Alfie Elkins (Michael Caine) is a rambunctious playboy patrolling the streets of London, charming every woman he meets, and making sure that they’re fully aware of how he can be a better lover to all of them, which is often used as a defence to convince his married cohorts to take the chance to sample…

Set on the homefront, a group of soldiers are about to embark on a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, in support of the military efforts in the region. With heavy hearts, these troops are leaving behind their families for the duration of their service, each one of them promising their wives and children that…

A sub-genre of cinema that I have grown to really appreciate in the past few years are the Soviet comedies that started to be produced almost concurrently to the heightening tensions of the Cold War. I’ve explored several of them in depth, looking at how they’re the most rebellious examples of post-traumatic filmmaking, as they…

Nicole Bonnet (Audrey Hepburn) is the daughter of a wealthy aristocrat, Charles (Hugh Griffith), who has one of the most extensive art collections in Europe. What his high-society colleagues and admirers don’t realize is that the Bonnet family has made their fortune through forgery, with Charles being a talents artist who has learned the skills…

The Jacobs are an ordinary Upper West Side family in the mid-1990s. They’re headed by Pat (Edie Falco), the stern matriarch, and her more lenient husband Alan (John Turturro), who have to endure the challenges posed by their two daughters – Dana (Jenny Slate) has already moved out of home, but is still regularly involved…

The world was a very different place in 1970 – the Vietnam War was raging, the Cold War tensions had risen to a grotesque peak, and the world watched on tenterhooks, waiting for some sign that there would be some kind of resolution. One institution was always reliable in bringing people together – the Miss…

Juno is a very important film for several reasons, most of all for its legacy. A quaint and charming independent comedy in its own right, it worked alongside Little Miss Sunshine to inspire over a decade of imitators, films that embrace their independent spirit and more twee nature and exploit them in conjunction with the…

“How I loathe adventurous-minded boys” London in the late 1940s – the Blood and Thunder Boys are a mischievous bunch of teenage boys (and one girl) who spend their days scurrying through the bumbling streets of London, where they narrowly avoid trouble in their various misadventures. They’re bound by their sacred text, the weekly pulp…

Miles (Paul Giamatti) is a middle-aged high school English teacher who is at his wit’s end. He has recently written a novel and is anxiously awaiting to hear a verdict as to whether he will be able to publish it. To get his mind off his daily distractions, Miles recruits his best friend, Jack (Thomas…

There are two ways to look at Good Times – the first is a relic of the 1960s, a time-capsule of a decade in which so much social and cultural change came about, made with the intention of simply entertaining audiences with its irreverent sense of humour and upbeat demeanour. The second is as a…