Rom-com

As acclaimed indie film director Jim Jarmusch once said: “Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.” The rom-com is not a dead genre but it has been sorely tested by clichés and overused tropes. This means that romantic…

Crazy Rich Asians is the big screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Kevin Kwan and the first Asian-led studio movie since The Joy Luck Club in 1993. There’s a lot riding on it for the future of culturally-diverse mainstream cinema.…

Can we ever really label a work of art as ‘the best’ of its kind? Surely to do so is reductionist, to suggest that experiencing something – a book, a movie, a painting, a play, a dance, a song – is a quantitative, rather than qualitative…

What if you finally met the love of your life, but she was in a happy long-term relationship? What if you wanted nothing more than to tell her how you feel, but her friendship is the only thing keeping you going throughout your…