If the mother/ daughter dynamic in cinema is the strain between the genders, the conflict in the father/daughter dynamic tugs on the...

Today as I relish the bumbling of the cooing pigeon’s fussing about the birdfeeder, thinking about summer’s I may never quite have, could...

How does one start a discussion about one of Japanese Cinema’s most underrated filmmakers? By stating just how underrated he is. That is...

“From the star. From the stars. The sea is the mother. The people are her bosom. Heaven is the playground.” And the so the festival...

Happy Mother’s day and all that jazz! What better way to commemorate the day than exploring some of the most complex mother daughter...

I saw Belle last night. I would love to divulge my extensive and, even for me, salty interpretation of modern day, post-lockdown...

“If it’s possible for one person to be hurt by another, then it’s possible for that person to be healed by another.” – Hatori Sohma I'm...

“After all, it’s just a matter of flesh and blood. No more than a pile of bone and ash in the end right? There has to be something more...

Halloween! Where did you come from? Do I wish I could remember how I’ve spent the month I should have been indulging in all things...

The last stretch is upon me and I realised before that I got a little carried away, a little overexcited by the promise of some of the...

Here we go again: into part two. I don’t expect everything I have to offer will be to everyone’s taste, but when I thought about what I...

It has been a year. Ahh, to think how naïve I was when first assembling a list of top Japanese films. Fifteen was all I managed. FIFTEEN?...

*Some images NSFW* An illicit affair between brother and sister. A cult whose violent form of recruitment is through rape. A houseboy...

Cinema is art in motion, stories around the campfire retold in astounding ways, humanity playing out on the big screen, a spectacle to...

‘What grace have I to fall so in love?’ - Lizzie West Valentine’s Day is naff, we all know it. Coming from a bitter old hag like myself...

I love being pleasantly surprised. I’ve made no secret about my concerns over the future of creativity and storytelling. Rehashing old...

I was rather preoccupied in 2020, delving into the realms of Japanese cinema and best of all discovering Japan’s most subversive and...

Here we go again. It's been a while, I must admit. [Insert existential sentence with as many commas as I feel is humanly necessary to get...

Are you tired of the usual Christmas line-up? Has The Muppets Christmas Carol, It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street turned...

****1/2 Often I talk about humanism, a desire for the genuine, for sincerity in much of what I consume. When I escape from the world, it...