I may not be the biggest superhero aficionado, but I do consider myself someone who is well-informed on graphic novels as a whole, and despite disliking superhero comic books immensely (a few are great, but most of them are just meandering and lack a lot of substance), one that I did adore was The Killing…
Shallow Grave (1994)
I’m not entirely sure what to think of Danny Boyle’s debut film Shallow Grave. It just so happens that this came out just a year after arguably my favorite film of all time, Naked, which shared much with Shallow Grave in its bleak and often terrifying look at society in the United Kingdom in the…
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Cinema is meant to tell stories, and very often those stories are rather far-fetched or fantastical and are not rooted in reality. It is thus the responsibility of independent cinema to tell the stories that mainstream cinema refuses to. Independent films show a different side to society very often and often venture into taboo territories….
Dope (2015)
One thing that you learn when you’re a cinephile is that masterpieces are not always found where we expect them to be found, and very often we are taken by surprise, because something about a film doesn’t strike one as being particularly brilliant, but hidden in the often unassuming exterior, there lurks something extraordinary. Dope…
Elvis & Nixon (2016)
There have been some bizarre films made, and sometimes some truly peculiar real-life stories are translated into films. Elvis & Nixon is one of the strangest concepts of a film I’ve ever seen, mainly because the source material is a photograph – but not just any photograph, the world-famous photograph of the fateful meeting between…
Green Room (2016)
It takes a lot to make a truly terrifying film, and in this day and age, where horror is starting to run out of ideas (or rather, choosing to only focus on cheap thrills and jump scares), the possession or haunted house storyline is getting a bit too cliched and obvious – and with the…
Eye in the Sky (2016)
The war film has evolved so much during the course of cinema and has existed right from the beginning of cinema’s inception. The cost of war has been explored almost much as the number of wars fought – ancient wars, The War of the Roses, the War of Independence, The Civil War, World War I,…
Serial (Bad) Weddings (2014)
I consider myself a bit of a student of comedy, mainly because it is a genre of entertainment that has many forms, and some truly innovative things have been created in the name of comedy. However, I sometimes grow weary of the mainstream Hollywood comedy, and while many of them are great, I sometimes just…
Man Bites Dog (1992)
I am someone who adores dark comedy, and I can pretty much stomach nearly anything, as long as it is obviously not real or questionably fictional (looking at you, Cannibal Holocaust) – but even I found it incredibly difficult to watch Man Bites Dog (C’est arrivé près de chez vous), and I will be the…
Finding Dory (2016)
The vast majority of Pixar’s films hold very special significance to many people, myself included. While they have one or two failures or films that aren’t as great as their other films, most of their films are innovative, iconic and brilliant. Finding Nemo has perhaps the most important relevance to me, as it is one…
The Postmodern Pelican 