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Illness strips a character to what they actually are, which is why the subject keeps drawing writers. This tag collects reviews, books and essays on illness, hospitals and the people inside both.

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Philadelphia (1993) Review

September 11, 2026

Philadelphia (1993) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The first major studio film about AIDS, made deliberately as a courtroom drama so that a mainstream audience would watch it, and Tom Hanks won Best Actor over Daniel…

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Batman & Robin (1997) Review

September 10, 2026

Batman & Robin (1997) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Warner Bros. told Joel Schumacher to make it more toyetic, and he did exactly that. Schumacher later apologized publicly to fans, which is a rarer and more…

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Challenger Deep

June 3, 2026

A teenager's descent into schizophrenia, told through the dual reality of a boy on a ship bound for the ocean's deepest point and the same boy in a psychiatric hospital. Inspired by Shusterman's own son's illness, it renders mental illness…

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Code Blue

May 29, 2026

Two physician-writers on portraying the hospital as a setting, the sensory and procedural texture of a real medical environment, grounded by firsthand authority and aimed at replacing the distorted TV version. Some 2000-era specifics are dated, but the core authenticity…

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The Fly (1986)

May 19, 2026

David Cronenberg's body horror about a scientist whose teleportation experiment merges his DNA with a housefly. The Fly is David Cronenberg's 1986 American body-horror film, a substantial remake of the 1958 Kurt Neumann original, depicting a scientist whose teleportation experiment…

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