There are few voices in contemporary cinema more exciting than that of Peter Strickland. For just over a decade, he has continuously pushed the boundaries of what is possible to do and say in terms of films, his work being a feverish blend of homages to a bygone era in filmmaking and biting satire that…

Few names evoke the sensation of absolute prestige and artistic brilliance more than Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who may have only made a few films over his career, but each one is a perfectly-crafted masterpiece of existential complexity. His most recent offering is Memoria, in which he collaborates with Tilda Swinton in telling the story of a…

Time is a concept that we all take for granted. We tend to perceive life as a linear series of events, days that turn into weeks, which subsequently turn into the variable months and years that we exist in the period that we all know quite simply as life. This is a peculiar way to…

Despite having been composed thousands of years ago, Greek mythology still carries an oddly significant amount of cultural cache, often being perceived as the basis for many later artistic works that took inspiration from these tales of mystery and intrigue, which continue to mystify and entertain us, many years later. The primary reason is likely…

Welcome to Everything Everywhere All at Once, the film that boldly states that life is essentially best described as being “where everything’s made up and the nothing really matters” – and knowing the perverse sense of humour the directors have demonstrated in the past, I’d be surprised if the bastardization of this iconic catchphrase Daniel…

His career may have produced a relatively short output, in the form of only having directed four feature-length films over the course of two decades, but no one would ever deny the brilliance of Toshio Matsumoto, one of Japanese cinema’s most fascinating provocateurs, and someone whose work has left a profound impression on post-war Japanese…

We can divide the career of Pier Paolo Pasolini into various eras, based on both the specific stories he was focusing on, and the motivations behind telling them. His adaptations were the most interesting, and regardless of whether the director was making something faithful to the source material, or transposing these themes onto a more…

It would seem almost inappropriate to start this discussion without mentioning my undying belief that Macbeth is the finest work in the history of English literature, a contentious but not entirely uncommon belief. William Shakespeare wrote several works that have remained resonant for centuries, many of them being the subject of countless adaptations, whether it…

If there is one subject that cinema loves more than love or war, it would be the art of filmmaking itself. So many directors from the age of the silent era to those working today, have made films that reflect their admiration and adoration for the medium that has allowed them to explore their own…

At some point earlier in the previous decade, a play appeared on the New York stage that almost immediately become something of a phenomenon. Stephen Karam’s The Humans received widespread acclaim, being seen as one of the finest achievements of the year, and celebrated as a major new entry into the canon of American literature….