Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Inside Out, Dope, Infinitely Polar Bear, Manglehorn, Eden, Gabriel and The Overnight.
Firstly, this movie is French. Second, it’s kind of a romance except a guy keeps on getting beat up by a girl. Fetishes aside, this film is the winner of four Cannes prizes.
There are so many treasures you will never find in a city as packed New York. I’m not talking about the things you see on TV, they’re always crowded with tourists. Oh, while we’re on the the subject of tourists, have some manners.
Ever had that fantasy where you move into a new town and find out your neighbors are sex fiends? No? You might change your mind after seeing this film.
In the fast-paced world of show business, projects are announced before swiftly being cancelled every day. Yet there are some film projects that obsess their creators for years, always on the verge of getting made, before the cinematic powers that be decide otherwise. This article is a celebration of the best movies never made – films that would have been surefire masterpieces, that generations of film fans have had to resort to merely imagining existing.
I had great hopes for Man Up from the minute I saw the trailer. I love romantic comedies, and if they’re set in London then more the better. I also absolutely adore Simon Pegg and find Lake Bell to be pretty brilliant too.
Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Jurassic World, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, The Wolfpack, Set Fire to the Stars, Soaked in Bleach and The 11th Hour.
Chicagoland Shorts is a new series of films curated by Eugene Sun Park and Kayla Ginsburg (with the aid of Beckie Stocchetti). The series pulls together an eclectic mix of shorts all made by Chicago-based filmmakers. The films range from original narratives to real stories, from animations to found footage pieces (those made using pre-existing film or photographs).
There is but a rare collection of stunt actors that have the same charm as Jackie Chan. He was one of the few to work with the great Bruce Lee. His prowess as a creative force behind fight choreography is legendary to this day.
Hereafter is a short supernatural film written and directed by Johnny Kenton. The product of a Kickstarter campaign, the film is about a young woman named Katcher (Lydia Wilson), who is called up to try out for a group called ‘The Guardians’. Who are they guarding?
Talk about “under the radar.” If it’s Hollywood, you have to go for high value production numbers based on gross overuse of CGI and a hot girl who can barely act. On the opposite indie part of the spectrum though, you want artistic expression or an experience as close to real life as possible.
Alex Garland’s Ex Machina reminds us that we are all just line workers in a baby-making factory. Mankind has evolved over time to have a very strong sex drive; a drive that reveals itself during the most seemingly insignificant events of our lives. At the grocery store buying yogurt?
In recent years, the subject of artificial intelligence in movies has become more and more prominent, perhaps because our own technology has become increasingly advanced in that direction. It may not be long before we have created our own race of conscious, intelligent beings. Until then, though, it is always fascinating to surmise about the idea.
“My approach to 3D is in a way quite conservative … I want it to be comfortable. I want you to forget after a few minutes that you are really watching 3D and just have it operate at a subliminal, subconscious level. That’s the key to great 3D and it makes the audience feel like real participants in what’s going on.
There are so many complexities in life. If there is one thing you may acknowledge as easy though, it’s that you love your kids. On the other hand, you may also acknowledge that it was horrible torture bringing them into this world.