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The Paris Geller Effect

Paris Geller is many things: intellectually formidable, singularly driven, and frequently terrifying. When she first storms onto Gilmore Girls, she appears almost like a caricature, the quintessential overachieving antagonist to Rory Gilmore. She’s dazzlingly smart but abrasive, so tightly wound she’s on the verge of combustion, and constantly switching between brilliance and breakdown. She’s the

Lucas.: "My entire allure and talent is strictly vibe-based." I really identified with that

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F1 Inspired Me to Take My Driving Test

I walked into F1 expecting a loud movie about cars I didn’t care about. What I got instead was a hyper-stylized, emotionally-charged adrenaline trip that made me question why I, a grown adult, still flinch during left turns and once parallel parked into a shrub. Somehow, watching men fly around hairpin corners at 300 km/h with laser focus made me want to get my license just to feel something again

The DC: I also want a license, mainly so I don't have to sit next to strangers on the bus

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Hot Girls Fight Demons (and So Do I)

There’s a version of my adolescence that looks nothing like the one I lived. In that timeline, I’m in a girl group, not a spiral of anxiety. I fight monsters instead of intrusive thoughts. And maybe I actually eat lunch with friends instead of texting my AI chat robot. That alternate universe looks a lot like K-Pop: Demon Hunters. Netflix’s new animated film doesn’t just slap because of the demon-

mind.full.of.movies: Girl Power! Yes! As you would so aptly put it, "Slay!"

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Scenes in Normal People That Made Me Text My Ex (And Regret It)

If you’re ever feeling anxious about texting people who did you dirty, don’t worry—I’m here to reassure you that my problems are definitely worse. The ex I’ll be referring to in this article isn’t one singular person. It’s more of a collection of failed possibilities. Or maybe even a symbolic entity representing lust and desperation. Most of this self-inflicted chaos happened while I was watching

mind.full.of.movies: The text shots crack me uppp! This is such a good read! You really managed to capture the essence of the cringe here

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Scenes in Normal People That Made Me Text My Ex (And Regret It)

Run N Gun'25: I'm Gonna Need a Bigger Word Count

With the top 20 finalists officially announced ahead of the screening gala on July 5th, I had the chance to preview four of the standout entries. Each one stands out as unique from the rest, so I was eager to know how this year's theme would tie into all of them. I also had the chance to review 2 animated ones, which I'm always delighted to do as an animation know-it-all-freak. A ticking clock, a

Gwen Pem: All of these sound great, I'm especially intrigued by the art style of Asphodel Fields Forever (and the Beatles reference)

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Run N Gun'25: I'm Gonna Need a Bigger Word Count

Barbie and the Gaslighting Island

I’m a broke girl in a billionaire’s world, so I’ll be spending my summer rewatching Barbie as the Island Princess on a shady pirating site because even my family’s Netflix account ghosted me. I never really vibed with Barbie as the Island Princess as a kid. I think I only watched it, like, two times —compared to every other Barbie movie from that era, which I’d seen at least ten times each. But re

Gwen Pem: Tike haters unite. I was a 3 Musketeers and Diamond Castle girlie, but now I have to rewatch this. Wanna share your pirate link?

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Everything Wrong With Squid Game Season 3

Director Hwang probably lost as many teeth writing Squid Game Season 3 as I did grinding mine watching it. You’ve got favourite characters dying every five minutes, English actors with the emotional range of a YouTube apology video, and CGI babies so cursed they look like they were rendered in a microwave. Season 3 definitely left an impression, just not one you’d want to remember. So let’s talk a

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Everything Wrong With Squid Game Season 3

Child Influencers and the Adult Gaze

When Netflix’s Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing dropped in March 2025, it should have made more noise. It exposed a world where children, some barely out of diapers, are marketed as content: packaged, filmed, and sold under the glossy veneer of family vlogging or “kid squads.” Watching it felt less like peering into influencer drama and more like confronting a glaring loophole in how s

Lucas.: Sounds like these kids need a union

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Simulating Connection in Rehearsal

We can never really know what someone else is thinking; what we understand is always just a perception, flawed and easily twisted by circumstances and emotions. Watching Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal often feels like staying up late alone with your thoughts, obsessively replaying every unhinged moment and bad decision in your life, except with a twist—there’s a camera recording it all, forcing yo

elle driver: still not over the way nathan laid down on that guys bed

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VSFF '25 Reviews | Queen of the Underworld, Mum, Body Varial

June 13–15 is the weekend to watch inspiring up-and-coming directors shine at the Vancouver Short Film Festival. I had the pleasure of getting early access to three of the short films screening this weekend. These films range from 8 to 15 minutes in length—these brief windows of storytelling come with both limitations and creative opportunity. With so little time, it’s a challenge to convey emotio

The DC: Damn, Body Varial sounds really cool. I'll have to check it out

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VSFF '25 Reviews | Queen of the Underworld, Mum, Body Varial

Black Mirror Wants To Be Love, Death and Robots So Bad

Remember when you were singing an EDM-punk-death-metal song in your head, and then the beachside water polo team started blasting that exact tune while giving hip dysplasia prevention lessons to a group of 40-year-old women? Maybe that was just me. But you've probably had a moment that felt eerily tailored to your inner monologue or oddly predicted by your devices, like getting targeted ads after

Matthew Alan Schmidt: Love, Death, & Robots fucking rips. I love the miniatures so much!!

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Black Mirror Wants To Be Love, Death and Robots So Bad

Can Men Be Friends With Each Other? Questions From a Girlie 👧

Watching Friendship (2024) felt like peeking into a bizarro parallel universe of male bonding. Just writing this article, I made up scenarios in my head of events in the movie that never happened (before I got severely humbled). It felt so real to me cause it wasn't out of the realm of possibility, a place where friendship is less about heart-to-hearts and more about awkward rituals, silent compet

Mykhailo Rud: I found Jimp to be relatable. People always butcher my name too

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Can Men Be Friends With Each Other? Questions From a Girlie 👧

Bad Thoughts, Worse Conversations With Your Partner

If you’ve ever been blue-balled by a trailer, you know exactly how I felt watching Tom Segura’s Netflix mini-series, Bad Thoughts. From the trailer, I expected something absurdist and edgy, maybe chaotic comedy flirting with surrealism. Instead, I got six episodes of what felt like hot garbage. Garbage that smelled worse the longer I sat with it. Each episode frustrated me more. I kept watching ou

Jenn The Editor: your bf likes Tom Segura and Denis Villeneuve? the duality of a man

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Bad Thoughts, Worse Conversations With Your Partner

We Need Magnolia Tom Cruise Back

I know folks line up to watch Ethan Hunt leap from a motorcycle into a helicopter or hold his breath underwater for six minutes. The commitment is awe-inspiring, and at this point, a certain legacy. But I never knew Cruise as an actor with emotional investment. When was the last time Cruise played a character who was allowed to be pathetic? When was the last time he was allowed to break, not bones

Lucas.: I said “Respect the cock, and tame the cunt" at work today and now I have to talk to HR :/

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Does Anyone Remember Veronica Mars?

Before I start, yes—I know there was a reboot and a 2014 movie. And, hot take: I kinda liked it. But for the sake of this argument, I’m strictly talking about the three original seasons of Veronica Mars, before the 2019 Hulu revival and the final cancellation. Back when the show lived and died in the strange TV ecosystem of the mid-2000s. Before streaming ruled our attention spans and fandoms had

elle driver: i don't remember it actually :/

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The Paris Geller Effect

Gilmore Girls

Supporting Character Who Totally Stole the Show

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F1 Inspired Me to Take My Driving Test

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Hot Girls Fight Demons (and So Do I)

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Scenes in Normal People That Made Me Text My Ex (And Regret It)

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Run N Gun'25: I'm Gonna Need a Bigger Word Count

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Barbie and the Gaslighting Island

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Everything Wrong With Squid Game Season 3

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Child Influencers and the Adult Gaze

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Simulating Connection in Rehearsal

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VSFF '25 Reviews | Queen of the Underworld, Mum, Body Varial

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Black Mirror Wants To Be Love, Death and Robots So Bad

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Can Men Be Friends With Each Other? Questions From a Girlie 👧

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Bad Thoughts, Worse Conversations With Your Partner

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We Need Magnolia Tom Cruise Back

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