Childhood is perhaps the time in our lives where we learn the most – not only in the sense of gaining an official, formal education, but learning about the many challenges that face us in the years ahead, which can be both intimidating and poignant for any child undergoing the inevitable process of getting older….

Few Hollywood-based stories have been as tragic as the life and death of Judy Garland – from the wide-eyed young girl with an angelic voice, to an adult who could command even the biggest stages, despite her slight frame and almost milquetoast demeanour, she was always in the public eye, right until her untimely demise,…

Life is a journey that doesn’t end, but rather changes form. The reality is that none of us are nearly as important as we think we are, and instead each one of us is just another component of a constantly changing world, part of the proverbial machinery that has yet to come to a halt,…

There seems to be a contingent of people who are working laboriously to position Lukas Dhont as the next great filmmaker. Some have categorized him as the heir apparent to Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, who have been the sovereigns of small, intimate Belgian dramas for decades, a position for which Dhont has supposedly been cited…

“There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you.” These simple but evocative words are taken from Women Talking, the beautiful novel by Miriam Toews, who tells the story of a group of women in an isolated Mennonite community who, after the arrest of a group of men that had been…