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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House

Influencer Culture, Eating Disorders, and the Promise of Wellness

Wellness has a nice ring to it, right? There’s something soothing about that term. Calming. Wellness, like it’s all about shifting your life into some soft-focus place of warm, pillowy goodness. You just want to be well. It’s simple, isn’t it? Really?

Trigger warning for discussions of eating disorder behaviours.

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Bojack Horseman, Suicide, and Sad, Happy Endings

Ever since Bojack Horseman came into being, people have been trying to predict just how it would end. Spoilers ahead, for the final season and finale.

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Movie Review: The Lighthouse

Prestige masturbation: the movie

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Doctor Who: Truly Admirable Romance Delights; Illness Savages

Just…give me a minute, alright?

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Movie Review: The Grudge

What’s a girl got to do for a good bad horror movie?

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Doctor Who: Throwbacks And Reminiscences Deal Intense Success

You know, I was ready to write this one off. The Judoon have never been my favourite villains for this show, and they’re right there in the title – Fugitive of the Judoon. Unless the fugitive was, I don’t know, Captain Jack Harkness or something, what could the show pull out that would actually keep me interested?

Well. 

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Movie Review: Bombshell

What does film-making in the post-Me Too era look like?

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Zeitgeist TV Shows That Lost The Plot

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Doctor Who: Tesla Aids Rallying Doom Insects, Sentimentally

Ahh. 

You hear that? That’s the sound of the sigh of relief I let out when I realized that this week’s episode of Doctor Who, Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror (what a deliciously pulpy banger of a title, by the way), was going to be a historical outing. Of my favourite stories of Chris Chibnall’s run on the show, most of them have been historically-based – Rosa, Spyfall, The Witchfinders, to name a few. There have been some great futuristic or more abjectly sci-fi outings, for sure, but, as last week’s something-to-be-desired proved, this writing room is still very much finding its feet when it comes to the great beyond of the future. But the past? Yes, the past they seem to know how to handle.

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