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Picks of the Week for 9 February

By Audio, Cinema and Reviews

For the last three weeks I’ve been enjoy­ing the oppor­tun­ity to sit in for Simon Morris on RNZ National’s At the Movies. It’s a lot of work – at least a lot more work than writ­ing for the web­site – which means I haven’t had a chance until now to post the highlights.

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Picks of the Week for 12 Jan 2019

By Cinema and Reviews

It has been a long time between drinks here at Funerals & Snakes but that does­n’t mean that I have been idle. I con­tin­ue to write and broad­cast for RNZ (filling in for At the Movies on RNZ National and writ­ing for the Widescreen chan­nel on the web­site) and since the begin­ning of 2019 have tried to post at least a couple of reviews a week.

My deal with RNZ means I can­’t repost that work here but there is no reas­on why I can­’t start run­ning sum­mar­ies and high­lights for my many ‘fans’. I’ll prob­ably try and restart the news­let­ter, too, although what form that might take is still to be decided.

Rancho Notorious will be back in some form in 2020, too.

Anyway, here are this week’s picks:

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Site maintenance in progress

By Asides

Hello all!

While it will be clear to all vis­it­ors that the site isn’t being updated at the moment/any more, that does­n’t mean it isn’t still in my heart. So, in an attempt to finally rid myself of the curse of the Thesis theme and its dif­fi­cult design idiom, as well as sav­ing myself some money on things like pod­cast host­ing and cus­tom fonts, we are trans­ition­ing to a new theme – Salient.

I’m very fond of Salient, as we use it for the day job, and there should be an ele­ment of future-proofing involved in this change.

Searching for con­tent and present­a­tion of images should be improved too.

I only have about five minutes a day to make these improve­ments, so the site is likely to look like a build­ing site for a wee while yet.

Thanks for vis­it­ing, I hope you’ll find some­thing use­ful and fun here.

RN 4/3: A Very Rancho Christmas 2015

By Audio, Cinema, Rancho Notorious and Reviews

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The pod­cast ver­sion of the 2nd annu­al sum­ming up of the year in film, tv and oth­er cool stuff – ori­gin­ally streamed live from the Rancho kit­chen on Friday 18 December.

Around the din­ner table were Dan, Kailey, Sarah McMullan, Ben Woodward and Mike Dickison. On the line from Sydney was ABC Radio National’s Jason Di Rosso and, via the magic of the movies, the NZ Top Ten box office res­ults are read by a fam­ous British act­ing knight.

The show was recor­ded and engin­eered by Marc Chesterman (and what a good job he did of it too) in front of an audi­ence of fam­ily and friends of the show.