DRPH Season 3 catchphrases for your everyday puksaans
THEY PROMISED to be the best and most iconic season yet, and oh girl, did they deliver. Drag Race Philippines (DRPH) Season 3 caught the world by storm, becoming the topic on everybody’s glossy lips throughout and even beyond its airing. The third installment of the Philippine edition of the hit reality show RuPaul’s Drag […]
November 21, 2024
Beautiful disaster: Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)
ARE YOU cat, fox, or deer pretty? Do you have siren eyes or doe eyes? Is your nose upturned, button-shaped, or Greek? In our society, beauty and looks have a critical impact on our self-perception, evident in the growing obsession with aesthetics and the soaring popularity of infamous products or procedures. While some may view […]
November 11, 2024
Vantage Magazine’s 2024 Oscars Picks and Predictions
Best Animated Feature Nominees: The Boy and the Heron Elemental Nimona Robot Dreams Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Vant Fave: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse The second installment in the Spider-Verse franchise definitely lived up to our expectations. It highlighted a more expansive world of spider-people and their spider-ventures, along with a captivating array of animation styles […]
March 10, 2024
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Body horror: Redefining girlhood and growing pains
Trigger warning: This article contains mentions of sexual harassment, rape, and violence. GORY AND grotesque in nature, the horror genre could easily be perceived as an unwelcoming territory for women-centric stories. Slasher films in particular have a historically problematic relationship with sex and violence. “Final girls” in horror films are often women who tend to […]
December 2, 2023
Modern macabre for a modern audience: The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)
BEING AN avid fan of the horror genre, I was no stranger to Mike Flanagan’s reputation, considering his highly acclaimed work with Netflix that cemented him as one of the go-to guys for modern horror. However, the reason why I enjoy his work lies in his ability to depict humans that feel as real as […]
November 15, 2023
Queering the horror scene: How the community transformed its shadowy spaces
HORROR HAS always been queer. Since the genre’s conception, horror characters have long hidden their repressed selves behind the campy make-up of the supernatural. If the idea behind horror is about wanting to look at what you should not see, no one can relate more to the suppression of natural desires than the LGBTQIA+ community. […]
December 4, 2023
The misrepresented Atenean queer community in Philippine media
OVER THE years, queer Filipinos have succeeded in bringing their aspirations for equality and proper representation to the big screen. In turn, movie-goers and binge-watchers have been graced with empowering narratives of self-discovery and familial acceptance. It’s one thing to admire these art forms and say they’ve changed our lives. However, witnessing the subtle stereotypes […]
March 31, 2023
I grew up on coming-of-age stories, and I think I’ve romanticized them too much
My teen years felt like the abyss between adulthood and childhood: I wasn’t exactly a kid anymore, but I was far too immature to function like a grown-up. In this gap of uncertainty was a vision board of coming-of-age films, music, and TV shows that served as my navigator into this unknown stage of my […]
March 22, 2023
Vantage POINT: February and March 2023
This is Vantage POINT: A monthly moodboard for things that have been on our minds as of late, topics both fresh and familiar. We point you towards what to watch out for and what we think you should be enjoying right now. And if whatever we love becomes whatever you love (at least a little […]
March 16, 2023