There is nothing quite as frustrating as the feeling of being forced into a life from which you cannot ever truly escape – not because of anything particularly negative or insidious, but rather that you have become a victim of the status quo, which isn’t always easy to overcome. In his novel On Swift Horses,…
Category: Drama
A Little Prayer (2025)
Family is everything, and those of us who are lucky will find that there are some people who may not be related to us by blood or through any direct legal connection, but who enter our lives and become an important part of it. The idea of the “chosen” family has been a source of…
Blue Heron (2025)
Despite being one of the most natural processes we will experience, growing up is not always easy. Even those who are fortunate enough to spend their childhoods in comfort and luxury will know that the road towards adolescence and then later adulthood is anything but smooth – it’s extremely challenging, since not only do we…
Hedda (2025)
There’s something about Hedda Gabler that you simply cannot resist – she knows it, and everyone around her knows it, which makes her such a fascinating and beguiling figure. Henrik Ibsen’s astonishing creation has been the subject of many adaptations over the years on stage and screen, coming to be seen as one of the…
H is for Hawk (2025)
For nearly a decade, I worked in a bookstore, and from the beginning of my time there until I left a few years ago, there was a particular book that seemed extremely popular for reasons no one could ever explain to me. It proved to be a puzzling exercise in trying to determine exactly why…
Magellan (2025)
As the adage states, history truly is written by the victor – why else would we find some of the most brutal and bloodthirsty individuals being hailed as heroes, when their actions would have them positioned as treacherous villains in most other contexts. It has proven to always be a matter of perspective, as Lav…
I Swear (2025)
We all fight our own individual battles, some being more visible than others. One of the great injustices of human existence is that the combination of our inherent lack of patience and desire to categorise people into need compartments will always be the reason many are forced to experience the isolation that comes with dealing…
Eagles of the Republic (2025)
There is only one subject that the film industry loves above all others: itself. There is seemingly nothing that energises a filmmaker more than telling a story set within the world of cinema, and whether through deep reverence or merciless lampooning (or some combination of them both), there is something about the metafictional nature of…
Hamnet (2025)
There are many ways to describe grief – it’s the mask behind which we try to hide our pain, the feeling of immeasurable loss and hopelessness, the lingering sense of dread and despair that follows you daily, or even “the thing with feathers”, a simple but evocative term coined by Max Porter as the title…
The Dead (1987)
“Falling in that lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lies buried. Falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living, and the dead.” Despite being one of the most acclaimed and admired authors in the history of the English language, James Joyce has proven to be…
The Postmodern Pelican 