Five Minutes is an interactive short horror film set in a future where the world is overrun with zombies. After being infected, dad John knows he only has five minutes before he turns. But he is loathe to leave his daughter, Mia.
There is a magic in entertaining people. In life, people suffer from a number of misfortunes often caused by the actions of other humans. Personally, I don’t like the suffering of others.
Immortality is a myth. This is a fact not only based on a reality standpoint, but also literarily. Ask anybody the first thing which crosses their minds when discussing the subject, and most likely mythical beings such as wizards, witches, vampires or superheroes would top the list.
For a movie based in Chinese lore, it has a staggeringly high number of leading Caucasian actors. Who am I kidding? I still love Dustin Hoffman as Shifu.
Every week at Film Inquiry, we present the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Minions, The Gallows, Self/Less, Do I Sound Gay?
Initially, it seems that I Am Evel Knievel competently weaves archival footage with a range of talking heads. However, the documentary goes to great lengths to embellish a very unlikeable man and omits some of his life’s failings, making it an inferior production to the BBC’s Richard Hammond Meets Evel Knievel, which also has the advantage of featuring the man himself shortly before he died on November 30th 2007. During the 1970s, Evel Knievel was one of the most famous names in America and the world.
It’s difficult for certain people to truly relate to others. Even if you share a bed with someone, it doesn’t necessarily mean you care for them. No, you save the real you for someone who will meet you again with a genuine smile.
Witches have a bad reputation for no good reason. The “Wicked” Witch of the West just wanted to reclaim some shoes from her sister’s killer. That “gingerbread house” witch just wanted to feed some malnourished kids.
Sequels sell like hotcakes. Filmgoers cannot be faulted for summing up today’s film industry simply as that. We don’t really need to draw up any charts or statistics to figure out that half of the films in 2015 consist of sequels.
Saying you like Ingmar Bergman is like saying you like cinema. His influence and style have become more than an influence, a defining layer in the foundation of cinema. With some directors you can recall a few classic movies, but with filmmakers like Bergman, who has so many definitive credits as a director, his filmography can almost seem too daunting to follow.
There is something so endlessly fascinating about the character of Sherlock Holmes that prevents him from ever becoming boring to audiences, no matter how different Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective creation is to the pop-culture tastes of the time. The source material is so undeniably entertaining that even if it gets revised as an action blockbuster, as seen in Guy Ritchie’s two recent movies, or transplanted into the modern day, on Steven Moffat’s BBC series, it never loses any of its original charm. No matter how unique a new adaptation of the stories may be, Doyle’s stories are so widely revered that nearly every adaptation of them remains faithful to the essence of the characters, even if they may take a few liberties.
Tell me if you’ve seen this story before. An infection turns most of humanity rabid. But there’s more.
Inside Out is the latest in a long line of Pixar films that deal with the personification of something that you may have thought to be emotionless. Rather than bugs, toys, or fish this time, though, it is dealing directly with emotions themselves. What if the inner workings of our head were similar to an operational business, where our emotions literally guide and influence the actions in our daily life?
Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week there are just two movies opening, Terminator Genisys and Magic Mike XXL. Note that these are based on the opening dates in the United States.