Film

Mind your manners — Comedian Joel Kim Booster wrote the screenplay for Fire Island and stars in it as Noah, a deeply-loyal, fiercely independent gay Asian man who gets to spend one precious week of his year partying with his chosen family off the coast of Long Island. Booster’s screenplay is witty and it…

There’s one scene in Stranger Than Fiction that melts my heart. Maggie Gyllenhaal is busy in the kitchen washing dishes leaving Will Ferrell alone in the lounge. He spots a guitar and begins to strum. His singing is off-key. His eyes firmly shut and the guitar could probably do with…

Sexually repressed nuns go insane in the Himalayas. — That subheading may sound like shameless clickbait, but it’s an accurate summary of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1947 masterpiece, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. Every serious cineaste has their favourite film from this legendary pair of British filmmakers: A Matter of Life and Death for some, The…

We are born into story. From the moment we dive headfirst into the world we are anointed with a name, then told that we are a son, daughter, sister, cousin, grandchild, here’s your bed, here’s your room, this your house. You are part of a family, home, building, street, camp…

From DePalma to Cronenberg, these directors find that the gory veins of history run rich with bloody good ideas — It seems universal that the remake is worse than the original. Why? Because it’s often just a cheap attempt to capitalize on prior success, while being forced to abandon much of what made it so appealing in the first place. Attempting to ride well-worn coattails is rarely a flattering disposition…