Saying goodbye is never easy, but what is even more difficult is losing someone before you get the opportunity to tell them how you feel. This is an experience that many would be lucky never to encounter since there’s nothing quite as harrowing as living with the regrets of never telling someone you love how…

A couple of decades ago, Anne Carson wrote perhaps the greatest verse novel of the 20th century in the form of An Autobiography of Red, a daring and provocative work that centres on a modernised version of Geryon, a figure drawn from Greek mythology, mainly serving as one of the adversaries that stood in Herakles’…

They often say reality is stranger than fiction – it’s a well-worn adage that has reached the point of almost being a cliche, but it is still one that applies in certain cases. In this instance, its the story of Phillipa Langley, the working-class mother who decided to become an amateur historian based on a…

It was quite a notorious figure who once remarked that the easiest way to make a fortune is to start a religion. In the case of the inhabitants of a small mining town in Georgia, they discover an even more profitable way to become wealthy, which is the sudden discovery of a miner that has…

We all deal with death at some point in our lives – whether a friend or family member or even our inevitable demise, there comes a time when we have to come to terms with this enormous inevitability. There isn’t any good time for someone to die, but there is an additional layer of sadness…

Modern queer cinema has undergone quite a shift in the kinds of stories being told, with the darker and more unsettling conversations around identity and sexuality becoming a common theme in contemporary depictions of LGBTQIA+ life. Marco Berger has made some impressive films that centre on some more complex themes within the community, and while…

A few years ago, we saw one of the most extraordinary examinations of the art of education in Maria Speth’s incredible Mr Bachmann and His Class, in which the titular subject – a hardworking German schoolteacher – is given the chance to showcase his various joys and challenges that come with choosing this vocation. Now,…

Few adages have been more persistent than “behind every successful man there’s a great woman” (along with its multitude of variants), which has essentially become the foundation of entire narratives on the importance of domestic partners in the development of highly successful individuals. In the case of Leonard Bernstein, the woman who stood behind him…

While he may only direct sporadically, each one of Jonathan Glazer’s films is a masterful examination of a specific subject, handcrafted by a filmmaker with a keen vision and an even more intriguing sense of philosophical virtue. His fourth feature film, as well as the first film he has made in nearly a decade, is…

Somewhere in the Caribbean sits an island that may seem like a beautiful slice of paradise, but is the refuge for criminals from all around the world, who make their way to this isolated utopia in the hopes of hiding from the law, not realizing that even when surrounded by fugitives, it is very likely…