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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 2h

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye

Cartoon. Two people standing on a stage looking at a third person who is jumping down through a trap door. In the foreground we see the backs of the audience’s heads. One standing people observes “It’s just a stage he’s going through”

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 3h

How did I not know about Gerald Kersh? I'm reading Night and the City now, it's a freakin' masterpiece

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 6h

Cartoon. Two people in lab coats, one is showing the other a beaker. The person on the left says "Can| bortow
your chloroform?". The other person replies "Go ahead, knock yourself out"

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 8h

One of the advantages of an English degree is being able to see through the rhetorical sleight of hand that characterises so much of our politics. Words matter.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 19h

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 1d

A few more Evil Squirrel cartoons 😈 🐿️

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 1d

Right, if you know Robert Eggers, please put in a good word for me - I have fired off an email to his people to see if I can visit the set of WERWULF. It's not a no unless you're told it is, I suppose!

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 1d

Last night I watched psychological horror, Delirium. (There's are several films with that title - this is the one with Topher Grace that just landed on Netflix.) There's a fair bit of "is this real or a hallucination", but once it starts answering that question there's silly twisty fun to be had.

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 2d

I'm British but I always thought frowning was done with the mouth and was the opposite of a smile - as in "turn that frown upside down". (I trace this back to Fats Waller's Don't Let It Bother You" which was on an album my dad played a lot when I was a kid.)

Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 2d

I've lived in the UK for better part of 25 years and have read British literature for longer than that, and it's only TODAY I learned that Americans frown with our mouths and the British frown with their foreheads. You freaks.

Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 2d

I saw John Woodvine as Gens in the 1989 National Theatre production of Ghetto - one of the best things I have ever seen. Prior to that I'd loved him in An American Werewolf in London. He brought a quiet seriousness to the werewolf fun that helps ground it and earn that surprisingly bleak ending. RIP

Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 2d

RIP, John Woodvine. A very fine actor, and son of South Shields

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 2d

That for me has always been the hardest part (and why I never quit.) I think deep down I always expected some external force to "allow" me to start again. The minute I realised "no, you just carry on not smoking for ever" I'd crack.

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 3d

Last night at the Hampstead Theatre I saw Max Webster's stunning production of Titus Andronicus. Standout performances from John Hodgkinson, Wendy Kweh, Max Bennett and Ken Nwosu (his scaffold speech is superb.) And a play about the mad cycle of violence and revenge certainly resonates. I loved it.

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 5d

I pray there's a theatrical re-release too. Even if it's just for a week. Or a day.

Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 5d

John Carpenter's IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS will drive you out of your mind on 4K UHD on October 28 via Arrow Video.

Here's an exclusive first look at the new 4K restoration.

John Carpenter’s ‘In the Mouth of Madness’ 4K Trailer – First Look at Arrow Video’s New Restoration [Exclusive]

John Carpenter‘s In the Mouth of Madness will drive you out of your mind on 4K Ultra HD on October 28 from Arrow Video, and we have your first look at the new trailer below. The 1994 cosmic horror fil...

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 7d

I still think a stage show would be great. One could actually *do* the mentalist act.

Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 7d

Same. (Though I came to the book later.) We talked about a stage adaptation. And then GDT hoovered up all the rights to everything Everywhere.

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 7d

If I remember rightly, Paul, you and I "met" on the other place talking about trying to adapt Nightmare Alley.

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 7d

Ah like in wrestling where you'd have colour commentary and play by play...

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 7d

Oh thank you - will check it out.

Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 7d

I did indeed. I'd love to see more set in that world. The potential lore is so rich, it could be a series. (And my wife is an ethnomusicologist which is why I love any film that mentions them. So far it's yours and Inside Out 2.)

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 7d

Oh I should give that a go. Or maybe I'll just ask Johnny to perform it live for me when I next see him!

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 7d

Fine. I'll settle for you being on a panel together.

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 7d

This film marked me more than any other I've seen in the genre recently. I can't recommend it enough. You do need to mentally prepare yourself for how little happens. Or how little you can even see. But I've never seen anything else that captures a childhood nightmare as well as this.

Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 7d

"Kevin's inverted adventures are uncanny, oneiric and utterly unnerving": Kyle Edward Ball's mesmerising experiment SKINAMARINK (2022) is "pure and primal child's-eye horror". On Tubi UK from today projectedfigures.com/2023/12/25/s...

Skinamarink (2022) - Projected Figures

Kyle Edward Ball's experimental feature debut SKINAMARINK shows a home invaded at night by a child's impenetrable anxieties

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 7d

I should have known you'd be all over this! Ah what I would give for a Mains / Duane collab!

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Dan Berlinka @danberlinka.bsky.social · 7d

Last night I watched Irish folk horror All You Need Is Death - it has a great, eerie premise and a brilliant cameo performance by Olwen Fouéré. I'd love to see what writer / director Paul Duane could do with a bigger budget, but until then I'll always support films about shady ethnomusicologists.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 8d

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Cartoon of three panels. The first shows a flamingo standing in water, one leg bent, caption: Flamingo. The second panel shows the same scene, but just the flamingo's head and neck are above the water, caption: Flamingoing. In the third panel there are now just a few ripples in the water. Caption: Flamingone

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