#FF24 Anora is torn between tense drama and black comedy.

Madison is excellent, managing the slight tonal shifts perfectly. The film is exciting, dark, (mostly) propulsive - and heading for an obvious conclusion. I have nits to pick, but this is well worth seeing.

Great.

#FF24 Red One, despite its short cinematic release, is the worst kind of streaming slop.

Clearly built with franchising in mind, it failed at the first step of being interesting, well-made, or vaguely sensible. With an enormous budget, you won't see any of it on screen.

Awful.

#FF24 Subservience is part of the growing genre around lifelike robots that eventually turn to murder.

You'll see every single beat of this film coming, but that doesn't stop it occasionally being fun.

Fine.

#FF24 Dear Santa is a Christmas film you'll probably watch once.

Jack Black plays an over the top demon who grants a kid three wishes. Some of it plays out in a fun way, but it's mostly forgettable with some pretty terrible moments.

Meh.

#FF24 Carry-On is slightly better than your typical streaming service, action movie slop - but not by much.

Egerton is fine in the lead, but Bateman is clearly having a lot of fun.

Almost nothing in the film holds up to scrutiny, but it's fine for a couple of hours.

Okay.

#FF24 Juror #2 is a courtroom drama where we know early the outcome unless one man steps up.

Hoult gives a career best performance as the titular character, with Collette hardly slacking.

The rarest of films: one that arguably ends at exactly the right moment.

Very good.

#FF24 Rumours is a slightly self-indulgent, dry, absurdist comedy about the political classes.

The humour is amusing in moments, but the whole thing doesn't hang together. It overstays it's very short run time, reiterating short bits on the same, thin material.

Meh.

It's been another big year as I work towards completing my #dissertation on voice dataset documentation and how it influences how well #speech technologies work for all voices at the #ANU School of Cybernetics - with big thanks to my supervisors, Elizabeth Williams, Alexandra Zafiroglu, Jofish Kaye and Paul Wong 黃仲熙.

I've wrapped up a partnership with Mozilla's #CommonVoice team, which let me explore the hashtag#dataset in a lot more detail - big thanks EM Lewis-Jong, @jessie Dmitrij Feller in particular.

It was an incredible honor to keynote #FF24 at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia alongside Peter-Lucas Jones of Te Hiku Media, expertly facilitated by Keir Winesmith - thanks @ingridbmason and team for the opportunity - and stay tuned for a little project we are working on - we know you're all eager for the video of this keynote, but we're adding a little more magic.

I helped out with @everythingopen Media and Comms this year, and am looking forward to speaking in January in Adelaide.

A huge thanks to my fellow #PhD buddies - Lorenn Ruster, @nedcpr, Glen Berman, Tom Chan, Danny Bettay, Charlotte Bradley, @Amirasadi, Memunat Ajoke Ibrahim and the later cohorts for all your support, shut up and write sessions and intellectual growth.