The boundary between love and fear is so narrow, they might as well be the same emotion – incredibly passionate responses to stimuli that can manifest either as a sudden burst or a more gradual unravelling, all of which is intended to pull us out of our comfort zone and experience something much more visceral….
The Rivals of Amziah King (2026)
Some people enter our lives for a reason, others merely for a season – this is much more than a hackneyed adage that has adorned many household decorations and social media captions, and instead perhaps the simplest but evocative summary of the fickle nature of friendship, something to which we can all relate to an…
Yes Man (2008)
Anyone has the capacity to change their lives – all it takes is the ability to say “yes”, even in those moments where it feels impossible. The power of positive thinking, and the changes that follow from a shift in mindset, has become the bread and butter for this steadily growing class of new-age psychologists…
The Long Good Friday (1980)
There is nothing quite like a traditional British gangster film – the blend of violence, humour and social commentary often led to truly entertaining works that may stretch the boundaries of plausibility, but were always compelling and engaging in a way that very few other genres could ever achieve, especially those that tried to replicate…
Old Bandits (2026)
As one grows older, they begin to learn that the world is not always that kind to the elderly – there’s a sense of respect and admiration, but at some point, you are essentially labelled as being past the point of functional member of society, and set out to pasture, told to enjoy the remaining…
At Night (2026)
The world can be a hopelessly confusing place when you are forced to navigate it on your own, especially if you exist within the half of the global population that is regularly subjected to judgment, bigotry and acts of blatant inequality. This is something that we find Beatrice Gibson exploring in detail in her fascinating…
The Parallax View (1974)
“Paranoia’s the garlic in life’s kitchen – you can never have too much” – Thomas Pynchon may have only written these words in his novel Bleeding Edge about a decade ago, but they’re extremely resonant for anyone who is aware of his writing career, particularly the subjects that were the foundation for his books. He…
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026)
Everyone has their list of dreams, which can range from the ambitious to the outright unrealistic. In either case, even those who may not necessarily pursue a particular goal still can enjoy the very idea of it, especially when it comes to the more scintillating and potentially controversial of them. Many couples have what are…
The Dreamed Adventure (2026)
There is history embedded in the land on which we walk – and the same can be said for the people themselves. Each one of us can be considered an ambulatory archaelogical sites, where our own pasts are buried deep in our souls, and where only certain people are able to excavate those secrets and…
Primetime (2026)
There are some phrases that become so entrenched in the cultural consciousness that they are able to exist even outside of the context in which they were originally said. For many viewers, the sentence “why don’t you have a seat right over there?” immediately takes us back to a very particular time in television history,…
