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Wild Gleaming Space: Charting the Beyond

This review comes to us from our On-The-Ground correspondent and Santa Barbara native, Jack O’Mahoney. Wild Gleaming Space is a documentary that is equal parts lyrical and investigative, and so beautifully shot I thought it was a narrative film until about twenty minutes in. Beginning in the Panamanian rainforest,

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Feb 05, 2025 Fantastic Four First Foreshadowing and Forethought, or something.
Fantastic Four First Foreshadowing and Forethought, or something.

It is well known that the most beloved and high-ticket Marvel characters and franchises are often the sight of much drama and failure. Being such valuable IP, they tend to be munched on by less-than-understanding studio executives who squeeze the life out of the thing until there isn’t much

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Her Name Was Moviola: Time moves at speed

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UMNIA is the Editor-in-Chief & Primary Festival Correspondent for OBSCURAE, as well as a massive fan of ✨Camp. Mistress Dispeller A messy family doc with affairs and cheating? Camp. Coup 53 Ralph Fiennes narrating the interview an MI6 Agent admitting to plotting the Iranian coup of 1953? Camp. JANE AUSTEN

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I wish this weren’t the first article of 2025, but simply put, we need our medicine (movies). As we watch the Titanic that is the Western Hegemonic powers snap in half and sink into the sea, few things seem certain or secure. What I can assure you is that

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Dec 29, 2024 Mini Watchlist: If you liked ‘Challengers’
Mini Watchlist: If you liked ‘Challengers’

Luca and Justin gave us the most iconic Ambitious Horny Queers in cinema history this year. Here’s three films to keep the vibes going. A Bigger Splash Luca’s earlier work, a little straighter here than Challengers, but filled with horny ambitious people, for sure. A ton of drama,

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Wild Gleaming Space: Charting the Beyond
Reviews   -   Feb 05, 2025 Wild Gleaming Space: Charting the Beyond

This review comes to us from our On-The-Ground correspondent and Santa Barbara native, Jack O’Mahoney. Wild Gleaming Space is a documentary that is equal parts lyrical and investigative, and so beautifully shot I thought it was a narrative film until about twenty minutes in. Beginning in the Panamanian rainforest,

by Jack O'Mahoney
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Reviews   -   Feb 05, 2025 Wild Gleaming Space: Charting the Beyond
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This review comes to us from our On-The-Ground correspondent and Santa Barbara native, Jack O’Mahoney. Wild Gleaming Space is a documentary that is equal parts lyrical and investigative, and so beautifully shot I thought it was a narrative film until about twenty minutes in. Beginning in the Panamanian rainforest,

by Jack O'Mahoney
Feb 05, 2025 Fantastic Four First Foreshadowing and Forethought, or something.
Fantastic Four First Foreshadowing and Forethought, or something.

It is well known that the most beloved and high-ticket Marvel characters and franchises are often the sight of much drama and failure. Being such valuable IP, they tend to be munched on by less-than-understanding studio executives who squeeze the life out of the thing until there isn’t much

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Feb 04, 2025 Her Name Was Moviola: Time moves at speed
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I have told everyone i’ve ever met who operated in the Film age how much I do not envy them one bit. I am a kid who knows how to respect my elders - and the work that went in to making a movie back in the day is

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OBSCURAE’s Most Anticipated Picks for Santa Barbara International Film Festival

UMNIA is the Editor-in-Chief & Primary Festival Correspondent for OBSCURAE, as well as a massive fan of ✨Camp. Mistress Dispeller A messy family doc with affairs and cheating? Camp. Coup 53 Ralph Fiennes narrating the interview an MI6 Agent admitting to plotting the Iranian coup of 1953? Camp. JANE AUSTEN

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Jan 22, 2025 ⚡️Real Films for this moment in ‘Western’ History
⚡️Real Films for this moment in ‘Western’ History

I wish this weren’t the first article of 2025, but simply put, we need our medicine (movies). As we watch the Titanic that is the Western Hegemonic powers snap in half and sink into the sea, few things seem certain or secure. What I can assure you is that

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Dec 29, 2024 Mini Watchlist: If you liked ‘Challengers’
Mini Watchlist: If you liked ‘Challengers’

Luca and Justin gave us the most iconic Ambitious Horny Queers in cinema history this year. Here’s three films to keep the vibes going. A Bigger Splash Luca’s earlier work, a little straighter here than Challengers, but filled with horny ambitious people, for sure. A ton of drama,

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