A wise piece of advice given to every working individual is to establish a clear delineation between their personal and professional life, and we’re often warned about the perils of bringing your work home since there can be ramifications on the work-life balance. However, there are some instances where they begin to encroach on each…
Author: The Postmodern Pelican
Twister (1996)
Nature is simultaneously awe-inspiring and terrifying since we find that it is the root of both some of the most beautiful spectacles and often the source of some of the most devastating disasters in history. The unpredictability of the natural world has been studied for about as long as science has been a legitimate field,…
Jezebel (1938)
For as long as audiences have been going to see films, the concept of the period drama has been a reliable source of entertainment. Having its roots in the theatre (since that was a medium that was notoriously more generous to chamber dramas set in the past, with the opportunity for gorgeous set design and…
Treasure (2024)
Amongst his wide body of notable quotes, Oscar Wilde once famously quipped that memory “is the diary that we all carry about with us” – it is an assemblage of all the moments in our lives that are filed away in our minds to be used when they are necessary. It is also the one…
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Every generation has a small set of directors that go on to define a particular era in cinema, but it can be difficult to discern who will become the iconoclasts and which ones will just be seen as reliable artists, which can really only happen once some distance has been created between an era and…
The Last Movie Star (2018)
Being in the public eye is quite an experience – as Andy Warhol famously quipped, we will all have our fifteen minutes of fame. In the case of a select few, they’ll be able to reap the rewards of this momentary prosperity later on in life, earning one of the many lifetime achievement awards that…
Mondo Trasho (1969)
Has there ever been a filmmaker more enamoured with being labelled as a peddler of filth than John Waters? He has certainly made quite the career from shocking and provoking audiences, to the point where the iconic Pope of Trash has found himself becoming respectable after decades of being viewed as someone who was far…
Broker (2022)
By this point in this career, Hirokazu Kore-eda has done more than enough to prove himself as one of our greatest living filmmakers. In recent years, he has expanded on his own repertoire by stepping outside of his native Japan and looking at other countries, with his first film made in another language being the…
Poison (1991)
Before he came to be known as one of the most intriguing peddlers of melodrama and complex character studies, Todd Haynes was a rambunctious young independent filmmaker with a penchant for the absurd and the constant desire to push the boundaries of the medium, which he did consistently for the first few years of his…
Chinatown (1974)
“Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown” – these five words may seem simple, but they’re essentially the foundation on which the entire New Hollywood movement rests, specifically because they’re the last words we hear before Jerry Goldsmith’s iconic droning score accompanies us through the concluding moment of one of the defining works of cinema produced at…
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