There is a reason why the 1920s are considered one of the best decades for French art – it was a renaissance of sorts in all areas, including literature, visual arts and music. Cinema was not lagging far behind, and while Hollywood was making the most substantial leap towards it becoming one of the primary…
Author: The Postmodern Pelican
Magellan (2025)
As the adage states, history truly is written by the victor – why else would we find some of the most brutal and bloodthirsty individuals being hailed as heroes, when their actions would have them positioned as treacherous villains in most other contexts. It has proven to always be a matter of perspective, as Lav…
Roofman (2025)
Crime doesn’t pay, but it can certainly help settle a few bills. Many stories of career criminals have been built on the premise that wrongdoing is never something to be condoned. However, it can still provide audiences with riveting tales of people who dedicate their lives to existing on the other side of the law,…
The Outfit (2022)
Tailors, cutters and seamsters are professions that very few seem to notice until their services are required, despite them being the foundation of society in many ways; their clients usually run the gamut from politicians to everyday workers who employ them in an effort to look as good as they possibly can, whether it be…
Dry Leaf (2025)
“Irakli thought about the road. How wonderful it is that there are roads” There is nothing quite like the feeling of being on the open road, which is precisely what this quote is describing. These words appear at the very end of Dry Lead (Georgian: ხმელი ფოთოლი), another ambitious and daring work emerging from the…
I Swear (2025)
We all fight our own individual battles, some being more visible than others. One of the great injustices of human existence is that the combination of our inherent lack of patience and desire to categorise people into need compartments will always be the reason many are forced to experience the isolation that comes with dealing…
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2025)
We often form unintentional relationships with artists, which can either be liberating or constricting, depending on how one views this one-way companionship. In the case of certain authors – particularly those who have entered the hallowed canon of the medium – the parasocial relationship can usually be somewhat amusing and unsettling, based on the extent…
Eagles of the Republic (2025)
There is only one subject that the film industry loves above all others: itself. There is seemingly nothing that energises a filmmaker more than telling a story set within the world of cinema, and whether through deep reverence or merciless lampooning (or some combination of them both), there is something about the metafictional nature of…
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
As far as influential figures in the history of cinema go, there are few individuals more interesting and impressive than Ida Lupino, one of the few people whose reputation as a pioneer is not hyperbolic praise, but an objective fact drawn from her groundbreaking work on both sides of the camera. During a time when…
Die My Love (2025)
“When routine bites hard and ambitions are low And resentment rides high, but emotions won’t grow And we’re changing our ways, taking different roads” These haunting words are undoubtedly familiar to many of us, as they’re the first lines of Joy Division’s generation-defining masterpiece “Love Will Tear Us Apart”, which is quite possibly the greatest…
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