sea and The Wailing. What a massive stumble. The film has a great opening but then things go off the wall and not in a good way. It's a mess. I am shocked. There are glimpses of what could have been throughout film. Maybe the director has lost the plot or bit off more than they could chew.

Construction outside my flat is a bit noisy. Early on when they had Grond thumping into the earth my soul was jumping out of my body.

Hit me with your recommendations... if you have any. Ideally looking for something I can set up asap for short term use without too much hassle until I can sort out ABN etcc for Square or get a bank merchant.

Pinched from ACF social.

In case you missed it: 'C U in the NT' tourism slogan causes social media stir

Technically not real trains, but still...

Photo collage created from pictures taken at a funeral for a koala:

Community members hold Funeral for a Dunggirr/koala whose life was taken by logging operations last week.

Yesterday, community gathered to mourn the death of the male Dunggirr (koala) and call for a independent investigation into the injury and conduct of Forestry NSW.

On Tuesday 21st, a Dunggirr was found injured in a clear fell logging site in Pine Creek State Forest. The male koala was taken to Port Macquarie Koala Hospital, where he was not seen until the following day. He was unfortunately euthanised due to internal injuries and illness.

The community has called for Forestry NSW to cease its destructive logging practices in Pine Creek Forest, a known koala hotspot, on Gumbaynggirr homelands.

From the wiki:

The Wiki is a community resource intended to support local organising for a moratorium on data centres and as a tool to coordinate the wider campaign.

But 1570 is old technology; most cinemas shifted to digital around a decade ago, which means there are now only 41 cinemas in the whole world capable of projecting the format. These include the Imax in Melbourne, Australia, which removed its film projector in 2015 but bought it back two years later when Nolan appealed to Imax cinemas around the world to show his 2017 film Dunkirk on 1570.

Now, ahead of The Odyssey’s release this week, Nolan fans are heading down under from places as far flung as Turkey, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany and Los Angeles to watch the film at Imax Melbourne, which is the only cinema in the southern hemisphere with a 1570 reel of The Odyssey. The enormous reel runs more than 17km, weighs 240kg, and is, as Imax Melbourne’s technical manager Dan Drobik says, “a precious commodity”.

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Melbourne’s Imax is also the largest 1.43:1 cinema screen in the world, measuring 32m wide by 23m high (roughly as tall as a seven storey building). When tickets for The Odyssey first went on sale – a year ago – it sold more than 17,000 tickets in under 24 hours. They have since sold more than 30,000 tickets; The Odyssey is already their eighth biggest film of all time, before it has even opened.

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