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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
Film   -   Jun 10, 2025 Twelve Moons | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Twelve Moons | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa

A gripping portrait of the depths you can sink to when you're grief stricken and your husband truly hates you.

by Umnia El-Neil
Film   -   Jun 10, 2025 Fiore Di Latte | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Fiore Di Latte | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa

Fiore Di Latte punctures wacky with doses of real, and Charlotte Ercoli uses the madness like an easel to paint a woefully accurate portrait of addiction.

by Michel Abdulaziz
Music   -   Jun 09, 2025 Princess of Power | MARINA Album Review
Princess of Power | MARINA Album Review

Marina’s new album is an invigorating blend of past, present and future, where vulnerability meets camp to birth pop perfection

by Lucie Neale
Film   -   Jun 09, 2025 Twinless | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Twinless | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa

Twinless is slightly sorta like Vertigo, on poppers, running on the energy of an off the walls 2000s movie laced with the spirit of a Hitchcockian thriller.

by Michel Abdulaziz
Film   -   Jun 08, 2025 Esta Isla is A Grueling Love Letter to Puerto Rico | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Esta Isla is A Grueling Love Letter to Puerto Rico | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa

Esta Isla films in the dialect of Tropical Realism, austere and surreal, a bit verité: it makes no attempts at hiding because it holds itself plain to see.

by Michel Abdulaziz
Film   -   Jun 08, 2025 Ancestral Visions of the Future | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London
Ancestral Visions of the Future | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese wants to talk in feeling - if you're ready to listen.

by Umnia El-Neil
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