The People We Don’t Meet on Vacation
The horror genre is full of lessons: don’t leave your doors unlocked, check under your bed, don’t descend into a dark, mysterious basement. For some with anxiety, like me, it offers a guidebook to staying out of danger. My own anxiety stretches into traveling because I watched too many vacation horror movies.
Four Favourites: June
This month’s Four Favourites from girlblog! Editor-in-Chief Rachel Gambling cover ground from recently released horror and thriller titles Die My Love, Backrooms, and Faces of Death to Coralie Fargeat’s feature debut Revenge.
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girlblog! Recommends: Gritty Girlhood Coming-of-Age Films
Ah, the living nightmare of girlhood. What films truly capture its essence? girlblog! Editor-in-Chief Rachel Gambling shares her recommendations for gritty and girly coming-of-age.
Four Favourites: April
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Over an early Christmas dinner with friends in a cozy flat in West London, we discussed traditions we would be participating in upon our returns to home. Whether that would include Christmas barbecues for those heading to the southern hemisphere, games of luck in the pursuit of marzipan for those heading further north, or simply dishes that would have to grace everyone’s dinner tables (for me, scalloped potatoes and bond films are a must for the festive season). One tradition however, struck me as particularly unique. A Czech friend explained the importance of one film in the crafting of a christmas spirit Tři oříšky pro Popelku, in English Three Wishes for Cinderella.
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The People We Don't Meet On Vacation
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