There are a few filmmakers who actively work to hone their craft, but even after producing several works, we can’t quite figure out how history is going to remember them. Albert Serra is the current embodiment of this principle – watching his films, we are never sure whether we are witnessing the continued development of…

There was a time when Ramin Bahrani was considered one of the most exciting young directors of his generation. He was given boundless praise by both critics and the industry, as well as audiences, all of which responded with nothing but the most sincere praise for his work, which signalled a flourishing directorial career that…

We have all presumably felt that specific sensation at least once, the feeling of walking through those doors, handing the usher your ticket while trying to balance your overpriced treats from the concession stand, before walking into that dimly-lit theatre and taking your seat amongst a few dozen other strangers, all gathered together to undergo…

There are few subjects that are quite as incompatible as the queer community and the armed forces, which has been the source of a lot of tension in terms of political and cultural standards, with the general belief that homosexuality does not have any place within the military being rooted heavily in conservative values. However,…

Childhood is perhaps the time in our lives where we learn the most – not only in the sense of gaining an official, formal education, but learning about the many challenges that face us in the years ahead, which can be both intimidating and poignant for any child undergoing the inevitable process of getting older….

Few Hollywood-based stories have been as tragic as the life and death of Judy Garland – from the wide-eyed young girl with an angelic voice, to an adult who could command even the biggest stages, despite her slight frame and almost milquetoast demeanour, she was always in the public eye, right until her untimely demise,…

Life is a journey that doesn’t end, but rather changes form. The reality is that none of us are nearly as important as we think we are, and instead each one of us is just another component of a constantly changing world, part of the proverbial machinery that has yet to come to a halt,…

There seems to be a contingent of people who are working laboriously to position Lukas Dhont as the next great filmmaker. Some have categorized him as the heir apparent to Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, who have been the sovereigns of small, intimate Belgian dramas for decades, a position for which Dhont has supposedly been cited…

“There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you.” These simple but evocative words are taken from Women Talking, the beautiful novel by Miriam Toews, who tells the story of a group of women in an isolated Mennonite community who, after the arrest of a group of men that had been…

We all live with regrets – some are just small mistakes that bother us at arbitrary moments, while others are enormous errors in judgement that possibly changed the entire trajectory of one’s life, leading to further challenges that can take a major psychological toll on those who aren’t ready to confront the reality of the…