There are a lot of reasons for us to revisit Rosemary’s Baby these days – we are living in a cinematic era where horror films have started to shift back to the more psychologically-inert days of fearful terror, with the focus being on the combination of human insecurities and anxieties and the otherworldly – and…
Lady Snowblood (1973)
“Revenge is a dish best served cold” – a cliched adage, but one that literature has held closely for centuries. The idea of wreaking havoc on the lives of those that previously wronged you has always been a ripe topic for many artists, and cinema, in particular, has always been facilitative to the revenge storyline….
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
In 1937, Leo McCarey made The Awful Truth, a delightful film I absolutely devoured and which instantly became one of my favourite screwball comedies. It was a warm, joyful and hilarious film that I truly adored for its marvellous sense of humour and its warmhearted storyline. That same year, McCarey made another film, Make Way…
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
There’s nothing quite like nostalgia, is there? The past few years have been defined with reboots of classic shows, comebacks from once-popular bands, and films that bear resemblance to the classics of yesteryear. Yet, very little can be better than the original product, and I’d much rather revisit something in its peak than watch as…
Candyman (1992)
Imagine this scene – a suburban living room about a decade ago, an ordinary Saturday evening. I was hardly a teenager at that point, and I was surrounded by a few of my equally-juvenile friends. One of us stares ominously into a mirror and recites “Bloody Mary”, a few times. The thrill and fearful panic…
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Things have a way of escalating out here in the West ~ Buster Scruggs Joel and Ethan Coen have had such varied careers, venturing across genres and cinematic conventions to bring us several wildly different stories throughout the course of their filmmaking endeavours, each of them being unique and wonderful in their own way….
Shirkers (2018)
I don’t know where to start – Shirkers is an absolutely astonishing film and something I was not expecting at all. When I heard about Sandi Tan’s documentary, I was anticipating an interesting but otherwise inconsequential, film about an unsolved mystery and a filmmaker in search of the answers that have eluded her for years,…
Waitress (2007)
We seem to have lost the traditional romantic comedy, or at least the kind we used to receive, which is unfortunate because even though these kinds of films were not particularly innovative or groundbreaking, they were certainly extremely charming, and they brought out a familiar sensation of joy that is often missing from more contemporary…
Madeline’s Madeline (2018)
Sometimes, on the rare occasion, you see a film that pushes the boundaries of what one would think as being remotely possible in narrative storytelling. Recently, I witnessed a film that I had been eagerly anticipating since its explosive debut at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. That film was Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline,…
Cold War (2018)
Falling in love is easy, staying in love is a lot more difficult, and sometimes it proves to be an extraordinarily challenging endeavour – this is the central theme present in Polish maestro Paweł Pawlikowski’s latest masterwork, the brilliant Cold War (Polish: Zimna wojna), a film that takes the viewer on a decade-long journey throughout…
The Postmodern Pelican 