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Film   -   Jun 16, 2025 🇺🇸Materialists is All About Love, But Less Than The Sum of its Parts
🇺🇸Materialists is All About Love, But Less Than The Sum of its Parts

Good cinematography can obscure bad writing, and I'm not really sold on what Materialists is selling about us. The film has charm and disarms in funny little interludes, yet it's disinterested in anything besides the aesthetic.

by Michel Abdulaziz
Music   -   Jun 15, 2025 Woman’s Best Friend? | Thoughts on Sabrina Carpenter’s Cover Art
Woman’s Best Friend? | Thoughts on Sabrina Carpenter’s Cover Art

This backlash isn’t unexpected and may very well be part of Carpenter’s design to get people discussing. Sabrina is known to satirise male incompetence and female image and sexuality. But is this a step too far?

by Shea Marshall
Sweet and Short   -   Jun 14, 2025 ATTAGIRL! | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
ATTAGIRL! | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa

In what can only be described as the most colourful, explosive and beautifully kitchy Short I have had the pleasure to see this year, Klimovski rampages.

by Umnia El-Neil
Film   -   Jun 14, 2025 I Was Born This Way | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
I Was Born This Way | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa

A star-studded deep dive into Carl Bean - the highly influential Singer, Activist and Clergyman, proud, and ahead of his time.

by Umnia El-Neil
Film   -   Jun 14, 2025 OH, HI! | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
OH, HI! | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa

Tied Up Tight and Toxic, OH, HI! is a Heartstruck Misery for the Situationship Generation.

by Michel Abdulaziz
The Case   -   Jun 14, 2025 The Case for Wandavision
The Case for Wandavision

(A love letter and a Trauma Study)

by Celeste Kassautzki Sp.
Sweet and Short   -   Jun 13, 2025 Sweet and Short: "Dear Dorothy" (Dir. Matthew McPherson)
Sweet and Short: "Dear Dorothy" (Dir. Matthew McPherson)

In a haunting, resilient and sharp war short based on a true story, 'Dear Dorothy' gets behind allied lines, and writes the glory from the dirt.

by Umnia El-Neil
Film   -   Jun 11, 2025 Ride Or Die | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Ride Or Die | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa

With Ride Or Die, Josalynn Smith transfuses grungy 90s dissatisfaction into the chassis of a beautifully shot modern feature, painted red, peeling to blue, then blossoming to a pale lilac.

by Michel Abdulaziz
🇺🇸Materialists is All About Love, But Less Than The Sum of its Parts
Film   -   Jun 16, 2025 🇺🇸Materialists is All About Love, But Less Than The Sum of its Parts

Good cinematography can obscure bad writing, and I'm not really sold on what Materialists is selling about us. The film has charm and disarms in funny little interludes, yet it's disinterested in anything besides the aesthetic.

by Michel Abdulaziz
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Film   -   Jun 16, 2025 🇺🇸Materialists is All About Love, But Less Than The Sum of its Parts
🇺🇸Materialists is All About Love, But Less Than The Sum of its Parts

Good cinematography can obscure bad writing, and I'm not really sold on what Materialists is selling about us. The film has charm and disarms in funny little interludes, yet it's disinterested in anything besides the aesthetic.

by Michel Abdulaziz
Music   -   Jun 15, 2025 Woman’s Best Friend? | Thoughts on Sabrina Carpenter’s Cover Art
Woman’s Best Friend? | Thoughts on Sabrina Carpenter’s Cover Art

This backlash isn’t unexpected and may very well be part of Carpenter’s design to get people discussing. Sabrina is known to satirise male incompetence and female image and sexuality. But is this a step too far?

by Shea Marshall
Sweet and Short   -   Jun 14, 2025 ATTAGIRL! | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
ATTAGIRL! | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa

In what can only be described as the most colourful, explosive and beautifully kitchy Short I have had the pleasure to see this year, Klimovski rampages.

by Umnia El-Neil
Film   -   Jun 14, 2025 I Was Born This Way | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
I Was Born This Way | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa

A star-studded deep dive into Carl Bean - the highly influential Singer, Activist and Clergyman, proud, and ahead of his time.

by Umnia El-Neil
Film   -   Jun 14, 2025 OH, HI! | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
OH, HI! | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa

Tied Up Tight and Toxic, OH, HI! is a Heartstruck Misery for the Situationship Generation.

by Michel Abdulaziz
The Case   -   Jun 14, 2025 The Case for Wandavision
The Case for Wandavision

(A love letter and a Trauma Study)

by Celeste Kassautzki Sp.
Sweet and Short   -   Jun 13, 2025 Sweet and Short: "Dear Dorothy" (Dir. Matthew McPherson)
Sweet and Short: "Dear Dorothy" (Dir. Matthew McPherson)

In a haunting, resilient and sharp war short based on a true story, 'Dear Dorothy' gets behind allied lines, and writes the glory from the dirt.

by Umnia El-Neil
Film   -   Jun 11, 2025 Ride Or Die | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Ride Or Die | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa

With Ride Or Die, Josalynn Smith transfuses grungy 90s dissatisfaction into the chassis of a beautifully shot modern feature, painted red, peeling to blue, then blossoming to a pale lilac.

by Michel Abdulaziz
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