dr. cat

@cinefeline

Children's horror doctor, rabbit film studies connoisseur and intermittent gremlin. I can't see my DMs.

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dr. cat@cinefeline· 29d

The 2 most recent novels I've read are BLACK BAG by my fab colleague @lukekennard.bsky.social and WOODWORKING by not-colleague @emilystjams.bsky.social. While VERY different, they're both about how gender is beautiful and weird and can make people crazy. Strong rec for both!

Cover for Black Bag by Luke Kennard showing an illustration of a large black smudge (the eponymous black bag) with two eye holes at the top and two white feet sticking out the bottom. Set against a bright pink background.

Cover of Woodworking by Emily St. James which shows a photograph of wooden chairs in a higgeldy piggeldy pile in a room that is probably a school classroom.

dr. cat@cinefeline· Jul 1

Rabbit tax and a confession: this is Gizmo, he's 11 years old! He came from a shop and is a hutch rabbit who gets lots of free roaming outside of the (roomy) hutch. I have messy feelings about it: he's a happy, healthy bun but I'd have made different choices if I were starting from scratch.

A very naughty brown and white rabbit is standing up on its hind legs in order to munch the leaves of a tall Brussel sprouts plant in a blue plant pot.

dr. cat@cinefeline· May 13

The Newcastle>Edinburgh route is GORGEOUS too, I did it just a few weeks ago! Have a great trip.

dr. cat@cinefeline· Apr 30

When it's sunny outside and I have the day off and I've remembered it's Taskmaster Thursday

'girl who is going to be okay' meme showing a young white woman clutching an iced matcha latte and looking up at the sky with a little smile on her face

dr. cat@cinefeline· Apr 19

A reminder for Edinburgh-based folks, I'll be doing a short talk about Watership Down + introducing a screening at this fiendish film festival a week today! BBC Radio 2's sound of the 70s is helping to put me in the mood.

Photo of car radio interface showing the text 'Now Playing: Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel'

dr. cat@cinefeline· Mar 5

*sigh* I am going to cave and buy a Switch 2 aren't I?

Screenshot of review excerpt: "I found it so charming how the Pokémon talk to each other. (Usually, as humans, we can’t understand what they’re saying.) Different personalities come through: Charizard is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a huge bro; Vespiquen is well mannered and a touch regal; Pidgey is honestly just happy to be there; Tangrowth, a friendly, professorial tangle of vines, guides you through your daily tasks. Improving their homes and habitats makes each creature happier, until you have a delightful collective living together in an appealing, well-decorated grove. When you unearth a human artefact – a bike, perhaps, or a map – they all get together to guess, ineptly, at what it might have been used for."

dr. cat@cinefeline· Feb 24

@mattdenny.bsky.social sent this to me the other day, if you're at all curious about what that might look like

dr. cat@cinefeline· Feb 18

I've not seen this one mentioned yet, so shout out to one of Tom Noonan's lesser-known roles: Frankenstein's Monster in The Monster Squad (1987). He cites Karloff's childlike vulnerability, but he also gets to say 'Bogus' while impaling Dracula on an iron spike. Peak children's horror cinema.

Noon as the monster closely resembles Karloff in the 1931 film. He's tall with pale green skin and scars/stitches on his face. He's wearing a shabby black suit and holding the hand of a little white girl in a red dress.

dr. cat@cinefeline· Feb 5

what a delightfully chaotic set of nominees

Screenshot of the 2003 nominees: School of Rock (winner), Finding Nemo, and Kill Bill vol 1.

dr. cat@cinefeline· Jan 23

I didn't like F1 but I do get to feel smug about this

Screenshot of my Letterboxd review of F1 dated 16 July 2025. It reads 'Calling it now - this will get a best picture nom in the sentimental dad movie slot.
thought it was extremely mid but Craig (who actually does like F1 racing) liked it and it was free [shrug emoji] fuck Brad Pitt tho'

dr. cat@cinefeline· Jan 14

I've been staying in cheap motel rooms in the South Island of New Zealand all week, all of which are bigger, more comfortable and with better hospitality than nearly any chain hotel of equivalent price I've stayed at in the UK. And the scenery is off the charts.

View from a motel window showing landscape with a lake in the foreground and green mountains on the background. A small bit of blue sky can be seen through fluffy clouds.

dr. cat@cinefeline· Jan 1

Oh dear

dr. cat@cinefeline· Dec 17

I have read the article in question (link in comments of the QT) and just want to point and laugh at this para, which implies with a straight face that men are being discriminated against, without acknowledging that men are statistically more likely to apply for jobs they are underqualified for.

To give a sense of what this meant on the ground: In 2022, there were 728 applicants to tenure-track jobs in the humanities at Brown, 55 percent of whom were men. At every stage of the process the male share was whittled down. The long list was 48 percent male, the short list 42 percent. Only 34 percent of candidates who made it to the interview round were male—and only 29 percent of the jobs were ultimately offered to men. A similar dynamic played out in the social sciences: 54 percent of the 722 applicants were men; 44 percent of the shortlist was male, and just 32 percent of job offers were tendered to men; in the physical sciences, women were 23 percent of applicants, but received 42 percent of job offers.

dr. cat@cinefeline· Dec 3

Sobering! And part of why I still buy CDs...

Spotify 'unwrapped' screenshot showing an estimate that only £2.00 went to my top played artist via Spotify despite spending 1749 minutes listening to them

dr. cat@cinefeline· Dec 3

Look I know Spotify is problematic but there isn't a more accurate pair of images to sum up my 2025 in pop culture tbh

My top podcast was the Taskmaster podcast

dr. cat@cinefeline· Nov 21

Anyway I got the electric blanket out so I think he's forgiven me

dr. cat@cinefeline· Nov 21

Craig said this is the particular movie quote that this situation puts him in mind if (enemies of the state = biscuits)

Nazi officer in Inglorious Basterds saying 'Youre sheltering enemies of the state, are you not?'

dr. cat@cinefeline· Nov 21

"It's called enrichment. It's good for you."

Phantom Thread image showing Daniel Day Lewis saying "are you a special agent sent here to ruin my evening and possibly my entire life?"

dr. cat@cinefeline· Nov 13

Today I posted my UCU ballot immediately after a meeting of my local branch, where we heard from the awful situation facing colleagues in other departments at UoB having redundancies forced on them in the name of chasing a league table stat.

Photo of my hand posting a ballot envelope into a red post box

dr. cat@cinefeline· Oct 21

Cheating by posting 2 couples but this sums up all you need to know about me, my taste, and what I value in a relationship

Bigwig the rabbit and Kehaar the Seagull from Watership Down 1978

Sheila and Joel from the TV series Santa Clarita Diet

dr. cat@cinefeline· Oct 16

It's so powerful to see myself represented in the media

Screenshots from Taskmaster showing the following exchange:
Greg Davies: 'Cats the musical was a big thing in your life, right?'
Ania: 'Yeah'
Greg: 'Were you in it?'
Ania: 'I watched it.'

dr. cat@cinefeline· Oct 3

dr. cat@cinefeline· Sep 17

Wow the new Damien Hirst installation is sick

dr. cat@cinefeline· Sep 17

The Chase (1966) wasn't one of Redford's best-known (or best) films but it's certainly one in which he was very pretty

Robert Redford at peak hot with his blonde hair and blue eyes. Hotness is increased by the presence of some dirty smudges on his face

dr. cat@cinefeline· Sep 17

I know just the book for you

Cover of the book Horror Films for Children by Catherine Lester

dr. cat@cinefeline· Sep 12

My university library doesn't have Nancy Meyers' masterpiece on DVD but I have to filter out dozens of results like this in order to find that out

Screenshot of a library catalogue showing search results for 'Something's Gotta Give'. The results are journal articles for science and history journals with annoying titles like 'Something’s Gotta Give: Bent Rules, Breached Bottom Line, and the International Amateur Athletics Federations’ Handling of the “China Question”'

dr. cat@cinefeline· Sep 2

Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement today at 2

So you know my sister is a veterinary student

She said a little girl brought her hamster in bc it hadn't moved for 3 days and was just sat at the side of the cage and wouldn't eat or drink or anything

So she asked her if anything had happened that may have caused it, the girl says yeah he escaped for a bit but we found him under the fridge

So they have a look at this hamster, put him on the table and he's walking round, eating & drinking etc. All fine

Which is really weird

Then they notice there's something in his cheek pouch

So they look inside, and find a fridge magnet

Turns out the only thing wrong with this hamster is that it had a fridge magnet in his cheek pouch and was stuck to his metal cage

dr. cat@cinefeline· Jun 30

Less than 24 hours to go til the Youth & Horror conference at the University of Birmingham! Good luck to all travelling today, and may your planes, trains and automobiles be blessed with good air conditioning ❄️

Jack Nicholson at the end of The Shining, frozen to death in the maze

dr. cat@cinefeline· May 26

Gonna tell my kids this is The Wizard of Oz

Photo of Del Marquis (guitarist from Scissor Sisters) on stage with the tin man, a female dancer, and a large purple puppet

dr. cat@cinefeline· May 25

No Ana Matronic but these women easily filled her shoes and stole the show. If you'd told me that the woman on the left was a drunk fan who'd crashed the stage I'd believe you. I'm obsessed with her.