While it may take a while to fully understand what is being said in Never Gonna Snow Again (Polish: Śniegu już nigdy nie będzie), we can tell from the first mysterious moments that this film is going to be quite an adventure. The story of an enigmatic masseur who travels from rural Ukraine to the…

As arguably the greatest African filmmaker to ever work in the medium (or at least one of them), Youseff Chahine left behind an enormously intimidating legacy, albeit one that is always a pleasure to explore. His canonical masterpiece is almost universally considered to be his homage to film noir in Cairo Station, which remains his…

Religious-based films tend to have quite a bad reputation, especially in the last few decades, where they have come to be associated with not only cheap production value and poor filmmaking, but also overly conservative values that go against the more progressive nature of the mainstream film industry (or rather, the kind of armchair liberalism…

While it doesn’t necessarily have a bad reputation, Marty is often dismissed as being a minor work, a simple and ineffective romantic drama produced during an era where many notable teleplays were being quickly and cheaply turned into films, in order to profit off the charms of the wildly popular actors that often signed up…

Jan Mikolášek was a fascinating figure in the history of the Czech Republic during the 20th century – a self-proclaimed healer that used his deep knowledge of herbs to create alternative medicines that he claimed saved the lives of countless people, his estimation being well over a million, which caused him to become quite a…

One should never underestimate the impact a good teacher can have on the prospects of his or her students. As many of us undoubtedly know, the educators put in charge of helping us navigate our way to our respective futures are vital, and do so much to prepare us for the world. However, many of…

The human mind is a fascinating concept, since it is the factor that unites everyone, from doctors to philosophers, psychologists to artists, and every profession in between, provoking discourse that aims to get to the very root of what it is that drives us as a species, if such answers even exist. The precise reason…

In the 1950s, the entire world was living in fear, and for good reason – the Second World War was still recent enough in the collective memory to have scarred many who lived through it, and the rise of various political ideologies was only creating more tensions between nations, with the world seeming to be…

Before he was known as arguably the greatest filmmaker of his generation, Orson Welles was a young, rambunctious stage actor and director who frequently pushed boundaries, even when working within the confines of something as intimidating as Shakespeare. One of his most fascinating projects was a 1936 production of Macbeth, whereby he moved the setting…

There’s a scene where Lilly (as played by Melissa McCarthy) viciously throws a rock at a bird that has been terrorizing her, only to nearly have a breakdown when she manages to have good aim, knocking the bird out of the sky and nearly killing it – and the entire third act is focused on…