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 goes like this – in Gr...

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 surly lot. We live w...

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 jolt and then a lull....

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 Dandong. I am sitting i...

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 it goes down glorious...

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

“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 adhere so faithfully to...

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

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 spice the room, rile a...

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

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

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 phrase that encapsulates...

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

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

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

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 Another Teenage Movi...

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 World War One, it tel...

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