Film
Everyone has something to say about Wuthering Heights
4 OBSCURAE contributors, new and old, chime in on Fennell's third Feature.
Umnia El-Neil
Umnia El-Neil is a British-Sudanese culture opinion writer and Shonda Rhimes TGIT Graduate.
Offline Algorithm
004 - OFFLINE ALGORITHM
An anti-scroll collection of newsworthy things we watched & read this week.
Guess who's back again? | Sophisticulture ft. Wanji Hartig (FULL EPISODE)
Benito Bowl, Train Dreams to Nightmares, and opinions aren't hitting the Wuthering Heights one might have hoped for.
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003 - OFFLINE ALGORITHM
An anti-scroll collection of newsworthy things we watched & read this week.
Offline Algorithm
002 - OFFLINE ALGORITHM
An anti-scroll collection of newsworthy things we watched & read this week.
Film
SPOILERS: I have now also watched Twinless, James Sweeney's perfect crime.
An incredibly self-serious demon twink comedy, the film Michel highly recommended from Tribeca has finally made it to my eyeballs.
Offline Algorithm
001 - OFFLINE ALGORITHM
An anti-scroll collection of newsworthy things we watched & read this week.
Film
ARCHIVE: F1: Boomer Propaganda
For the glossy Hollywood Treatment of the world's most glamorous extreme sport, Kosinski asks the question: Should we bring back Brad Pitt Blockbusters? (Spoilers: No, thanks.)
Watchlists
Creators that will make you smarter in 2026
Editor's Note: This is a soft-pilot test of "Offline Algorithm", a new (separate) newsletter we're putting together at OBSCURAE to keep you updated and informed without the doomscroll. It may be a teensy bit more overtly political than you're used to us
Preview
Analogue is in, so here's some offline inspo
From London-based book clubs to my friend's novel, I think we're all gonna benefit from a little analogue-ing of our lives in 2026. Here are some suggestions to get you started...
Opinion
Charli XCX and the hierarchy of chasing cool
In a recent Substack post, Charli muses on cool as a protective mechanism around an artist's control and integrity, cultural miscommunication and facsimile, ubiquity and the concept of passionate creation. I want to propose that something deeper is at play.
To all the new Aficionados!
We saved you a seat...