Review: "The Critic" is a Chilling Descent in Moral Chaos

I am the least qualified person to review movies — but, if you’re a movie buff reading this, let me offer a defense for this film all the same.

ReviewContributor1 December 2024film, review, The Critic

Poor Girl Problems: Revisiting "Thirteen"

Thirteen was a foundational film for complex and tender representations of poor women and girls for my generation. After 20 years, it deserves a critical reevaluation.

CultureContributor11 July 2024review, film, Stacy Jane Grover

Mean Girls: A Mid Movie Musical Movie

Mean Girls — the movie, the musical, the movie (again?), and the mediocrity.

Culture, ReviewQ24 January 2024Mean Girls, review

We Had The Loveliest Time - A Carly Rae Jepsen Album Review by Alex and Q

POP EMERGENCY! Everyone’s favourite Canadian chartreuse has released another album! Coming hot of last year’s The Loneliest Time, the queen of wistful pop has released The Loveliest Time. Using Spotify’s hot new synch feature, Alex and Q poured a glass of Kylie rosé and got to listening. Thus enjoy our scattered and excited thoughts.

Review: Asteroid City

Asteroid City takes Anderson’s trademark fussiness and spins it around like a flying saucer cheekily dancing above a desert crater, leaning us towards the absurd in the process.

ReviewBoshemia Magazine10 July 2023review, wes anderson, asteroid city

Review: "Midnights" is a Haunting Electropop Haze

Cottagecore is dead. Synth pop reigns in Midnights.

ReviewE21 October 2022review, midnights, taylor swift

The Longest, Saddest Blonde Joke

Blonde is pure trash that both hates and lusts after the central character. If Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame had access to a Hollywood production team, this is the kind of garbage he’d create.

A (Scathing) Review of Persuasion (2022)

WHERE is the MELANCHOLY?!

Review, CultureChris Hawkins19 July 2022NETFLIX, persuasion, jane austen, review, fleabag, the great

Review: Girl, Woman, Other

When it comes to human issues, I dislike statistics. They can easily be manipulated to support a particular bias. Facts can be entirely invented and published online as truth. This is why stories are so important. Girl, Woman, Other does this in a way that isn’t boring or biased. The book’s eclectic characters are fleshed out, flawed, sometimes brutal, always independent.