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…

Sometimes, we need a film like Good Boys to remind us of the incredible power of foolishness. A film made from the perspective of almost complete narrative disregard, but done with the earnestness of someone who was intent only on entertaining more than contributing anything meaningful, it’s a wonderful exercise in escapism, where we can…

Tomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke) and Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) are a married Swedish couple that decide to take a short vacation in the French Alps, where they hope to spend a few days with their children (Clara Wettergren and Vincent Wettergren) skiing through the snow-white landscapes and appreciating the tranquillity of the gorgeous countryside. However,…

Tim Heidecker plays a fictionalized version of himself, a concert promoter who has recently been acquitted from a trial in which he was accused of inadvertently killing a large portion of the guests at one of his recent events. As a result of his disillusionment with the justice system, he decides to run for District…

Literary adaptations come in many different forms – there are those that remain very close to the source material, and those that update it, whether contemporizing it or just extracting a few general themes and infusing them into a more loosely-structured version of the story. Occasionally, there are adaptations that somehow manage to do both…

Annie (Scarlett Johansson) has just graduated college, where she was pursuing a degree in Anthropology, a subject that she was always passionate about, as evident in her fascination with the people around her and how the world is composed of many different intersecting lives. However, her prospects for the future are not as bright as…