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Film & TV Editor | SCUBA diver | Kraftwerk fan
Rarely far from a good coffee.
www.greenbeetle.co.uk
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Mark McKenny BFE @markmckenny.bsky.social · Dec 11
Hi everyone. Offline/Assistant Editor here, available from January 2026!
Experienced in broadcast, features, shorts, corporates and lots in between, recent edits include 'Past Life, 'Odd Squad UK', 'Football Fantastics' and 'Softy'.
www.greenbeetle.co.uk
#postchat #postsky
Posters and photos of film & TV projects, clockwise from top left: Jeremy Piven in the feature film 'Past Life', the cast of CBBC's 'Odd Squad UK', Ashley Walters & Joseph Obasohan in the short film 'Softy', and the cast of the CBeebies series 'Football Fantastics'.
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RADIOACTIVITY KRAFTWERK
February 13, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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Four decades after we wrote Yes Minister, politics is still reduced to the pleasure of power | Jonathan Lynn
Four decades after we wrote Yes Minister, politics is still reduced to the pleasure of power | Jonathan Lynn
Our sitcom character Jim Hacker continues to cling on – as he takes to the West End stage, nothing has really changed
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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#Coffee
February 9, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Bolan’s Shoes, starring Timothy Spall, is now available to watch on Channel 101 via Prime Video.
A tender journey of music, memory, and finding your way home. 🎶👞
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...
February 6, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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I feel it is my duty to inform people that the brilliant ‘Top Secret!’ is on UK #Netflix.
February 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1785
Paddington in Star Trek Again
February 2, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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Our next Northern Directors opportunity has landed! We’ve teamed up with the BBC and Clerkenwell Films to give two emerging short-form directors a paid shadowing and mentoring placement on a TV production. Apply by Friday 27 February: bit.ly/fhn-nd 🤩📣
#NorthernDirectors #DirectorsWanted
Text reads ‘25/26 Northern Directors. A shadowing and mentoring programme for new directors in the North’. Text sits on background of colourful stripes.
February 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A year after premiering at Sundance, Rabbit Trap is on cinema release from January 30th!
Proud to have assisted the edit.
#ShotOnFilm #Techniscope #2Perf
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A man listens to a large pair of headphones, with a concerned look on his face. The film poster for Bryn Chainey’s ‘Rabbit Trap’, starring Dev Patel, Rosy McEwan and Jade Croot.
January 28, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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Insulate is screening at Manchester Film Festival, part of North West Shorts 2.
Wednesday 25th March, 6pm.
secondcutpod.bsky.social Second Cut @secondcutpod.bsky.social · Dec 1
A new British short film is soon to make the festival rounds. Sam's gone ahead and reviewed it; check it out and support independent filmmakers, and film journalists.
#filmsky #moviesky #britishfilm #insulate #filmcritic #moviecritic #shortfilm
Insulate (2025) Short Film Review
This short is more emotionally profound and soulful than many films ten times its length.
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January 28, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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Really enjoyed ‘See You in Hell’.
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See You In Hell
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January 21, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Really enjoyed The Rip on #Netflix.
January 19, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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My Hario V60 is no more. It has ceased to be. Bereft of life, it rests in pieces.

#coffee
A Hario V60 coffee brewer, broken in two. Cut down in the prime of its life. A nation mourns.
January 17, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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Behold KING KONG on a flatbed truck. Director Merian C. Cooper and animator Willis O'Brien stand in front.
January 14, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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cinecalendar.bsky.social
Jan 12th 1992 - "I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you"

📽️📅 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
3 Screenshots from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968): First, a close-up of a man in a spacesuit helmet with a red background, looking intently to the side. The caption reads, "I am a HAL 9000 computer." Second, a close-up of the same man as the red light intensifies, with the caption "I became operational...". Third, a set of illuminated rectangular data modules with numerical labels against a red background, with the caption continuing, "...on the 12th of January, 1992."
January 12, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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+ SCHOOLS IDENT CLOCK // RABIES SIGN +

Made these in Dec as Xmas gifts for a couple of good friends. Both were very pleasing to make so I've popped a small batch in the shop, available to pre-order for shipping in Feb. Short run and only available for a limited period.

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January 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Really enjoyed ‘Wake Up Dead Man’.
#Netflix
a man in a trench coat and tie is standing in a dark room
Alt: A man in a trench coat and tie closes a coffin in a mausoleum, the caption says ‘Scooby Dooby Doo’.
media.tenor.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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Split diopter shot in Home Alone. Thanks to @vashi.bsky.social these are always fun to spot.
December 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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theguardian.com
‘Nostalgic and calming’: lava lamps are groovy again as sales glow
‘Nostalgic and calming’: lava lamps are groovy again as sales glow
The British-made lamps have surged in popularity as younger audiences seek to recapture magic of the 1960s
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Dec 24th - John McClane prevents Hans Gruber from stealing $640 million in untraceable bearer bonds from the vault in Nakatomi Plaza.

📽️📅 Die Hard (1988)
4 Screenshots from the movie "Die Hard" (1988): First, a man leaps off a rooftop with an explosion and sparks behind him, holding onto a fire hose for safety. Second, a shadowy figure stands in a dramatic pose near sparking metal, illuminated by bright light and surrounded by smoke. Third, a tense hostage situation, with a man holding a gun to a woman's head, both displaying fear and intensity. Fourth, a man in a dirty white tank top crawls through a narrow air duct, holding a lighter to light his path, his face showing determination and fatigue.
December 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Yes, turning off motion smoothing is all well and good but there are bigger problems at the in-laws
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. A very VERY old version of the Netflix app on a TV, from a Samsung blu-ray player. Last opened along with the Ark of the Covenant.
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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#ChristmasEveEve
A still from ‘The Hunt for Red October’. Jack Ryan asks ‘Is today the 23rd?’ His boss Jim Greer replies ‘Yeah.’
December 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Visited The Deck 747 at Barton Aerodrome, and took a 747 for a spin. Ridiculously good fun.
A man sitting in a Boeing 747 flight simulator, increasing the engine throttle as he takes off. A man sitting in a Boeing 747 flight simulator, making a right turn. A man sitting in a Boeing 747 flight simulator, San Francisco Bay in the distance. The complete top deck of a British Airways Boeing 747-436, with the flight simulator.
December 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
markmckenny.bsky.social
Hi everyone. Offline/Assistant Editor here, available from January 2026!
Experienced in broadcast, features, shorts, corporates and lots in between, recent edits include 'Past Life, 'Odd Squad UK', 'Football Fantastics' and 'Softy'.
www.greenbeetle.co.uk
#postchat #postsky
Posters and photos of film & TV projects, clockwise from top left: Jeremy Piven in the feature film 'Past Life', the cast of CBBC's 'Odd Squad UK', Ashley Walters & Joseph Obasohan in the short film 'Softy', and the cast of the CBeebies series 'Football Fantastics'.
December 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Warren Oates in Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia’.
December 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I feel it is my duty to inform people that #Lidl are selling #raclette grills.
Utter filth.
SilverCrest Raclette Grill at Lidl.
December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM