Kia ora David, I actually found webworm through Substack (having only recently joined) and I just want to say... hard out on the parallel universes in media! I’m trying to do things differently to cover stories as they impact Māori and I can really see from what you’re doing / the way you are reporting and the care you’re taking, that there is not only an URGENT need for this, but an appetite. I’ve been trying to make changes while working “within” it, but increasingly I see that we have to create the spaces/platforms and hopefully the audience will follow. I have read the mainstream stuff on Arise and gone pfft. They’re just churning out lists of information. They haven’t got to the heart of the thing like you have and are. For me you are modelling how all stories should be told. Ngā mihi.
aww thanks for the shout out! Still new here, but every day finding incredible writers who are restoring my faith in the craft and its purpose & potential... hoping more Māori writers/journos/storytellers will follow too. It's time!
Yes yes yes! I agree with this so much. I have had the same thing happen to me so many times. Weeks of working on a story all on my own with no legal support, taking all the risk and then it’s re-reported without any attribution. Substack is my only way to earn a living (unless I stop being a writer). Covid 19 has killed my ability to do gigs as I have an immune compromised kid so I can’t just take that risk. I sometimes pick up other gigs but Substack is it for my whānau (my husband is a teacher aide). It’s so upsetting and so frustrating when your mahi isn’t acknowledged, but it also stops you from being able to keep doing it. Anyway yes, I’m so with you and I love what you do and I’m very grateful some people pay for and appreciate the mahi! ❤️
Ok it turns out I have even more to say about this 😂 I wish media outlets would take The Spinoff approach and really champion the newsletters of writers. Link to them! Share them in your newsletters! When you commission a column, let the person link to their newsletter! Link to their newsletter at the end of the piece. It’s like people think there’s only so much success you can have and if you share it with anyone you’ll lose some of yours. We are such a small community, I don’t understand why folks won’t help each other, support each other and encourage each other. Attributing is the very least they should be doing and they’re not even doing that, it’s such a bummer. But maybe it will change? I’d love to see a change that really acknowledges that we are all out here hustling and doing our best.
The Spinoff has been stellar, always - they almost go an extra step in writing about Substack's in their bulletin AND linking to them - as well as in pieces. It's great.
I def agree about The Spinoff being a much more ethics-focused platform (despite the vitriol that still spews in the comments on FB.) The sad thing is, all these mainstream platforms are still effectively competing in the same industry. When it comes to an issue like climate change, for example, this doesn't work. It's going to fail us. In the same way we need cross-party collaboration, we also need cross-media collaboration. It actually worries me that it doesn't seem to exist rn. Instead we get churn; masses of information that's hard to understand let alone do quality analysis of, especially as an independent. I mean, it's pretty much impossible. Anyway, I digress.... and feel suddenly tired... I guess I had more to say about this too #anguishemoji
No-one has the right to take your work and reuse it without saying whose work it is. It's a given in the art world; it's also a given (now - never used to be) if your image is used; it's also there for actors/writers of drama. So how come there's this argy-bargy about stories/news dug up by people such as David and your good self?
I think it’s probably something to do with/ some intersection of: legacy or mainstream media costing a fortune to run and therefore creating a scarcity mindset, media orgs being pitted against each other, people being uncomfortable with the idea of paying for news therefore it’s hard to do it without corporate interests, journalists/writers wanting what they’ve uncovered to be in the public domain, the idea of writing/journalism as a vocation, the lack of a governing body around it/copyright stuff - not an excuse just some things swirling around my head. But things may change - six years ago it was common for places to cut and paste whole pieces I had written and repost them on Facebook instead of linking to them. That’s much less common now. It really relies on readers championing writers and posting in comments sections “this was broken by David Farrier on Webworm” then linking back. I feel hopeful it might change because as you say - people don’t get away with not crediting artists so much anymore and what used to be really common.
Thanks Emily - the mahi and insight of people like yourself and David are genuinely valuable and appreciated (not that those things pay your rent sadly!).
I think you've hit on a key point here, which is the fact we're in a transition - but it's going in the right direction. While I agree David got a bit shafted on this scoop, I am increasingly seeing explicit acknowledgement in mainstream media - Bernard Hickey's kākā being a good example. So hopefully writers like yourself can hang in there long enough for habits to really shift.
The independence you can foster on platforms like this (and the Spinoff) is really important but, like everything in our marketplace of ideas, unfortunately has a cost.
News leader. We heard it here first. Props. Credit.
Also: In every non WW article I've failed to see mention of Brent's penchant for farting in his hands/pushing it to a minions face. It is a critical detail to associate with him. Brent Cameron.
NZ media is a bit crap. They often report on things several days or weeks after you have heard about it on other internet sources.
They also tend to flog stories to death if they think it's what people want to hear about. At the moments it's youth crime and ram raids. If you didn't get your news from anywhere else you would think that ram raids have suddenly increased in frequency over the last two weeks as has youth crime..
My guess is that that story was running out of juice and they don't have anything to replace it so they are filling the gaps by stealing other people's stories.
Spot on. My pet hate at the moment is Newshub's fortnightly regurgitation of reddit posts, especially from the "Am I The Asshole" subreddit. Honestly, when did "lifestyle and entertainment journalism" stoop to the lazy lows of following a subreddit and reproducing mildly interesting ones every couple of weeks.
They are so formulaic I can now spot them just by the headline. That's a good thing as it saves me wasting precious moments of my life reading it.
So glad you acknowledged this as read that RNZ story yesterday thinking it was just weird (and no mention of you!). Love the modern journalism landscape that we get to choose great storytellers like you over mainstream media... but I guess there's lots of room for improvement on the ethics... write another exposé on that... it might show up on OneNews 10 days later?...
It's just been a very strange thing to watch play out. I have noticed it before with other people's work - but just never had it happen to me on repeat for a few months.
Still not entirely sure where that mindset came from, but yeah - that fear of not having an exclusive, or losing viewers to another place, or just - ego. I dunno. It's super weird.
The other day Kathryn Ryan was interviewing someone (an employment lawyer I think) on the recent Gloriavale court ruling. She obliquely referenced the Arise story referring to the use of "volunteer" workforce in an employment type relationship, abuse of interns, coercion and similar.
I thought it coincidental timing that these stories are airing in parallel with some similarities. Yet noone has explicitly discussed how the Gloriavale ruling might impact the arise/pentecostal megachurch model.
Maybe it's your turn to report on this and lead by example acknowledging the reporting by those other outlets?
I must note I had to chuckle at the similarity of content of Jonny Dine's articles (plural) on Arise. So similar I actually thought he must have got your permission to use your info....
Excellent point and well worth pursuing (David) What is it with these businesses that have to get young people to work for nothing in order to prove to the world that someday, maybe, they'll be good enough to be able to actually earn a wage? How have we devolved as a society to the point where slavery has again become "economic necessity"?
As someone who did a year's "internship" with a Christian org that dangled the carrot of a potential job at the end and overseas travel, which ended up being only data entry and then no job at the end...this is too accurate. I only did 2 days a week, but they wanted me to do more - I had to work at another job to pay for board and petrol and they were a little disappointed by that.
This whole thing felt deeply reminiscent of years of having my ideas appropriated and repeated back to me by over-promoted white men. That is to say: a massive bummer. Sorry David.
On the flippity flip, Sam Neill! (Heart eyes emoji)
Hang in there, David. We've got your back and you've got those who have trusted you with their mamae. You and David Slack are the whakaaro I need. And, I agree, the long form (and the way you tell it) works with my story telling soul.
That is so irritating but unfortunately not surprising. Increasingly I don't even look at mainstream media but rely on Substack media such as yours and The Kaka by Bernard Hickey. I am part of a group trying to stop a ridiculously huge marina on Waiheke (a long and torturous battle that features a sheep called Multi, a trip to Parliament by said merino cross activist, millions of bucks raised by local community, a lawyer who apparently do a NVA training with Extinction Reb but is now director of the marina company, 100 cops for 4 protestors, & more craziness than you could shake a sheep at) but we always struggled to get any media coverage. Well anything more than a minute telly piece. Apart from some well written paragraphs on Stuff & our local privately owned paper it was only the property writers in the NZHerald who bothered to cover it. Probs because the berths cost up to 500 grand. It needs telling and retelling as a cautionary tale of how to kill off the possibly largest little blue penguin colony in The Hauraki Gulf. I could go on and on but somehow mainstream media just can't cover it as it is too complex, too time consuming, too scandalous. Oh and that Taxpayers Union, constantly on about govt funded journalism ... we need researchers and writers, more podcasters and more people like you exposing the everyday craziness! Because there is so much of it. Anyway if you want to cover that marina madness please check out the Pūtiki Protectors and SKP. And please keep up the good work that you do!
That marina is fucking awful. Those penguins. Makes me ill thinking about it. Most of what I know I know via social media posts from those keeping an eye on the penguin population.
Also I am guilty of not looking into this more - it's so incredibly complex. What is the best piece done on it so far, would you say? I need to play catchup.
Here's piece on Multi and the indomitable Sue Pawley https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-06-2019/shes-my-secret-weapon-the-waiheke-protestor-taking-her-sheep-to-parliament but best thing is to speak to Kathryn Ngapo formerly of SKP Save Kennedy Point and look at the many articles written by Erin Johnson in The Waiheke Gulf News. She has covered the many court cases and visits by the police to the bay. Joesphine Franks has done some short form in stuff https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/124664510/court-to-campout-fouryear-fight-to-stop-waiheke-marina-culminates-in-occupation. What's currently so upsetting are the sounds of the Kororā trying to get back to their destroyed burrows as observed by local community who are monitoring the site & the fact nobody owns the sea but some people can build 180 berths on it and sell them for loads of money. Oh and NZ's first floating carpark because that's what this country needs aye. Actually our island needs some rentals so we can get GPs and nurses to actually afford to stay here. Sad, beyond belief.
You're 100% right to make this point (it's not moaning when it's true and negatively affecting so many great journos who do the long slog investigating and take on all the legal risks and build their own readership on platforms like Substack, none of which is easy), and I hope it gives the MSM a bit of a wake-up call or they will lose more readers to their favourite authors' own projects.
I happily pay for several Substacks (I think I might have to go and support Emily Writes and Bernard Hickey next! My biggest issue is not finding the time to read all the great stuff!) and the Spinoff, because I feel there is much more to be gained from the long form writing, and the right people get supported this way.
And in the case of you, and the Webworm community, it comes with an enormous amount of interpersonal contact and heartwarming interactions. The level of connection you manage to create and sustain with your community is astonishing, and a credit to you (and all the webworms). As much as I rate some writers on the Herald (like Simon Wilson) there's just no way I'd ever pay an outlet that features so many rightwing cockwombles...
Come on TVNZ. Credit where credit is due. When they had the Arise story on the news the other week I kept waiting for them to name-drop you, David. I'm also disappointed in RNZ for not being more up front initially about Webworm's role in putting attention on these religious parasites. RNZ does some great work, but taking credit for other people's work is ugly behaviour that needs to be nipped in the bud.
In more positive news, thank you for letting me know about Everything Everywhere. A middle aged woman saving the multiverse? Absolutely my sort of movie. Much as I love Marvel movies, they don't exactly have relatable characters for me.
Watching Dr Strange 2 after seeing EEAAO made it just seem so weak and disposable and... dumb.
And yeah - the funny thing in that RNZ story that did not originally mention Webworm is in the related articles, it had a piece they did talking to me about the story ages ago. So they were so close... it's like the Website wanted to note the link to my reporting, but the article didn't want to!
...And a swing and a miss from me, who had the chance to see EEAAO last night and was too tired to go to the cinema. It's the first movie I've actually wanted to go to the cinema to watch since Covid began.
Kia ora David, I actually found webworm through Substack (having only recently joined) and I just want to say... hard out on the parallel universes in media! I’m trying to do things differently to cover stories as they impact Māori and I can really see from what you’re doing / the way you are reporting and the care you’re taking, that there is not only an URGENT need for this, but an appetite. I’ve been trying to make changes while working “within” it, but increasingly I see that we have to create the spaces/platforms and hopefully the audience will follow. I have read the mainstream stuff on Arise and gone pfft. They’re just churning out lists of information. They haven’t got to the heart of the thing like you have and are. For me you are modelling how all stories should be told. Ngā mihi.
Giant respect, and welcome to Substack! It's an incredible outlet and has let me tell stories in ways I didn't think was possible!
(for anyone looking for what Nadine is doing - https://nadineannehura.substack.com)
New subscriber,
me.
aww thanks for the shout out! Still new here, but every day finding incredible writers who are restoring my faith in the craft and its purpose & potential... hoping more Māori writers/journos/storytellers will follow too. It's time!
Hells yes.
I'm not famous enough to change your moods, but know this, your writing changes mine 🌞🌞🌞
This is kind! It helps!
Yes yes yes! I agree with this so much. I have had the same thing happen to me so many times. Weeks of working on a story all on my own with no legal support, taking all the risk and then it’s re-reported without any attribution. Substack is my only way to earn a living (unless I stop being a writer). Covid 19 has killed my ability to do gigs as I have an immune compromised kid so I can’t just take that risk. I sometimes pick up other gigs but Substack is it for my whānau (my husband is a teacher aide). It’s so upsetting and so frustrating when your mahi isn’t acknowledged, but it also stops you from being able to keep doing it. Anyway yes, I’m so with you and I love what you do and I’m very grateful some people pay for and appreciate the mahi! ❤️
Yes - you get it! Weeks of working on a thing solo, all the risk - and ignored at the end of it!
Ok it turns out I have even more to say about this 😂 I wish media outlets would take The Spinoff approach and really champion the newsletters of writers. Link to them! Share them in your newsletters! When you commission a column, let the person link to their newsletter! Link to their newsletter at the end of the piece. It’s like people think there’s only so much success you can have and if you share it with anyone you’ll lose some of yours. We are such a small community, I don’t understand why folks won’t help each other, support each other and encourage each other. Attributing is the very least they should be doing and they’re not even doing that, it’s such a bummer. But maybe it will change? I’d love to see a change that really acknowledges that we are all out here hustling and doing our best.
The Spinoff has been stellar, always - they almost go an extra step in writing about Substack's in their bulletin AND linking to them - as well as in pieces. It's great.
I def agree about The Spinoff being a much more ethics-focused platform (despite the vitriol that still spews in the comments on FB.) The sad thing is, all these mainstream platforms are still effectively competing in the same industry. When it comes to an issue like climate change, for example, this doesn't work. It's going to fail us. In the same way we need cross-party collaboration, we also need cross-media collaboration. It actually worries me that it doesn't seem to exist rn. Instead we get churn; masses of information that's hard to understand let alone do quality analysis of, especially as an independent. I mean, it's pretty much impossible. Anyway, I digress.... and feel suddenly tired... I guess I had more to say about this too #anguishemoji
No-one has the right to take your work and reuse it without saying whose work it is. It's a given in the art world; it's also a given (now - never used to be) if your image is used; it's also there for actors/writers of drama. So how come there's this argy-bargy about stories/news dug up by people such as David and your good self?
It smells.
I think it’s probably something to do with/ some intersection of: legacy or mainstream media costing a fortune to run and therefore creating a scarcity mindset, media orgs being pitted against each other, people being uncomfortable with the idea of paying for news therefore it’s hard to do it without corporate interests, journalists/writers wanting what they’ve uncovered to be in the public domain, the idea of writing/journalism as a vocation, the lack of a governing body around it/copyright stuff - not an excuse just some things swirling around my head. But things may change - six years ago it was common for places to cut and paste whole pieces I had written and repost them on Facebook instead of linking to them. That’s much less common now. It really relies on readers championing writers and posting in comments sections “this was broken by David Farrier on Webworm” then linking back. I feel hopeful it might change because as you say - people don’t get away with not crediting artists so much anymore and what used to be really common.
Thanks Emily - the mahi and insight of people like yourself and David are genuinely valuable and appreciated (not that those things pay your rent sadly!).
I think you've hit on a key point here, which is the fact we're in a transition - but it's going in the right direction. While I agree David got a bit shafted on this scoop, I am increasingly seeing explicit acknowledgement in mainstream media - Bernard Hickey's kākā being a good example. So hopefully writers like yourself can hang in there long enough for habits to really shift.
The independence you can foster on platforms like this (and the Spinoff) is really important but, like everything in our marketplace of ideas, unfortunately has a cost.
I'm looking forward to 1News doing a piece, within the next 2 to 6 days, on "What is time?"
Ha!
News leader. We heard it here first. Props. Credit.
Also: In every non WW article I've failed to see mention of Brent's penchant for farting in his hands/pushing it to a minions face. It is a critical detail to associate with him. Brent Cameron.
Hate to say it but the farting got picked up, too. Picked up like Brent picked up his farts.
He will have to face them
ROFL!
NZ media is a bit crap. They often report on things several days or weeks after you have heard about it on other internet sources.
They also tend to flog stories to death if they think it's what people want to hear about. At the moments it's youth crime and ram raids. If you didn't get your news from anywhere else you would think that ram raids have suddenly increased in frequency over the last two weeks as has youth crime..
My guess is that that story was running out of juice and they don't have anything to replace it so they are filling the gaps by stealing other people's stories.
Spot on. My pet hate at the moment is Newshub's fortnightly regurgitation of reddit posts, especially from the "Am I The Asshole" subreddit. Honestly, when did "lifestyle and entertainment journalism" stoop to the lazy lows of following a subreddit and reproducing mildly interesting ones every couple of weeks.
They are so formulaic I can now spot them just by the headline. That's a good thing as it saves me wasting precious moments of my life reading it.
So glad you acknowledged this as read that RNZ story yesterday thinking it was just weird (and no mention of you!). Love the modern journalism landscape that we get to choose great storytellers like you over mainstream media... but I guess there's lots of room for improvement on the ethics... write another exposé on that... it might show up on OneNews 10 days later?...
It's just been a very strange thing to watch play out. I have noticed it before with other people's work - but just never had it happen to me on repeat for a few months.
Still not entirely sure where that mindset came from, but yeah - that fear of not having an exclusive, or losing viewers to another place, or just - ego. I dunno. It's super weird.
The other day Kathryn Ryan was interviewing someone (an employment lawyer I think) on the recent Gloriavale court ruling. She obliquely referenced the Arise story referring to the use of "volunteer" workforce in an employment type relationship, abuse of interns, coercion and similar.
I thought it coincidental timing that these stories are airing in parallel with some similarities. Yet noone has explicitly discussed how the Gloriavale ruling might impact the arise/pentecostal megachurch model.
Maybe it's your turn to report on this and lead by example acknowledging the reporting by those other outlets?
I must note I had to chuckle at the similarity of content of Jonny Dine's articles (plural) on Arise. So similar I actually thought he must have got your permission to use your info....
Excellent point and well worth pursuing (David) What is it with these businesses that have to get young people to work for nothing in order to prove to the world that someday, maybe, they'll be good enough to be able to actually earn a wage? How have we devolved as a society to the point where slavery has again become "economic necessity"?
As someone who did a year's "internship" with a Christian org that dangled the carrot of a potential job at the end and overseas travel, which ended up being only data entry and then no job at the end...this is too accurate. I only did 2 days a week, but they wanted me to do more - I had to work at another job to pay for board and petrol and they were a little disappointed by that.
Also in this case, it was a charity, not a church, but felt similar.
Great point. Thank you. Noted.
This whole thing felt deeply reminiscent of years of having my ideas appropriated and repeated back to me by over-promoted white men. That is to say: a massive bummer. Sorry David.
On the flippity flip, Sam Neill! (Heart eyes emoji)
SAM NEILL!!!!
(also, sorry for that happening to you. It sucks).
DREAM COLAB. TWO National Treasures?? Somebody call Nic Cage!!! (Thx btw, is sadly pretty much par for the office woman course)
God I love you all x
Hang in there, David. We've got your back and you've got those who have trusted you with their mamae. You and David Slack are the whakaaro I need. And, I agree, the long form (and the way you tell it) works with my story telling soul.
David Slack is a gem.
Thank you. For your eyeballs, your attention and you actually backing this thing. Thank you.
David Slack is great, I miss his bfm phone in days
That is so irritating but unfortunately not surprising. Increasingly I don't even look at mainstream media but rely on Substack media such as yours and The Kaka by Bernard Hickey. I am part of a group trying to stop a ridiculously huge marina on Waiheke (a long and torturous battle that features a sheep called Multi, a trip to Parliament by said merino cross activist, millions of bucks raised by local community, a lawyer who apparently do a NVA training with Extinction Reb but is now director of the marina company, 100 cops for 4 protestors, & more craziness than you could shake a sheep at) but we always struggled to get any media coverage. Well anything more than a minute telly piece. Apart from some well written paragraphs on Stuff & our local privately owned paper it was only the property writers in the NZHerald who bothered to cover it. Probs because the berths cost up to 500 grand. It needs telling and retelling as a cautionary tale of how to kill off the possibly largest little blue penguin colony in The Hauraki Gulf. I could go on and on but somehow mainstream media just can't cover it as it is too complex, too time consuming, too scandalous. Oh and that Taxpayers Union, constantly on about govt funded journalism ... we need researchers and writers, more podcasters and more people like you exposing the everyday craziness! Because there is so much of it. Anyway if you want to cover that marina madness please check out the Pūtiki Protectors and SKP. And please keep up the good work that you do!
That marina is fucking awful. Those penguins. Makes me ill thinking about it. Most of what I know I know via social media posts from those keeping an eye on the penguin population.
Also I am guilty of not looking into this more - it's so incredibly complex. What is the best piece done on it so far, would you say? I need to play catchup.
Here's piece on Multi and the indomitable Sue Pawley https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/19-06-2019/shes-my-secret-weapon-the-waiheke-protestor-taking-her-sheep-to-parliament but best thing is to speak to Kathryn Ngapo formerly of SKP Save Kennedy Point and look at the many articles written by Erin Johnson in The Waiheke Gulf News. She has covered the many court cases and visits by the police to the bay. Joesphine Franks has done some short form in stuff https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/124664510/court-to-campout-fouryear-fight-to-stop-waiheke-marina-culminates-in-occupation. What's currently so upsetting are the sounds of the Kororā trying to get back to their destroyed burrows as observed by local community who are monitoring the site & the fact nobody owns the sea but some people can build 180 berths on it and sell them for loads of money. Oh and NZ's first floating carpark because that's what this country needs aye. Actually our island needs some rentals so we can get GPs and nurses to actually afford to stay here. Sad, beyond belief.
I think there's a thread there about our massively out of date conservation laws too
I have a suspicion this will only get worse with the RNZ / TVNZ merge.
You're 100% right to make this point (it's not moaning when it's true and negatively affecting so many great journos who do the long slog investigating and take on all the legal risks and build their own readership on platforms like Substack, none of which is easy), and I hope it gives the MSM a bit of a wake-up call or they will lose more readers to their favourite authors' own projects.
I happily pay for several Substacks (I think I might have to go and support Emily Writes and Bernard Hickey next! My biggest issue is not finding the time to read all the great stuff!) and the Spinoff, because I feel there is much more to be gained from the long form writing, and the right people get supported this way.
And in the case of you, and the Webworm community, it comes with an enormous amount of interpersonal contact and heartwarming interactions. The level of connection you manage to create and sustain with your community is astonishing, and a credit to you (and all the webworms). As much as I rate some writers on the Herald (like Simon Wilson) there's just no way I'd ever pay an outlet that features so many rightwing cockwombles...
Simon is a gem. As is the likes of Jared Savage over there.
Thanks for the kind words. Gosh it's nice having you here.
Mōrena David, not much to add, other than keep on doing you.
And is it wrong to use Arise as my first Wordle word?
Heck no. Reclaim that shitty word!
Omg up til now mines been STAIN but I’m changing tomorrow to arise. They’re kind of linked too 🙌
media or aimed used to be a good starter - from now on I will be using aimed!
Come on TVNZ. Credit where credit is due. When they had the Arise story on the news the other week I kept waiting for them to name-drop you, David. I'm also disappointed in RNZ for not being more up front initially about Webworm's role in putting attention on these religious parasites. RNZ does some great work, but taking credit for other people's work is ugly behaviour that needs to be nipped in the bud.
In more positive news, thank you for letting me know about Everything Everywhere. A middle aged woman saving the multiverse? Absolutely my sort of movie. Much as I love Marvel movies, they don't exactly have relatable characters for me.
GOSH I LOVE THAT FILM.
Watching Dr Strange 2 after seeing EEAAO made it just seem so weak and disposable and... dumb.
And yeah - the funny thing in that RNZ story that did not originally mention Webworm is in the related articles, it had a piece they did talking to me about the story ages ago. So they were so close... it's like the Website wanted to note the link to my reporting, but the article didn't want to!
A swing and a miss from RNZ :-(
...And a swing and a miss from me, who had the chance to see EEAAO last night and was too tired to go to the cinema. It's the first movie I've actually wanted to go to the cinema to watch since Covid began.