Movies where strong and able children lead the narrative are too few. Kids need peers to look up to who aren’t millionaire pop stars or secretly older adults. Instead of that, this trailer features a kid with a bow and arrow.
Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Cinderella, Run All Night and It Follows .
From the tiniest blog to the inked pages of Empire magazine, society’s devotion to film coverage highlights just how deeply moving pictures resonate in modern culture. It’s why you’re here reading this very article right now. The finances back it up too.
The role of technology in the 21st century is one of the most important topics of our time, and has been reflected in many of our current films. Movies such as Her, Wall-E, Minority Report, and The Matrix all delve into the possibilities of technology-obsessed society, and Ex Machina is no exception. Caleb, a young computer programmer, ventures deep into the forest to participate in a study of the human qualities of the incredibly life-like robot, Ava.
One of the worst clichés that appears in an alarmingly large number of movies is the “two kinds of people in this world” speech. In Focus, Will Smith’s suave con artist Nicky Spurgeon tells his protégé/part-time lover Jess Barrett (Margot Robbie) his version of the done-to-death cliché: there are two types of people, hammers and nails.
Most of us want to believe there is a clear line between right and wrong. Sometimes when confronted with an often unjust or unfair world, you choose the path you never thought you’d take. On the job, Andreas, a young detective, and his partner get called out to handle a domestic disturbance.
This is a continuation of “Beyond Hollywood’s Mafia” with more great gangster films from around the world. There’s a rich tapestry in this field to draw from, as films influence filmmakers, writers and directors making more and more fascinating movies about crime. Some directors may have already appeared in the first list, but all these titles are new and differ, one way or another from the first installment, enjoy!
Did you ever think about your favorite film couple? We sure did. This month, the Film Inquiry team was asked which is their favorite couple in film.
In an article entitled “Why It’s Important to Make More Diverse LGBT Films,” fellow Film Inquiry writer Cherokee Seebalack lamented: “Where are all the LGBT romcoms at?” Where, indeed.
John Legend and Common’s powerful performance of Best Original Song nominee, “Glory,” and brave acceptance speech was one of the highlights of the Oscar ceremony last week. That song was a resonant soul/hip-hop combo that captured the atmosphere of its source film well: Ava DuVernay’s Selma, a historical drama about Martin Luther King and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
An epidemic spreads within a 1969 all-girls school. All the young women are suffering from random fits of fainting. One of the more clever girls, Lydia, seeks to discover the truth behind these odd happenings.
With the blockbuster success of Fifty Shades of Grey in cinemas worldwide, many pundits are claiming that this marks a new era for “sex positive” movies – and much more importantly, the basic idea of a woman being as sexually open as her male counterparts not being a source of cinematic shame, but one of pride. It has only been two decades since what I dub the “unofficial Michael Douglas misogyny trilogy” of Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct and Disclosure hit cinemas, films that (like Fifty Shades) were successful due to their frankness of sexuality. Yet those movies were inherently misogynist in suggesting that women were mentally unstable, or just plain evil for daring to be as open about their sexuality as men.
Back in January Neill Blomkamp, the director of District 9, Elysium and the forthcoming Chappie posted online some intriguing fan/concept art for an as-yet-announced project related to the now floundering Alien franchise. The art featured some very intriguing illustrations of not only Sigourney Weaver as an almost fully evolved Ripley/xenomorph hybrid but also Michael Biehn as a battle scarred Corporal Hicks. At the time nobody knew what they were for:
Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Chappie, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and Unfinished Business.