Sasha (Ali Wong) and Marcus (Randall Park) used to be best friends from childhood – they grew up living next door to each other, and bonded over the fact that Sasha’s parents were always too busy to take care of her, so she was essentially raised by Marcus’ mother and father, who gave her the…

Two for the Road is more than just a great film – it is a poignant reminder of why I love cinema. There is a quality of a story well told that just strikes harder than anything else, and with this film, Stanley Donen made something quite extraordinary – a funny, melancholy and utterly gorgeous…

Gloria Bell ends exactly as it starts – the titular character (Julianne Moore) stands on a crowded dance-floor, bathed in neon lights, dancing her heart out to a selection of the hits from a bygone era. The difference between these two scenes is the roughly two hours between them, which chronicle a time in the…

The romantic comedy has a long and storied history, and has its roots from the very beginning of cinema, spanning the course from the silent era to the period of screwball comedies, right until the present day. These films are amongst the most popular, but they are also the most predictable, and are often material…

Throughout film history, there are certain combinations that undoubtedly prove to be recipes for success – one of them is the combination of the names George Cukor, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Normally, one would think of the timeless classic The Philadelphia Story, but in the case of this review, we’re considering the somewhat less…

Giovanni’s Room changed my life. In less than two hundred pages, James Baldwin managed to evoke a series of deep-rooted emotions and crafted a truly resonant story, with its explosive representation of sexuality and the crises of identity that many of us experience, and its powerful forays into the philosophy of the self, an exploration…

Falling in love is easy, staying in love is a lot more difficult, and sometimes it proves to be an extraordinarily challenging endeavour – this is the central theme present in Polish maestro Paweł Pawlikowski’s latest masterwork, the brilliant Cold War (Polish: Zimna wojna), a film that takes the viewer on a decade-long journey throughout…