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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

This is an excellent and correct opinion.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Why have I never heard of this amazing woman?!

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The best news. One of my all time favourite things out of all of the things.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

“And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain”

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Lars Gotrich @totalvibration.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time. fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

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Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi

12 track album

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Lincoln City goalie George Wickens watching the action towards the end of the Imps’ 4-0 win over Blackpool.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Please give if you can. If you can't, please share the shit out of this.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Went to see The Silence of the Lambs on the big screen for the first time since 1991. Stepping back even further now to Manhunter. They’re both so good. These two movies have transcended their original sources so completely; does anybody read Thomas Harris or even associate him with these films now?

Opening scene from Michael Mann’s Manhunter, William Petersen and Denis Farina sat on a piece of driftwood.

Molly Graham (Kim Greist) and Jack Crawford (Denis Farina) framed to perfection.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Oh Lord, I’m so sorry to hear this Moose. All the best to you all.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Good morning, and a very happy Edgar Froese Day to all who celebrate.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I really want to read it again now and I must’ve read it 7 or 8 times!

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It’s also his best description work since WD. He really gets hedgerows and trees, wildflowers and different shades of green.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Wouldn’t want to spoil or even hint towards a possible clue on plot, but I think the overall sense of dread, of control (in what is quite a peaceful, bucolic world to begin with) being lost, are beautifully done. There’s a pitch black idea right at its core that manages to be revealed perfectly.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Yes, it’s ridiculous, really. I got through it, but it was a chore and not worth the journey.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

My Plague Dogs must be in another room, also Maia, the very loose (and misjudged erotic) prequel to Shardik; I’ll go looking for them later. Watership Down is indeed the timeless one, but I still believe The Girl in a Swing is a masterpiece.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Ten years ago, inspired by the return of my childhood interest in birds, I set myself a target: see 200 British species in a year. The result was this book. Through 2026 I’ll be revisiting it, month by month. If you want to join me, just subscribe to my newsletter. levparikian.substack.com

The cover of Why do Birds Suddenly Disappear? White, with the title and so forth, and the subtitle “200 birds. 12 months. 1 lapsed birdwatcher.” The back of of a goldcrest is disappearing to the right of the cover.

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

5 years since the Sunday Times absolutely hit the nail on the head. And that particular mutant virus is still at large and trotting out pretty much the same old crap for the Mail.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Rewatching Men. I think it’s wonderful. And pretty horrifying. It seemed quite divisive at the time, but seems to have vanished culturally (if I might be unforgivably wanky and condescending for a moment). It’s on All4 for nowt if you fancy seeing Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear being amazing.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

That is a FANTASTIC film. Brilliant.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

It’s a beautiful package, by the way. And goodness, the music. All mellotron and icy reverb is fabulous.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Anyway, a newlywed couple turn up at this hotel only to find a mysterious countess, who just happens to be the vampire Elizabeth Báthory. And look, a new 4k restoration just landed; it’s been 40+ years, so here we go.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I saw Daughters of Darkness (a 1971 let’s be honest EROTIC horror) years ago late night on the BBC and it has stuck with me ever since. Not like that. It’s set in a deserted seaside hotel in Oostende. I **love** out of season North Sea seaside towns by the way. (“Everyday is silent and grey.”)

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

“Red sky in the morning, Really quite lovely indeed”

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Rich Neville @richneville.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

It’s amazing to think Nigel Farage was once exactly the same.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Absolutely over the moon with my new slip mat from @gailmyerscough.co.uk. You should go check her stuff out, it’s aces.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

After too long hemming and hawing, picked up All The Haunts Be Ours, an astonishing compendium of folk horror containing 20 movies from around the world. Started the centrepiece documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched and wondered how I’d get on (it’s 3’15”). It flew by; amazing piece of work.

Blu-ray box set slip cover for All The Haunts Be Ours, a secondary descriptor declares that it is a compendium of folk horror. The cover graphic depicts a golden tree, before it standing stone and image of a magpie.

Images from the movies Witchhammer and Viy.

Images from the movies Il Demonio and Dark Waters

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

“On a willow twig a kingfisher perches. It watches the eels with interest, but these are well-grown and too big for him to catch” ‘What to Look for in Autumn’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson

A tiny kingfisher gleams out from dense overarching willows bordering a narrow river

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Yeah, with you there, but for me it’s “Doubt.” I thought she was phenomenal in that.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I’m giving an online talk on Thursday evening at 8pm (UK time) about Birds & Flight. It’s free to RSPB members but anyone can join for a donation. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-by-le...

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Talk by Lev Parikian: Birds and Flight

Join nature writer Lev Parikian for a fascinating, entertaining talk about the marvel of flight, focusing on a variety of bird species

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Gail is great, for proof look at all her cool stuff FFS.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

And now…It’s been a while since I last watched Se7en, but here we are.

A scene - gluttony, if you must know - from David Fincher’s Se7en.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I’m rewatching Late Night with the Devil (which is great- David Dastmalchian is *fantastic*) and I’ve just realised it has a great mirror in the contemporaneous “3x3” episode of Inside No.9 (the one with Lee Mack, also brilliant).

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

The driver "managed to contact the control
centre at Network Rail and get the train
diverted onto the slow line", Calder says.

"That was absolutely crucial because this
train was scheduled to be travelling through
Huntingdon station on the tracks with no
platform at 125mph."

"It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere,
which would have been very difficult."

Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest
possible way" thanks to the "incredible
professionalism from the driver and the
police". Train drivers are trained on how to
take appropriate action, he adds,

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

“I heard the music of true forgiveness filling the theater, conferring on all who sat there, perfect absolution. God was singing through this little man to all the world, unstoppable, making my defeat more bitter with every passing bar.”

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I may have missed a memo, but Amadeus still (ahem) rocks. Almost zero cultural footprint these days, but it’s still wonderful.

Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) looking imperiously down at everyone as they enjoy The Marriage of Figaro in Amadeus (1984).

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Someone once told me they breed pretty much the whole year round? They certainly seem to have families at any time of the year.

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Al Kitching @itsalkitching.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Reminds me of a story a mate told, where the guy in front of him at the till needed to write a cheque. He asked the date and when the cashier said 20th April, he declared with some delight, “Oh! Hitler’s birthday.”

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