Badly Done Emma • 18th November 2022

‘His House’ review: a strong foundation, but there’s acres of room for improvement

Remember how in Get Out, the scariest thing was the white people? In His House (2020), despite the actual monster living in the actual walls, the scariest thing is the British people.

Culture Box • 26th June 2021

Film Review: ‘Awake’: Sleeps On Its Potential

What’s so frustrating about Awake, the latest offering from Canadian director Mark Raso, is that it really could have been great.

Culture Box • 1st May 2021

Film Review: So I Finally Watched ‘Moulin Rouge!’

My favourite YouTube critic once described Baz Lurhman’s directing style as “borderline obnoxious” and, after watching Moulin Rouge! for the first time, I must say I’m inclined to agree.

Culture Box • 17th April 2021

Film Review: So I Finally Watched ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ – Megxit Meets Bling Empire

I’m going to take a gamble here and assume that I don’t need to explain this one’s plot.

Culture Box • 11th April 2021

Film Review: So I Finally Watched ‘The Favourite’ – The Best Kind Of Toxic

The Favourite, as it turns out, is something of a toxic mess—but I mean that in the best possible way.

Culture Box • 8th March 2021

International Women’s Day: 10 Awesome Historical Women You Should Know (But Probably Don’t)

Ok, so marches and parties are basically off the agenda this year, but that doesn’t mean we should miss out on all the fun.

Culture Box • 8th February 2021

All the Marvel Movies, Ranked by a (Sort-Of) Newbie – Part 3

In the words of that cute bloke from Horrible Histories, “IT’S FINISHED! IT’S FINALLY FINISHED!”

That’s right – we finally made it! So without further ado, here are my top seven (I know, I know, but you try dividing a list of 22 movies into a few digestible chunks) MCU films, starting with…

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 23rd January 2021

Review: WandaVision – Episodes 1, 2 and 3

I mean… where do I even start?!

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 22nd January 2021

All the Marvel Movies, Ranked by a (Sort-Of) Newbie- Part 2

My ranking of (almost) all the MCU films, after I watched them (properly) and in chronological order for the first time.

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 7th January 2021

All the Marvel Movies, Ranked by a (Sort-Of) Newbie- Part 1

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 21st December 2020

4 Things That Make Therapy Actually Work (From Someone Currently Doing It)

Note: this is all in relation to CBT. It may help in relation to other kinds of therapy, but don’t quote me on that.

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 11th December 2020

Top 10 Awesome Books that Deserve Film or TV Adaptations- Part 2: The Top Five

The top five books- the last three especially- that I'd really, really like to see turned into the next big Netflix series.

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 5th December 2020

Top 10 Awesome Books that Deserve Film or TV Adaptations- Part 1

No matter how many garbage fire adaptations there are out there, there are so many books that I would love to see brought to life on screen, and all the Percy Jackson films and Earthsea miniseries of the world can't stop me from dreaming.

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 30th November 2020

Film Review: (So I Finally Watched) Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange’

It’s basically Sherlock meets Harry Potter meets Avatar: The Last Airbender.

On acid.

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 23rd November 2020

9 (Underrated) Badass Trans Women

Happy #TransAwarenessWeek!

The Swamp • 15th October 2020

Black Trans Lives Matter, too- and we need to keep saying it

The killings of George Floyd and (to a lesser extent) Breonna Taylor sparked worldwide protests. So why do the killings of black trans people fly under the radar by comparison?

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 19th September 2020

“LOOK FOR A GIRL”: How the Marshall Fowler case shows lethal danger in transphobic “concerns”

It was the missing person’s case that briefly galvanised social media for many of the right, but also quite a few of the wrong, reasons.

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 11th September 2020

Book Review: Natives by Akala- one of the best anti-racist books you’ll ever read

Well, maybe the title’s a bit of an exaggeration. I haven’t actually read anywhere near all the anti-racist books out there- so far I’ve clocked a grand total of five, and that’s only if you count fiction and autobiography. So it’s just possible that rapper Akala’s debut book isn’t quite one of the greats- but only just.

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 5th September 2020

POC Non-Binary Identities, Transphobia and White Supremacy

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 22nd August 2020

Dear Fellow White Women: Want to Smash the Patriarchy? Stand Against Racism

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 19th August 2020

All the Books on My TBR List- August-September 2020

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 29th July 2020

Book Review: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon- come for the dragons, stay for pretty much everything else

‘The Fantasy Genre Hates Women’. That’s the title of a Medium article written by Garrett Robinson in 2016. And honestly, looking through the history of the field that gave us Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, it’s sometimes hard to disagree.

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 22nd July 2020

10 Harry Potter Quotes that Just Scream “Trans Rights”- No Matter What J.K. Rowling Says

Emma's Book and Treasure Shelf • 14th July 2020

TV Review: (So I Finally Watched) ‘When They See Us'

A fourteen-year-old boy- although the actor playing him looks closer to twelve- sits handcuffed to a chair, disorientated, his face puffy and bruised. “Is my mom here?”, he asks the white police detectives who, remaining out of focus, tower above him. “It’s just us”, a man’s voice says, cold and strangely triumphant. “You… and us.”