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…
Author: The Postmodern Pelican
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…
His and Hers (1961)
For some, the concept of domestic bliss is an ideal to which they are willing to work, while for others, it is nothing more than a myth perpetuated by decades of cultural lecturing and blatant marketing, which the nuclear family was seen as the ultimate aspiration, and anything less was seen as a sign of…
God Willing (2015)
Faith is a fascinating concept – for the majority of people, it is something that is intensely personal and mostly kept quite private for the most part, based on their own unique beliefs and their avoidance of impeding on the beliefs of others. For some, religion is a balm for a tortured soul, for others,…
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
For about as long as we have been telling stories, there has been some fascination with the concept of love and romance, two concepts that are usually seen as synonymous, but are often reconfigured to have two very different meanings in certain circumstances. We find this to be the case in The Bliss of Mrs….
Coup! (2024)
They say you should be wary of the people you allow into your home – there is a reason why many cultures have it embedded in their customs the standard practice to wait to be invited into someone’s dwelling before actually being able to step in, which some say has its roots in older folklore,…
The Out-of-Towners (1999)
For most parents, the moment when your child moves out of home is one that is both joyful and melancholy, and many have discussed the concept of empty-nest syndrome, where parents have to acclimate themselves to the knowledge that their offspring is out, living their own lives and that the family has entered a period…
Hamnet (2025)
There are many ways to describe grief – it’s the mask behind which we try to hide our pain, the feeling of immeasurable loss and hopelessness, the lingering sense of dread and despair that follows you daily, or even “the thing with feathers”, a simple but evocative term coined by Max Porter as the title…
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