Katemonkey (In Most Places) (@katemonkey.com)

Katemonkey (In Most Places)

@katemonkey.com

Transplanted Southern Californian in the land of medieval hoodlums. Likes bad pop culture and the Internet. Yep. She/Her/They/Them. Find me at https://www.katebolin.com

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Katemonkey (In Most Places)

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20 Dec 2025

I know I could theoretically do more than post what movies I've seen, but you know what? Naw. This is what I do.

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Today I watched "Bring It On: Cheer Or Die" (2022) on Amazon Prime. letterboxd.com/katemonkey/f...

letterboxd.comA review of Bring It On: Cheer Or Die (2022)Holy smokes, the Rancho Carne Toros would wipe the floor with these kids, even now with their busted knees and arthritic hips and 40-something bodies. Like, you could've had something here, there was ...

Katemonkey (In Most Places)

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Today, I watched "Hotel Transylvania: Transformania" (2022) on Amazon Prime. letterboxd.com/katemonkey/f...

letterboxd.comA review of Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)Look, I have one Adam Sandler series I will watch, and this is it. Give me Genndy Tartakovsky's amazing animation department making these characters bounce and slide and do things I don't see any othe...

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Blog post! I'm on a new module in my MSc, and how did the first month go? Like this! blog.katemonkey.com/customer-led...

blog.katemonkey.comCustomer Led Disruption in a Digital Era - Month 1Going through the first month of my current module, involving customers, consumers, business models, crowds, capacity, and big data.

Katemonkey (In Most Places)

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Me last night at the David Lynch Drag Night in Cultplex, Manchester. I was the Pumpkin Spice Miner l

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Another bit of it.

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Today, I saw "The Secret World of Arriety" (2010), a Cosy Craft viewing at the Broadway. boxd.it/gS4se3

boxd.itA review of The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)Goddamn it, Ghibli, stop making the Japanese countryside look so wonderful, you are making everything else look grim and miserable and depressing. I've always really liked "The Borrowers" as a book, s...

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Jo Franchetti

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I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

youtu.beMen in tech #YesAllMen - EMF 2026YouTube video by Electromagnetic Field

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Today I watched "Mārama" (2025) at the Broadway as part of the Mayhem Festival, with a Q&A with Taratoa Stappard afterwards. boxd.it/gORb8J

boxd.itA review of Mārama (2025)Good lord, what a knockout start for Taratoa Stappard. All of the horror and grotesquery of colonialism, all the bleakness and beauty of gothic, all the fury of being a woman, just freaking gorgeous a...

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You! Nottingham! Wednesday, November 4th! Saltbox! Be there! queerupduck.co.uk/queer-up-duc...

queerupduck.co.ukQueer Up Duck! Drag Showcase - Queer Up, Duck!Queer Up Duck! Drag Showcase Give ’em Drag – homegrown Notts talent Wednesday 4 November Saltbox 7-9.30pm So you wanna see some drag, do you? Well its a good thing that we’ve been busy behind the scen...

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Today I saw "You Are The Film" (2026) at the Broadway as part of the Mayhem film festival. boxd.it/gOAlJh

boxd.itA review of You Are the Film (2026)Well that's just enjoyable. A cute little movie about cute people doing delightfully cute things, with a bit of charming post-modern mayhem. The kind of thing where you come out smiling softly and hap...

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Today I saw "Careful" (1992) at the Broadway as part of the Mayhem film festival. boxd.it/gOxfOT

boxd.itA review of Careful (1992)This was totally not what I expected from the description, but I was still pleased with it. Very very weird, very over the top, very melodramatic, very "it's the 90s and I'm a Canadian filmmaker' weir...

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Post a character you think is cool and give no explanation why

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Post a character you think is cool and give no explanation why

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Small Bowl with Mice, 100-500 CE, Ceramic with white and black Slip Glaze

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Audacity is my best friend in the world. (You can find out what I'm editing at the David Lynch Drag Night on Wednesday at the Cultplex in Manchester. cultplex.co.uk/Cultplex.dll...)

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Today, I watched "Claws" (1977) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Encore. letterboxd.com/katemonkey/f...

letterboxd.comA review of Claws (1977)You tell me it's a movie about what is either a very angry injured bear or a devil-bear or a native vengeance spirit. You tell me there are so many flashbacks and hallucinations. And then you tell me ...

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Today I watched "Snowbeast" (1977) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Encore. letterboxd.com/katemonkey/f...

letterboxd.comA review of Snowbeast (1977)I mean, what do you expect from a TV movie about Bigfoot attacking a Colorado ski resort town? It's not going to be amazing. It's going to have a weird and awkwardly thrown in love triangle. It's goin...

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Today, I watched "Crow Hollow" (1952), part of the @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Encore Halloween list. letterboxd.com/katemonkey/f...

letterboxd.comA review of Crow Hollow (1952)It had all the tropes of a good gothic drama, a fresh young bride, an ancient house, three old aunts each with their own eccentricity, a beautiful housemaid with a secret past, but it just wasn't goth...

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Today I watched "Trapped" (1949), as part of the @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Encore Halloween Collection (and no, I don't know why it's in there either). letterboxd.com/katemonkey/f...

letterboxd.comA review of Trapped (1949)Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit being a counterfeiter! I'm not 100% sure why this film is in the Talking Pictures TV Encore Halloween Collection, being that it's a pretty standard crime dra...

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YOU! MANCHESTER! OCTOBER 21ST! CULTPLEX! BE THERE! cultplex.co.uk/Cultplex.dll...

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Window Halloween display up, it is officially spooky time on my street

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This is a ridiculously delightful little movie where kids decide to start a popcorn business using atomic energy. Yes, really.

Talking Pictures TV@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

Special Offer! Child’s Play DVD: Limited Edition – Signed by #AnnekeWills The DVD contains the film and bonus features including an interview with Anneke. Limited stock - first come first served! Just £15 with free UK P&P! renownfilms.co.uk/product/chil...

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Today, I watched "Stranger from Venus" (1954) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Encore. letterboxd.com/katemonkey/f...

letterboxd.comA review of Stranger from Venus (1954)What IS it with stolid unemotional dudes coming from alien worlds, telling us to stop using atomics, falling in love with our women, and then just nobly dying? I mean, c'mon, LIVE a little, buddy. Thi...

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Today, I've watched "The Day of the Triffids" (1963) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Encore. letterboxd.com/katemonkey/f...

letterboxd.comA review of The Day of the Triffids (1963)I know I've seen this before as a kid, but I've never logged it, so here I'm doing it now. It's a great story, but the 1963 version goes for bombast and swelling musical stings rather than any real ho...

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Today seems to be a good day to start working on getting 100% watched on the @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Encore Halloween Collection. letterboxd.com/katemonkey/l...

letterboxd.comThe Talking Pictures TV Encore Halloween CollectionTalking Pictures TV Encore has a Halloween Collection. Here are the films that are on it, in the order they are listed in.

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OH DARN IT, I'M MISSING IT! Thank heavens for TPTV Encore!

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Will you guess who is the werewolf during the 'Werewolf Break'? THE BEAST MUST DIE (1974) 9:05pm starring #CalvinLockhart #PeterCushing #MarleneClark #AntonDiffring Amicus horror #TPTVsubtitles

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Oooh, horror cake at the Nottingham Horror Collective book launch of "Dead Pretty: Beauty in the Horror Genre".

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Blog post! I made a mini-zine, and I go through the details. blog.katemonkey.com/creating-the...

blog.katemonkey.comCreating the Sandy Bawls mini-zineHow I made a tiny easily-printable zine to be my business card. If drag kings get to have business cards.

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Are you in Nottingham? Free on Wednesday, 4 November? Want to see some local drag talent? Maybe see a salty sea dog? Yep, I'll be here! queerupduck.co.uk/queer-up-duc...

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IT'S TIME.

Katemonkey (In Most Places)

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22 Sept

Hey! Can you be in Manchester in around a month? Do you like David Lynch? Do you like drag shows? SEE ME AND MORE! cultplex.co.uk/Cultplex.dll...

cultplex.co.ukDAVID LYNCH DRAG NIGHT | CULTPLEXWed 21 Oct

Katemonkey (In Most Places)

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21 Sept

Blog post! Variation in Statistics! Too much arithmetic! My head hurts! Oh boy! blog.katemonkey.com/learning-sta...

blog.katemonkey.comLearning Statistics, Day 6 – VariationsWhat's happening around the centre of the data? A lot of math. God, so much math. My head. The math.

Katemonkey (In Most Places)

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20 Sept

Today I saw "Whisper of the Heart" (1995) at the Broadway. boxd.it/gpVpST

boxd.itA review of Whisper of the Heart (1995)Oh what an adorable film. What a ridiculous and adorable film, all the freaking out over what your future is going to be and what you're going to do and if that boy likes you or not and how building y...

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Pokémon Gems

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18 Sept

meowth all curled up

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18 Sept

Blog post! We are all averages of averageness. Or I learn what averages are. blog.katemonkey.com/learning-sta...

blog.katemonkey.comLearning Statistics, Day 5 – Fun with AveragesWe are all pretty average, y'know. Or we get into Means, Medians, and Modes.

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18 Sept

"...how do you use AI tools in your day-to-day work? (Please answer briefly, in your own words, without AI)" YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.

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16 Sept

Blog post! You want some graphs? I got graphs! blog.katemonkey.com/learning-sta...

blog.katemonkey.comLearning Statistics, Day 4 - Let's Make GraphsI learn what the different types of graphs are and how they're used. And boy, do I love graphs.

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15 Sept

Today I watched *Velvet Goldmine* (1998), a Fortune & Glory showing at the Broadway. boxd.it/glvRHr

boxd.itA review of Velvet Goldmine (1998)"We set out to change the world... We just ended up changing ourselves." "What's wrong with that?" "Nothing. If you don't look at the world." I first saw this in a preview screening for journalists, m...

Katemonkey (In Most Places)

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15 Sept

Blog post! I learn the key features of data and then make a bunch of frequency tables from films I've seen. blog.katemonkey.com/learning-sta...

blog.katemonkey.comLearning Statistics, Day 3 - The Key Features of Data and Frequency TablesI learn what you need to make good descriptive statistics, and then put my film watching data in a bunch of frequency tables.

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14 Sept

Blog post! It's Day 2 of Intro to Statistics, where I spend more time looking at Letterboxd data to come up with weird examples. blog.katemonkey.com/learning-sta...

blog.katemonkey.comLearning Statistics, Day 2 - Introduction to Statistics, Day 2Where I go through all the details that make up statistics, with plenty of film-related examples.

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12 Sept

Today I saw "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) at the Broadway. boxd.it/giqXL3

boxd.itA review of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)I think I was maybe 7 when I first saw this. Or 6. It was on cable and a guy my mother knew (maybe my sitter's brother? Husband? Friend from high school? I honestly don't remember) decided this was to...

Katemonkey (In Most Places)

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11 Sept

Blog post! I've decided I'm going to get to grips with the basics of statistics. This could be terrifying. blog.katemonkey.com/learning-sta...

blog.katemonkey.comLearning Statistics, Day 1 - Introduction to StatisticsWhere I decide to start learning statistics, which could be dangerous in the long run...do you really want detailed analysis of my sticker collection?

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10 Sept

Found out that @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social is showing "Bambi Meets Godzilla" at 7:15 on Saturday morning. I haven't seen it since we rented "Godzilla 1985" one weekend back in, like, 1989, but I'm so delighted to see it again.

Katemonkey (In Most Places)

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10 Sept

I bet Jeff is quaking in his boots right now.

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9 Sept

Blog post! I am a bit of a dumbass, but once I get over that, I finish W3Schools' Data Science course with some nice nice film watching data. Meowth, that's right! blog.katemonkey.com/learning-dat...