You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family – at least not for the most part. The people who raise us are responsible not only our welfare, but also for instilling in us a set of values and principles that guide us to becoming valuable members of society. In most cases, they…
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The Plague (2025)
Growing up is never easy, and it can be even more daunting to navigate adolescence when you are seen as an outsider. Teenagers have a tendency to resort to the most dehumanising cruelty imaginable, engaging in acts of mockery and disdain for anyone they view as a viable target for their ire. As someone who…
Drive Back Home (2025)
When starting this discussion, I wanted to find a quote that best described the core themes of the film we’ll be exploring. I considered the profoundly philosophical and deeply moving, before settling on one that I feel best describes the core themes, which is taken from Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, where she simply states, “what…
Love (2025)
How do you define love? Is it a biological process or a psychological reaction? Perhaps it is a socially mandated act of seeking out a partner, or a philosophical craving to have some kind of companion. The reality is that there are more questions than there are answers when it comes to discussing love and…
Preparation for the Next Life (2025)
How fast do you have to run to truly escape your past? This is a question that has been posed in many different ways over the centuries, with the idea of disappearing into the ether and starting anew in entirely different places being a theme that has fascinated artists for generations. It is also a…
Souleymane’s Story (2025)
There are few subjects today that stir up quite as much discourse as that of immigration, and it seems like the conversation around the people that seek refuge in supposedly “developed” countries will always undoubtedly devolve into ferocious arguments about the need to preserve a culture and its people, as if many of these countries…
Dust Bunny (2025)
There comes a moment in all of our lives where we stop being frightened of the monster under the bed, or the creature hiding in the closet – or so we think. The fear of the unknown never truly disappears; we just learn how to control it, but even as we grow older, there is…
The Piano Accident (2025)
When it comes to satire, you can never tell whether something is going to be an enormous success or a dismal failure – and any director who respects the art of lampooning a particular aspect of culture knows that any satire worth our time is not going to be preoccupied with its prospects, but rather…
Lurker (2025)
As John Waters famously said, “life is nothing if you’re not obsessed” – and while we may assume he didn’t realise the extent to which obsession can genuinely become a problem when left unchecked, he, of all people, knows what it means to be fixated on a particular concept, or a person who best represents…
A Little Prayer (2025)
Family is everything, and those of us who are lucky will find that there are some people who may not be related to us by blood or through any direct legal connection, but who enter our lives and become an important part of it. The idea of the “chosen” family has been a source of…
The Postmodern Pelican 