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
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
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
This review comes to us from our On-The-Ground correspondent and Santa Barbara native, Jack O’Mahoney.
If Dory the monkey has 100 fans I am one of them. If Dory the monkey has 1 fan I am that fan. If Dory the monkey has no fans then I am dead
‘And just like that I stepped back into my body again. It wasn’t a trickle, it was more like a flood.’
Village Keeper stands out by not following the route of comforting the audience by making the single black mother bring up superhuman strength to fight adversity but instead
In our world, storms level dreams, and farmers become construction workers.
This was a very emotional film about forced goodbyes, a relocation of the cowboys to the big city, against their will, away from their true loves, divorced from what makes them them.
Under the sword of Climate Change, much
An incredibly ominous premise, executed with incredible style. So, so beautiful, and reckoning with grief in such a unique and confronting way.
I was promised a utopia, but this is quite clearly speculative fiction on the side of dystopia, however calm things seem in the now of the story.
The
This review comes to us from our On-The-Ground correspondent and Santa Barbara native, Jack O’Mahoney.
This is a propaganda film. Let me explain. For a political documentary centering on the fallout of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and clearly produced for a “Western” (likely US American) audience, My Stolen Planet
