As the well-worn adage tends to say, revenge is a dish best-served cold, which is something that many films have factored into their narratives when it comes to telling the stories of vengeful individuals on the prowl for retribution after experiencing some kind of injustice. Few films on the subject of revenge are more notable,…

Nature is simultaneously awe-inspiring and terrifying since we find that it is the root of both some of the most beautiful spectacles and often the source of some of the most devastating disasters in history. The unpredictability of the natural world has been studied for about as long as science has been a legitimate field,…

As time goes on, we find that there are fewer opportunities for us to splendour in the incorruptible beauty of nature, which we often tend to see falling by the wayside as we live our cosmopolitan lives. Yet, there are still groups of people dedicated to preserving the natural world, although some of them have…

In the sun-baked plains of Arizona at some point in the 1970s, a diner stands attached to a gas station and motel. It’s a nondescript place that could exist in any part of the United States, and it’s very likely anyone travelling this region would have come across such an establishment, but perhaps not have…

Cinema is more than just a medium of entertainment, but rather a living, dynamic form of artistic expression that changes as time progresses. Certain genres and styles of filmmaking remain evergreen, with only marginal changes in terms of the stories and presentation. In contrast, others have seemingly either gone extinct or evolved into something quite…

A middle-aged woman who considers herself the epitome of glamour travels from her home in suburban Copenhagen to Rome, telling her friends that it is for a vacation when she is looking for someone – she isn’t quite sure who it is. Still, she knows that it is a man who is going to treat…

Losing any loved one that be a harrowing experience, but there is something about a parent outliving their child that is particularly devastating. Some have even said that it is nearly impossible to ever fully recover from such a tragedy, with the grief being a burden that a parent carries for their entire life. Barbara…

Over the course of a three-decade career, François Ozon has gone to many distinct places, both geographically and psychologically, and his films span a wide berth when it comes to genre and specific details of the narratives. We may normally associate him with more lavish, detailed productions, but there is a side to the director…

“His stories were good because he imagined them intensely, so intensely that he came to believe them” Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith occupies quite a peculiar place in the history of English literature – her works are embraced as wildly entertaining and genuinely daring pieces of writing, with stories that strike a…

“It’s easy to tell the dirtiest minds—look for the cleanest fingernails.” There are many fragments of sentences in Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh that are immediately striking, and the entire novel is a tightly wound, masterful examination of many different concepts and one of the most ambitious literary debuts of the past decade. Yet, this one…