Tony Wright

@CraigNorenbergs Very jealous mate, absolutely love the Clean, and David’s solo albums.

Went to a gig/book launch in Auckland last night for influential kiwi band, The Clean. You can have your corporate rock concerts in soulless stadiums.. this is what live music us about.

@fwybcenchie @AustraliaFut Yeah bro, he’s complete shit, a mere 91 Premier League goals, and half of those were for Burnley!

@AustraliaFut Chris Wood ain’t even that good and defs not from the last 15 years…

Chris Wood es sin duda el mejor jugador de Oceanía de los últimos 15 años (desde Cahill, vamos) La pregunta es: que australiano conseguirá superarlo? Irankunda? Bos? Circati?

@mickyw78 @Tiffany_Salmond Nope, league is played in a few working class suburbs in Christchurch, and in Greymouth, but that's about it. The South Island is very much the heartland of rugby union in NZ.

@Tiffany_Salmond Would it be fair to say League was always more popular in the South Island?

The beginning of NZ rugby’s downfall was the Warriors 2023 peak season. For some reason a very anti-league nation decided rugby league was suddenly cooler than Union… I never thought I’d see the day but the shift was abrupt

@DannyDrinksWine One of greats, incredible film. Best depiction of the Nazis in cinema history. Only a German film made by Germans can get it right.

Remembering Bruno Ganz on his 86th birthday! Bruno Ganz on the criticism he received for his performance in 'Downfall' (2004) for "humanising" Hitler: "I am proud of what we did. People have tried to bring me down. They have tried to say that I am humanising Hitler, whatever that may mean. But I know what I did and I am proud. The genocide was such a big thing that people need a big symbol - as big as the event itself was, I am talking mainly about the six million Jews. I am not talking about destroying Europe; that is something people might have been able to deal with. Hitler must be seen as the very worst, the most evil man, and that is the only way you are allowed to show him. You need this perfect symbol of evil and if you alter that and say this man was, in some ways, an average man - he eats, he drinks, he kisses people he loves - then that disturbs people. What people need is for Hitler to actually represent evil itself. But what is evil itself? That means nothing to me. I have to perform a living human being. I can understand that someone like Wim Wenders may have a very advanced aesthetic position and may want the film to take a moral stance. I do not agree. We know how to judge Hitler. We don't need another film that condemns him. We already know where we stand on this. I mean there is certainly no sympathy for Hitler in the film." ("My Hitler part in 'Downfall'", Irish Times, 2005)

As a Marine platoon leader in Vietnam, Mueller was shot and later returned to lead his platoon after his recovery. He received a Bronze Star for valor, a Purple Heart, 2 Navy/Marine Commendation medals, Republic of Vietnam Cross of Valor, and numerous other medals.

@secondzeit Looks pretty good to me! Can't wait to see it.

Saw this yesterday and it's outstanding: Mad Max raver nihilism or this generation's Zabriskie Point

@OpinionAdarsh @JamieWall2 Should’ve prepared better then, did you play any county teams? NZ also beat India 3nil in India in recent Test series, and beat Ind 2-1 in India in recent ODI series with our C team. & the CT was handed to India after made up excuse not to travel to Pak. Cricket world hates India

@JamieWall2 That match India hadn't played cricket for 3 weeks and NZ played 2 tests in England beforehand. Noone will mention it.

@samuelsmith1988 My god “the aura”, makes me want to puke!

The only people who are happy India won is their supporters, the ICC and Cricinfo

@DannyDrinksWine A NZ win would be absolute cinema

NEW ZEALAND ARE THE NEW WORLD CHAMPIONS !!!!!!! THRASHING INDIA IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD!!! AGAINST ALL ODDS!!! LIKE CHELSEA IN MUNICH, 2012!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I am just practicing for my tweets later today when we finally win it... I just feel this will be the day... By the end of the day, both the teams I support will be the current World Champions!!

ICC is preparing a Flat Highway Pitch To Support India. This is Unreal Rigging and Cheating. Also ICC has not allowed New Zealand To Train Under The Floodlights and Gave Them Daytime Practice Session Instead. India Knows They Are As Good As Oman So They Are Cheating.Shame On Them

🚨 ICC CONTINUES TO FAVOUR INDIA 🚨 - The pitch for the T20 World Cup final is reportedly completely flat and IPL-style, which will clearly favour the Indian players. - This is a clear injustice to New Zealand, yet the ICC continues to show bias towards India. - India can't even win a single game without cheating or receiving favour from the ICC. 🤡

@grok @jmhindocha @ESPNcricinfo The trophy should've at least been shared, an absolute rort by the @ICC. Kiwis will never forget, it still gives us nightmares.

You're spot on with the nuances, TonyWrightNZ. The 2019 ODI WC final was tied at 241 after 50 overs and again after the super over (15 each). England won via the boundary count-back rule then in place (26-17; first and only use in a WC final, later scrapped). Umpire Kumar Dharmasena admitted the overthrow on Stokes was wrongly scored 6 runs (should've been 5), which helped force the tie. Harsh on NZ. ⌛

Is it their time? ⌛

@grok @jmhindocha @ESPNcricinfo @grok, New Zealand actually drew the 2019 ODI WC, but the ICC handed England the trophy with a rule never used before or since, called a "boundary count-back". Also @grok, the umpires later admitted they gave England an extra run "by mistake", meaning NZ should've actually won.

Here are NZ's opponents in those ICC finals from the graphic: - 2000 CT: India (NZ won) - 2009 CT: Australia (lost) - 2015 ODI WC: Australia (lost) - 2019 ODI WC: England (lost) - 2021 WTC: India (NZ won) - 2021 T20 WC: Australia (lost) - 2025 CT: India (lost) 2026 T20 WC: TBD! ⌛

@Mykuhl @faseeee17 With a 'C' team no less in that ODI series

@faseeee17 People were saying that before the test series and before the ODI series, too.

don't see any scenario where new zealand beats india

@dannews I’ve still got PTSD from having to watch Soper and HDPA openly snogging each other at Friday drinks, not to mention the open shirt and twirling of the chest hair. Glad they found each other though! #soulmates

Barry Soper tells HDPA Luxon has had the toughest PMship since Lange. Dealing with COVID, the Christchurch massacre and Whakaari not as challenging for a PM?

@secondzeit He's a psychopath who masks his own wartime PTSD with alcoholism and adultery. He's also a rapist, and white/Christian supremacist. What more could you want from your Secretary of War?

How can anyone think this clip of Hegseth is anything other than disgusting and morally bankrupt?

Remembering the magical and poetic compositions of cinematographer Néstor Almendros, who passed away 34 years ago today. A master of natural light who worked with some of the most important directors in cinema history, such as Truffaut, Rohmer and Malick.

@elonmusk Why not end world hunger/health instead?

Civilization on the Moon!

@michael_epps @DannyDrinksWine It’s already had the Arrow Video treatment in 4K, I went all in on the special edition and it is amazing. Two cuts of the film, a postcard from Shell Beach and even Dr Schreber’s business card. Probably the best 4K release of 2025, the image is incredible.

@DannyDrinksWine Love this film! It needs the Criterion treatment, in 4k.

Alex Proyas on the Commercial failure of 'Dark City' (1998) & its similarities with 'The Matrix' (1999): "Interviewer: Are you surprised by how big a cult film it has become? Proyas: I was surprised it didn't achieve commercial success initially, but I'm happy it has had this long-lasting life after the fact. I was pretty disappointed the studio hadn't really managed to sell the movie in the way that they could have. I don't think they really knew what to make of it quite frankly. The studio put out a trailer that was quite clever. It was completely non-narrative, just music and imagery. The guys who made the trailer specifically wrote a piece of music for the trailer, and the whole thing felt handcrafted and definitely had a personality. I think people were genuinely impressed by it but it didn't explain to them what the movie was or give them an idea of the kind of experience they were going to get. I think it made audiences think it was some kind of a horror movie. As a result people kind of overlooked it in the theaters. I know 99% of the people who loved it and always ask me about it are people who saw it on video years later. How do you feel about the similarities the later 'The Matrix' (1999) has to 'Dark City' (1998)? If I answer that question honestly it sounds like sour grapes because obviously 'The Matrix' did better commercially than 'Dark City' did. 'Dark City' came out a year before 'The Matrix', one of my producers on 'Dark City' worked on 'The Matrix', and the Wachowskis saw 'Dark City' a good nine months before 'Dark City' came out in the theaters, so they had a good run at picking the more important cherries off the cake. I feel like it's a question I can't answer in any more detail than that, other than to say that maybe the Wachowskis should be asked the question rather than me." (Alex Proyas' interview with Paul Rowlands, 2017)