“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…
Category: Drama
The Summer Book (2025)
Something that no one tells you before experiencing the death of a loved one is that there aren’t any definitive guidelines on how to mourn. The act of processing a loss takes many different forms, and it’s impossible to pin it down to a single approach. This includes both the immediate aftermath and the lengthy…
The Outrun (2024)
Addiction is very difficult to achieve, and almost impossible to get rid of, a lesson that far too many people have learned the hard way. Whether a substance or some other kind of vice, the ability to shed one’s dependency on something that brings them some sense of physical and psychological comfort and euphoria is…
Where to Land (2025)
We all search for meaning. Regardless of who we are or where we come from, each one of us is consistently trying to make sense of our existence, whether we choose to verbalise it or not. Yet, despite some riveting works by philosophers, theologians and scientists alike, we are no closer to understanding the miracle…
Everybody’s Fine (1990)
The great polymath and intellectual Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once famously remarked “there are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”, a statement that has lingered in the minds of many parents as they endure the emotional challenges that come when they realise…
Late Shift (2025)
Healthcare is an art, and while it may seem inappropriate and reductive to compare something that is arguably the most serious and important profession imaginable to creative fields, which are objectively more trivial in contrast, it does bear some relevance. There is much more to it than just administering treatment, with medicine being a field…
Is This Thing On? (2025)
Finding a romantic partner is easy, but keeping them is much more challenging – a sentiment that often arises whenever the subject of romance is discussed. There are as many films about falling in love as there are about maintaining that spark. Unfortunately, as idealistic as we may want to be when it comes to…
Train Dreams (2025)
For as long as we have been sentient, we have been pursuing the goal of trying to condense entire lives into single streams of thoughts – we all have a date in which we enter this world, and a date in which we exit, and everything in between becomes our legacy. For some people, they…
Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)
Art is often known to be very personal, especially when it comes to stories about family. Countless writers and directors have drawn influence from their own lives, whether taking cues from their childhood or their journey to become the artists we appreciate and revere, which is not always the easiest way for someone to develop….
The Chronology of Water (2025)
The leap from actor to director is not always an easy one. While we can often view it as merely an attempt to assert one’s vanity in another position (usually because it is the result of an actor leveraging their fame to gain a large budget and an immediate bundle of credibility), there are instances…
The Postmodern Pelican 