Summer is a great season. For many, it hints at the return of some of our favourite things: eating limitless amounts of ice cream, sipping afternoon sangrias, c...
In a career spanning six decades, Alfred Hitchcock became one of the most revered Hollywood directors of all time. Having transitioned almost effortlessly from ...
I’m nine years old, sitting cross-legged next to my best friend, our knees touching. Between us, we are a collection of brown girl confusion – thick and unruly ...
Everyone has their origin story, and in film school, you hear a lot of them. Some people are lawyers-turned-filmmakers, while others served their time at talent...
We’ve come a long way from the traditional sitcom mothers of days past. The beautiful, white, and morally good Carol Bradys and June Cleavers, who served as pas...
Coming out of the ‘Greek Weird Wave’, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s 2010 film Attenberg is a tale of beginnings, ends, firsts, and lasts.
The film follows the sto...
My first memory of being ashamed of my body comes from the first grade. I was sitting at my assigned classroom table with my peers during a lesson, and my frien...
I was eleven when Aquamarine was released in 2006. As a mermaid-obsessed preteen, I was definitely in the target audience for a romantic comedy about a young me...
Amidst the jump scares and suspenseful music, contemporary horror films are providing important commentary on politics and social inequality.
While films lik...
I once read that if you're craving chocolate, what your body is really telling you is that it’s deficient in magnesium, and to satisfy that craving without hati...