Somewhere in Akron, Ohio is a small dance hall, in which a small group of chorus girls entertain the locals, who in turn help support them and allow them to make a meagre living. Amongst them are Bubbles (Lucille Ball), a feisty young dancer who is the de facto star of the show, perhaps not…
Limbo (2021)
In 1983, Bill Forsyth quietly made history when he wrote and directed Local Hero, his quaint and charming comedy about an outsider being stranded on a remote Scottish island, and forced to cavort with the eccentric local residents who may not have had ill-intentions, but certainly didn’t always mean as well as they seemed to…
Bless Their Little Hearts (1983)
Charles Burnett is one of the most important artists to ever work in the medium of film, yet so many people struggle to recognize the name. Without his groundbreaking work, we’d not have developed the strong independent film industry that has allowed so many exciting young filmmakers to have their voices heard. As both a…
Summer of Soul (2021)
In the promotion for the recently unearthed footage of the Harlem Cultural Festival that took place across the summer of 1969, it’s become popular to refer to it as the “Black Woodstock”, whereby not only did it occur concurrently to the iconic festival that was taking place not too far away, but also the array…
The Cheap Detective (1978)
There is an argument to be made that The Cheap Detective is one of the funniest films of the 1970s, but one that isn’t as widely discussed as it should be. One of the lesser-known projects by the incredible and deservedly iconic Neil Simon, this film seems to have been lost to time, which is…
Butter on the Latch (2013)
By now, it’s almost undeniable public knowledge that Josephine Decker is a very gifted filmmaker. She has only made a handful of films, but each one of them is well-formed and fascinating, and works of incredible poignancy by a truly talented artist. She has recently started making her way into more high-profile circles, working with…
Lovers and Lollipops (1956)
Peggy (Cathy Dunn) is a precocious little girl who refuses to be underestimated – her small size shouldn’t fool anyone, since she is one of the most dynamic individuals one can ever hope to encounter. She passes her days visiting a variety of local New York City establishments with a photographer who is compiling a…
Gosford Park (2001)
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…
The Postmodern Pelican 