Mallory Moore

4 weeks ago | elementsofmadness.com | Mallory Moore |Nicole Byer

Actress and writer Jillian Bell, known for her roles in Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) and the recent Kinda Pregnant (2025), flexes her directorial muscles for the first time in Summer of 69, a coming-of-age buddy comedy about friendship, self-confidence, and one of the most joked-about sexual positions of all time.

1 month ago | elementsofmadness.com | Mallory Moore

First-date jitters take on a whole new meaning in Drop, a Blumhouse thriller from Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon. Drop stars Emmy-nominated Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus) as Violet, a single mom looking to re-enter the dating scene, alongside Brandon Sklenar (It Ends with Us) as Henry, a picture-perfect photographer.

2 months ago | elementsofmadness.com | Mallory Moore

Movies about rogue AI technologies aren’t new, but they are becoming increasingly relevant as AI takes on a bigger role in our everyday lives. With dozens of AI-related movies to borrow from, it’s easy to write a story about the dangers of artificial intelligence and the philosophical conundrums that might arise if an AI system were to become sentient. What’s not as easy is doing something new with that concept.

2 months ago | nationalelfservice.net | Mallory Moore

In her debut blog (and the Mental Elf’s first body-focused repetitive behaviours blog), Mallory Moore summarises a systematic review investigating whether internalised stigma can predict depression.

2 months ago | nationalelfservice.net | Mallory Moore

Stigma towards individuals with mental health conditions such as depression is well documented (Wood et al., 2014) and highly common (see Pattie’s Mental Elf blog on the prevalence of self-stigma in depression). However, the nature and direction of the relationship between stigma and depression has been relatively unexplored despite it potentially impacting approaches to treatment.