How America's response to the COVID-19 pandemic reveals cracks in the American Dream Icarus. It’s a story you may be familiar with. It...

Ben is a British writer now based in Brooklyn, New York. He has travelled extensively in Asia and South America. ---- Us British can be a...

Ben is a British writer now based in Brooklyn, New York. He has travelled extensively in Asia and South America. ---- There’s a kick, a...

Ben is a British writer now based in Brooklyn, New York. He has travelled extensively in Asia and South America. ---- It is 6:39am in...

Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again is a fanfare of chocolate and cake and a whole lot of cheese. There’s no doubting the appeal. At first bite...

There’s a fleeting shot in American Animals where Spencer and Warren, the two protagonists, are watching movies as inspiration for their...

“Simple is best” has been an age-old adage for us all, but rarely does a film take that message so sincerely to heart and the outcome...

We all have those devilish “what ifs,” fantasies and delusions that flutter in and out of the mind like butterflies in the stomach. For...

Elvis once put together a little ditty people like to call, “a little less conversation and a little more action.” The man knew how to...

Presidential Pardons have a long and capricious history. Scooter Libby, the former Chief of Staff to Dick Cheney, had his sentence...

Deadpool 2 is filthy, smutty and vulgar; bawdy, barnyard and lewd; nigh on pornographic in its humour and explicit in its inglorious...

The phrase “may you live a long life” is repeated throughout the film, offering consolation at a time of pain and suffering. It is a...

Plot-twists are sexy. They’re the damsel that comes late to the ball, the janitor-cum-genius that breaks the code, the unsuspecting...

Voltaire was a badass. He was an unfettered forward-thinker, an enlightened activist, a satirical polemicist. In many ways he was a 21st...

HP Lovecraft, one of the oft-forgotten godfathers of horror fiction, argued “it is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated...

There’s a moment when Chris Evans’ Jack Tyler is challenged to take Janey Briggs (Chyler Leigh) to prom in the satirical teen comedy Not...

Saul Dibb’s Journey’s End is a cinematic reinvention of the 1928 play by R.C. Sheriff. Set in the trenches in 1918 during the height of...

In the chambers of Congress and the backrooms of the White House, the Church can be a fickle mistress. The relationship between Church...