In recent years, Korean cinema has exploded into the mainstream, with audiences all around the world starting to pay attention to the work being produced in the tiny nation, particularly since many of these filmmakers tell stories that we can’t necessarily find elsewhere. The global obsession with the country’s cinematic output extends for around the…

Most of the time, I tend to avoid discussing situations where a film has achieved the status of being considered one of the greatest of all times, because it would normally come down to reiterating many of the same points that others have made about why this particular work deserves the title, or it will…

Johnny Triton (Edward G. Robinson) has earned a living as a marginally famous mentalist, performing to mildly-amused nightclub crowds, who marvel at his supposed skillfulness at telling their future, which he does through logic and educated guessing. However, he has recently come to discover that he is indeed able to get visions of the future,…

At the perfect intersection between film noir and melodrama exists a film that has somehow come to be definitive of both of them, and perhaps even more, of an entire era of filmmaking in general. Leave Her to Heaven is a strange case of a film – directed by John M. Stahl, one of the…

Somewhere in the picturesque region of Lake Como stands an impressive mansion, to which art critic and writer James Figueras (Claes Bang) has been summoned to meet with the rambunctious Joseph Cassidy (Sir Mick Jagger), a world-renowned art dealer and collector who has a reputation for wanting only the finest works in his expansive collection….

“The train is about to leave” Something that is both a blessing and curse when looking at art produced by groups that are sorely under-represented in the media is that the canon from which we draw the most significant works is much smaller, so it’s easier to find the masterpieces without having to sift through…

Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike) has certainly built quite an empire for herself, and amassed a level of comfortable wealth of which many would normally be nothing but envious. However, her procedure for reaching this point are far from conventional, since she is in a line of work that allows her the freedom to secretly assert…

A tall, gangling man, sporting a wide-brimmed hat and the words “love” and “hate” scrawled on his knuckles – these are iconic images imprinted into the minds of any film lover, or even those who have just casually taken journeys into the world of the Golden Age of Hollywood, of which these are some incredibly…

Tennessee Williams truly redefined the concept of having an old friend for dinner with Suddenly, Last Summer. A playwright who captured both the gritty nuances of the human condition, as well as the bold and absurd excess of our behaviour, Williams tapped into a side of life that has yet to be matched by any…

Claude Chabrol may be known for a great number of different films, but the one that is both the most cherished by his devotees, and serves to be the entry point for newcomers looking to get into the director’s work is La Cérémonie, his fascinating film that draws inspiration from several literary and historical sources,…