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

*Some Images NSFW* Director, animator, provocateur, the ‘engineer of ecstasy’ and more, Walerian Borowczyk wore many a guise in his...

I've got Herzog on the brain. A renegade; as much a fictitious titan as he is grounded in reality. From his tumultuous relationship with...

‘I used to think there was a kind of bird that, once born, would keep flying until death. The fact is that the bird hasn't gone anywhere....

A neon dreamscape; a lonely meander through the cities, bodies meeting bodies, missing one another in a breath. Tsai Ming-liang has...

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

“Our rooster's dead, our rooster's dead, He'll no longer sing kokodi, kokoda,” Koko-di, Koko-dull… that was dreadful, but then again so...

Sometimes a film feels like a mirror is being held up to you. Sometimes it feels like a little bit of déjà vu. The strangest of these is...

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

Pedro Almodóvar is in a new phase of storytelling, a far more pensive and thoughtful phase all the while speckled with his characteristic...

“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?...

It’s time. How long I have revelled in pondersome procrastination as I tried to conjure up a new article. Yet here it was, standing right...

Warning: Some Images NSFW Pedro Almodóvar’s latest cinematic feat is something monumental in his long career. A short film starring Tilda...

*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...