@silvi.bsky.social
Melb, Aus. Film journalist @ScreenHub. Improviser @ The Improv Conspiracy 🐸. They/Them. https://linktr.ee/silvireports
Attention PAX Aus cosplayers! I'll be there on all 3 days hoping to grab some vox pops about you and your amazing costumes! Come find me on the floor! My reporting skills are better than my graphic design skills, I promise! #PAXAus #paxaus2025 #cosplay
07.10.2025 23:25 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Pee Pee – and I cannot stress this enough – Poo Poo. Read my review of The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man, now playing at Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF):
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I’m begging CapCut to release a feature that detects when you have a blank video and says ‘hey pal you sure you wanna export this?’
09.09.2025 07:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Toxic Avenger reboot starring Peter Dinklage is a Troma-tic triumph: ' the most feel-good gore-fest of the year!'. Read our review here:
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#toxicavenger #umbrella #imwithtoxie
Discover 10 great films added to streaming this week (1 to 7 September), and find your next must-watch.
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#film #movie #review #streaming
Ari Aster's Eddington uses a Pokémon-inspired AI glitch –'SolidGoldMagikarp' – to examine the effects of technology on reality. Silvi Vann-Wall explains further:
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#eddington #solidgoldmagikarp #pokemon #AI #token #film #explainer
'What exactly constitutes plagiarism in this context?' Aryeh Sternberg, founder of OMNI AI Film Festival told ScreenHub. 'It’s a moving dynamic.'
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#ai #genAI #omniaifilmfestival
‘Tropfest filmmakers should be very transparent about where they’ve used AI,' Polson told ScreenHub. 'But ... we shouldn’t be having our heads in the sand about technology.’
Read the full interview below.
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#tropfest #ai #genai #shortfilm
this week me and @silvi.bsky.social are defending the ultimate guilty pleasure movie of all time, venom (2018)
02.09.2025 06:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is over for another year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t watch the best the festival had to offer.
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#miff @melbfilmfest #films #review #whattowatch
From IT FOLLOWS to LA COCINA and THE PEOPLE'S JOKER, we've rounded up ten great films added to streaming this week that you should watch now.
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#film #review #movies #streaming
Parasite Live in Concert, which ran for two shows at Hamer Hall as part of MIFF, was a treat for the senses. Read our 5 star review.
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#parasite #miff2025 @melbfilmfest @jungjaeil.composer #liveinconcert #orchestravictoria #bonjoonho
the van helsing defenders (me and @silvi.bsky.social) have logged on today and we're throwing hands
22.08.2025 05:25 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I can’t listen to the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack too much coz I get too hyped and wanna kill a man
20.08.2025 01:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From Black Dog to Double Indemnity, here's 10 great films you can stream this weekend:
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#films #streaming #review
ok I KNOW stoush is pronounced as 'stowsh', like ouch, but I ALWAYS read it as 'stoosh', with a short 'oo' sound (like bush – maybe more like 'stüsh'?).
I blame growing up in Melb's northern suburbs and having grandparents with thick Estonian accents!
Vale David Stratton, the wonderful film critic.
I have seen a few mentions of Stratton’s surveillance by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, which came to light about a decade ago.
His ASIO file has been digitised and can be viewed here: recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...
I also got to see David yell “Shit for brains!” at a reckless driver once. That was something pretty special.
14.08.2025 06:29 — 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Bloody sad news today. David Stratton is gone.
I'll best remember him as one of my introductions to film and film criticism that went beyond the mainstream blockbusters and offered insight that was both intellectual and entertaining. We've lost a real legend.
Vale.
A new production house is touting what they deem to be Australia's first AI-generated/enhanced horror feature. But SKARN raises tricky questions regarding the law, creative control and ethics. Read the story as reported by Silvi Vann-Wall:
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#genAI #film #skarn
Zing!
12.08.2025 23:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
lol or not, I went to the next page and it said due to my answers I should select Business Income, not Personal 🙄
11.08.2025 03:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Finally got the answer from YouTube: because I'm providing a skill, my own equipment (eg laptop) and don't have employees and don't get paid commission (the rate is set), I classify as a Personal business! youtu.be/hpEG058bt4I
11.08.2025 03:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
like it can't be that hard – I'm leaning towards business income or loss but the two things I did were: 1, write an article and 2, host a panel which to me seems like a personal service too???
11.08.2025 03:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0People who freelance in Aus: I need help with taxes! I do a couple freelance things in the financial year but always get confused at tax time - there’s 2 sections: ‘personal’ & ‘business’ and I have no idea what to click. Help?
11.08.2025 02:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0My four-and-a-half star review of The Naked Gun, which is in Australian cinemas from 21 August:
08.08.2025 06:27 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wrote about the new Productivity Commission interim report – which suggests using copyrighted creative works to train AI models. The screen industry has responded, calling this proposed reform a retroactive 'theft' (rightfully IMHO). www.screenhub.com.au/news/news/cr...
06.08.2025 07:05 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The Naked Gun was originally a TV show (Police Squad) but quickly surpassed its origins in popularity. Can you name any other spin-off movies that did that? (eg Mission Impossible, Charlie's Angels, Addams Family?)
06.08.2025 02:10 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0A piano falling from a window into a vat of toxic waste …now that would be quite the sight …
06.08.2025 01:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Used to be, if you saw a vat of toxic waste sitting around in a film, someone would go falling into it. We used to be a Society.
06.08.2025 00:32 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
