Something that we don’t often talk about when it comes to film is how art can be a form of therapy. Most of the time, we view cinema as either pure entertainment, or attempts to convey a particular message around some broader social or political message. However, there are instances when someone makes a film…

One has to admire films that manage to find the humour in even the most serious of situations, since they tend to be amongst the most well-composed, meaningful projects, subversive where it matters and insightful where we may not expect it to be. This is very true for Risks and Side Effects (German: Risiken &…

Mario (Geronimo Meynier) is a bit of a slacker – he doesn’t particularly like school very much, and he dreads going home to his working-class family, since while they do have his best intentions at heart, their approach to raising him has always been defined by stricter morals, which aren’t compatible with his more rebellious…

Lenny Weinrib (Woody Allen) is a relatively successful sportswriter who specializes in boxing. He leads quite a happy life – he is married to the intelligent and beautiful Amanda (Helena Bonham Carter), who has her own thriving career as an art curator, but has two very bold dreams. The first is that she wants to…

There’s something so compelling about Australian cinema – many fantastic discussions have been had about how their unique perspective and willingness to venture further than many others have resulted in some absolutely fantastic, and often quite provocative, works of filmmaking. Regardless of the specific genre, there is often a spark of genius that underpin these…

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…