There are few moments in cinema history more vital than the birth of the French New Wave, and regardless of how one feels about the movement or the artists involved in it, we cannot ignore the impact made by these filmmakers and their cohorts in crafting an entirely new cinematic lexicon. As time has progressed,…
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Father’s Day (1997)
The concept of parenthood has been a subject explored extensively in every conceivable medium – whether planned or accidental, the idea of adding another title to your repertoire is a fascinating concept, especially considering it is a universal topic that can be interpreted in many different ways. For one reason or another, we tend to…
Silent Friend (2025)
“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky” These words were written by Khalil Gibran, whose perspective often existed at the perfect intersection between poetry and philosophy – and while it seems to be a trivial concept at the start, there is some degree of truthfulness in how it begins to describe the…
Devil and the Deep (1932)
There are some themes that we can consider universal when it comes to understanding the root of what drives us to create art – and while there are the more obvious choices, such as love, family and death (the trio of topics to which nearly every work of art can be traced), others are slightly…
Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
There’s a concept that tends to emerge in media from time to time, which is the idea that someone realises their life is in danger, but the person they fear is not some foreboding stranger, but rather someone very close to them, whether it’s a family member or lover. We’ve seen a few works over…
Sorry, Baby (2025)
There are some subjects so profoundly difficult to discuss that the idea of making a film about them, especially a comedy, is beyond unfathomable. Yet, nothing is truly impossible when we find a perfect blend of good intentions and strong storytelling skills, which is where we can situate ourselves with Sorry, Baby, a film that…
The Milky Way (1936)
It takes a very special person to keep audiences engaged while still redefining the art of cinema – and has anyone been more committed to this than Leo McCarey, a revolutionary filmmaker who rose beyond simply being a director-for-hire, crafting his own unique vision all the while challenging the confines of the medium that was…
Casper (1995)
Some characters are so extremely simple in design and purpose that they become timeless and live on long after their creators have departed, leaving behind a legacy that only becomes stronger with age. It was just under eighty years ago when audiences were first introduced to Casper the Friendly Ghost, whose reputation as the most…
One Battle After Another (2025)
We live in uncertain – and frankly quite terrifying – times, where nothing seems to make sense, politicians are the least trustworthy of all public figures, and we constantly seem to be on the edge of societal collapse, the decline of the culture seemingly being only a single word away. Yet, we continue to press…
Woman of the Year (1942)
We have seen countless examples of films that take a bold, universally applicable concept and reconfigure it to be the foundation for a hilarious and irreverent comedy. When George Stevens opted to direct the film based on the screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin (whose brother was Garson Kanin, who in turn worked…
The Postmodern Pelican 