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…

There is an idea we’ve discussed from time to time, which is the philosophical concept of “sonder”, which is defined as the realization that every person we encounter in our daily lives, whether in a brief interaction or passing, has their own rich, complex life and we remain only a brief part of it, rarely…

For just about as long as stories have been told, there has been an effort to preserve our history, whether in the spoken or written traditions of different cultures. Storytelling is nothing more than the act of simply taking words and assembling them to have some meaning, with the emphasis being on conveying something integral…

There are some subjects that are simply too painful to discuss, and making artworks centred around them can be a challenging endeavour, especially when it comes to exploring the emotions situated around particular circumstances. Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson are driven by the desire to explore a few of these subjects in Ghostlight, in which…

The idea of the open road is appealing to many of us since the freedom and ability to engage in a momentary act of recklessness where actions seem to have very few consequences and the adrenaline fuels our wild ambitions is something that represents a very different way of life. This is why I suspect…

In the canon of remarkable Japanese filmmakers who were active during what is often considered the Golden Age of Japanese cinema, one name is not mentioned as much as it should be – Teinosuke Kinugasa worked for decades as one of the most reliably fascinating and skilled directors, crafting a series of exceptional films known…