Directed by the ever-so-masterful Stanley Kubrick in 1962, Lolita is a surprisingly lacklustre affair with a script that’s neither as daring nor erotic as it so desperately wants to be.

The film follows Humbert Humbert (James Mason), a middle-aged British college professor who movies to America in order to acquire a position as a French literature teacher. Upon crossing the pond, Humbert stumbles upon a small town where he rents a room from [...]

Few films have ever created an atmosphere as suspenseful as Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 masterpiece Rear Window. Despite being set entirely within a single apartment, the picture never feels claustrophobic. In fact, as Hitchcock explores the nature of voyeurism from the comfort of our protagonist’s New York City apartment, the film somehow manages to feel worldly.

Something Borrowed is one of the most contrived, unfunny, and unrealistic endeavours to be produced in quite some time. Here’s a romantic comedy that doesn’t offer a lick of genuine sentiment, nor a good laugh. But after years of rom-com banality, that should hardly come as a surprise.

The film follows humble New York City lawyer Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin), who on her 30^th birthday, finds herself in bed with her long-time [...]

Despite being released in 1992, James Foley’s stage-adapted workplace drama Glengarry Glen Ross has more relevance now than it ever could have during the 90s.

In the wake of the global financial crisis, profitability is now synonymous with mass redundancy. For proof, you need only look toward the national unemployment rate in the US, which has almost doubled since the end of the 20^th century. You have a family to support? [...]