Faith is a fascinating concept – few ideas have divided the population for centuries more than religious belief, especially the kind of blind faith that many religions are impelled to portray, which has led to many cynical conversations about how one can believe in something that is not tangible. However, it has also created a…

There’s something so appealing about comedies produced during the Golden Age of Hollywood, particularly those made in the Pre-Code era, a time in which artistic expression within the film industry was driven by the simple but effective adage of “anything goes” – and few films demonstrate this with more elegance or nuance than Kansas City…

There’s nothing quite like the world of television – those omnipresent boxes that have become the source of both comfort and frustrations in the homes of viewers across the globe, serving the function of providing both entertainment and an insight into the real world. There are sometimes instances where there is an intersection of the…

While we may have a long way to go, when it comes to the subject of inclusion and diversity, it is wonderful to look back and see how far we’ve come as a collective culture. There is still a lot of work to be done, but a lot of the world is starting to become…

Films about writers are about as effective as books about filmmaking – they’re only good to a certain extent, since there is an inherent challenge in cross-medium interference, whereby looking at one through the lens of the other can sometimes be a bit difficult. However, when they work, it can sometimes be extraordinary, especially when…

Despite having both critical and commercial success over the course of a few decades, Cameron Crowe remains one of the more polarizing filmmakers working today, specifically because he seems to lack a certain panache that makes him interesting. He had radical successes with Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, so much that he was essentially given…

There was roughly a twenty-year period between the 1980s and early 2000s where it was impossible to take a step outside one’s own front door and not be bombarded by the latest cinematic British sensation. For some reason, Hollywood grew to really appreciate these irreverent stories of the British Isles and their prodigious offspring, so…

There’s nothing quite as liberating as the feeling of finally being able to exist authentically. For the majority of people, this is a seamless process that often just entails finding your place in the world and adhering to the status quo. However, there are those that tend to struggle with their identity, which can sometimes…

You have to give credit to Lena Dunham – for around a decade, she has withstood an endless stream of controversies, ranging from the lack of nuance on her television show Girls or the questionable morality she demonstrated through her autobiographical writings. Not necessarily a defence of Dunham, especially since many of these criticisms do…

Cinema loves politics, particularly during the 1970s. There was something about this specific era that brought out the best in filmmakers with an interest in the subject. Perhaps it was the tumultuous real-life political landscape, with the height of the Cold War causing much strife, even in the domestic lives of ordinary citizens, and events…