Ville-Marie
VILLE-MARIE Trailer

Ville-Marie is a Canadian, French-spoken film about a French actress who takes on a project to get closer to her son, who is in Montreal, Canada, in the hope to reconnect with him. For the first half, the trailer promises a fairly typical family drama, but then it starts to hint at a much darker undertone. As always, Monica Bellucci is mesmerising.

Wes Craven
The Beginner’s Guide: Wes Craven, Director

When you think of horror movies, one name should spring to mind: Wes Craven. He reinvented the teen horror genre and made it his own, alongside creating the most feared character in the horror genre:

TED 2: It’s Exactly What You Think It Is

Ted 2 is exactly what you think it is. Seth MacFarlane is an entertainer who infuses all of his work with the same pop-culture heavy and juvenile abundant humour, from his roots in Family Guy to this, his third cinematic effort. The first Ted was a cinematic surprise, over-performing at the box office to become (at the time) the highest grossing R-Rated comedy of all time.

Loneliness in Film: An Analysis of Colours

Breaking the boarders with transnational themes and making people cry and laugh in the same way? Genre as a global system? Why not!

Shanghai
SHANGHAI Trailer

Interesting. Yun-Fat Chow doesn’t seem to age while Li Gong does. Alright, due to the fact that my favorite Hong Kong actors are getting old, I’m really adamant about doing this trailer discussion.

The Lost Art of The Hollywood Swan Song

Having recovered from the shock upon discovering that summer 1990 was a quarter of a century ago, I recently reacquainted myself with one or two of the cinematic treats that I first enjoyed at the tender age of 15. Darkman got a repeat viewing, as did the sorely underappreciated Quick Change with Bill Murray. I was especially pleased to find that my personal favourite alumni from the class of ’90 had aged so well:

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS T.S. SPIVET Trailer

Here comes every new parents’ nightmare, an unattended child. T.S.

Irrational Man
Film Inquiry’s 10 Best Articles of August

Reviews of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Inherent Vice and The Diary of a Teenage Girl, an essay on music in film, and a list of Youtube channels everyone passionate about film should follow: just a small collection of the great articles that we published last month!

Ninotchka
Love is All: The Lubitsch Touch in NINOTCHKA

“Comrades! People of the world. The revolution is on the march.

Movies Opening in Cinemas On September 4

Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: The Transporter Refueled, A Walk in the Woods and Before We Go.

45 Years
45 YEARS: Cinema At Its Most Intimate

45 Years is unquestionably well-written and well-acted, to such a high degree that is literally impossible to argue otherwise. To say that Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay give two of the most emotionally effective performances of their long and illustrious careers is equivalent to saying that the sky is blue and the world is round; it is so plainly obvious, arguing in its favour seems like a waste of time, as the greatness is clearly there for all to see. Emotionally engaging from the opening minutes On paper, the film feels like the opposite of director Andrew Haigh’s previous film Weekend; that film was about two men who meet and fall in love over the course of (you guessed it) a weekend, after a one night stand turns into something deeper.

Zoolander 2
ZOOLANDER 2 Trailer

Let’s face it, you’ve been waiting for this one. Derek and Hansel are back and ready to blow your mind. Sadly, the trailer is just a teaser with no scenes from the movie.

American Movie
Film Inquiry Recommends: Film-Related Documentaries

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! Last week’s theme is Film-Related Documentaries, films which highlight the utter chaos and hard work which goes behind all the movies we love.

PAPER TOWNS: An Impressive & Charming Adaptation

Paper Towns is an adaptation of John Green’s book of the same name. You may already have read or watched his highly successful The Fault In Our Stars, and have come back for more. Why wouldn’t you, he’s John Green?

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Podcast
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL: Narcissistic and Utterly Loathsome From Start to Finish

Although not without empathy, it is hard to argue against the statement that teenagers are some of the most self-centred people alive. I know this from being a particularly self-centred teenager, who at thirteen regularly made statements of self-loathing in order to gouge sympathy and attention from my peers. It was an attention seeking phase that I mercifully grew out of very quickly, but I can at least be forgiven for it for being young and stupid.