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…

There is a very narrow boundary between love and obsession, and some may even argue that the lines become increasingly blurred once someone grows too fond of the object of their affection, to the point where it can become quite disturbing. Literature has developed quite an appreciation for this ambiguity since we find stories of…

As enormously respected as he may have been, Alfred Hitchcock seemed to be driven by the concept of quantity over quality, especially earlier in his career. It was not unheard of for the esteemed filmmaker to produce more than one film in a given year, which mercifully became less common as he grew in stature…

Many themes have become widespread subjects of examination in the arts, some of them less positive than others. The concept of obsession has a unique place within the culture since it is certainly universal in the sense that we all understand what it means and how it feels, but very few of us hopefully have…

While it may be an unpopular opinion, the past decade has not been the peak of David Fincher’s career in terms of his cinematic output – he successfully helmed Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, but couldn’t prevent it from descending into pulpy cliche on more than one occasion which has prevented it from being seen as…