There’s something so satisfying about seeing some of the greatest performers in history duking it out in trashy but entertaining films. Bette Davis and Joan Crawford established this with the iconic Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and set off a chain reaction of similarly dark and twisted female-focused films that are nothing more than perverted…

Any wine country is commonly known as a place of a few defining features, regardless of where you are in the world – beautiful scenery, serene surroundings and a lot of drunken people often causing a ruckus. This was the primary leaping point for Wine Country, the debut feature film by comedic iconoclast Amy Poehler….

Jen (Jackie van Beek) and Mel (Madeleine Sami) are best friends that run a very different kind of relationship agency – rather than matching people together, they specialize in tearing them apart. When someone is in a relationship they want out of, they venture to the humble offices of “The Breaker Upperers”, who have a…

Tragedy is easy, its comedy that is difficult. This is an adage that has existed as long as people have been endeavouring to make audiences laugh – it is also the theme residing at the very core of Paddleton, the offbeat and endearing comedy-drama from the mind of independent cinema’s most enduring auteurs, the Duplass…

When one thinks of George Orwell, it is natural to relate his career to two novels – Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. These works are obviously towering literary achievements, but also powerful works of political commentary which are beginning to look like certain world leaders are using them as manuals. One of his lesser-known, but…

2018 was an amazing year for film – I feel like I mention this every year, and perhaps my expectations are just getting lower, or films are just getting better (perhaps through the increasing prestige being attached to independent films, which are slowly growing in wider viewership through different distribution models). My list of the…

Life often tends to be filled with despair, heartbreak and melancholy. Thankfully, we have Christopher Guest to lighten the load somewhat. His films are, without question, some of the most entertaining ever made, and his trio of masterworks – Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind are all incredible achievements and stand…

There are few films I have anticipated as much as Can You Ever Forgive Me?, a film that is a chaotic blend of a multitude of elements I absolutely adore – a true-life biopic about an eccentric criminal, bookshops, New York in the 1990s, and of course two of my absolute acting idols, Melissa McCarthy…

When it comes to looking at the most influential moments in cinematic comedy, one couldn’t go wrong with noting The Marx Brothers were founding fathers of the genre, with their work in the earlier days of cinema being amongst the finest ever committed to film – and having had their mainstream breakthrough just after the…

Jack (Richard E. Grant) and Sarah (Imogen Stubbs) are a happily married couple – they are about to move into a large suburban house, and are expecting their first child, a daughter with whom they are so excited to spend their lives. However, when tragedy strikes, Jack loses his wife in childbirth, and has to…