Send Help: Is Woke Back? Or Are We Doomed to Repeat the Cycle?
Sam Raimi's return to an original screenplay sits somewhere between Ready or Not (2019) and Blink Twice (2024) on the elevated horror lunch table. Troupes of the elevated subgenre -- most notably the social commentary and the slasher smile -- are sewn together with Raimi's recognisable comic book style cinematography to produce something entertaining, enjoyable, but a little overdone.
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Send Help (2026): Is Woke Back? Or Are We Doomed to Repeat the Cycle?
Creator of girlblog! Rachel Gambling gives her insight into the social commentary underlying Sam Raimi’s latest feature, Send Help.
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![A portrait of frontwoman of punk band Be Your Own Pet Jemina Kirk. She has bleach blonde hair with dark roots, wearing a red-and-white t-shirt with the sleeves cut off. She dribbles water from her mouth.]()
How Music Industry Sexism Almost Killed Be Your Own Pet
Founder and host of the podcast and gig promotion brand Joining Me Today, Bailey Ewers-Smith (he/they) details the rise, fall, and resurrection of 2000s punk band Be Your Own Pet.
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![Actress Aimee Lou Wood in the London West End production of Cabaret. She is dressed in a babyish outfit of muted tones with bright, clown-like makeup. She holds her arms in a robotic t-shape and she leans forward, staring and smiling scarily.]()
Cabaret, Fascism & Queer Resistance
Multidisciplinary artist and facilitator Rosin Cowen (they/she) describes how the iconic musical Cabaret reflects the current political climate, and what we can learn from it.
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![Poly Styrene dressed in a space-themed jacket and a helmet with a planet Earth emblem, against a plain background.]()
Punk from the Past: Poly Styrene
Creator of girlblog! Rachel Gambling delves into the life and career of Poly Styrene, lead singer of the 1970s British punk band X-Ray Spex, in the second part of ‘Punk From the Past’.
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![Marie Moreau and female Jordan Li sharing an intimate moment with their foreheads touching and eyes closed.]()
Gen V S2 Redeems The Boys S4
girlblog! creator Rachel Gambling reviews the second season of Gen V, the university-centred spin-off to the superhero satire The Boys.
