Growing up is never a particularly simple journey, but it is made marginally easier by the presence of a good friend or two with whom you can tackle life’s challenges. There is nothing quite as important as a meaningful companion, especially when navigating your adolescent years, which prove to be a difficult time for any…
Category: comedy
As Young as You Feel (1951)
As the well-worn adage goes, some of us work to live, whereas others live to work. The concept of labour as the foundation of any functioning society is something that we’ve found debated in every arena, from political machinations to philosophical thought, all of which set out to determine the merits and shortcomings of dedicating…
A Piece of the Action (1977)
A brief disclaimer: A Piece of the Action is a film that co-stars Bill Cosby, a notorious figure whose fall from grace has been well-documented. While I maintain the importance of separating the art from the artist in most instances, it is also vital that it is made clear that by covering this film, I…
Pools (2025)
There comes a point in everyone’s life where we want to escape in some form – whether from the humdrum nature of everyday routine, or from something deeper and more existential. There’s nothing quite as crippling as the loneliness that comes when we realise that we are all fighting battles entirely by ourselves, and that…
You Can’t Take It with You (1938)
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 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…
Waltzing with Brando (2025)
When you think of Marlon Brando, it’s expected that the image of the overly intense, vaguely misanthropic method actor known for proclaiming “I could’ve been a contender” in On the Waterfront, shouting to his beloved Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire or planning to make an offer no one could refuse in The Godfather, all…
Bob Trevino Likes It (2025)
Friends are the family we choose – as hackneyed and cliched as this adage may be, there is a reason it has adorned many wooden kitchen signs and social media captions. There’s nothing quite like finding someone with whom you have a lot in common, and allowing a natural connection to form as a result,…
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
Music is the universal language, the common thread that connects us under a unified humanity, transcending cultural, geographical and temporal boundaries and speaking directly to our souls in a way that everyone unquestionably understands. Some of the greatest works of literature began their lives as songs or strummed, featuring stories of star-crossed lovers or perilous…
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…
The Postmodern Pelican 