The Beginner's Guide: Steven Spielberg, Director
The Beginner’s Guide: Steven Spielberg, Director

Steven Spielberg. The name alone is synonymous with cinema. But take a step back.

Mechanic Resurrection Trailer
MECHANIC: RESURRECTION Trailer

Jason Statham is back, fighting and killing his way through another of his bread-and-butter action films. The man has established a firm place in the genre, appearing in some of the most violent, action-packed films of the last fifteen years, and Mechanic: Resurrection looks to be aimed right at his core audience.

Gender At War PT I: Films Portraying Women On The Front-line
Gender At War PT I: Films Portraying Women On The Front-line

We have plenty of excellent and notable films about women in wartime, but their narratives are all too familiar. Often the female protagonist is waiting for the return of her husband or lover, or she is grieving at sending her sons off to war (The Marriage of Maria Braun, Private Peaceful). Sometimes, the war itself exploits and manipulates the nature of our protagonists leading them to betray their country (Rome Open City, to name but one).

JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK Trailer
JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK Trailer

Jack may be the perfect name for a Tom Cruise character. There’s something nondescriptly ubiquitous about him, a bit too scrappy for a John but matching nicely to the common but abrupt Jack. Jack Reacher:

Critically-Hated Films That Deserve A Second Chance
Film Inquiry Recommends: Critically-Hated Films That Deserve A Second Chance

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 critically-hated films that deserve a second chance.

TICKLED: Anatomy Of A Troll
TICKLED: Anatomy Of A Troll

There are no shortage of docs that explore underworlds and subcultures most of us have hardly considered, if we knew they existed at all. These sorts of films, which have been a hallmark of the modern documentary since Salesman and feature subjects as varied as those of Paris is Burning and Murderball, serve both to reveal what is unique about adherents of a particular subculture as well as communicate how they have the same hopes and dreams as everyone else. The new documentary Tickled is no exception, but it flips the idea on its ear.

Movies Opening in Cinemas July 1 - The Innocents
Movies Opening In Cinemas On July 1

Film Inquiry compiles a list of the movies that are opening in cinemas every Tuesday. Opening this week: The BFG, The Purge:

Positive Psychology & Film: Flow
Positive Psychology & Film: Flow

“Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing … Somethin’ we was born with … Somethin’ that’s ours and ours alone …

SEOUL SEARCHING: A Love Letter To John Hughes
SEOUL SEARCHING: A Love Letter To John Hughes

Growing up as a first generation Asian American, I looked to television and cinema for hints to “fit in” with all the other Americans, to improve my grammar and English, to embrace the idea of being American. In that transition, I severed some of my Filipino roots. I can understand Tagalog, but I can’t speak it.

American Honey Trailer
AMERICAN HONEY Trailer

The wide world of films have long held a place for the meandering soul-searcher. They’re characters that move aimlessly through the world with no end goal in sight. Perhaps they’ve become disillusioned with the world as it is, or perhaps, like in American Honey, they are too young to know all the directions they could go.

VIGILANTE DIARIES: Lights! Camera! That’s About It.
VIGILANTE DIARIES: Lights! Camera! That’s About It.

Often shrugged off as a base form of entertainment, the action genre has carved out its place in the cinematic phalanx. Spy capers, heist films or just a good old-fashioned shoot ‘em up have all become, in some why or another, a part of our lives in the form of witty one-liners such as ‘I’ll be back,” Detective John McClane saving Christmas (twice) and The Rock being— The Rock. Memorable moments which have become ingrained in our memories.

Captain Fantastic - Movies Opening In Cinemas On July 8
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC Trailer

Captain Fantastic will likely live or die based on Viggo Mortensen’s performance, as his character is the only one that understands both the isolated world he established for his children and the regular world they must now enter. The hope of what he and his wife were trying to accomplish must be communicated through him, and whatever ramifications come from their decisions will fall squarely on his shoulders. It’s a lonely role in a movie populated by a ton of characters, and it’s hard to come up with a guy more likely to pull it off than Mortensen.

Swipe Left: Modern Dating In THE LOBSTER
Swipe Left: Modern Dating In THE LOBSTER

Director Yorgo Lanthimos first grabbed the world’s attention with Alps and the seismic Dogtooth. Recently, he sprung another biting, absurdist satire into the festival circuit with The Lobster. It takes place in a world in which relationships are mandatory; the characters, all newly single, or newly of age, are detained in a hotel that works, basically, as a deadly speed dating service.

POPSTAR: A Brilliant Comedy That's Ahead Of Its Time
POPSTAR: A Brilliant Comedy That’s Ahead Of Its Time

You will see the term postmodern to describe the comedy of The Lonely Island, the comedy team responsible for this film and the birth of the Saturday Night Live Digital Short, as you read opinions on their newest film, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. It is a vague term that means comedy that deconstructs the art and is self-aware.

DAVID BRENT: LIFE ON THE ROAD Trailer
DAVID BRENT: LIFE ON THE ROAD Trailer

It’s been a while since the world checked in on David Brent, the self-described star of the documentary series The Office. Of course, we all know that Brent doesn’t exist and that his documentary was actually a mockumentary television series that aired in the U.K.