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Man Down was shot in 2014 but has been kept on the shelves since, apart from playing at the 2015 Venice Film Festival and the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It found its home with Lionsgate, and is getting distribution later this year. Man Down takes place in a post-apocalyptic America though that doesn’t become clear from the trailer.
Toni Erdmann may have left the Cannes Film Festival empty-handed, but it’s on course for a much larger prize. It’s already been selected as Germany’s entry in the Foreign Language Oscar race, taking the early lead thanks to its critically adored festival run. It will have to fight off a record 84 other entries, but at this point, not earning a nomination would be a shock.
The story of an exemplary man has been paired with a profane filmmaker, forcing everyone to decide yet again if art should be separated from the maker. Advertisements for Hacksaw Ridge have been careful to avoid director Mel Gibson’s name given the damaging things he’s said over the last ten years. He’s largely been shunned by Hollywood during that time, and Hacksaw Ridge seems like a violent but amiable bid for reacceptance.
Every Tuesday, Film Inquiry compiles a list of the movies that are opening in cinemas. Opening this week are Inferno; The Unspoken; The Eagle Huntress and Gimme Danger. Note that these are based on the opening dates in the United States.
Pain has always been at the core of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. X-Men, the franchise opener, bonded Logan and Anna Paquin’s Rogue as the loneliest of the lonely, she for her inability to physically touch others and he for his reluctance to emotionally connect. This dynamic carried throughout the original trilogy and received a wordless nod in Days of Future Past.
A girl holding an eagle is a cool image, and that’s pretty much the point of The Eagle Huntress, a family-friendly documentary that’s been charming viewers throughout its festival run. The film picks up the story of Aisholpan, a thirteen-year-old training in the male-dominated world of eagle hunting. She’s learning the skill from her father, and in doing so the pair are breaking the traditional patriarchal lineage.
The Supreme Court of the United States unanimously ruled in favor of Richard and Mildred Loving in 1967, overturning their conviction in the state of Virginia and effectively legalized interracial marriage across the nation. The court’s decision can hardly be considered a spoiler for Loving, though, as the case has regained national attention in recent years. The Loving’s outcome established that the rights of liberty and equality can be applied to marriage in the U.
John Wick is returning to satiate your action needs, following up the 2014 series opener John Wick with the simply titled John Wick: Chapter 2. A third film is already in development, so get your bets in early for whether the series will retain its uniform names.
Every Tuesday, Film Inquiry compiles a list of the movies that are opening in cinemas. Opening this week: Jack Reacher:
A few days ago the trailer for a new film called Army of One dropped. The film was directed by Larry Charles whose credits include Sasha Baron Cohen films Borat, Bruno and The Dictator. Army of One stars Nicolas Cage who in recent years seems to have become a bit of a joke, even though he has always done interesting work.
‘90s nostalgia is in full swing, and with that comes a reboot of the so-terrible-it’s-good television series Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. To many, myself included, the series is a goofy relic of childhood, a cheap mashup of footage from a Japanese superhero program with California teen clichés. With memories of the original series firmly intact, this teaser leaves me wondering where the hell the Power Rangers are.
America should be done beating around the bush when it comes to race relations, but unfortunately many barriers still exist to open dialogue. That makes the honest language used in Get Out both striking and welcome. This is a movie about the horror of subjugation, but it’s not presented in a tidy biopic or a gritty drama.
It’s not easy to keep a series alive for five films, especially when it’s based on something as slight as an amusement park ride. Yet here we are with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, thanks in no small part to the swashbuckling weirdness that is Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow.
Every Tuesday, Film Inquiry compiles a list of the movies that are opening in cinemas. Opening this week: Max Steel, The Accountant, Kevin Hart:
The first televised presidential debate in America took place in 1960, pitting the tanned and dapper John F. Kennedy against the sallow and literally sick Richard Nixon. It was a tumultuous time for the country, with each candidate taking tough questions ranging from the cold war to civil rights issues.