The Archive

The Economic Report and the docks are the same coalition

The 2026 Economic Report wants NRC time cut toward a year and nuclear grown toward 400 gigawatts by 2050. Day-one energy policy ended the LNG pause. The MAGA years, in office, are an energy file: nuclear that can get a yes, gas that can get a dock.

Wild Ice hit Steam on 19 August; Lost in Tandem on 22 July

Journey Bound Games shipped a zombie-hockey co-op on 19 August for $16.99. Tempete Studio in Poitiers had already shipped Lost in Tandem, a hand-painted two-player adventure, on 22 July for $14.99.

YouGov had One Nation on 28 percent in mid-June

A Sky News YouGov poll, 9–16 June, 1,492 voters, put One Nation at 28 percent of the primary vote, Labor 26, the Coalition 21. At the May 2025 federal election the party was a minor. Thirteen months later it was level with the government in that sample.

Lang’s Metropolis is 99 years old and still a working drawing

Fritz Lang’s 1927 film opened a city of organ-pipe towers and a machine that is also a cathedral. Watch it in 2026 and the shock is not nitrate. The shock is how much downtown is still trying to become that set.

Part Three was shot on IMAX 70 mm and locked a three-week IMAX window

Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three filmed in IMAX 70 mm. In the U.S. it has a three-week IMAX exclusivity over Avengers: Doomsday. That is a studio putting money into metal and film, not only a volume of pixels.

Scott’s Nostromo is still the most convincing workplace in space

Ridley Scott’s Alien opened on 25 May 1979. The crew eat, sweat, and have a shift tomorrow. The ship is a factory that learned to fly. Giger’s creature needed that workplace to be believed.

Part Three dropped new footage as IMAX tickets went up in August

On 18 August, Cosmic Book News and AMC traffic showed Dune: Part Three IMAX 70 mm and premium-large-format tickets on sale, with new footage attached. A trailer is a dispatch. This one had a date in the lower third a family can circle: 18 December 2026.

Split-Screen Saturdays Are Civilisation

Two players, one screen, a sample case for the kind of Friday that still happens in a living room.

A Republic That Still Likes Its Flag

Patriotism without a punchline. A sample MAGA-desk essay on belonging, work, and a country allowed to prefer itself.

Villeneuve’s 2049 still treats light as a building material

Blade Runner 2049 opened on 6 October 2017. Denis Villeneuve directed. Roger Deakins shot it. Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas. The sequel does not replace 1982. It adds a wing.

Part Three’s December window is a palace date, not a pile-on

The scare calendar in late 2026 still has to share December with Villeneuve’s Arrakis picture, which has locked IMAX through the holidays. Occasion is the through-line: a coat, a 70 mm print, a date you dress for.