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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House

Coronanxiety (Or, How to Stay Sane When Everything Isn’t)

Say, there was a global pandemic going on. Say that was happening. Now, and bear with me here, what if that was happening, you were probably stuck at home trying to do The Right Thing but worried you were somehow doing The Wrong One, and you couldn’t fight this doomed feeling that this is all looking rather like the first act of a post-apocalypse video game where you are an NPC who leaves audio recordings and diary scraps scattered around their trashed apartment for the player character to piece together long after you had gone mad and started living as a small possum in the woods?

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Movie Review: The Hunt

The Hunt is here, after controversy shelved it the first few times around. But, after all that – is it actually any good?

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Trisha Paytas, Mental Illness, and the Self-Diagnosis Debate

A few days ago, Trisha Paytas released a video. The internet’s most dedicated full-time troll, it’s not exactly as though she’s a stranger to controversy, but this video hit that internet sweet-spot and soon blew up in a big cloud of outrage. In it, Paytas claimed to have Disassociative Identity Disorder (DID), which, she mentioned, she had diagnosed herself.

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Lost Recaps S1E3: Tabula Rasa

Sawyer, I can announce with confidence, is the kind of man who gives himself finger-guns in the mirror before he leaves to go to the one party of the year that someone forgot to uninvite him to.

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The Gloriously Messy Adolescence of I Am Not Okay With This

I’ve written about a lot of coming-of-age stories on this blog. Harry Potter, Carrie, a Series of Unfortunate Events, Glee, Riverdale, Sugar Rush, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Skins, you name it – if it’s about adolescence, I’ve thrown myself at it with a cheerful abandon and an attempt to obliterate the memory of my own spectacularly awkward adolescence in the process.

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Batman Cinematic Universe Retrospective: Joker/Birds of Prey

Birds of Prey versus Joker: the throwdown you’ve been waiting for

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Lost Recaps S1E1/2: Pilot

I’m about to do something really, really stupid.

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Movie Review: The Invisible Man

Nothing haunts us like trauma.

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What Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Is and Is Not

You know, the very first time someone floated the idea that I might have OCD to me, my reaction was “and have you seen the state of my house right now?”.

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Candyman Trailer Analysis

My inner horror geek can hardly be contained!

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