Emotional and heartbreaking, shocking and impactful, theses short films are an exemplary showcase of Hollywood’s menagerie of talent. Here’s a brief rundown of 2018’s Oscar nominated live action shorts.
Looking Glass wastes its talented cast on poor writing filled with cliché after cliché, an odd and uninviting artistic vision from the ground up, and an overabundance of narratives and plot devices.
Han Solo is one of the most beloved Star Wars characters, so it makes sense Disney decided to explore his backstory in their second Star Wars story.
The Post will likely be overlooked at this year’s Oscars, but with its historical depiction of the fight for the press and democracy, as well as its similarities to present day, it is still worth watching.
Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, the directors of Academy Award nominated animation Loving Vincent, spoke to Film Inquiry’s Nathan Osborne about the seven year process to bring their unique biopic to the big screen.
With its shallowness of character and its failed continuity of plot, Queen of the Desert is a film made as if to remind us of why we call films ‘pictures’, since the only good thing about the film is its mise-en-scenes.
Oh Lucy! is an inventive and poignant story that’s remarkably relatable, touching on loneliness and the sometimes outrageous lengths one will go to to escape the world and discover one’s own happiness.
The hilarious-looking Izzy Gets The Fuck Across Town is the debut for writer/director Christian Papierniak and stars Mackenzie Davis, Haley Joel Osment, and Alia Shawkat.
For our latest Staff inquiry, we chose to look back at some of our childhood favorites, which range from musicals to anime to Disney fairy tales.
The Music Of Silence lacks emotional weight, developed characters, a coherent linear story, and sufficient enough acting to make a passable biopic of a living legend.
We were able to speak with David Freyne, writer/director of the zombie horror film The Cured, starring Ellen Page, about the powerful realities that inspired his film, how he got his dream cast, and what’s next!
Bomb City makes an impassioned statement in a sometimes messy way, but the energy it gives off is far more effective than any staid, overly safe version of this story could ever be.
Mute is riddled with unoriginal elements, from the Blade Runner inspired visuals to the generic missing persons story, to the underdeveloped characters; it is a misfire on all accounts.
Gus Edgar reports from the Berlinale in Berlin with reviews of Pig, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot, Season of the Devil, 7 Days in Entebbe and U-July 22.
With occasional heartfelt moments that catch you off guard and the laughter you expect from a comedy, When We First Met falls flat, lacking a fresh enough story to save it from feeling limp.