The Moment is Over Before It Gets Started
There's something missing from The Moment. The premise, developed from Charli xcx's very own noggin, is postured as a music industry satire. Shallow corporate partnerships and detrimental miscommunications ultimately orchestrate the downfall of Brat Summer as the fictional Charli folds under pressure from her label, her peers, and the overbearing film director Johannes Godwin (Alexander Skarsgård) despite having already established a distinct tone for her breakout album.
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.
Gen V Season 2 Redeems The Boys Season 4
The Boys season 4 almost put me off watching Gen V season 2 entirely. Everyone's aware that The Boys toes the line with dark humour. There's something incredibly watchable about the weird, kinky superhero shags that are sprayed across the series.
Summer of Horror: Bring Her Back, Weapons, & Together
The horror of this summer has been of high quality. Mostly. Weapons has triumphed with critics and audiences, and Bring Her Back has introduced a school of fantastic young actors to a mainstream audience. There has, however, been disappointments.
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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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CanConnections: A History of Canadian Media
With the success of Heated Rivalry going viral on social media, Canadian native Alex Stevenson explores the history of the True North's media.
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girlblog! Recommends: Morally Reprehensible Queers
girlblog! Editor-in-Chief Rachel Gambling dishes the dirty, filthy, film recommendations for Pride Month: Morally Reprehensible Queers. Including cult classics like Showgirls (1995), D.E.B.S. (2004), and Shiva Baby (2020).
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Three Models On Visibility and Identity in the Age of the Algorithm
girlblog! Lifestyle Editor Tenai Palomino interviews three models — Raya Pascua, Sabrina Khouiel, and Ebony Hope — on how they navigate the changing modelling landscape in the age of the social media algorithm.
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Jungian Archetypes and Womanhood in Horror Cinema
Writer, poet, and witch Reia Wood uses Caroline Myss’ Archetype Cards, to decipher the feminine archetypes presented in horror films: Maiden, Mother, Lover, and Crone.
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Drag Artistry as Rebellion
Filmmaker and writer Jenny Smart details the essential characteristics of drag: performance, parody, and rebellion, and why this makes it a weapon against oppressive societal structures.
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What's Up With Kimiko's Dialogue in The Boys?
Rachel Gambling, Editor-in-Chief of girlblog!, noticed a lot of discourse around the newly introduced dialogue for one of The Boys' beloved characters, Kimiko Miyashiro. The opinions were mostly negative, but The Boys has always had schoolboy, cringeworthy dialogue -- so why were reactions different this time around?
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Marmozets' Becca Bottomley is Embracing Life
Hooray! Marmozets are back and better than ever with their new album, CO.WAR.DICE. girlblog! Music Editor Bailey Ewers-Smith had the chance to catch up with lead singer Becca Bottomley about the band’s seven-year break.
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Marmozets' CO.WAR.DICE is Their Best Album Yet
Music Editor Bailey Ewers-Smith reviews the latest album by Marmozets, CO.WAR.DICE, their first after a seven-year hiatus.
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Your 'Instant Cult Classic' is Kitschy
Avery Jay, Film & TV Editor for girlblog!, dissects the anatomy of a cult classic, and whether these can ever truly be ‘instant.’
