Isolation, Obsession, and Frankenstein: Why I’m a Frankensnob
Rebecca Radillo examines her love for Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein' and the spectrum of its many film adaptations.
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How Horror Movies Changed My Relationship With Grief
Alejandra Velazquez examines her relationship to horror movies like The Conjuring, and how it changed her understanding of grief.
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Editors' Note - November 2023
Blossom Magazine editors, Lola Estok and Maddy Sutka, pen their thoughts about November's theme "pain."
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Rebecca Radillo
- Oct 27
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A Love Letter to The Conjuring: Finding Representation in the Strangest Places
Rebecca Radillo examines the unconventional faith-based representation in the Conjuring franchise.
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Lyvie Scott
- Oct 13
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Bliss on the Big Screen
Iris editor Lyvie Scott talks to friends and fellow critics about the films that first defined pleasure for them.
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blossom mag
- Oct 1
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Editors’ Note - October 2023
Blossom Magazine editors, Maddy Sutka and Lola Estok, pen their thoughts about October's theme "pleasure."
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Rebecca Radillo
- Jun 30
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You Create Intricate Rituals: The Homoerotic Action Movie
Rebecca unpacks themes of homoeroticism in action films, from the more obvious classics to unsuspecting gems.
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Maggie Boccella
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Smart People on Ice: A Case for Setting Coming-of-Age Films in College
Maggie unpacks her favorite college-set coming-of-age films.
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blossom mag
- Apr 1
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Editors' Note - April 2023
This month, editors Lola Estok and Maddy Sutka talk about growth and all the messy and complicated feelings that come with it.
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Rebecca Radillo
- Mar 24
- 9 min
What Maketh a Shakespearean Film Adaptation of Great Distinction
Rebecca Radillo lists the best film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, both the well-known and obscure.
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Lyvie Scott
- Mar 10
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Writers on Writers: Lyvie Scott & Rebecca Radillo
Lyvie Scott and Rebecca Radillo sit down to discuss their careers as writers, finding tragedy in action, and the future of film criticism.
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blossom mag
- Mar 1
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Editors' Note - March 2023
Hi Blossom! We're back with an all new theme this month - Second Chances. Pretty fitting, right?
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Lyvie Scott
- Dec 26, 2022
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Glass Onion Review: A Sparkly, Shallow Skewering of a New Class of Rich
Lyvie Scott peels back the layers of Rian Johnson's new mystery, Glass Onion, from the SCAD Savannah Film Festival.
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Rebecca Radillo
- Dec 23, 2022
- 5 min
Growing Up With The Nightmare Before Christmas
Rebecca looks back on Tim Burton and Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the profound message she's taken from the film.
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Rebecca Radillo
- Nov 26, 2022
- 13 min
Don’t Try to Understand it. Feel it: Love, the Void, and Christopher Nolan
Rebecca Radillo explores the work of Christopher Nolan, and the statements that Interstellar, Inception and Tenet all make about love.
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Lyvie Scott
- Nov 14, 2022
- 4 min
Bones and All Review: The Delicate and Grotesque Collide in Luca Guadagnino's Latest
Lyvie Scott reviews Luca Guadagnino's cannibal road-trip romance Bones and All at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival.
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Rebecca Radillo
- Oct 7, 2022
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A Brief Investigation of My Favorite Comfort Movies
Rebecca Radillo explores the similarities and differences between the films that have given her the most comfort over the years.
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Rebecca Radillo
- Aug 19, 2022
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Criminal Bodies: Life With Disabilities is the Crime of the Future
Rebecca Radillo explores the parallels between David Cronenberg's world in "Crimes of the Future" and our own.
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Lauryn Jackson
- Aug 19, 2022
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Our Bodies On-Screen: The Criminalization of Choice
Lauryn Jackson analyzes two recent films, both of which paint an incredibly timely picture about our right to choose.
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Rebecca Radillo
- Jul 29, 2022
- 8 min
Take My Breath Away, Top Gun Really IS That Homoerotic
Rebecca Radillo explores what exactly makes "Top Gun" — and its successor, "Maverick" — so incredible: the male-male relationships.
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