With technological developments taking hold in Hollywood, perhaps the most prominent has been the use of motion capture. Motion capture is a technology that syndicates computer-generated effects with human performance. The idea, particularly within the science fiction and fantasy genres, is to produce further realism on part of an actor’s approach to a role and how they portray it.
The Girl in the Book tells the story of a young book editor in the world of New York publishing. Played by Emily VanCamp (whom I primarily know from the delicious soap opera-like Revenge), Alice has to confront the dark pages of her past when she is assigned to work with a best-selling author who she knows from when she was young. The author, played by Michael Nyqvist seems to have a particular interest in teenage girls, so I think we can guess what must have happened to Alice in the past.
Reese Donahue (Jessica Rothe), an aspiring writer, leads a seemingly ideal life, with a bright future ahead of her. One day, she finds out her mother left her 10 million dollars, but her father kept it from her. She’s faced with a dilemma – she feels betrayed and alone, and is going to have to decide whether or not to take what her mother wanted for her.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Anomalisa is the upcoming film by screenwriter-turned-director Charlie Kaufman, who is famous for writing scripts for great (and quirky) movies such as Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Anomalisa is, interestingly enough, a stop-motion film. It tells the story of Michael Stone, who writes books about costumer service, and struggles with his inability to connect to people.
Even though he has recently made a switch from being a controversially quirky indie darling to a critically adored awards favourite, David O. Russell’s storytelling obsessions have always been the same. He has always been drawn to stories about dysfunctional families and the things that either drive them apart, or bind them closer together, varying from extreme to extreme.
This is the trailer for Jonás Cuarón’s first feature length film, Desierto. Brother of Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás was Alfonso’s co-writer for Gravity, as well as for Alfonso’s upcoming project, A Boy and His Shoe. In Desierto, a handful Mexican migrant workers are hoping to find a better life in the United States.
From the entire team of Film Inquiry: a very merry Christmas! We hope your holidays will be wonderful and filled with great movies (an, of course, food)!
Christmastime. Is Here. ‘Tis the season of light and gift-giving, but also of nostalgia and tired holiday classics (I imagine that this is the one time of year many of you find the need to break out the VCR).
Concussion does to the sports film what I was sincerely hoping it would avoid: it dramatizes its subject in such an unbelievable way that it becomes nothing more than mindless propaganda. Dealing with the true subject of brain injuries within retired NFL players, the film simply floats from one cliché to the next, which left me feeling almost dazed after it had finished.
Shot in stunning 16mm over the course of seven years in Afghanistan, The Land of the Enlightened is the first feature of Belgian documentary maker and photographer Pieter-Jan De Pue, which combines a cinema vérité portrait of a nation and its young people with the magic-reality of their dreams. In the vast mountain region of the northern Wakhan Corridor (“The Roof of the World”), a gang of nomadic children raid caravans and trade scavenged Soviet land mines, raw lapis lazuli and black opium for food and fuel. Possessing a talent for improvisation and an inexhaustible eagerness to learn, they navigate a harsh reality as U.
Let’s be honest, how well do you really know your own finances? Do you keep a budget, evaluate it regularly, and monitor your bank accounts, debt, and investments? Remember, I asked for honesty.
Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: The Hateful Eight, The Revenant, Joy, Point Break, 45 Years, Daddy’s Home and Concussion.
Oh, woe was us when the Harry Potter series finally finished… Little was sadder than those final scenes of the 8th movie, where you knew that this time the ending was final. With the books all long finished even before the movies and Pottermore being sadly unsatisfying for anyone over 12 years old, the Harry Potter universe had truly come to an end.
In the Heart of the Sea was originally supposed to premiere in early 2015, but it was pushed to later in the year at the last second. Ron Howard hoped that more people would come out to see the film now as opposed to in early spring, since some other oceanic adventure films have seen success around this time (Life of Pi, for example). It was my sincere hope that pushing the film to December was also because it would be worthy of premiering next to more awards-friendly films, which could mean that it was better than originally expected.
