While it is difficult to conceive of now that it has attained a level of prestige that it never had before, there was a time in which television was seen as an inferior medium – the delineation between movie stars and television actors was broad and took a lot of talent, effort and finagling to…

One of the great unheralded heroes of the Civil Rights Movement is Bayard Rustin, who has only started to receive recognition in recent years, with his revolutionary efforts to bring equality to marginalized groups in the United States being beyond admirable, but rarely given the attention they deserved at the time. However, we have seen…

It only takes a single moment or one ill-timed decision to change the course of one’s entire life, which is a concept that we should all be familiar with, either through firsthand experience or by proxy, since we all inevitably hear stories of people whose entire future was changed (whether for better or worse) in…

There were a few filmmakers who defined British cinema in the 1960s, particularly about the steadily growing movement of kitchen-sink realism, where films about ordinary people (usually plucked from the working class) were produced, based on examining the lives of the invisible majority. John Schlesinger was inarguably one of the most fascinating of the directors…

There are some professions where we have been conditioned to place our trust since their job description seems to entail a sense of integrity and honesty that should never be betrayed. It is one of the most significant failures of the human condition that we tend to put blind faith in people just based on…

Gender is a subject that is too broad and complex for us to condense into a single conversation since it isn’t something easily defined in concise terms, and usually tends to be quite divisive for truly perplexing reasons. However, we can often find the most profound statements on what it means to identify with one…

Growing up can be a lot more difficult when you don’t have the support system in place to help navigate those years that are formative in our identity, but are not any less challenging. For the protagonists in Little Men, their daily routine is built around trying to achieve their dreams, with only marginal support…

There are not many genres that tend to stir complete ambivalence, to the point where actively seeking out these films becomes more of a chore than an enjoyable experience. The inspirational sports drama genre is often seen as being one of the most divisive since the tendency towards hackneyed characters, cliched storylines and hokey emotions…

There’s never an inappropriate moment to discuss two of life’s most joyful experiences – the warm, easygoing days of summer, and the process of gradually falling in love. These are two situations that everyone should encounter at least once – and they both factor into the wonderful Everyone Has a Summer (Polish: Każdy ma swoje…

Satire is one of those genres that are not easily definable, and usually adhere to the principle of “you know it when you see it” – and there is generally a misconception that it always needs to be funny, or contain an element of overt humour, which is certainly not the case for many of…