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All Spoilers Movie Review: Cherry Falls

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  Hey Fam,  Sorry for the delay in posting! I had an awful headache Sunday and Monday, and try as I might, everything I wrote ended up being a long winded argument about why I should be allowed to buy the 15’ tall Home Depot Skeleton.  I also created an Instagram account for the blog, @nevermind_anyway_blog , so follow it and make me happy! So this past Friday I had a movie night with my lady Kristina, who loves three things in this world: Movies, TV, and the man and two cats that live in her house.  During our movie date we watched the 2000 classic no one saw or heard about, Cherry Falls, and it was a beautiful trainwreck of satire and awful storytelling that has been haunting me.  Fam, I need to talk about this movie. It’s starring Brittany Murphy as Jody and that guy who played Hicks in Alien as the sheriff/her creepy-ass dad. Yes, I’m starting this off at 100 because whatever their relationship is supposed to be on screen, s’not coming across quite right. A...

All Spoiler's Book Review: Coraline

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  Hey Fam,  Welcome to my first All Spoilers Book Review! I have no idea how this is going to go, so it may also be the last, let me know what you think. This week I want to talk about an amazing book that always gets me right in the place I call the “Discomfort Zone.” I will eventually write a piece about what exactly my Discomfort Zone is, but the TLDR of it is that, as someone who lives with mental illness and pervasive thoughts, who is literally never in a state of comfort, seeing things that are dark, weird, otherworldly, and unsettling actually IS comforting… because it’s a feeling I understand. Things that are dark are welcoming, familiar. The darkness doesn’t stare back, it soothes like cold water on a burn, and lulls me to relaxation in a way I can’t quite explain. But it does. The macabre, the eerie, the deafening quiet, all of it sways in harmony with my weird little Goblin soul.  Also, if the title didn’t give it away: This post contains SPOILERS. So if you e...