It’s easy to look at kids in love and muse on how innocent, how naive they are about it, but we should consider that perhaps love needn’t be complicated above adolescent terms. The reason why Daniel and Melody want to get married is they want to spend time with each other:

For the rest of your life? she asks him.

I’ve already spent a week with you, he says.

Love is the only thing that makes adolescents feel they’re at…

The family of six didn’t know what to expect when they moved to the solitary coastal regions of Vancouver Island; maybe they wanted to be happier, maybe they wanted to be financially or emotionally stable, maybe they wanted their children to experience adolescence in the purest terms. All they know is they did not become happier, and they might never completely know why.

Their frustrations are traced to the elder son Jeremy’s erratic behaviour. His actions are lifeless and delayed,…

The most awe-inspiring thing about “The Matrix” is perhaps how it manages to be one of the most original movies ever made while regurgitating elements from the science fiction works of the past. The Wachowskis have named the philosophy-based action of “Ghost in the Shell” as an inspiration, but their movie owes just as much to the swift choreographies of Hong Kong martial arts movies, the bombast of stylist John Woo, the claustrophobia and interpersonal dynamics between sci-fi characters in…

Louis Theroux is essentially the personification of our idealistically stoic self in arguments; meaning, he speaks few words but is very good at proving himself right. His latest expose concerns the “Manosphere:” the group of influences who tell boys how to be men by essentially berating women.

Anyone with sanity can view them as what they are: Petty and insecure mysogynists. They don’t really stand for anything, not at all. All they say is whatever’s trendy, whatever gets them views,…

This review is for both the novel and the film.

I carried Katharine Clifton into the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.

Michael Ondaatje paints broad strokes when it comes to the humans in The English Patient. They are defined by their past. And now the end of war is near and they are stuck in a villa, subject to an intense look at their…

Ridley Scott directs a Hallmark-esque movie that is pretty sweet but also pretty forgettable. It stars Russell Crowe in a prick-turned-nice guy scenario. How it works is that he changed himself under the influence of the people and lifestyle around him. For that to be convincing, we need a tighter screenplay and a broader Crowe performance. I didn’t dislike him enough at the start, and I didn’t like him enough at the end. His character Max is in a likability…