There are a few fundamental needs that every one of us has – nourishment and shelter being the primary rights that we are universally supposed to be afforded. Yet, something that we very rarely discuss as being an absolute necessity is genuine human connection. Regardless of who you are or where you come from, we…
Is This Thing On? (2025)
Finding a romantic partner is easy, but keeping them is much more challenging – a sentiment that often arises whenever the subject of romance is discussed. There are as many films about falling in love as there are about maintaining that spark. Unfortunately, as idealistic as we may want to be when it comes to…
Train Dreams (2025)
For as long as we have been sentient, we have been pursuing the goal of trying to condense entire lives into single streams of thoughts – we all have a date in which we enter this world, and a date in which we exit, and everything in between becomes our legacy. For some people, they…
Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)
Art is often known to be very personal, especially when it comes to stories about family. Countless writers and directors have drawn influence from their own lives, whether taking cues from their childhood or their journey to become the artists we appreciate and revere, which is not always the easiest way for someone to develop….
Kenny (2006)
It’s often been said that there is a sub-section of people within any given society that are referred to as the “labouring invisible”, meaning those working-class individuals that take on jobs or positions that are often dismissed by those who are unable to ever envision being in a line of work that is decidedly lacking…
Orfeo (2025)
One of the hallmarks of a truly extraordinary story is its ability to be adapted countless times, including instances where it is mangled and reconfigured into entirely different contexts while still retaining some degree of resonance to the original work. This is precisely why artists like William Shakespeare and Franz Kafka have remained so incredibly…
The Chronology of Water (2025)
The leap from actor to director is not always an easy one. While we can often view it as merely an attempt to assert one’s vanity in another position (usually because it is the result of an actor leveraging their fame to gain a large budget and an immediate bundle of credibility), there are instances…
Only the Lonely (1991)
The boundary between loneliness and being alone is so narrow, yet they can result in profoundly different emotions and experiences. Many artists have attempted to use their canvas of choice to create an image of what it feels like to be truly lonely, since it is one of those universal experiences that affects all of…
Ella McCay (2025)
Politics is one of the few career choices where the more successful you are, the less people tend to like you – and in the case of career politicians, they tend to be seen as outdated remnants of the past, put in positions where they dictate the lives of their constituents, and too stubborn to…
The Love That Remains (2025)
Divorce is never easy – at its core, it is simply the legal decision of two individuals to end their marriage or partnership. It should technically be seen as nothing more than a transaction. Yet, this is obviously a brutal reduction of what can be one of the most daunting, challenging experiences anyone could have,…
The Postmodern Pelican 