Lucia Debernardini is a Features writer for Collider, as well as a London-based screenwriter and filmmaker. Her short comedy film Finsta has been showcased at the Aesthetica Film Festival and won the ...

Built on the existential foundations of philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and expanded upon in the early 1940s by Albert Camus, absurdism gained traction in the post-war era, centered on ideas around life ...

What makes Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now an extremely influential anti-war movie? Coppola’s masterful use of contrast and absurdism. In between blaring gunshots and explosions, Captain Willard ...

William Henderson: Soul, sole, sole, sole -- four simple words, all sounding the same, each with a quite different meaning -- the English language abounds in such ambiguities. Equally, the same word ...

In a recent post, I discussed the old saying "It is what it is" as a useful adage that could serve us well as a cognitive frame for how we engage worry. I received a lot of interesting feedback, much ...

Kafka's world is chaotic. It is a world that is often found lurking in the darkest corners of our minds, shrouded by melancholy and devoid of happiness. On the occasion of his 139th birth anniversary ...

There’s a sequence late in Boots Riley’s breakout summer hit “Sorry to Bother You” when protagonist Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield, “Get Out”), the once down-on-his-luck telemarketer turned rising ...