You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family – at least not for the most part. The people who raise us are responsible not only our welfare, but also for instilling in us a set of values and principles that guide us to becoming valuable members of society. In most cases, they…
Good Boy (2025)
Recently, acclaimed Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher commented on silent cinema, calling it “a completely different medium of expression”, which can be interpreted in a few different ways. However, something that does become very relevant when we look at it as a medium in isolation from sound cinema is that words are not always necessary, since…
The Bride! (2026)
As far as horror cinema goes, there are few works quite as iconic and important as The Bride of Frankenstein, which could legitimately lay claim to being the greatest entry in the genre’s history. This film has remained as compelling and intriguing to this day as it was when it was released over ninety years…
Le Lac (2025)
There is a quote by the master storyteller Herman Melville in his timeless classic Moby Dick that I absolutely adore: “As for me, I am tormented by an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts”, which is a beautiful and evocative description of the desire to…
The Plague (2025)
Growing up is never easy, and it can be even more daunting to navigate adolescence when you are seen as an outsider. Teenagers have a tendency to resort to the most dehumanising cruelty imaginable, engaging in acts of mockery and disdain for anyone they view as a viable target for their ire. As someone who…
Drive Back Home (2025)
When starting this discussion, I wanted to find a quote that best described the core themes of the film we’ll be exploring. I considered the profoundly philosophical and deeply moving, before settling on one that I feel best describes the core themes, which is taken from Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, where she simply states, “what…
Rebuilding (2025)
Life can change in a moment, and there’s nothing we can do about the unpredictable nature of reality – and in many cases, it’s difficult not feel like you have been dealt a bad hand, where even your best efforts can fall apart at the seams. However, as they often say, it’s not the reason…
Love (2025)
How do you define love? Is it a biological process or a psychological reaction? Perhaps it is a socially mandated act of seeking out a partner, or a philosophical craving to have some kind of companion. The reality is that there are more questions than there are answers when it comes to discussing love and…
Preparation for the Next Life (2025)
How fast do you have to run to truly escape your past? This is a question that has been posed in many different ways over the centuries, with the idea of disappearing into the ether and starting anew in entirely different places being a theme that has fascinated artists for generations. It is also a…
Good Fortune (2025)
At some point or another, we have all looked at someone and wished we could swap lives with them (and anyone who hasn’t had such a thought, even if only briefly, is either completely delusional or the most privileged person in history), just to walk in their shoes and experience what we perceive to be…
The Postmodern Pelican 