Girls on Pop

Marina (@themarina) and Ashley (@ashleylynch.bsky.social) have been on a mission to clear their watch lists; Ashley as part of her 92 days of horror movies and Marina… just becasause. Don’t fret though, there are still a couple of new releases in the mix!

Movies and TV discussed this week:

• Meg 2: The Trench
• Gran Turismo
• The Last Voyage of the Demeter
• Berlin Syndrome
• The Blackening
• Carmen
• Nori: The Curse
• The God Committee
• The Boogeyman
• Worth
• Unseen
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
• Strays
• “Based on a True Story“
• “Telemarketers“
• “Special Ops: Lioness“

Also mentioned in this episode:

• “The One” house in LA video tour

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Continue reading Girls on Pop – Episode 44: Backlogs

Halloween is still a few months away but that doesn’t mean the horror movies aren’t out there and this month, Marina (@themarina) and Ashley (@ashleylynch.bsky.social) have watched their fair share of them – both new and old!

Movies and TV discussed this week:

• Cobweb
• Talk to Me
• Insidious: The Red Door
• Relic
• Wrong Turn (2021)
• Late Phases
• Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
• Hidden Strike
• No Hard Feelings
• The Little Mermaid
• Red, White & Royal Blue
• “The Afterparty“
• “Twisted Metal“
• “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds“

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Sony’s Creator Session on Gran Turismo from SIGGRAPH 2023
• OTOY’s Roddenberry Archive

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Continue reading Girls on Pop – Episode 43: Terror in August

Make them and they shall come. And it’s clear that’s certainly the truth when looking at the box office numbers for the last few weeks. 

On the show this week, Marina (@themarina) and Ashley (@ashleylynch.bsky.social) chat Barbenheimer and also dig into a couple of other notable titles recently arrived on streaming and VOD.

• Barbie
• Oppenheimer
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
• Joy Ride
• Bird Box: Barcelona
• The Flash
• The Tutor
• They Cloned Tyrone
• Robots
• The Wrath of Becky
• A Tourist’s Guide to Love
• “The Crowded Room“
• “Twisted Metal“
• “100 Foot Wave“
• “Full Circle“
  

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Steven Soderbergh’s “Command Z” series

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Continue reading Girls on Pop – Episode 42: Pretentious Tendencies

It’s been a hot minute since we last caught up to talk movies so it’s no surprise that the return is a little bit of a marathon…

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Marina (@themarina) and Ashley (@ashleylynch.bsky.social) dig into the recent Hollywood strikes and talk some of the TV and movies that have kept them entertained over the past few months.

• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
• Reality
• The Colony
• Polite Society
• Kimi
• Piercing
• You Hurt My Feelings
• Mad Heidi
• Wham!
• “Project Greenlight“
• “Hijack“
• “Silo“
• “The Bear” Season 2
• “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story“
• “From” Season 2

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Deadline: “Hollywood Studios’ WGA Strike Endgame Is To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks In Fall”
• Variety: “Disney CEO Bob Iger Says Writers and Actors Are Not Being ‘Realistic’ With Strikes: ‘It’s Very Disturbing to Me’”
• TV tracking app: Trakt.tv

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Continue reading Girls on Pop – Episode 41: Long Awaited

It’s been a busy couple of weeks of movie-watching!

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Marina (@themarina) and Ashley (@ashleylynch) delve into some new releases and a wide range of streaming TV and movies. There’s definitely a little something for everyone here!

• Renfield
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
• Shazam! Fury of the Gods
• Inside
• Tetris
• Air
• Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
• A Good Person
• Simulant
• Boston Strangler
• “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields“
• “The Night Agent“
• “Tiny Beautiful Things“
• “Beef“

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Continue reading Girls on Pop – Episode 40: Lots to Love

The movie schedule finally feels like something akin to “normal” with new, mostly exciting, releases every couple of weeks. 

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Marina (@themarina) and Ashley (@ashleylynch) touch base on a handful of recent releases and some exciting TV. 

• Cocaine Bear
• Knock at the Cabin
• Operation Fortune
• Scream VI
• John Wick: Chapter 4
• We Have a Ghost
• “The Last of Us“
• “Star Trek: Picard“
• “Liaison“
• “Sex/Life“

Also mentioned this episode:

• Victoria Alonzo exists Marvel
• How “The Last of Us” was shot

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Continue reading Girls on Pop – Episode 39: More Sex

So much to talk about!

This week, Marina (@themarina) and Ashley (@ashleylynch) catch up on some recent industry news and take a dive into new releases, from Marvel to the much-lauded video game adaption that is proving to be the beacon of what video game adaptation could be.  

• Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
• Magic Mike’s Last Dance
• Infinity Pool
• Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
• Skinamarink
• To Leslie
• There’s Something Wrong with the Children
• M3gan
• Sick
• “The Last of Us“
• “That 90’s Show“
• “Poker Face“
• “Extraordinary“
• “The Blacklist“

Also mentioned this episode:

• Netflix password sharing
• AMC premium seat charge
• Mindy Johnson’s “Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney’s Animation“
• Alone
• The tech of I Wanna Dance with Somebody
• How M3gan was made

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Continue reading Girls on Pop – Episode 38: Upcharges

Turns out 2022 was a really great year because we have even more movies we want to celebrate!

Picking up where they left off last episode, Marina (@themarina) and Ashley (@ashleylynch) share some films that deserve some love but didn’t quite make their top 10, along with some notable TV.  

Ashley’s Favourites:

• She Said
• See How They Run
• Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
• Piggy
• Hellraiser
• Confess, Fletch
• Three Thousand Years of Longing
• Fall
• The Bear
• Severance

Marina’s Favourites:

• Hustle
• Marcell the Shell with Shoes On
• Nothing Compares
• Bones & All
• Close
• Black Bird
• Andor / Moon Knight
• The Dropout
• Halo
• Outer Range

Also mentioned this episode:

• Girls on Pop – Episode 36
• Raw

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Continue reading Girls on Pop – Episode 37: Favourites of 2022 – Part 2

 

 

 

The final months of 2022 were a whirlwind of activity that placed the podcast on an unscheduled hiatus.

Marina (@themarina) and Ashley (@ashleylynch) are welcoming 2023 with a celebration, a look back at our favourite movies of 2022.  

Ashley’s Favourites:

10. Barbarian
9. Prey
8. Turning Red
7. The Menu
6. Nope
5 – 1. Listen to find out

Marina’s Favourites:

10. Avatar: The Way of Water
9. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
8. Not Okay
7. Good Night Oppy
6. Fresh
5 – 1. Listen to find out

Also mentioned this episode:

• After the Credits: 2022 in Review 

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Continue reading Girls on Pop – Episode 36: Favourite Movies of 2022

 

 

The summer is essentially over, and once again, it feels like it’s ended with a whimper more than a bang. That said, there’s still a batch of new content available for consumption and this week, Marina (@themarina) and Ashley (@ashleylynch) touch base on a batch of new releases.

The list:

• Jaws 3D
• DC’s League of Superpets
• Barbarian
• Love in the Villa
• 3000 Years of Longing
• Samaritan
• Orphan: First Kill
• Thor: Love and Thunder
• The Retreat
• Where the Crawdads Sing
• Fall
• Partner Track
• Cobra Kai
• You Won’t Be Alone
• Pantheon

Also mentioned this episode:

• National Cinema Day

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Continue reading Girls on Pop – Episode 35: Movies are a Hit! (for a weekend)