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So far Guillermo Lopez Meza has created 186 blog entries.

Stop! That! Train!

This summer, a movie spoof arrives, riffing on the disaster-film genre, but with a variation never attempted before, or at least not on this scale: Make it gay, make it drag, make it unabashedly queer.

By |June 11th, 2026|Satire, Top Picks|0 Comments

Forastera

A peculiar and unclassifiable ghost story, delightfully subversive in the way it unfolds under bright summer sunlight, in wide-open and illuminated spaces.

By |May 28th, 2026|Foreign|0 Comments

Backrooms

Because of its overwhelming visual and sensory labyrinth, Backrooms is a fortunate marriage of an attractive concept and compelling execution.

By |May 28th, 2026|Horror, Top Picks|0 Comments

Obsession

The horror-romance perfectly plays with a nightmare scenario for those obsessed with keeping it cool: Love will make you look cringe.

By |May 14th, 2026|Horror|0 Comments

Hokum

What happens when you have three half-baked premises stacked together to form something only marginally coherent?

By |April 30th, 2026|Horror|0 Comments

Aro Berria, Chronovisor, The Prophet | New Directors/New Films 2026 Report

The festival remains a reliable space for debuting and emerging filmmakers with singular talents willing to challenge themselves (and audiences) to expand the language of cinema.

By |April 17th, 2026|Festivals|0 Comments

Mother Mary

David Lowery’s new movie is, in many ways, unclassifiable, flirting with different genres and featuring a mise-en-scène both restrained and grandiose at once.

By |April 16th, 2026|Musical, Top Picks|0 Comments

The Drama

Can a revelation from the past be decisive enough to doom a relationship?

By |April 2nd, 2026|Dark comedy|0 Comments

The Stranger

François Ozon's adaptation of Albert Camus’s novel is filled with details that enrich and contextualize the status of colonial France in Algeria through a critical lens.

By |April 2nd, 2026|Book adaptation, French|0 Comments