Fred Connelly
@brendonconnelly.bsky.social
Working class writer. Invisibly disabled. Mystery plotter, heist consultant, lover of moving pictures. He/him. Fun things: http://brendonconnelly.carrd.co
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Happy Doccy Who Day! In case you missed it, here's a website with all sorts of Doctor Who quizzes and games that @andrewblair.co.uk made and I co-wrote some questions for. The Taskmaster and Strictly rounds really separate the men from the... men who also watch other TV shows, I guess.
Doctor Who Quiz
It's a bunch of quizzes about Doctor Who, each more fiendish than the last.
andrewblair.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Happy Doccy Who Day! In case you missed it, here's a website with all sorts of Doctor Who quizzes and games that @andrewblair.co.uk made and I co-wrote some questions for. The Taskmaster and Strictly rounds really separate the men from the... men who also watch other TV shows, I guess.
Feeling a bit low, probably because outside weather, brain weather and work weather are all a bit grey and rainy. I think I'd like some sort of escape room game on my PC. Something affordable and fun and polished. Do you have any suggestions?
November 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Feeling a bit low, probably because outside weather, brain weather and work weather are all a bit grey and rainy. I think I'd like some sort of escape room game on my PC. Something affordable and fun and polished. Do you have any suggestions?
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If you STILL like lists after that - and again, who doesn't? - here's one I put on Letterboxd with every film from the second book in the Kinsey series about horror, science fiction and fantasy movies, this time Fantastic Films of the Decades Volume 2: The 30s
boxd.it/QfGgu
boxd.it/QfGgu
Fantastic Films of the Decades Volume 2: The 30s
Every film from Fantastic Films of the Decades Volume 2: The 30s
boxd.it
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
If you STILL like lists after that - and again, who doesn't? - here's one I put on Letterboxd with every film from the second book in the Kinsey series about horror, science fiction and fantasy movies, this time Fantastic Films of the Decades Volume 2: The 30s
boxd.it/QfGgu
boxd.it/QfGgu
Here's a list of audio drama murder mysteries. A handful I know, a few of those I love, and some I need to explore. www.theend.fyi/collection/m...
Murder On The Audio Express Fiction Podcasts & Audio Fiction
Murder mysteries, who-done-its, and other ways to find out who killed Mr. Body.
www.theend.fyi
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Here's a list of audio drama murder mysteries. A handful I know, a few of those I love, and some I need to explore. www.theend.fyi/collection/m...
A new Muppet comic from @hotelfred.bsky.social is coming in February! It's a story set inside dreams as Kermit gets knocked out and tackles 'baffling mystery of the Snoozing Sleuth'. www.dynamite.com/disney/viewP...
November 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A new Muppet comic from @hotelfred.bsky.social is coming in February! It's a story set inside dreams as Kermit gets knocked out and tackles 'baffling mystery of the Snoozing Sleuth'. www.dynamite.com/disney/viewP...
Another animated Asterix feature is coming. The design of the small gaul himself is... different. Lop-sided? Thanks to @jeromeanfre.bsky.social for the heads up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ihm...
Astérix - Le Royaume de Nubie (Teaser)
YouTube video by SND
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Another animated Asterix feature is coming. The design of the small gaul himself is... different. Lop-sided? Thanks to @jeromeanfre.bsky.social for the heads up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ihm...
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Meg Molloy was the first person in her family to go to university, and had to fight both for her career, and to fit in. Now, with Working Arts Club, she wants to open the doors of the art world to people like her.
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Meg Molloy was the first person in her family to go to university, and had to fight both for her career, and to fit in. Now, with Working Arts Club, she wants to open the doors of the art world to people like her.
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The perfect item to be enveloped in some Christmas wrapping. It's my book on the history of 1980s music, #IntoTheGroove.
OUT NOW, my month-by-month guide to 1980s pop, from ABC to XTC, and from Madonna to Neneh. #IntoTheGroove, published by @eandtbooks.bsky.social.
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The perfect item to be enveloped in some Christmas wrapping. It's my book on the history of 1980s music, #IntoTheGroove.
Up past my bedtime thinking about secret doors.
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Up past my bedtime thinking about secret doors.
I wouldn't have given Tom Cruise his Oscar at some sort adjunct, untelevised ceremony. I would have put it in a high-tech vault in the middle of the stage and challenged him to steal it during the live broadcast.
November 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I wouldn't have given Tom Cruise his Oscar at some sort adjunct, untelevised ceremony. I would have put it in a high-tech vault in the middle of the stage and challenged him to steal it during the live broadcast.
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Folks, I really need some help. For the last 10-15 days, I've been pretty much out of action, which has put me two weeks behind on promoting my Film Stories 500 show in London next week.
I'd be grateful for any help/support in getting the word out.
Thank you.
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...
I'd be grateful for any help/support in getting the word out.
Thank you.
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...
Film Stories: The 500th Episode Celebration • Words • Kings Place
Join us for a special evening as we celebrate the 500th episode of the Film Stories with Simon Brew.
www.kingsplace.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Folks, I really need some help. For the last 10-15 days, I've been pretty much out of action, which has put me two weeks behind on promoting my Film Stories 500 show in London next week.
I'd be grateful for any help/support in getting the word out.
Thank you.
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...
I'd be grateful for any help/support in getting the word out.
Thank you.
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...
Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope make some of the best TV there is. Their new show is Dear Life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbOV...
Dear Life | Official Trailer | A Stan Original Series.
YouTube video by Stan Australia
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope make some of the best TV there is. Their new show is Dear Life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbOV...
It's apparently cinema pseudoscience time again.
November 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It's apparently cinema pseudoscience time again.
Varanasi will be the next feature from S. S. Rajamouli. 'Filmed for IMAX' it says. 'Filmed?!?' I reply. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDGE...
VARANASI to the WORLD - Mahesh Babu | Priyanka Chopra | Prithviraj | SS Rajamouli | MM Keeravaani
YouTube video by Varanasi Movie
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Varanasi will be the next feature from S. S. Rajamouli. 'Filmed for IMAX' it says. 'Filmed?!?' I reply. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDGE...
Just putting this here so I can refer to it later. Egg heist?
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Just putting this here so I can refer to it later. Egg heist?
At first, Keeper has lots of mysteries. Many of the answers seem a bit lightweight, ready to fly away in the wind. The images that reveal the answers, however, could linger forever. A grim idea watered down with banalities, then rendered like a nightmare. Meshes of the Afternoon-alike in places too.
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
At first, Keeper has lots of mysteries. Many of the answers seem a bit lightweight, ready to fly away in the wind. The images that reveal the answers, however, could linger forever. A grim idea watered down with banalities, then rendered like a nightmare. Meshes of the Afternoon-alike in places too.
I did the accounting and, thanks to my Limitless card, each of my cinema tickets this year has cost me pennies. Meanwhile, any cinema snacks have required me to take out a small loan.
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I did the accounting and, thanks to my Limitless card, each of my cinema tickets this year has cost me pennies. Meanwhile, any cinema snacks have required me to take out a small loan.
I want to write more audio drama. I have an original Radio 4 show coming next year, a Rusty Quill show somewhat sooner than that, and you may have heard my 'What if the pandemic was an episode of Buffy?' series Circles. Do you have an audio drama that needs stories? I love audio drama. Hit me up!
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I want to write more audio drama. I have an original Radio 4 show coming next year, a Rusty Quill show somewhat sooner than that, and you may have heard my 'What if the pandemic was an episode of Buffy?' series Circles. Do you have an audio drama that needs stories? I love audio drama. Hit me up!
How many hours of this thing are there?
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
How many hours of this thing are there?
I'm not sure 'You can't upload machine-generated video to this app' equates to 'anti AI' when it could so easily be 'we want to devour your human-made video to feed our video generating machines'.
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I'm not sure 'You can't upload machine-generated video to this app' equates to 'anti AI' when it could so easily be 'we want to devour your human-made video to feed our video generating machines'.
I went to the cinema to see a 3D movie just a few days ago and I'll see another next week. I don't see any connection to AI except they are both - as is everything, grossly enough - used to harvest blind, misinformed investment. Generative AI is vapid and wasteful. Stereoscopic film is an artform.
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I went to the cinema to see a 3D movie just a few days ago and I'll see another next week. I don't see any connection to AI except they are both - as is everything, grossly enough - used to harvest blind, misinformed investment. Generative AI is vapid and wasteful. Stereoscopic film is an artform.
Switching Peter Dinklage in for Natasha Lyonne makes perfect 007 sense but I can't get my head around Peacock not renewing Poker Face. Why?
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Switching Peter Dinklage in for Natasha Lyonne makes perfect 007 sense but I can't get my head around Peacock not renewing Poker Face. Why?
New Squeeze song seems like the beginning of a concept album? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec9G...
Squeeze - Trixies Pt. 1 [Official Audio]
YouTube video by Squeeze
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
New Squeeze song seems like the beginning of a concept album? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec9G...
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I just dropped a special #Noirvember missive on my Substack. Free to read at the link below.
andrewnette.substack.com/p/helmut-kau...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/helmut-kau...
Helmut Käutner's Black Gravel and the lost decade of German cinema
I have written previously here about my love for German director Helmut Käutner’s 1961 noir, Schwarzer Kies, or translated into English, Black Gravel. It is without doubt my favourite German noir and ...
andrewnette.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I just dropped a special #Noirvember missive on my Substack. Free to read at the link below.
andrewnette.substack.com/p/helmut-kau...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/helmut-kau...