When Jean Renoir set out to make The Rules of the Game, his fascinating account of the two radically different sides of a high-society rendezvous, one has to wonder whether he knew he was inadvertently setting the standard for an entire sub-genre of media that has remained omnipotent to the present day. One of the…
Seagulls Die in the Harbour (1956)
Somewhere in working-class Belgium, in the middle of a barren harbour, an unknown man stumbles through the evening – no one knows who he is, or where he is from. All they do know is that he carries many secrets, so over the course of the evening, a variety of characters try and penetrate the…
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
While he may not be credited for inventing or even defining the genre, André Øvredal did contribute significantly to the success of the found-footage horror film when he made Trollhunter, one of the most wildly unique works of terror produced in the last two decades. However, in speaking on the successes of that fascinating piece…
A Fine, Windy Day (1980)
The question that we all need to ask when it comes to A Fine, Windy Day (Korean: 바람 불어 좋은 날), is whether this is a story about people living in a city, or a tale of a city and the people who occupy it. This may sound like the same concept, but it’s an…
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
As one of the greatest filmmakers to ever work in the medium (not a revolutionary opinion, but rather very close to an objective fact), Alfred Hitchcock’s career is filled with a wide array of films of varying quality. What is most interesting is that even lower-tier Hitchcock films are still absolutely worth watching, with very…
Babo 73 (1964)
We recently lost the extremely talented Robert Downey, Sr., which evoked a wealth of conversations surrounding his importance to the world of cinema, as made very clear by the legions of people who remarked on his brilliance as one of the formative voices in American independent cinema, which would not have been the cherished institution…
Camp (2003)
The teenage years are a challenge for many of us – it’s tough enough to try and fit in during a period of such physical and mental change. We start to see the world differently, and we learn that the follies of childhood are certainly not something that we can hold onto forever. What makes…
Doc (1971)
Referring to Doc, one of the many films that focused on the eponymous legend of the Wild West, John “Doc” Holliday, as a western is both technically accurate and theoretically false, since despite its setting, there is very little that can be compared to traditional westerns, even those that fall under the revisionist category. A…
Together Together (2021)
Matt (Ed Helms) is a successful app developer who leads quite a happy life, enjoying middle-age as a single man, without much intention of finding a partner. However, he does desperately want to become a father, so as a result, he seeks out alternative options for fatherhood, which leads him to hire a surrogate to…
Uncle Buck (1989)
The Russells are an ordinary, middle-class family living the American Dream – to the point where they have made the pilgrimage from their home in Indianapolis to suburban Chicago, which has been a cause for great chagrin, and the reason why rebellious teenager Tia (Jean Louisa Kelly) is belligerent to all of her parents’ attempts…
The Postmodern Pelican 