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…

Paul-André Delalande (Benoît Poelvoorde) is one of the richest men in Belgium – in fact, he has accumulated such an enormous wealth, his entire business was bought by another entity, and he still manages to live an extremely luxurious lifestyle. However, this is probably a result of him not having a family to spend his…

Something that is very important when talking about queer cinema is that it doesn’t always need to be serious – in fact, most of the greatest films on the subject of the LGBTQIA+ community have been the most charming, effervescent comedies ever produced. When it came to making But I’m a Cheerleader, director Jamie Babbit…

When we think about Pedro Almodóvar, we often associate him with very deep, meaningful explorations of the human condition, films that merge socio-cultural discussions with queer imagery and profoundly moving stories of individuality. However, this stage of his career has only been functional for the past two decades, since he started out his career as…

There is an argument to be made that The Cheap Detective is one of the funniest films of the 1970s, but one that isn’t as widely discussed as it should be. One of the lesser-known projects by the incredible and deservedly iconic Neil Simon, this film seems to have been lost to time, which is…

The question that we all need to ask when it comes to A Fine, Windy Day (Korean: 바람 불어 좋은 날), is whether this is a story about people living in a city, or a tale of a city and the people who occupy it. This may sound like the same concept, but it’s an…

Matt (Ed Helms) is a successful app developer who leads quite a happy life, enjoying middle-age as a single man, without much intention of finding a partner. However, he does desperately want to become a father, so as a result, he seeks out alternative options for fatherhood, which leads him to hire a surrogate to…

The Russells are an ordinary, middle-class family living the American Dream – to the point where they have made the pilgrimage from their home in Indianapolis to suburban Chicago, which has been a cause for great chagrin, and the reason why rebellious teenager Tia (Jean Louisa Kelly) is belligerent to all of her parents’ attempts…