If you ask someone the simple question: “If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be”, some may answer that they’d like to live in some tropical paradise, while others a bustling metropolis. Personally, I would like to live in the mind of Leos Carax, purely because there are few artists throughout…

When it comes to musical films, there often exists two completely different entities – the concept and the execution, with many of them focusing on one over the other, in addition to varying quality of the music involved. There are a few that manage to combine both beautifully, but they’re slightly more rare, often restricted…

Kay (Betty Grable) and Barbara (Carole Landis) are a couple of sisters and waitresses down on their luck somewhere in the heart of Texas, where they’re employed at a carhop, alongside their Aunt Susan (Charlotte Greenwood), who serves as the establishment’s grouchy cook. However, their luck seems to take a momentary turn for the better…

It’s often said that for a film to become a cult classic, all it needs is some time and just one person who is endlessly passionate about it, since at some point, there will be some overlap. Surprisingly, despite being released nearly forty years ago, Starstruck remains relatively obscure, despite meeting every criterion needed for…

Somewhere in Akron, Ohio is a small dance hall, in which a small group of chorus girls entertain the locals, who in turn help support them and allow them to make a meagre living. Amongst them are Bubbles (Lucille Ball), a feisty young dancer who is the de facto star of the show, perhaps not…

As a duo, Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen made a formidable pair, with their collaborations bringing us several incredibly musical comedies that almost entirely defined the genre and made it a cultural sensation during its peak. Together they co-directed four films together (with several other collaborations, whether Donen serving as a choreographer on a few…

It’s difficult to imagine a time before Lin-Manuel Miranda. In the last decade, he has soared to worldwide acclaim, mainly due to the astronomical success of Hamilton, his biographical account of the life and times (and eventual death) of founding father Alexander Hamilton, all told through an urban kind of musicality that became a worldwide…

If the last two decades in film discourse have taught us anything, it’s that we must not be hasty in judging a film, especially those that are more ambitious than we’d expect them to be, or those which seem to be doing something radically different, which audiences have a tendency to write off as being…

As much as they’d like to think they continue breaking boundaries with their constant pursuit of innovation, Hollywood quite simply doesn’t make films like Funny Face anymore. We certainly do see occasional pastiches of the Golden Era of filmmaking in movies like The Artist and La La Land, but these are only pale imitations of…

One of the great joys about exploring film, and subsequently writing about it, is that not only do you get to experience unimpeachable masterpieces and contribute to the discourse, you also have the opportunity to rediscover films that were previously undervalued, or not given the love they deserved on their initial release. We’ve seen proverbially…