Death is a peculiar concept – it is something we all understand is inevitable, and it can be argued it always sits at the back of our minds. Yet, artistically it feels like it is a subject that is both present in many works, but still hasn’t quite been entirely understood. The reality is that…

Being an artist is not always an easy endeavour – certain challenges come with being a creative individual that can cause a range of personal and professional issues. Melora Walters set out to explore this subject in her directorial debut, the well-meaning Waterlily Jaguar, in which she examines the trials and tribulations of a well-liked…

There’s nothing quite as delightful as receiving some correspondence from someone whose views and perspective you value – regardless of the mode in which it is delivered, there’s something about the art of written communication that feels profoundly special. I belong to the final generation that can remember when handwritten letters were still considered somewhat…

For some, the pursuit of a better life does not always yield the results that were perhaps anticipated, proving that the grass is not always greener on the other side, as the well-worn adage tends to go. In her ambitious feature-length debut Toxic,  Saulė Bliuvaitė questions the very nature of audacity and the perils that…

Regardless of how much work is done by psychologists and analysts, understanding the criminal mind will never be something we will be truly able to do, especially since there isn’t any singular motivation that impels someone to commit a crime, whether petty or major, which makes efforts to curb criminal behaviour from the start a…

The term “history” is quite a divisive one – for some, it evokes the feeling of dull, passionless stories that do very little outside of promoting the past and how life was supposedly better or worse at any given point prior to our birth, while for others it is an exciting concept, an opportunity to…

There is a theory that, should a filmmaker have a long enough career, they will at some point make a film about themselves. For some, this comes towards the start of their career, in the form of ambitious coming-of-age stories where they use their limited knowledge and paltry life experience to tell energetic, compelling stories….

There came a point in cinema history where certain filmmakers simply just decided to go against the advice of censors, and instead of following their strict code of what was supposedly acceptable on screen, most of them simply disregarded these standards and started to go in their direction. Roger Vadim has quite a notorious reputation…