A podcast analysing depictions of mental illness and disabilities in film and TV. Hosted by a psychologist, Stephanie, and friends with lived experience. We may ruin your favourite movie, but we promise to do it with fun, humour, and perhaps an important lesson or two.
Episode 63: A Star is Born - love, trauma and addiction in the journey of fame (with Alex Steed)
A Star Is Born (2018) · Oct 4, 2023
Episode 58 Tribute Re-release: Rubber Johnny, a wildly problematic viral short film (with Nic Fornasier)
Rubber Johnny (2005) · Jul 27, 2023
Episode 57 Tribute Re-release: The Royal Tenenbaums (with Nic Fornasier)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) · Jul 13, 2023
Episode 53: Wednesday and coded vs canonized neurodivergent characters (with Jeremy Andrew Davis)
Wednesday (2006) · May 2, 2023
Episode 52: Ode to Joy and what Narcolepsy REALLY looks like (with Charlene Barker)
Ode To Joy (2022) · Apr 19, 2023
Episode 48: Drop Dead Fred and ”Imaginary Friend Syndrome” with Ariadne Giousmas
Drop Dead Fred (1991) · Feb 22, 2023
Episode 45: Falling for Christmas- Lindsay is back! And so are outrageous representations of amnesia (with Emily & Heather McIntyre)
Falling for Christmas (2022) · Dec 21, 2022
Episode 42: ADHD is being Everything Everywhere All At Once (with Jordan Bastian)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) · Nov 23, 2022
Episode 39: Looking for Alibrandi and life as an Italian immigrant family in 1960’s Australia (With Frank Fornasier)
Looking for Alibrandi (2000) · Sep 28, 2022
Episode 34: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: a film nerd and psychologist’s literal dream (with Indi Gage)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) · Jul 21, 2022
Episode 29: Encanto - Disney Does Intergenerational Trauma (with Heidy White)
Encanto (2021) · May 4, 2022
Episode 25: Atypical, and how autism representation has and hasn’t progressed since Rain Man (with Eric Michael Garcia)
Rain Man (1988) · Mar 9, 2022
Episode 24: Touched With Fire, aka the non-hollywood Bipolar movie (with Jossie Williams)
Touched with Fire (2016) · Feb 23, 2022
Episode 20: Split, Primal Fear, and Identity, aka Having DID does not make you a murderer (with Maz Fornasier)
Primal Fear (1996) · Nov 30, 2021
Episode 20: Split, Primal Fear, and Identity, aka Having DID does not make you a murderer (with Maz Fornasier)
Identity (2003) · Nov 30, 2021
Episode 20: Split, Primal Fear, and Identity, aka Having DID does not make you a murderer (with Maz Fornasier)
Split (2016) · Nov 30, 2021
Episode 14b: Forrest Gump. Part 2: It was capitalism all along (with Maz Fornasier)
Forrest Gump (1994) · Jun 23, 2021
Episode 14a: Forrest Gump: Part 1 - The creation of Forrest and erasure of American history (with Maz Fornasier)
Forrest Gump (1994) · Jun 22, 2021
Episode 11a: The Royal Tenenbaums, or when shitty dads mess up their clever kids - Part 1: The Family of Geniuses (with Nic Fornasier)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) · Apr 14, 2021
Episode 6: Love Actually - about mental health and disability, actually.
Love Actually (2003) · Dec 22, 2020