For two or three generations of people born between the 1960s and late 1990s, Eddie Murphy was the biggest star in the world – he could do absolutely no wrong, and even his most reviled from produced during his heyday have some passionate supporters. Unfortunately, some of his career choices after that were questionable (but…

Like many of the contemporary audiences who have a taste for the alternative forms of filmmaking, I absolutely adore John Waters and his films, finding his brand of off-kilter comedy and complete commitment to providing glimpses into the limits of human decency through entirely eviscerating every notion of good taste we hold to be true…

Grace (Brenda Blethyn) has led a relatively sheltered life – the wife of a very rich man, she has been able to focus on her more simple interests, such as working with the Woman’s Institute in her local seaside English village, or pursuing her love of gardening, which has made her quite a formidable authority…

While he remains quite a popular figure, Wes Anderson has had his fair share of polarizing reactions, with his recent work indicating that he is a director with a penchant for the quirky and overly-stylised, which has amounted in him receiving an equal share of devotees and detractors. I fall between the two – I…

Every year, you come across films that may not be entirely original or unique, whether in their storylines or the approach they take to the process of narrative or visual construction, but yet still remain rather endearing, even if they’re not entirely brilliant. CODA is one such film, with the story of a young woman…

The 1990s were a watershed moment for queer representation on screen, especially in telling stories of the LGBTQIA+ community on a more mainstream scale, often filtered through the lens of drag, which has often served as the most accessible gateway for many into understanding queer culture. There were three consecutive years where some of the…

Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt) are a longtime couple who run a relatively successful furniture store, which they stock by visiting various estate sales of recently deceased individuals. Alex sees very little problem in profiting off property that no one wanted anymore, but Kate is more reluctant, especially since they intentionally don’t disclose…

Cinema adores friendships, especially those that change over time. There’s something about a solid exploration of the trials and tribulations of the companionships of two or more people that make for profoundly moving testaments to the human spirit. Mike Leigh implicitly understood this when he set out to make Career Girls, a slightly atypical film…

There are very few sensations quite as uncomfortable as seeing a great director fall from grace to the point where one needs to wonder what they were actually thinking when making a particular film. It’s even worse when this served as the director’s final film, since they didn’t get the opportunity to end their career…

Watching the opening credits roll by at the start of The Catered Affair is quite an experience, since the pedigree of talent involved in the creation of this film is staggering – Richard Brooks (one of the more reliable genre directors working in this era of Hollywood) was directing a screenplay by Gore Vidal, who…