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Kieran Madden

@kieran-madden.bsky.social
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…has no idea where he is, or how he got here. - UK based illustrator www.Kieran-madden.com

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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Last week I joked with a friend about how fun it would be to write a non-canon Eastenders Halloween special where Albert Square is caught up in some kind of lovecraftean apocalypse. And now it’s like the only thing I can think about… I think I need to try and make this happen now 😳
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Huh… so… I booted up AppleTV+ and found that stuff like all the MCU Spider-Man movies, Catch Me if You Can, Godzilla, and Jurassic Park are all available to steam on there and I’m, like… when did this happen? Anyway, I’m watching Spielberg’s War of the Worlds on there now because… why not?🤷
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy #DayofDredd to all who celebrate it! Here’s some of my Dreddful art from yesteryear 🥳 @2000ad.bsky.social
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy heck that Resident Evil movie is pretty darn good.👍
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Apple computers are like golden retrievers. They’re expensive but fun, pretty to look at, and will bring you your slippers at the end of a long day. Then one day, after about 10 years of loyal service, they’ll just randomly throw up all over the kitchen floor and die in front of you.
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every time I see Ed Sheeran, I get this feeling that he was used to be a turnip that one starry night wished *really* hard to be a real boy…
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy #StarTrekDay everybody!
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Kinda cool to see the poster art you made for your local drama group showing up around town…
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just so we’re clear here… Just Stop Oil protestors get violently dragged off the street and blokes in white vans gleefully threaten to run them over. Palestinian Action get labelled a terrorist group so 80 year old grannies can be manhandled into the back of a police van. But this is fine…👇
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The elevator in my building has been broken for the last three weeks, meaning my disabled lodger has been unable to get into the flat in all that time. And despite emailing them twice and calling 5 times, I’ve had basically nothing but radio silence from the building managers.
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
After scanning through the headlines on IGN last night l, it only just hit me how little actual interest I have in GTA6 right now compared to the last game. I mean, I’d *like* to play it, I’m not turning my nose up at it or anything, but I have absolutely zero hype for it right now.
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’ve always maintained that if there were any actor in living memory who *should* have played Falstaff, but tragically never did, it was Tim Curry. RIP to the legend
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So all through my school life I was told I was lazy and stupid - despite *all* the evidence to the contrary - and a lot of teachers wrote me off. It wasn’t until literally the day before my first written A-level that I was told I might have qualified for extra time. (1/)
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just saw on my weather app that it was drizzling outside and, I swear to god, I just ran to look out the window like a kid checking to see if it had snowed on Christmas morning…
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My niece and nephew in 30 years time: “Uncle Kieran, what was it that radicalised you so much?” Me: “Thames Water, and here’s exhibit #2581 from my dossier explaining why…”
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Just finished the first draft of a play I’ve been outlining/writing over the last few months. Now stuck in that limbo of the “do I stick it in a drawer and come back to it a week later or start draft two immediately?” dilemma…
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Batman Dc
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“Okay, so I submitted our employment report for our Year 2s, so far half of them want to be race car drivers when they grow up , the other half want to be astronauts, and one of them wants to be the Honey Monster… the government can make of that what they will, I guess…”
Headline from The Guardian: “Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment”
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I’ve been reading Gogmagog recently, and I’d sincerely recommend it to anybody. It’s like if Mervyn Peake had written Hearts of Darkness. And I’m not ashamed to admit that the only reason why I bought it was because of Mr McQue’s cover art 😅
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Episode 1 of the West Wing; Josh has to apologise to some right wing evangelicals for a glib remark he made on TV The first thing they say after his apology: “what do we get?” before demanding prayers in schools and other infringements on the 1st amendment Don’t know why that came to mind just now
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Well, I finally got around to seeing Supergirl. It’s fine. A little undercooked, but fine. It was entertaining enough, didn’t overstay its welcome, Milly Alcock was good in the role. Kind of feel like all that talk of it being a harbinger of doom for DC Studios has been a bit hyperbolic, tbh.
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Headbanging Kara Zor-el
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I often find myself remembering Cleese talking about how disappointed he was when he met Malcolm Muggeridge for the Life of Brian debate and saw this once-sharply comedic mind he enjoyed growing up reduced to spouting such pitiful, reactionary, conservative nonsense…
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I am thoroughly confused by the trailer for that Matchbox movie… Like… *genuinely* befuddled…
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Harry And His Bucket Full Of Dinosaurs Head Scratch
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
So, given the positive reviews and word of mouth, I probably would have seen Hoppers in the cinema had Disney actually… like… y’know… *told* us that the film was coming out. Seriously, the marketing was so anaemic I had literally no idea this movie even existed until a week before its release.
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The first time I ever got genuinely angry at a movie while watching it in the cinema. I *literally* ranted for a week after seeing it…
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Batman vs Superman: Rainy Face Off
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It’s particularly head-spinning when the same racist chuds then use the movie Troy as an example of Hollywood doing Greek mythology correctly.
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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I know racists are gonna racist but it must take extra effort to get riled up about the historical inaccuracies of a movie with giants, a man-eating cyclops, sirens and sea monsters. “I can suspend my disbelief to a degree but a black Hellen—you go too far, sir!”
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“I will make a statement on my future in public life at 2pm”
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
How am I not surprised that the folks who incessantly parrot the word “meritocracy” while dismantling DEI programs are now out there championing Uwe Boll as some genius auteur filmmaker?
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Instagram has been pushing a lot of clips of that Frankenstein ride at Universal Studios, and it looks… kinda… great? The look and feel is just so stylish, campy and operatic. If the Dark Universe had started with something like this, instead of that dour Mummy movie, it might have stood a chance
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I thought I’d search for “project Hail Mary blu ray” on Amazon after the steelbook set was announced and came across something weird… 1) All the results were just for books, no blu ray or DVD pre-orders 2) so many of the books are these £10 “movie reviews” that are so blatantly AI-generated
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Spielberg didn’t throw out a whole fight scene from Raiders because everybody on the day was sick and replace it with one of the most iconic action beats in cinema so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
If I had a penny for every time this month I’ve been elbow-deep in writing a story only to discover somebody else has already written something practically identical, I’d have two pennies. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s kinda depressing that it’s happened twice in the span of two weeks…
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Mae Whitman as Annie Marks Throws Book
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
1. Have a “Littlest Hobo” season where the Doctor loses the TARDIS and has to hitchhike across time & space to get back to it 2. To honour the classic era’s “watch from behind the sofa” reputation, have a Halloween special as well as a Christmas one, and make it proper (age appropriate) scary
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Welp, who do I need to prod at the BBC to get the Doctor Who showrunner job?
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Dwight Schrute's Iconic Hand Stretch
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I worked in a store during the Christmas that Mamma Mia came out on DVD. They played it on a loop with the audio on all day, every day, for the whole Christmas period. I never want to hear an ABBA song ever again. And I kinda want to punch Pierce Brosnan in the throat.
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Anthony Head was also in another brilliant Radio 4 sitcom, Dickensian spoof Bleak Expectations, where he played the villainous Gently Benevolent with utter relish and an appropriately dastardly laugh. youtu.be/AfAobfSi-Uk?...
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Best Torture Scene Ever-- Victorian Dark Satire (from Bleak Expectations)
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Ah man, this one hurts… RIP
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Just saw Backrooms at my local cinema (it’s great 👍) I’m not sure what I found more heartening; - that the cinema was full tonight - that the majority of the audience were about half my age - or that they were all *absolutely* into it from the start
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I honestly thought this was a joke when it was announced…🫩 I love the BBC, and will defend it to its dying day (mostly because I’ve seen what the alternatives are), but short like this makes it hard.
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I’ve just been outside. It’s awful. youtu.be/Rvvsw21PgIk?...
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Rick and Morty - Screaming Sun Planet
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I find it mind boggling that Disney/lucasfilm went with Burger King as the tie-in for the new Star Wars film when The Nando-lorian is right there. Truly amateur hour stuff, folks.
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
So Musk is going to launder money to some crypto billionaire by claiming he’s leading a mission that’s never going to happen? Either that, or the mission does happen and he gets kicked out into space when the crew mutiny within the first six weeks of travelling there…
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I was watching this with my partner last week - her first time seeing it - and while I won’t claim it’s some lost classic of cinema, it is a fun watch. One thing I weirdly appreciate about it is how the sci-fi element is literally just the setting and is practically irrelevant to the overall plot.
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Sean Connery in Outland
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
When your old school starts following you on Instagram…
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“C’mon you stupid horse, I bet my last $10 on you!!! Don’t look at me!!! Run!!! No, don’t come over here!”
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Seems a little weird electing a dog to office, but okay, stranger things have happened in this county…
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
If I had a penny for every time I heard that on Hinge…
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Kieran Madden @kieran-madden.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
When you open up the AppleTV app and see all seasons of TNG and DS9 are £3 each…
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