There are a few experiences that we can classify as being universal, and the desire to find someone with whom we can spend our lives is one of the most common, and alongside parenthood and death, has existed as a philosophical concept since the dawn of our consciousness. Yet, it isn’t always easy for some…

Outside of capturing a very particular side of the American Dream, there is something that both Loudon Wainwright III and Tennessee Williams have in common: they both created works that centre around the concept of a “slapstick tragedy”. There are a few examples of works that truly embody this seemingly contradictory concept, but not many…

We don’t always fall in love with the people we expect, and it is more common that we have a particular kind of person whom we pursue, which can sometimes be complicated when encountering someone who captures our heart, despite not being anyone that we would have expected to be the source of such emotions….

We often tend to think of the Golden Age of Hollywood as being quite a rigid era for filmmaking, where risks were not taken and films were made along very narrow guidelines, based on what could be shown on screen, as decided by the censors whose only reason for existence was to impinge on the…

Despite what the movies may want us to think, heartbreak is neither neat nor easy to endure – it’s a harrowing process that causes us to feel as if we have had our entire existence shaken, forced to confront the fact that life is not always particularly happy and that there are many unexpected surprises…

In the canon of great queer British films, there are two in particular that stand out in terms of earlier works – Prick Up Your Ears and My Beautiful Laundrette are two majorly important works, and not only were they released two years apart, they were both helmed by Stephen Frears, who had only recently…

It is impossible to deny that the Japanese culture is one that is very much built on artistic expression, which has made it a country that has been the subject of an enormous amount of discussion with those interested in exploring the extent to which art can permeate everyday life. Whether the visual or literary…

When the subject of “The Lubitsch Touch” is discussed, there are a few elements that immediately spring to mind. Primarily, it is the image of a well-crafted, meaningful film that combines romance and drama, produced during the Golden Age of Hollywood, but feels profoundly modern, perhaps not in its setting, but rather in its refreshing…

No one wrote characters quite like Neil Simon – whether in his plays or the original screenplays he worked on during the peak of his career, his work was always filled to the brim with wise-cracking, urbane characters plucked directly from the mind of a writer who perhaps knew the art of creating memorable characters…

As is often the case with filmmakers that define an entire era of cinema, it is difficult to choose the standout in a director’s career when nearly everything they make has some incredible artistic relevance, so much so that it becomes a challenge to even compare their greatest works, since they are all magnificent and…