Film
🇬🇧🇨🇴Emilia Pérez: A BRILLIANT… Caricature of Mexico
From the start, Emilia Pérez presents itself as a progressive film, but it relies heavily on stereotypes rather than offering an authentic representation of Mexico.
Spanish
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Reviews
🇬🇧🇪🇸Nosferatu: The Mysterious Horrors of Abuse
When watching the average vampire film, it seems impossible to escape society’s morbid fascination with these blood sucking creatures. We tend to sexualize what should be a horrific act, and to aid us, we present these vampires as conventionally attractive seducers to ease our minds. However, “Nosferatu” (2024) seems
Festivals
(🇬🇧🇦🇷🇩🇪) Polvo Serán/They Will Be Dust - ‘You don’t learn life, you live it and that’s it’
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
Festivals
(🇬🇧🇦🇷🇩🇪)‘Village Keeper’ a.k.a ‘The Sunshine Lady’
‘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
Spanish
🇬🇧🇪🇸Companion: Audience, Wake Up!
ENGLISH VERSION Sitting in the theatre next to my friend after following his suggestion to do zero research on this film before going to watch it, I initially found myself crossing my arms and rolling my eyes in disappointment. How, I wondered, is it possible that they made a film
Spanish
🇬🇧/🇪🇸 Arcane Season 2: What Could Have Been
Having left season one of Arcane on a massive cliff hanger back in 2021, it was to be expected that someone would inevitably be disappointed by the second part of the show. I vowed to avoid being this person by being as open as possible even if the plot took
Spanish
(🇬🇧🇪🇸)Paddington en… ¿Perú?
ENGLISH VERSION Even before stepping foot into the theatre I was sceptical about this film. The premise alone threatens to shatter the existing – and greatly beloved – dynamic of the first two films of the franchise by moving our beloved bear from the familiar streets of London to the ‘dangerous Peruvian
Reviews
(🇬🇧🇦🇷🇩🇪) We pay for the sins of our parents - A GLADIATOR II review
! Spoilers ahead ! Is it in our nature to immediately reject what we inherit? Can we filter through the dirt and find kernels of truth and wisdom? Is it even worth it? Gladiator II acts as a mirror to its predecessor, which doesn’t mean it is a carbon replica, but
Reviews
(🇬🇧🇦🇷) Oh Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice…
SPOILERS - BEWARE & SLIGHT TW: Graphic Birthing scenes Before watching the sequel to the 80’s gem, I’ll be honest I didn’t have HUGE expectations for how it would turn out. I would have been happy with a solid but not too flashy storyline, some funny call-backs