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
- 2 min
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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Lola Estok
- Mar 15
- 7 min
What Girls Has to Say About Women
Ten years after its premiere, HBO's Girls is having a renaissance. Does it hold up as a feminist masterpiece - and should it have to?
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Lyvie Scott
- Mar 10
- 16 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 6 min
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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Lyvie Scott
- Oct 8, 2022
- 15 min
Pulling Teeth: An Interview With Mae Krell
Lyvie Scott sits down with singer-songwriter Mae Krell to discuss her new single, her influences and the importance of healthy gaslighting.
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Rebecca Radillo
- Oct 7, 2022
- 6 min
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
- 9 min
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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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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Adriene Vento
- Jul 9, 2022
- 9 min
Long Island Country: An Interview With The Belle Curves
Adriene Vento interviews Delaney Hafener from The Belle Curves about their new album "Watershed."
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Rebecca Radillo
- Jun 17, 2022
- 9 min
"I wish I knew how to quit you": Finding Joy in Tragic Gays
Rebecca Radillo breaks down her love for tragic gay couples in film — in spite of the harmful effects of the "bury your gays" trope.
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Lyvie Scott
- Jun 3, 2022
- 15 min
Filmmaker Spot - Quint Scott
Lyvie Scott sits down with filmmaker Quint Scott to discuss Pride, diversity, and his future in film.
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Lola Estok
- May 30, 2022
- 7 min
Prestige Bitch
Lola Estok analyzes the HBO series Barry and the disturbing pattern of fan backlash against “unlikeable” female characters
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Rebecca Radillo
- May 27, 2022
- 7 min
Inglourious Feminists: Tarantino and the Weight of Feminist Guilt
Rebecca Radillo weighs her relationship to feminism against the less-than-feminist films of Quentin Tarantino.
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Logan-Ashley Kisner
- May 20, 2022
- 7 min
can't you see it's me?
Logan-Ashley Kisner compares the struggle between masculinity and femininity to the world of the Swedish horror film "Girls Lost."
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