★★★ Stars Directed by: #ÉricPinéda Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #ÉricPinéda Starring: #JustineAllame, #AlexMesnil & #XavierGojo Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: David Richards Éric Pinéda’s ‘Anna’ strikes intrigue in the mystery of how the plot unfolds. Like most non-linear narratives,…
Amazon’s “Them” wants its own shelf in the modern horror echelon, especially when it comes to recently made stories about being Black in America. In its response to a nation currently examining the on-camera murder of a Black man by a white police officer, the series created by Little Marvin speaks in serious extremes—it’s ten episodes…
★★★ Directed by: #SidDuit Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #SidDuit Starring: #DirkGuntherMohr #ErinJoHarris Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Patrick Foley Writing seems to be a profession that has a knack for driving one crazy. From Hemmingway to Hunter S. Thompson,…
In the sixth episode of Pretend It’s a City, Martin Scorsese‘s new Netflix docuseries starring himself and Fran Lebowitz, the filmmaker and the author are asked a simple question: How did you meet? While neither is quite sure, the legend goes that the two always found themselves in conversation at the kind of parties that icons of…
Welcome to Movie DNA, a column that recognizes the direct and indirect cinematic roots of both new and classic movies. Learn some film history, become a more well-rounded viewer, and enjoy like-minded works of the past. This entry recommends movies to watch next if you like Godzilla vs Kong. If all you know of kaiju movies…
“We have to go back to where it all started.” Disney reveals one more trailer for Marvel’s Black Widow, which was delayed from its opening last May for more than a year due to the pandemic. It’s now set to open in July and will be available on Disney+ in addition to theaters at the…
In the vast history of comic book characters and their origins, The Phantom, also known as The Ghost Who Walks, is noted as being the first superhero to don a skintight costume. The character, which was created by Lee Falk and first appeared in newspaper strips in 1936, also lives in a cave, rides a…
“I know what you’re looking for… a Dream Team!” Warner Bros has revealed the first teaser trailer for the long-awaited sequel Space Jam 2, also known as Space Jam: A New Legacy, directed by Malcolm D. Lee (of Barbershop: The Next Cut, Girls Trip, Night School). The original Space Jam first opened in the summer…
Welcome to Saturday Morning Cartoons, our weekly column where we continue the animated boob tube ritual of yesteryear. Our lives may no longer be scheduled around small screen programming, but that doesn’t mean we should forget the necessary sanctuary of Saturday ‘toons. In this entry, we celebrate the Genndy Tartakovsky Clone Wars series just in time…
What on earth was Peter Jackson thinking when he made King Kong? And no, I’m not talking about the three-hour runtime, or that we spend a full hour of the movie waiting to see the big monkey. I’m talking about his decision to cast the lean, suave drip king Adrien Brody, a man after my…
Ever since its inception near the mid-2010s, Warner Bros.’ fittingly titled “MonsterVerse” has been one of the studio’s flagship franchises over the course of the past ten years. Their various reimaginings of the classic movie monsters of decades past have served as tremendous accomplishments in visual storytelling, bringing these characters to life in new ways…
In 2016, Sana Javeri Kadri found herself at a crossroads. After moving from her hometown of Mumbai to California, she wanted to learn more about the historical forces shaping her own identity and experience as a queer woman of color in the United States. A food photographer, Javeri Kadri turned to culinary history to better…
The bat swivels around to regard us, eyes wide and confused, wings folded protectively across its salt-and-pepper body. One of its wings is mangled—the result of getting entangled in fruit netting. “Bat wing membranes are like skin, it will heal and grow back,” says Jan Virgo, animal rights activist and founder of the non-profit Colac…
★★★★★ Directed by: #ChristosNikou Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #ChristosNikou, #AndrejŠtritof Starring: #ArisServetalis, #SofiaGeorgovassili, #AnnaKalaitzidou Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,Film Review by: ,Isabelle Ryan After he awakes on a bus apparently unable to remember who or where he is, a man (Aris…
Continuing on from my coverage of documentaries from SXSW 2021, I wrote about a documentary that details the lives of a few European and North American women who live in a Syrian displacement camp after they left their countries to join ISIS and have now had their citizenships revoked, including former East London schoolgirl Shamima Begum,…
In my youth, there was a locally broadcast television show called “Creature Feature,” in which a monster movie would be air every weekend. This was how I first saw the 1963 “King Kong Vs. Godzilla,” which my childhood buddy John and I watched with giddy delight one afternoon. I still recall our post-viewing conversation, an…
This review occupies a somewhat awkward space: my colleague Nick Allen reviewed the original “Mapplethorpe,” a 2018 film released in 2019, and two years later, here’s a review of “Mapplethorpe: The Director’s Cut” by somebody else who liked it a lot more. “Robert Mapplethorpe’s black and white photography was provocative, raw, and unforgettable,” Nick wrote. “But Ondi…
A part of me still cannot believe this documentary was put together. Maybe it’s because we have seen so many films about characters and their loved ones dealing with an illness, so it’s hard to watch one that is completely real. Maybe it’s because most people would not want the world to see them at…
St. Elmo, once known as Forest City, was settled by miners in the 1870s to fill the need for labor in the local mines. Residents of the town were employed by the hundreds, as they extracted millions of dollars worth of gold and silver. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe town grew…
My favorite movie has been the 1997 dark comedy, Grosse Pointe Blank, for three quarters of my life. I even wrote a lengthy piece on the movie for Film Inquiry last year that got recognition from John Cusack, himself. However, back in 2018, I had an idea for a podcast and because I didn’t trust…
Some thirty years after the Great London Exposition took place, Edinburgh hosted its own presentation. Between the months of May and October 1886, The Meadows was home to an exhibit showcasing Scottish advancements in Art, Science, and Industry. This trade fair attracted nearly three million visitors to the capital city. Over 100 years later, there…