Navigating life as a singleton can be quite a challenge – for some, the fierce independence that comes with fully being in control of your narrative can be celebrated, while others will view it as a shortcoming, with the failure to attract a potential partner being considered a flaw, and something that should be immediately…
Category: comedy
It’s Raining in the House (2024)
There comes a moment in everyone’s life when they suddenly realise that they are an independent person, perhaps not in terms of financially standing on their own, but rather that they are no longer entirely tethered to their parents and guardians when it comes to the decisions they make or how they choose to live…
Dear Brigitte (1965)
There is nothing quite as emotionally crippling as being in a family with expectations much larger than one could ever hope to achieve. Unfortunately, most of us tend to have experience with this, since we often are burdened with the responsibility of achieving everything that our parents and ancestors failed to do, which can be…
College (1927)
As part of our ongoing retrospective of Buster Keaton’s work, we continue to press on and explore all the hilarious and irreverent avenues down which his career travelled. Today’s discussion takes us to the Ivy League, in the form of College, the off-the-wall satire that Keaton directed alongside James W. Horne (who would leverage this…
The Baltimorons (2025)
We all yearn to find someone who truly understands us, and while most of the time we tend to view this person as being a romantic partner, any kind of spiritual companion is welcome, particularly when it comes to someone who tends to see the world in the same way that we do. In the…
Rental Family (2025)
There are a few fundamental needs that every one of us has – nourishment and shelter being the primary rights that we are universally supposed to be afforded. Yet, something that we very rarely discuss as being an absolute necessity is genuine human connection. Regardless of who you are or where you come from, we…
Kenny (2006)
It’s often been said that there is a sub-section of people within any given society that are referred to as the “labouring invisible”, meaning those working-class individuals that take on jobs or positions that are often dismissed by those who are unable to ever envision being in a line of work that is decidedly lacking…
Only the Lonely (1991)
The boundary between loneliness and being alone is so narrow, yet they can result in profoundly different emotions and experiences. Many artists have attempted to use their canvas of choice to create an image of what it feels like to be truly lonely, since it is one of those universal experiences that affects all of…
Ella McCay (2025)
Politics is one of the few career choices where the more successful you are, the less people tend to like you – and in the case of career politicians, they tend to be seen as outdated remnants of the past, put in positions where they dictate the lives of their constituents, and too stubborn to…
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
By the time he set out to make The Purple Rose of Cairo, Woody Allen already had about two decades of filmmaking behind him, having grown to be arguably the most acclaimed director of American comedies working at the time – but gradually over the years, he lost his desire to tell outrageous stories, and…
The Postmodern Pelican 