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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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House
March 17, 2020
March 16, 2020
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.
March 14, 2020
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.
March 11, 2020
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.
March 10, 2020
Batman Cinematic Universe Retrospective: Joker/Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey versus Joker: the throwdown you’ve been waiting for
March 8, 2020
Lost Recaps S1E1/2: Pilot
I’m about to do something really, really stupid.
March 7, 2020
Movie Review: The Invisible Man
Nothing haunts us like trauma.
March 4, 2020
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?”.
March 3, 2020
Candyman Trailer Analysis
My inner horror geek can hardly be contained!
March 1, 2020
Doctor Who: Totally Anarchic Retelling Denotes Irreversible Shift
Well, here we are, at the end of another season of Doctor Who.
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