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🇬🇧🇪🇸Sub vs Dub: Film, Language & Accessibility (EN & ES)
There is something inherently ableist about claiming that everyone should always watch media in its original language with subtitles.
Nor García Grau
Nor García Grau is a bilingual writer and filmmaker based in Madrid, Spain.
Film
40th Goya Awards: Highlights from the "Spanish Oscars"
My personal highlights among the top winners of a truly wonderful year in Spanish cinema.
Stranger Things than Queerbaiting Have Happened (So why are we still doing it in 2026?) - SPOILERS
I personally clung onto my trust in the Duffer Brothers to deliver a nuanced exploration of this topic in Season 5 to produce one of the best written queer characters in television history. Instead, we were queerbaited.
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🔒The Case for Depression as a Villain (Full Video)
The extended version of our new Video Essay for Paid Aficionados!
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Stranger Things, Thunderbolts, and The Case for Depression as a Villain (Video Essay)
In this Video Essay filmed earlier this year, Nor García Grau explores how Depression has become a brilliant, and relatable, foil in popular media in 2025.
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🇬🇧🇪🇸El Cautivo: And Historians Will Call Them...
"The thin line between reality and fiction is not only acknowledged but embraced by the film’s storytelling structure as we follow the events of Cervantes’ time held captive in Algiers..."
Festivals
Ballad of a Small Player, Swiped, Barrio Triste, Mile End Kicks and MORE! | TIFF50 Round-up
Catch up on our reviews from TIFF50!
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Couture, Poetic License, Rental Family, Obsession and MORE! | TIFF50 Round-up
Catch up on our reviews from TIFF50
Festivals
Wake Up Dead Man, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Hedda and MORE! | TIFF50 Round-up
Catch up on our reviews from TIFF50
Festivals
Palestine 36, Rose of Nevada, No Other Choice, The Man in My Basement | TIFF50 Round-up
Catch up on our reviews from TIFF50
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Blue Moon, Eleanor the Great, If I had Legs I’d Kick You | TIFF50 Round-up
Catch up on Day 1’s reviews from our team on the ground at TIFF50
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🇬🇧🇪🇸Little Amélie or The Character of Rain | TIFF 50
Never since Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro (1988) have I had the pleasure of watching a film that approaches the theme of childhood as lovingly and efficiently as Little Amélie or The Character of Rain (2025).