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There was an odd time in the late 1980’s where Michael Keaton was the biggest star in Hollywood. Since hanging up the Bat-suit in the early 1990’s, he has continued to have a successful career, yet will never reclaim that success he once had. In Birdman, the first foray into comedy from Amores Perros director Alejandro González Iñárritu, Keaton plays an actor whose life is overshadowed by the fact he once was a megastar due to playing a superhero decades earlier (sound familiar?
Every Monday Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Into The Storm, Step Up All In, What If and About Alex.
What piques my interest for this upcoming film is the writer and director, Kevin Smith. I’ve seen Clerks II and Mallrats, as well as watching some episodes of Comic Book Men and an interview or two. I have to say, I like the guy.
It may still be summer blockbuster season, but awards season is almost with us. Over the next few weeks we’ll have a flood of trailers for award baiting movies, and The Imitation Game ticks multiple boxes: a World War 2 period drama, a biopic, a Harvey Weinstein production and a chance for Benedict Cumberbatch to finally get some awards recognition.
Is it possible to give a film a bad review before anybody’s seen it? Apparently so, as the North Korean government have all but threatened war with the USA based on the trailer for The Interview. The new comedy re-teams James Franco and Seth Rogen, who co-directs with Evan Goldberg, as a hapless TV presenter and his producer who go to the “world’s most dangerous country” to interview Kim Jong-Un.
That kinky book your mom keeps hidden in her dresser drawer is finally being converted to moving pictures. Fifty Shades of Grey is coming, y’all! Get your popcorn ready!
After a couple of talking head viral teasers, we finally get our first glimpse of the situation in Panem in the new trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. Based on the final installment of Suzanne Collins’s wildly popular series of Hunger Games novels, Mockingjay moves from the games arena to a full-on rebellion reluctantly led by Katniss Everdeen.
Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth installment of the 70’s-80’s Mad Max trilogy. It’s both a reboot and a continuation of the series – it’s written and directed by the original mastermind:
Every Monday Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Guardians of the Galaxy, Get On Up, Calvary and What If.
It’s really amazing how some actors are willing to forgo a career full of surefire cash grabs and blockbusters for smaller, bolder roles. Actors like Ryan Gosling and Jake Gyllenhaal have done this and created some very interesting (though not always great) movies that stretch their abilities and require more thought than the many interchangeable popcorn flicks. Maybe it was the train wreck that was Prince of Persia:
Imagine having only hours left until the end of the world and everyone you know and love is heading to the party to end all parties. Now imagine you inadvertently become the only hope for a child searching for her father. What would you do?
Could Foxcatcher be the next big Oscar bait film? Foxcatcher is the unsettling true story of American millionaire John du Pont’s relationship with American Olympic wrestling brothers, Mark and Dave Schultz. Foxcatcher is helmed by Bennet Miller, and stars Channing Tatum, Steve Carrell, and Mark Ruffalo.
Every Monday we publish the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week, there are nine movies opening: Hercules, Lucy, A Most Wanted Man, The Fluffy Movie, Magic In The Moonlight, And So It Goes, Very Good Girls, Happy Christmas and My Man Is A Loser.
A Most Wanted Man is a spy thriller that tells the story of an anti-terrorism unit in Hamburg as they try to prevent a disaster from happening. An immigrant, half-Chechen, half-Russian, is the spindle of the story: when he arrives in Hamburg’s Islamic community he is desperate to recover his late father’s illicitly acquired fortune.
Unbroken tells the story of Olympic athlete and World War II hero Louis Zamperini. After the former track star survives a crash in the Pacific Ocean and spends almost two months drifting about on sea, he is taken prisoner by the Japanese forces; they force him to live in their prisoner of war camps for more than two and a half years. The movie is based on the non-fiction book by Lauren Hillenbrand, Unbroken: