Love is something we all experience, but yet rarely find ourselves able to explain. It’s a universal sensation, albeit one that has baffled and confused everyone from ancient philosophers to the average person walking down the street. However, this hasn’t stopped many terrific filmmakers from staking their claim and providing their own interpretation on the…
Category: comedy
Splitsville (2025)
Falling in love is easy, but staying in love is where it becomes challenging. It seems to be a dreadfully trite subject, but we’ve seen multiple examples of stories crafted around the trials and tribulations of couples as they find themselves weathering the storm of relationships that steadily decline for one reason or another. For…
Wide Open Faces (1938)
Comedy serves many different functions, but more than anything else, we find that the best comedies are usually those that present a snapshot of the time and place in which they were produced. The late 1930s were not a particularly pleasant time in the United States – the country was in the final stages of…
Eephus (2025)
The term “eephus” is not particularly well-known to those of us who do not follow baseball. However, it is defined as a particular kind of pitch in which the ball is thrown with a relatively low velocity, but still travels in an unusually high arc. The process of waiting for the ball to arrive for…
The Jerk (1979)
In the canon of works that are not only vitally important to the development of American humour, but vital to the entire cinematic process, we have The Jerk, a film that was initiated as a flight of fancy between director Carl Reiner and star and co-writer Steve Martin, best-known for his landmark appearances on the…
Blue Moon (2025)
While it is true that a piece of art should be able to stand on its own, where the context around its creation shouldn’t be a factor in the extent to which we enjoy it, there are some cases where our experience is made richer by knowing more about how it came to exist. This…
Chicken and Duck Talk (1988)
Two art forms that have proven to be unexpectedly compatible bedfellows are cinema and cuisine, with food and film going together remarkably well, especially in instances when the two are combined. Films centring around food in various forms have tended to be extremely popular, since they touch on a universal experience, which is the feeling…
My Sweet Little Village (1985)
Everyone who has lived in a major city or urban area has likely at some point in their life imagined the joys that would come from leaving the hustle and bustle of whatever metropolis that defines their daily routine, venturing into the countryside and starting a far simpler life. It is a concept that is…
Box of Moonlight (1996)
While it may not be easily admitted by some due to the idea that we should never be open about such bizarre impulses, there comes a point in all of our lives where we simply want to escape our humdrum, banal existence and simply retreat into the wilderness, whether literally or metaphorically, since it speaks…
Father’s Day (1997)
The concept of parenthood has been a subject explored extensively in every conceivable medium – whether planned or accidental, the idea of adding another title to your repertoire is a fascinating concept, especially considering it is a universal topic that can be interpreted in many different ways. For one reason or another, we tend to…
The Postmodern Pelican 