The great American poet and historian Sidney Lanier once famously said, “Music is love in search of a word”, and considering one of his most prominent areas of study was that of music, it is quite clear that he was an authority on the subject. Anyone who has ever been in love, even for just…
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Over Your Dead Body (2026)
Every couple has its bad days, and it has often been said that it’s in these moments that many relationships grow the strongest, since if someone can overcome the everyday irritants that come with being in a relationship. Pretty much everything else (barring actual immoral actions) is extremely easy. However, some couples are not meant…
Lucky7 (2008)
Ambition is a quality that should be savoured when it is found in its purest form, since it has become increasingly rare to find people who are willing to challenge and provoke in equal measure while still showcasing their audacity. One of the more intriguing examples of this concept in practice that I encountered recently…
The Doom Generation (1995)
There are many ways to describe a film and its intentions, and we often find that it comes in the most unexpected forms on occasion. When it comes to describing a certain subset of films, we can look at some crude graffiti found on a wall in Marseille, France, which quite simply said “be gay,…
A Nice Indian Boy (2025)
Falling in love can be a beautiful experience, but it comes with a few challenging moments – and many will say that one of the most nerve-racking is the process of meeting the parents. While it is usually a pleasant and relatively painless affair in hindsight, the anxiety and fear of trying to impress your…
Forbidden Fruits (2026)
Life would be so much easier for everyone if we weren’t conditioned to believe that we have to fit in with the general population or run the risk of being viewed as a pariah. It is one of the many reasons it becomes increasingly difficult to function if you are someone who has a tendency…
Once Upon a Time (1944)
We have seemingly lost the art of whimsy when it comes to much of contemporary cinema. We tend to prioritise realism over eccentricity, which may lend modern films a more authentic feeling, but at the expense of the joy of seeing radically strange films that do often tend to be slightly more offbeat, but in…
Disclosure Day (2026)
Once you have been working in the film industry for over half a century, becoming one of the profitable and acclaimed filmmakers to emerge from the New Hollywood movement, you are handed a blank cheque from which many fantastic films can be produced. There are not many filmmakers who are so indelible in the cultural…
Being There (1979)
Everyone has experienced a few films that they believe represent something akin to a spiritual awakening in their formative years as a lover of the medium. Some of them age spectacularly well, becoming evergreen presences as time goes on; others tend to lose their magic as we explore more of what the medium has to…
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006)
As the general principle of filmmaking goes, sometimes the projects you deserve are the ones you make yourself. There are certain artists – particularly actors – who find themselves typecast in parts that feel very limiting and one-dimensional, and it’s only through setting out to write their own material and get it produced that they…
The Postmodern Pelican 