Dr Andrew McInnes
@drbeard79.bsky.social
Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
#ReasonsToSupportTheBBC The Repair Shop! Ostensibly about fixing items that the public bring in BUT *really* it fixes the people - it’s guilt work, grief work, care work - it’s love!!
November 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
#ReasonsToSupportTheBBC The Repair Shop! Ostensibly about fixing items that the public bring in BUT *really* it fixes the people - it’s guilt work, grief work, care work - it’s love!!
*Fabulous* full length poster of Russian-American actress and writer Alla Nazimova as Hedda (I was looking up the original play as I last read it as an undergrad)
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
*Fabulous* full length poster of Russian-American actress and writer Alla Nazimova as Hedda (I was looking up the original play as I last read it as an undergrad)
Hedda is a delicious decadent delight, the camera hovering claustrophobically around first Tessa Thompson as Hedda then Nina Hoss as Eileen Lovborg (both *exceptional*) - loved the dance to ‘It’s Oh So Quiet’ 🖤
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Hedda is a delicious decadent delight, the camera hovering claustrophobically around first Tessa Thompson as Hedda then Nina Hoss as Eileen Lovborg (both *exceptional*) - loved the dance to ‘It’s Oh So Quiet’ 🖤
Great quote on Del Toro’s Mexican Frankenstein from this interview: www.gq.com/story/oscar-...
![Oscar Isaac as Frankenstein with quote:
"[Frankenstein is] an emotional Mexican melodrama that we made. This is a very European story told in an extremely Latin point of view. At one point I was like,
"That is a lot, man. Is this too much?" And [Guillermo del Toro] is like, "Look, cabrón, it is not an accident that my Victor's real name is Oscar Isaac Hernández."
— Oscar Isaac on making 'Frankenstein' with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (via GQ)
The interview also describes Victor as punk and his Red gloves as like Prince](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:shapy7mhnclleohdoeridwum/bafkreiatcbx7e3f2pnq6jdytez6bo4rvkdd2mhe462eyjazc2lyulzkuny@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Great quote on Del Toro’s Mexican Frankenstein from this interview: www.gq.com/story/oscar-...
Creature schmeature - if you’re an academic, I gleefully inform you Victor Frankenstein is One of Us 🖤
![Oscar Isaac as Victor hugging little William goodbye with subtitle reading: And there [University of Edinburgh], for decades, I tried to…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:shapy7mhnclleohdoeridwum/bafkreihz26ynv2kde7ykates45ogplauscvqc5nhifhcn7wokntl42ycs4@jpeg)
![Present day Victor with beard and bandages, perfectly poised in front of a porthole and two windows letting in Arctic light, finished his sentence ‘[I tried to] expand the narrow limits of academia’](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:shapy7mhnclleohdoeridwum/bafkreic3jrkh2zysifm4xjzcqo6mvbf7hoemqzxp4lg2pei3mudu2x3coe@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Creature schmeature - if you’re an academic, I gleefully inform you Victor Frankenstein is One of Us 🖤
Predator: Badlands is a super fun, super pulpy, super cute sci fi / 12A horror about hunting for your found family of a chirpy android and a hard shelled monkey creature with fun stuff about ecology and doubling and repetition and maybe the slightest whiff of Freudian psychosexuality 🖤
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Predator: Badlands is a super fun, super pulpy, super cute sci fi / 12A horror about hunting for your found family of a chirpy android and a hard shelled monkey creature with fun stuff about ecology and doubling and repetition and maybe the slightest whiff of Freudian psychosexuality 🖤
Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a great, failed reading of the novel, replacing a young woman’s with an old man’s gothic in its overriding desire for innocent son (he might kill some sailors but leaves the Frankenstein family untouched) to forgive monstrous father-it’s a chiaroscuro of the care home! 5/5
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a great, failed reading of the novel, replacing a young woman’s with an old man’s gothic in its overriding desire for innocent son (he might kill some sailors but leaves the Frankenstein family untouched) to forgive monstrous father-it’s a chiaroscuro of the care home! 5/5
Striking crockery from 2007 commemorating the abolition of the slave trade with an anti-abolitionist vomiting onto a plate painted on paint and a jug below with a portrait of a black man
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Striking crockery from 2007 commemorating the abolition of the slave trade with an anti-abolitionist vomiting onto a plate painted on paint and a jug below with a portrait of a black man
The Harris in Preston has been refurbished and it’s stunning - Wallace & Gromit exhibition a delight!
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The Harris in Preston has been refurbished and it’s stunning - Wallace & Gromit exhibition a delight!
I watched the new Netflix Frankenstein as it was designed to be watched: on Netflix, with a friend 🖤
I was worried I wasn’t going to love it but it was intensely loveable from the start: gorgeous, Mexican, campy, deliberately and accidentally funny, moving, and delicious!
I was worried I wasn’t going to love it but it was intensely loveable from the start: gorgeous, Mexican, campy, deliberately and accidentally funny, moving, and delicious!
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I watched the new Netflix Frankenstein as it was designed to be watched: on Netflix, with a friend 🖤
I was worried I wasn’t going to love it but it was intensely loveable from the start: gorgeous, Mexican, campy, deliberately and accidentally funny, moving, and delicious!
I was worried I wasn’t going to love it but it was intensely loveable from the start: gorgeous, Mexican, campy, deliberately and accidentally funny, moving, and delicious!
Just another day in the life of the cutest kitten in the world
November 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Just another day in the life of the cutest kitten in the world
It’s time for this banger of a poem (I imagine it sung by Big Thief in the style of ‘Not’)
November 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
It’s time for this banger of a poem (I imagine it sung by Big Thief in the style of ‘Not’)
Turner: Always Contemporary curated by @hosmeriana.bsky.social is fantastic and well worth a visit to the Walker - lots of Liverpool artists and lesser known pieces among the Turner treasures 🖤
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Turner: Always Contemporary curated by @hosmeriana.bsky.social is fantastic and well worth a visit to the Walker - lots of Liverpool artists and lesser known pieces among the Turner treasures 🖤
Never mind Halloween, it’s Wilbur our witchy cat’s birthday 🥳🖤🥳
October 31, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Never mind Halloween, it’s Wilbur our witchy cat’s birthday 🥳🖤🥳
Here is my sad - but purring - nearly Toothless little guy
October 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Here is my sad - but purring - nearly Toothless little guy
Thoughts and prayers for Wilbur our black cat - who someone once said reminded them of Toothless - as he only has 1 tooth left after some much necessary dentistry today 🖤💔🖤
October 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Thoughts and prayers for Wilbur our black cat - who someone once said reminded them of Toothless - as he only has 1 tooth left after some much necessary dentistry today 🖤💔🖤
Chris Riddell’s Halloween Ball in the middle of this week’s Observer is a thing of beauty and a joy forever
October 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Chris Riddell’s Halloween Ball in the middle of this week’s Observer is a thing of beauty and a joy forever
Feeling slightly threatened by all the ducks at the duck pond given I don’t have any duck food for them 🦆
October 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Feeling slightly threatened by all the ducks at the duck pond given I don’t have any duck food for them 🦆
Frankenstein felt like work so I enjoyed instead The Mastermind: the story of an irresponsible father whose grand plans turn ugly and who ends up fleeing the consequences of his actions
October 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Frankenstein felt like work so I enjoyed instead The Mastermind: the story of an irresponsible father whose grand plans turn ugly and who ends up fleeing the consequences of his actions
Planned all week to go and see Frankenstein today
October 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Planned all week to go and see Frankenstein today
Frankenstein’s Monster should 100% adopt a dog! 🖤🖤🖤
October 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Frankenstein’s Monster should 100% adopt a dog! 🖤🖤🖤
These Wuthering Heights inspired pieces by L S Lowry are great!
October 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
These Wuthering Heights inspired pieces by L S Lowry are great!
Spotted this book in a colleague’s office at Open Day and now I want to write ‘Understanding _Understanding Lorrie Moore_’ (inspired by one of her short stories in which a character gives up on academia after reading ‘How to Read _How to Read Lacan_’)
October 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Spotted this book in a colleague’s office at Open Day and now I want to write ‘Understanding _Understanding Lorrie Moore_’ (inspired by one of her short stories in which a character gives up on academia after reading ‘How to Read _How to Read Lacan_’)