Stephen Morgan
De/anti-colonialism, Indigenous Cinemas, Settler National Cinemas (CANZUS).
Settler kid, raised on Peramangk country.
Programming: londonaustfilm.com
Teaching: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social
- Reposted by Stephen MorganThis Saturday evening I’m thrilled to announce I’ll be joined by a personal hero 😊 @robinince.bsky.social at the fantastic @slapstickfest.bsky.social for #OneCutoftheDead join us for all things ‘Zombie’ 🧟🧟♂️💜📽️ @brisblakhorrorclub.bsky.social Ticket link/info🔻 slapstick.org.uk/events/slaps...
- Reposted by Stephen MorganStarmers worried about the Green Party challenging this governments failures. He's right to be. Join.greenparty.org.uk
- Very, very much appreciating the news that a reformed Faraquet will be playing London in July (and so close to my birthday). But the Dischord band I REALLY want to reform and see live again is Q & Not U. Their brand of dance punk was truly never bettered.
- Only ever got to see them once, on my 24th birthday at the Star & Garter in Manchester, and woah boy.
- I mean, I know the logical answer to 'what is your dream Dischord band reformation?' should be Fugazi, but let's be real, the audience would be full of cunts.
- And honestly, I've seen few bands that were as much fun live as Q and Not U.
- Reposted by Stephen MorganYou want BUFFY x LOST BOYS x MAD MAX x Alexis Wright with a shit-kicking soundtrack & a performance from Rob Collins that literally eats up the screen? FIREBITE
- We have another film festival coming up at the end of the month because I'm a glutton for punishment. There is some excellent stuff in here, though, even if I do say so myself. Opening night doc about the legendary John Clarke is nearly sold out though, so get in quick! #ANZFF2026
- LAFS joins forces with FANZA to present the Australia & New Zealand Film Festival at the Finsbury Park Picturehouse on the weekend between Australia Day and Waitangi Day, 30 Jan - 1 Feb. Join us for a big weekend of Antipodean storytelling on screen! www.londonaustfilm.com/anz-film-fes...
- Now that everyone is talking about SINNERS again, I'm going to remind you that if you want a more sustained fix of Indigenous vampire hunters, Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher have got you covered.
- If you're in the UK, you can catch up on ITVX: www.itv.com/watch/firebi... In the USA, it's streaming on Plex, I believe: watch.plex.tv/show/firebite In Australia, as far as I can see, it might only be available via AppleTV: tv.apple.com/au/show/fire...
- Reposted by Stephen MorganAnother step closer to publication of our new book with the release of the cover on the Allen & Unwin website. The First Inventors: How people shaped a continent Billy Griffiths, Larissa Behrendt & Sean Ulm www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/...
- Reposted by Stephen Morgan#AFCON? Absolute cinema.
- Not every day that you hear the mighty You Am I on British radio, even if it does require BBC 6 Music to be undertaking some sort of 1990s nostalgiafest.
- Also played Things of Stone and Wood earlier, oddly.
- Finally catching up with S5 of Stranger Things. When Max emerges from a rock crevice, I immediately thought of Picnic at Hanging Rock, and now ep.4 has picked up the thread and, lo and behold, there be panpipes! 😂
- Reposted by Stephen MorganIf you have 12 bad cops and 1300 good cops, but those 1300 good cops don't turn in the 12 bad cops, you have 1312 bad cops.
- Reposted by Stephen Morgan“The Adelaide Festival’s decision to dump Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah gives us a grim foretaste of the Australian cultural landscape in 2026.” David Brophy on “ambient antisemitism” and the institutional mechanisms for curtailing protest and political expression.
- Reposted by Stephen MorganAfter successfully campaigning for a Royal Commission into antisemitism, The Age seamlessly moves to making that synonymous with criticism of Israel. Watching it happen so transparently is next level.
- Reposted by Stephen MorganHappy Gravy Day #gravyday
- Reposted by Stephen MorganRIP #Bazball. via Steve Smith
- A massacre is a massacre is a massacre. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
- Reposted by Stephen MorganHave a quiet think. Let it be a guiding lesson for you Whatever regretful comments you may have made in your life, whatever actions you wish you could take back, let your benchmark for the lowest of the low be using the deaths of 15 people for the relaunch of your political career
- Reposted by Stephen MorganDing ding ding
- Reposted by Stephen MorganSure, you *could* now adopt that evidence-free report by far-right activist Jillian Segal that you know is garbage or you wouldn't have ignored it after spending a fortune on her whole dodgy operation. Or should you put money into *de-radicalising* the far right instead of, you know, employing them?
- Speaking on behalf of dual citizens of Australian origin, let me just say #NotAllUKPassportHolders. #SnickoCircus 😂 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
- Reposted by Stephen MorganRemarkable kindness and empathy from the Jewish community of Bondi and abroad in light of this horrific anti-semitic shooting. Instead of pouring fuel on the fire and joining hatemongers to condemn all Muslims, they are openly and loudly rejecting it. We stand in solidarity against hate and terror.
- Reposted by Stephen Morganmedia in this country is so completely cooked
- Reposted by Stephen MorganWhat a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.
- Reposted by Stephen MorganPack it up folks, we’re done, the worst take has been found
- Reposted by Stephen MorganThe cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.
- Buy these discs, see my face.
- Coming this March... THE SURVIVOR - terrifying Ozploitation horror! DEAD KIDS - uncut in the UK for the first time! Plus, EIGHT standard editions. Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/krbpbs6x The Survivor and Dead Kids 10% off bundle deal: tinyurl.com/33psy2mj
- Reposted by Stephen MorganNew title announcements are being developed and will be ready to collect tomorrow... In the meantime, let's revisit the tense Ozploitation thriller, Snapshot, and the wild ways different territories promoted it. 4K & Blu-ray now available in UK & US: tinyurl.com/ya8jsfrj
- Reposted by Stephen MorganThe Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
- Are world cup draws always this tedious? It's like watching a corporate away day. Anyone know how long until the orange ballbag actually starts drawing balls out of the bag?
- Did Robbie Williams just mime hitting a cricket ball when singing about the 'beautiful game'? LOL
- I mean, I guess it's nice that AI is getting a gig writing official world cup songs these days.
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View full threadAnd I will also 100% take one of the UEFA Path C teams. Not a terrible group, by any means.
- Reposted by Stephen MorganThis wildly tacky World Cup draw is a grimly fascinating preview of what happens if the aesthetics of fascism finally get their way.
- Reposted by Stephen MorganA collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons): 1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
- Really not much of a surprise to see the former Bank of England governor and current Canadian PM riding roughshod - full settler capitalist stylee - over pesky little things like moratoriums and treaties. 😬🙄🤬
- Mitchell Starc having an absolute blinder of an opening session here.
- A wicket maiden in the opening over? I'll take that.
- Super-duper late to this, but how good is that Ninajirachi album?
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- Well, that was a fucking rollercoaster of a game. Scotland are in the World Cup! AMAZING! #WellBeComing
- Scott McTominay you absolute legend! Carn Scotland!
- Just complained to the BBC about their reporting on the horrific Sara Sharif story tonight, in which the reporter said her mistreatment took place in the family's 'new council house'. Why specify 'council'? Why 'new'? Seems like a massive racist dogwhistle to me, given the current climate.
- Reposted by Stephen MorganI cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
- Reposted by Stephen MorganZack Polanski on President Trump, "It's difficult to call him anything other than a fool" "This is sociopathic behaviour" "He is toxic, misogynistic, racist" "I'm not a fan of Trump" Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"
- Reposted by Stephen MorganTwo centuries before the Trail of Tears, English colonists drove Maryland's Indigenous tribes from their land. The Piscataway Nation wants people to know their story. "We're still here," says tribe member Gabrielle Tayac. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
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- Settled in for the SSAAANZ online conference, and Jani Wilson's opening keynote. Excellent to hear more about her fascinating work on the continuing evolution of Kapa Haka on screen. I have very fond memories of sharing a panel with Jani at the Screen Conference in Glasgow a couple of years back.
- I mean, I didn't mean to suggest they were ALL tax write-offs, but also, some tax write-offs are better than others. 😂
- "Started by film lovers who turned their passion into an event everyone can enjoy, Forbidden Worlds is the best of Bristol. Watching genre films on an IMAX screen, surrounded by cinemagoers... it feels like you’re part of one (mega) movie night with friends." epigram.org.uk/giant-boars-...
- Reposted by Stephen MorganNo more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
- Jeez, Citeh's bribery bill for this game is going to be astronomical.
- Reposted by Stephen MorganA LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.
- Reposted by Stephen MorganLiterally the “he did nazi that coming!” joke
- Reposted by Stephen MorganMasterful use of Trash Humpers. I'm in awe.
- Reposted by Stephen Morganany faculty encouraging this are being enormously irresponsible
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- Just realised that Signature Entertainment have both FEAR BELOW and BEAST OF WAR on their books, and now I want to know which cinema in London (or elsewhere) wants me to host a double bill of 1940s-set Australian killer shark films. Actually, maybe this is one for you @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social?
- I mean, I haven't seen BEAST OF WAR yet (but Kiah Roache-Turner - he of STING and the WYRMWOOD films - is pretty dependable). As for FEAR BELOW, I watched it the other night, and quite enjoyed it. As a low-budget 'B-movie', it's actually rather good.
- Reposted by Stephen MorganToday, 144 years ago, 1600 Crown troops invaded a pacifist settlement that was the centre of resistance against British colonialism. The leaders were arrested, the settlement sacked, the people violated. For many in Aotearoa, November 5th is Parihaka Day, or Te Rā o te Pāhua: The Day of Plunder.
- Reposted by Stephen MorganFilmmaker Shane Belcourt’s most recent documentary is Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising, a documentary about an Indigenous-led occupation in Anicinabe Park over nearly 40 days in 1974. He tells Face to Face it was an electric time in history.
- Reposted by Stephen MorganOf course Trump will lean on NYC if Mamdani wins (and will even if he doesn’t), but maybe place the blame on Trump rather than on Mamdani. Kinda like saying “the way she was dressed, she was asking for it,” which might be a sentiment Cuomo is familiar with.
- Reposted by Stephen MorganWhen a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.
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- Reposted by Stephen MorganWow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9
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- Reposted by Stephen MorganMy comment? I'm proud of Green councillors who are doing everything they can to bring attention to stopping the genocide. www.thejc.com/news/uk/hack...
- Fascism is a participation sport, and this guy has all the gear.
- Reposted by Stephen Morganwe're living in fucking Starship Troopers
- The legacies of Empire. 😂
- Reposted by Stephen MorganTapping the sign: professors today have enough trouble getting students to *read* - let alone "stepping them in leftist dogma"? (NYTimes says what?)
- Reposted by Stephen Morgan“This film isn’t just a horror story. It’s a ceremony, a confrontation, and a mirror.” They Wait, directed by David J. Aberle (Diné) and starring Jon Santaanta Proudstar, is an Indigenous horror film that blends spirit, story, and truth. redpopnews.com/this-film-is...
- Reposted by Stephen MorganThere are no examples of genocidaires willingly ending a genocide and Israel is no exception. Unless Israel is turned into a pariah state and diplomatic and trade relations severed, the genocide will continue.
- Reposted by Stephen MorganAustralian colleagues have been exploring the redirection of British slave-owners capital from the Caribbean into the colonisation of Australia. As Britons ended slavery they intensified the destruction of Indigenous societies. Latest addition from Zoe Laidlaw: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Includes a lot of Ozploitation for your soul.
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- Paging all those people to whom I've been recommending Aboriginal vampire series FIREBITE, only to lament that it's not available in the UK. Well, I've just discovered that it's now streaming on Tubi and ITVX! Get on it! @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social @suchmayer.bsky.social www.itv.com/watch/firebi...
- I only just made a very public pitch to @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social (when introdicing THIRST on Saturday) to let @admagnetic77.bsky.social and I screen it on the Bristol Megascreen, but it's great that it's out there for all and sundry!
- Reposted by Stephen MorganReady to dip your toe into more Ozploitation over the spooky season? @drsmorgan.com has put together a Letterboxd list for you of all the films he mentioned in his intros! boxd.it/PKVG6
- "Dugongs, dolly zooms, melting heads and Holden cars." [sung to the tune of the "football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars" jingle]
- TODAY AT THE BIG SCREAM: SIX FEET DOWN UNDER! www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk
- For reference: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGW-...
