I have a preference for the fantasy gangster genre. Heck, I even want to make one when I get the money and it’ll be brilliant. Before I become too engrossed on that point, I’d like to mention it’s refreshing to find a film willing to be diverse and yet not be.
Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations, with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! This week’s theme is focused on the works of genre director Joe Dante.
There are franchises that have their special days to commemorate their enduring legacy, usually ones which are directly implied from the films. Star Wars, for example, has its May 4th as a reference to the famous “may the Force be with you” quote, and the Back To The Future trilogy also has its own. As the series centres on time travel and that there are a number of dates which our heroes transport to, the one that arguably stands out as ‘Back To The Future Day’ is October 21st, 2015.
There is no doubt that Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens is the most anticipated film of winter 2015. Some may even consider it the most discussed of the 2010s so far, if not ever.
IMDb describes Bone Tomahawk as a horror western in which four men set out to rescue captives from cannibalistic cave dwellers. Honestly, it looks fun enough with Matthew Fox’s character shooting anyone that even tries to talk to their group. Then there’s that “cannibal” trying to stick a large bone down Kurt Russell’s mouth.
Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr), the new governess for two orphaned children in Victorian England, arrives at their idyllic country estate in the beginning of the psychological horror film, The Innocents (1961). The naive young woman, who has a lived a solidly middle class existence as a vicar’s daughter, marvels at the stately home and spacious grounds. Everything, including her two young charges, seems innocent and perfect.
Every year I seem to arrive at an impasse with horror films. Like many other lovers of the genre out there, we will always have love for Jason, Freddy, and Michael Myers (just tell Rob Zombie to cut it out). But when you’ve seen one too many teens by the lake, and you hear Freddy say “bitch” one time too many, you realize there’s more to the genre than just blood lust and hockey masks.
Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Steve Jobs, Suffragette, Paranormal Activity:
Suffragette has been grabbing the attention of the media and public long before it was even released. First, there were rumours that there were to be no women of colour in the film (this is true). Then there was the at best ignorant, at worst painfully offensive campaign led by Meryl Streep and the rest of the cast, featuring photos of them wearing t-shirts stating ‘I’d rather be a rebel than a slave’.
The link between film and art is well-documented, especially how filmmakers are influenced and inspired by their favourite artists and paintings. One of the best and most famous examples is Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, where many scenes imitate classical paintings from the 1700s. There are plenty of contemporary examples too.
Hannah and Tahir fall in love on the streets of New York. They are both homeless. Shelter explores their pasts and leads to the realization that they need each other to have a future.
Near the conclusion of Hellboy II, we find the eponymous hero at death’s doorstep. Hellboy is laid at the feet of his personal Angel of Death, a shrouded, veiled monstrosity whose ragged wings are festooned with a series of enormous, amber eyes. Elizabeth Sherman, Hellboy’s partner, cradles his unconscious body in a pose reminiscent of the Pietà, an aesthetic emphasized by the magical spearpoint thrust into Hellboy’s side.
I’ve entered a phase of my life where I’m just so bored with English movies unless they’re superhero movies or indie flicks. Hence, I’m looking outside U.S.
Fingers, the Indiegogo-funded short film from writer/director Alex Marx and producer Savannah James-Bayly, is a slick and stylish crime drama that blends Biblical themes with 1960s London glam. From the filmmakers’ own mouths: Fingers is a short crime drama based on the Biblical story of Salome and the martyrship of John the Baptist, reimagined in the murky underworld of a 1960s nightclub in London’s East End.
Who is the best football player in the world? No one can answer that with certainty. Of course, this is about modern football’s greatest rivals, Argentinian Lionel Messi and Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo.