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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Find it strange that no one wants to touch the Shining because Kubrick's is such a hard act to follow, but there's so many versions of Carrie when the original is arguably just as hard to beat. The prom scene is some of the finest editing I've seen in a horror film youtu.be/zOcZgcs6l3A?...

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Carrie (1976) - Prom Scene [HD]

YouTube video by Franco Seguer

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeah never seen him be bad. Closest he got to me not liking something was Doctor Sleep but I wasn't too keen on the book anyway

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeah screen wipe was the basis for my format so that tracks

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm gonna be reading a new short story at the next edition of Liminal Tales on Sunday 18th at the Hen and Chickens in Islington. Come say hello. Nothing bad is going to happen. Honest. unrestrictedview.co.uk/events/limin...

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Someone tell me if new Carrie is worth it. Rewatched the original movie a couple of years ago and it holds up really well

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love that addressing people saying I sound like Garth Marenghi hasn't stopped people from saying it at least once a week

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the episode, we were asked to count the number of bunny rabbits with the doctor. The number was 4. This means that 4 missing episodes have been found and they are hiding it from us because the BBC hates the fans!!!! *Mouth starts frothing*

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The reception to Doctor who ai videos is confusing me. I'm yet to see a single one that doesn't look and sound exactly like Space Babies: poor pacing, wooden acting, unnatural mouth movements. And yet everyone hated Space Babies but love ai slop? Where have everyone's standards gone?

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He's right that brexit was a bad idea but that's just "water is wet"

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I personally think NHS mental health services that are actually functional and properly funded is a better idea than making it so people with anxiety thats serious enough to get granted disability benefits suddenly have no money.... actually that sounds catastrophic. Why would anyone want that?

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Watching high concept romcom Sliding Doors. I love how in the 90s a character losing their job is considered a minor inconvenience whereas now it would be "THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER! THE WORLD IS LITERALLY ENDING!"

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Watching the shining again for the first time in forever. One thing I appreciate is the incredibly slow fade across between two scenes sorta making it look like ghosts from the previous scene are in the current one. Happens all the time, it's a really weird choice but makes it feel even more eerie

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Took me an entire year but finally watched Long Story Short. I wasn't too struck on the pilot but afterwards it just blossoms. Same wacky energy of BoJack Horseman but with a more grounded framework and RBW's dialogue is just addictive.

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I did think it was an important point that we know basically nothing about why Bear liked Nikki to begin with beyond she's a woman and has talked to him more than once. If I hadn't had it spoiled then I'd have guessed where it was going the second he bought the wish willow

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yeah my key criticism of it would be "it's too straightforward" if people hadn't proven to be so thoroughly disappointing in the aftermath

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Finally watched Obsession. I don't know if this is a hot take or not but I think Bear might be the villain of the movie

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Rob may show up to another at some stage, depends if he's free. He's lovely

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Morris is the benchmark by which you measure satire. It's a lesson people are still refusing to learn and especially pertinent with online commentators somehow managing to redeem the career of Chris hansen

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Always and forever. The point is to get people engaging in wider forms of culture and develop their skills. Course doing this alongside my full-time job frees me from a need for clicks

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Been rewatching screen wipe. This episode in particular should be compulsory viewing for anyone who wants to make TV and film or any kind of commentary based video online. Simple fun user friendly guide to how tv gets made. youtu.be/eMxH7y9oeP0?...

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Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe 4x01

YouTube video by Johnny O

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They're very very different to US horror icons like Freddy Kruger or Jason voorhees and probably buddy from what I've heard. Less gore and more this sense of quiet discomfort

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I think red guy, yellow guy and duck guy from don't hug me I'm scared should be considered British horror mascots youtu.be/9C_HReR_McQ?...

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Don't Hug me I'm Scared

YouTube video by Don't Hug Me .I'm Scared

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's on my must watch list the second it's streaming

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yes I know this question has a simple obvious answer, but I thought it would be more productive to go a bit deeper. youtu.be/RuMA1Ebo374?...

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Why does Ricky Gervais want to offend people?

YouTube video by Stubagful

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Watching Pyramids of Mars for the first time in years. It's a lot cornier than I remember. I love the scene where Dr Warlock meets the obviously possessed Scarman and he's talking to him as if basically nothing's wrong before he gets killed by a mummy. I wanted to do a panto shout "he's behind you!"

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'll let this one be a surprise :)

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A woman stumbles across a guy she knew at school on a dating app, and as she begins dating him, everyone in her life begins to disappear and she's the only one that remembers them. Early stages ATM. It's a bit like a cross between Bridget Jones Diary and Backrooms

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Slow and steady :) I've got 1 finished so far, it's the longest one ever - over 2 hours. It's an adaptation of a feature script I've been working on

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I was listening to a lot of Current 93 when I wrote it. They do this soothing folk music with a mix of unconventional noise in the mix. Kinda feels like I'm listening to music made by ghosts youtu.be/hjs0TRG9p68?...

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CURRENT 93—“BRIGHT DEAD STAR”: The New Single from C93’s NewOld album THE LIGHT IS LEAVING US ALL

YouTube video by C93CHANNEL

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Raymond (Chapman’s version 🚬🦜) @raymondmanchapscig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Made a new art piece inspired by the episode “Where Did All the People Go?” from @stubagful.bsky.social‘s comedy-drama-horror anthology podcast “Abnormal Stories”. Its one of my personal favourite episodes from the anthology :))

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I've figured out that the main character in a feature script I'm starting would definitely crochet. So now I guess I need to learn how to crochet...my bloody imagination is annoying sometimes

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Didn't realise the parallel but yeah you're right. People who just don't know what happens having very strong opinions based on nothing

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fyi: I haven't watched it because I know it'll make me furious but if people are coming out of viewing thinking this is what happens, it indicates a complete failure in communicating the facts.

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The most damaging thing about that ADHD documentary is people coming out with a positive opinion saying this: "Well it's right we question it, we shouldn't just jump to medication" That is literally not what happens after an ADHD diagnosis. They go through various ways to manage without medication

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yeah that's my default response to anything I see about him these days

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So I ended up watching Alley cats. It is a failure, but a pretty fascinating one. Half of it is his usual blue humour, half is sentimental musings on death, and these elements clash so violently. It's as if he just wasn't confident that people would accept sincerity without the edgy humour.

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The reason I just don't believe AI is inevitable is that the only marketing strategy the industry is adopting is "Waaa! Waaaa! People who don't like us are mean!" I'm so glad they're failing at simple marketing this badly. www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ce...

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the way for AI to win over the public is to 'actually' cure cancer

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged over the weekend that the public doesn't trust AI. He said AI companies have overpromised and undersold.

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Farage being a laughing stock was what was important

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

There's something utterly tragic about a 65 year old comedy writer reminding me of a kid singing "I know a song that'll get on your nerves"

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Well Binface was never gonna win but it was a nice dream. I think he should have an honourary role in parliament - every chance he gets, he reminds everyone about how representing people in parliament should be the actual goal of a politician, not just self aggrandisement youtu.be/9tob5RlhBpc?...

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Binface hits back at Farage - and says 'we'll be back here in a few weeks' for another by-election

YouTube video by Sky News

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

They ignored this point because they have a political motive - they don't want money going into means of helping people with it. This is not an honest conversation and shouldn't be treated as such.

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The political conversation around ADHD at the moment is completely braindead. This article had to go through the writer's head and multiple editors - someone will have pointed out that OBVIOUSLY you shouldn't take medication for a condition if you don't have it. They pretended this wasn't an issue.

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Robert McKee gives you a good grounding. Joseph Campbell's hero with a thousand faces Even something as basic as Save the cat. Yorgos Lanthimos has definitely read that cause a 'save the cat' moment happens in all his English language movies

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you read beyond the headline, he's really not wrong. I think a lot of popular online pundits could do with actually reading some academic texts about film theory, cause now that I have it's made it super obvious when someone hasn't. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

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Christopher Nolan says amateur film criticism has a ‘fundamental flaw’

Oscar winner’s adaptation of Homer’s Greek epic has caused heated debate

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Tried Ann Droid on iPlayer - wasn't too keen going off the trailers but it's surprisingly good - silly performance from Diane Morgan balanced with a heartfelt one from Sue Johnston really works.

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Stuart Hardy @stubagful.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Can confirm I checked and it is. They seem to have hidden it because they correctly think it's going to make everyone avoid it like the plague

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