I do love a good war film. However, there is an abundance of war films that are concerned with showing the actual warfare and often gloss over the journey towards the warfare, namely the preparation of soldiers. Very few films manage to convey the brutal training regimes soldiers were subjected to in order to prepare…
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (2017)
Like many people, I was born into an era where Disney and Pixar films were the epitome of quality, and would regularly dominate the animation industry. I have absolutely nothing against these studios, and many of their productions defined my childhood and I still regularly find solace in some of their work. However, in all honesty,…
The Death of Stalin (2018)
I have always been an ardent devotee of comedy, and several years ago, I went in search of some obscure, alternative comedy that would satiate my desire to find something different to anything I had seen before. There were two television shows that I encountered that were of extreme fascination – The Day Today and…
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Let me not be vague – for the first hour of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, I absolutely despised it. Consider that I have yet to even marginally dislike anything David Lynch has done, nevermind outright resent something he has made, this was quite an uncharacteristic experience. For reasons that will be explained in…
I, Tonya (2017)
For centuries, audiences have had a certain obsession with artistic representations of true stories, reenacting historical moments and real-life events in a way that shows the inherent tragedy or historical significance that captivates us and keeps us thirsting for more. It has persisted from the earliest days of theatre to the present day, when audiences…
The Best Films of 2017
2017 was, in my humble opinion, one of the strongest years for cinema in recent memory, comparable to notable years such as 1948, 1950 and 1999. As a result of some of the extremely strong and distinctive work this year, creating a list has been an exhausting and difficult task, and many fantastic films have…
Phantom Thread (2017)
Like many people, I endlessly admire Paul Thomas Anderson. His rise from a wunderkind young independent filmmaker, having made such masterpiece as Boogie Nights and Magnolia, to one of the most respected cinematic forces working today, with films such as There Will Be Blood and The Master, has been extraordinary, and I personally have not…
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Call Me by Your Name left me completely speechless. Sometimes when talking about a film I adored, like the best of people, I can exaggerate slightly and use figures of speech that are not entirely accurate or representative of what I feel or my actual response to an artistic work, and just serve to overhype…
Twin Peaks (1990)
Recently, visionary filmmaker and general artistic genius David Lynch made the bold claim to his belief that cable television is the new arthouse. This statement rings particularly notable when one considers that Lynch himself played a pivotal role in the development of television from merely being the realm of mindless comedies and predictable procedurals, and…
Faces Places (2017)
Agnès Varda is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. This is not merely an opinion, it is a well-accepted fact. A woman of diminutive stature that makes films that tower higher than the work of nearly every one of her contemporaries, and one of the sole female voices in the male-dominated world of…
The Postmodern Pelican 