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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in 1961, Martin Esslin published a seminal book, The Theatre of the Absurd. What Esslin did was define a new theatrical movement: one whose chief exemplars were Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and Max ...