We are all time travellers, our present lives shuffling between the miasmas of memory and elusive projections onto an unforeseeable future. And cinema, as a multi-sensory and dynamically temporal medium, seems conducive to the task of recounting our personal mythologies and
What does it mean “to be”? How does one proceed to formulate an answer to such a question? What demands does it make on one’s self, commitment, time, and relationship with the surrounding world and its inhabitants? How should one relate
There is always a lucrative market for war movies; their enduring popularity appears to be as profitable as their subject matter. Recreating the battlefield on the silver screen seems to serve a myriad of functions: spectacular wish-fulfilment, stirring patriotism,
If co-directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg can make a film as moronic, unfunny, historically inaccurate and culturally myopic as The Interview (2004), then perhaps there is a glimmer of hope for legions of budding film-makers out there with
Sometimes, two wayward souls can sow the seeds of love in the unlikeliest of places. As the eponymous pair of struggling housemates discover in writer/director Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), economic hardship can instigate new