Wes Anderson is one of the most recognisable filmmakers working today—and not just visually. Yes, the symmetrical frames, pastel palettes, and meticulous production design have become meme-worthy trademarks. But Anderson’s style is more than aesthetic window dressing. Underneath the dioramas and dollhouses lies something much harder to fake: a persistent emotional ach...

By the 1970s, the Western was losing its old certainty. Gone were the simple heroes and clear morals—replaced by stories that were darker, more complex, and often deeply flawed. This was a decade where the genre became quieter, moodier, and more introspective.

The following films didn’t get the attention they deserved, but they reveal a Western struggling to r...

“Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world, where the stakes are as high as can be imagined, with unpredictable outcomes. It’s a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.” — Ted Dekker.

Although the thriller genre is a fan favou...

The Western wasn’t dead in the 1990s, it was just harder to spot. After the genre’s Golden Age gave way to grittier revisions in the ’60s and ’70s, the ’80s began to taper off, with only occasional standouts. But the ’90s brought a quiet revival: a trickle of Westerns that may not have cracked the mainstream or won Oscars (Unforgiven [1992] aside]) but still offered s...

The 1980s are often remembered for their brashness, big action, bigger hair-Arnold Schwarzenegger shooting people. But away from the glitz and gloss of the box office juggernauts, American cinema was producing a fascinating range of more grounded, often daring films, works that explored character, politics, and social unrest with grit and nuance.

These films ma...