Film
🇬🇧🇨🇴Emilia Pérez: A BRILLIANT… Caricature of Mexico
From the start, Emilia Pérez presents itself as a progressive film, but it relies heavily on stereotypes rather than offering an authentic representation of Mexico.
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Preview: BFI Flare 2025
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The Monkey
Where Final Destination meets The Babadook, and everybody dies…
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The Importance of Being Ncuti
I mean...Earnest!
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I’m Still Here (TikTok Review)
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🇬🇧🇪🇸Nosferatu: The Mysterious Horrors of Abuse
When watching the average vampire film, it seems impossible to escape society’s morbid fascination with these blood sucking creatures. We tend to sexualize what should be a horrific act, and to aid us, we present these vampires as conventionally attractive seducers to ease our minds. However, “Nosferatu” (2024) seems
Opinion
Oh…!: UMNIA’s Academy Awards 2025 Post-Mortem
This is an opinion piece, I promise. So, I slept through the Oscars last night. This was mostly apathy, and the fact that I didn’t want to witness an Emilia Pérez sweep live and in glorious technicolor. The universe seems to have taken mercy on me and given it
Universal Language: Time is an Unforgiving but Familiar Winter
Read more of Michel’s amazing work here. I feel that a lot gets lost when we compare film styles, even when they're applicable, and other ready-at-hand modes of descriptions fail us. It's easy to proclaim the next Vertigo in Decision to Leave, the next socially
The People’s Joker: The hero we need.
It is always so nice to descend on the Prince Charles Cinema and realise you’re surrounded by passionate people. I feel that venues like the PCC are some of the only places left in the modern world where people aren’t pretending to be too cool, or nonchalant -
Festivals
Topp 10 Möst
Topp 10 Möst is an endearing Icelandic road movie that finds humor in the morbid and grim. Arna (Helga Braga Jónsdóttir) is a middle aged divorcee and horror-prop maker who has recently lost the will to live. After a few false starts on her suicide, she figures that she should
Festivals
Nature Shorts 1 at SBIFF: The Green Buffalo, Meet Me at the Creek, The Last Observers
The Green Buffalo Media created about indigenous people and issues on Turtle Island (North America) are often lacking, falling into myriad dehumanizing tropes. The Green Buffalo manages to avoid these pitfalls by (surprise!) treating its indigenous subjects as real people. The film covers an initiative by members of the Lower
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(🇬🇧🇦🇷🇩🇪) Polvo Serán/They Will Be Dust - ‘You don’t learn life, you live it and that’s it’
What a brilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT film. This is one of those films you are EXCITED for other people to discover because it is simply SO DAMN GOOD. Yes, here at OBSCURAE we do not talk down films we don’t like (and we’ll see if my boss and friend