There is sometimes nothing I love more than a good crime thriller, and normally heist or con films seem to take the position as some of the most entertaining films, as they rely on some very cheap but exciting thrills that doesn’t require too much from the audience except a little attention. It also helps…

I am not entirely sure where to start when talking about The Little Hours. Perhaps we can consider it Ken Russell’s The Devils if it had been made by Judd Apatow, but even that feels a bit too safe and doesn’t actually encapsulate this bizarre film that I found myself enjoying far more than I…

Each and every one of us has that one film (or a few films) that just lift our spirits when we are in need of a good pick-me-up. For me, the only film I can always turn to in order to cheer me up is Hal Ashby’s seminal cult classic, Harold and Maude. It is…

Who better to make a film about a middle-aged, mediocre white Jewish man than a young, talented black woman? This very obscure concept is the central driving force behind Lemon, the first feature-length film from wunderkind filmmaker and auteur Janicza Bravo, which she wrote with her husband Brett Gelman, who also plays the lead role…

Who doesn’t love Ricky Gervais? Apparently, quite a few people because he’s one of the most divisive comedians working today. However, for everyone who fails to see what an absolute genius Gervais is, I compensate for their lack of faith in his extraordinary skills as a performance by being an unabashed, adoring fan. Like many…

Woody Allen has made some of the greatest comedy films of all time, regardless of his few failures. One of his most towering achievements in Manhattan, a film that I have loved for a very long time, but only after watching it upon my return to the titular city did my opinion of this magnificent…

Sometimes the best movies are the ones you weren’t expecting, or perhaps hadn’t even heard of. One of the best films of the year is undoubtedly Lost in Paris (French: Paris pieds nus), a whimsical and brilliantly constructed comedy that wants nothing more than for the audience to have fun, and while many films may…

It may be easy to deride him for his overly prolific career that results in his fair share of dismal failures, but I do think Woody Allen is one of the most extraordinary filmmakers of all time. To remind of his true genius, I’ve decided to do a retrospective on the decade I believe represents…