O que causa repulsa suficiente para ser assunto de um filme de terror? Uma criatura feita pelo homem com pedaços de cadáveres diversos? Um monstro interplanetário? Um ser maldoso de origem desconhecida? Talvez todos estes causem muita repulsa, mas o que me causa mesmo repulsa é aquilo que é feito…

I don’t have memories of my father. He has been absent since I was five. Sure, we talked weekly on the phone until I graduated high school, when he vanished for good. That being said, films about fathers touch me differently. This happened recently when I watched the Brazilian film…

Fevereiro de 2022 marcou o início da guerra entre Rússia e Ucrânia. Vimos, com horror e repulsa que toda guerra causa, o maior país em extensão da Europa invadir o segundo maior país do continente, com o qual já tem uma história conturbada. Entender a guerra que agora completa um…

A few nights ago, I had another of my recurring nightmares: I was back to school. This time, however, it was different: the nightmare didn’t consist of me forgetting homework or not studying for a test. It consisted of me being bullied. I don’t remember how I was bullied in…

Ah, the Brontës — that talented little family that gave us the three great sisters who contributed so much to world literature: Anne, Charlotte and of course Emily. A tense thought crosses our minds with a simple “what if” question: what if any of them — or even maybe all…

Ah, the Oscars. We never get tired of them: of talking about them, debating the choices made by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science, complaining about them. The Oscars are also a great opportunity to broaden our film knowledge, watching the nominees in categories we don’t usually pay…

Quando “Clube de Compras Dallas” estreou há cerca de dez anos, não me lembro de ver protestos nas redes sociais porque um homem cisgênero — Jared Leto — estava interpretando uma mulher trans. Felizmente, as coisas mudaram — e relativamente rápido. Cinco anos depois de Leto ter ganhado o Oscar…

If there is one feeling shared by most, if not all, people during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the feeling that life suddenly turned upside-down. There was no doubt that movies would explore this feeling and make pandemic-related movies even during lockdown, facing enormous production challenges. Nevertheless, cinema persisted and…

Em meio ao caos, floresce a arte: uma máxima que pode ser dita do Irã. Incrustado no Oriente Médio, em meio aos problemas da região e aos seus próprios conflitos internos, o Irã exporta para o mundo um dos cinemas de melhor qualidade já vistos. …