Movie talk

  • All of Our Shadows short animated film review

    ★★★★★ Directed by: Ruth Beni, Daniel Greaves Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: Ruth Beni Starring: Mubin Al-Khafaji, Jadesola Cole, Perez Thomas-Gaye, Zeina Ducasse Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by: ,,Jason Knight Feeling stressed out and worried can cause a lot of…

  • THE HAUNTING Series Examines Death From Two Positions

    Wherever I travel I always go on the ghost tour. Most cities have them, dusk tours of the macabre. Violent murders, ledges from which people jumped, hidden basements where illicit activities took place, the things locals have whispered about for centuries all spruced up and monetized for those passing through. It’s a fun thrill, sure,…

  • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

    Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” is a deliciously unstable comedy. This new installment in the misadventures of Cohen’s ignorant yet fearless Kazakhstani journalist Borat Sagdiyev is filled with risqué (and just plain risky) jokes. Some land. Others explode in the film’s own face like a baggy-pants comedian’s prop cigar. That’s all true to the…

  • Found: A Shipwrecked Nazi Steamer, Still Filled With Cargo

    About 40 miles off the coast of Poland, nearly 300 feet below the surface of the Baltic Sea, a beam of light cut through the cold water and fell onto the metal hulk of a ship. As the light panned across the wreck in September 2020, it cast long shadows across the seafloor. For the…

  • Meet the Man Who Walked from York to Hastings in Medieval Armor

    If you were driving through the English countryside sometime in October 2020, you may have spotted a man in a full suit of medieval armor, marching along the side of the road. It was neither a present-day Don Quixote nor a lost LARPer. It was simply Lewis Kirkbride, a 38-year-old charity worker from Durham, in…

  • Gol Stave Church Museum in Minot, North Dakota

    Scandinavian Heritage Park is believed to be the only park dedicated to the five Nordic countries. The heritage park is operated by the Scandinavian Heritage Association and the Norsk Høstfest. The Norsk Høstfest is the largest Nordic festival in North America. The centerpiece of the park is the Gol Stave Church Museum.  Read moreA Guide…

  • 15 London Street in Edinburgh, Scotland

    Icelandic composer Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson lived in Edinburgh during the 1870s, as the Scottish capital represented more opportunities for a fledgling musician than his home country. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonHe resided in a Georgian-style townhouse in the city’s New Town, however, he probably never imagined that one of his pieces composed…

  • Amazon Buckles, Agrees to Stream ‘What Killed Michael Brown?’

    Diversity only goes so far in today’s woke landscape. Yes, Hollywood and major media platforms like Netflix routinely attempt to bring more people of color into the entertainment industry. The moves come after decades of inadequate representation. In many ways the cultural wave is a worthy one. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThere’s…

  • Once a Boom Town, Now a Ghost Town, Always a Hometown

    This piece was originally published in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. Centuries-old sycamore trees tower over the dry riverbed of Harshaw Creek, in the Patagonia Mountains of southern Arizona. Where houses once stood, flat, barren earth stretches to the base of nearby low, oak-covered hills. A crumbling…

  • 10 Hunkiest Himbos of Horror

    October is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “31 days of horror.” Don’t bother looking it up; it’s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we’ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article about…

  • The Wren’s Eggs in Wiltshire, England

    The Wren’s Eggs are located along Blackhead path in the coastal seaside town of Whitehead on the East Antrim coastline. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonBlackhead Path is one of many coastal cliff walks along the Islandmagee peninsula including The Gobbins and Skernaghan Point. Blackhead Path leads visitors along a coastal pathway…

  • Lake of Cutilia in Vasche, Italy

    The Lake of Cutilia also known as the Paterno Lake was sacred to the Sabine people. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonRoman historians described a floating island with a temple dedicated to the oracular cult of the Sabine Goddess Vacuna, a fertility goddess who protected the waters. The lake was later exploited…

  • HILLBILLY ELEGY Trailer

    The bright lights of Hollywood turn on Appalachia in Hillbilly Elegy, the latest from director Ron Howard. J.D. Vance is one of the few people that got out. Out of his hometown, out of the vacuum of poverty, out of the living generations of his family led. Now a law student with the world opening up…

  • Paperback Bookshop Rhinoceros in Edinburgh, Scotland

    When thinking of animals that reflect the breadth and diversity that is Edinburgh, there’s a plethora of species to choose from, from the mythical unicorn, which is the nation’s symbolic animal, to Greyfriars Bobby, a famed Skye terrier who is the city’s mascot. There is also Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal to be cloned, or  Wojtek…

  • Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Russia

    In the north of Saint Petersburg lies an astoundingly large and somber memorial complex dedicated mostly to the victims of the Siege of Leningrad carried out by Nazi soldiers during World War II. This siege—considered a genocide by some historians—was one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history. It was also perhaps the costliest…

  • Giveaway: Win Tickets To RAMS [Australia Only]

    Thanks to our friends at Roadshow Films, Film Inquiry is happy to announce that we’ve got 5 in-season double passes to give away for Rams to our Australian readers! Jeremy Sims’ faithful and empathetic adaptation of Grímur Hákonarson’s Oscar-nominated Icelandic drama Rams has sneak previews across the weekend of October 23-25, with the film releasing in cinemas everywhere in…

  • Terence Stamp Is Targeted in Our Pick of the Week

    Streaming might be the future, but physical media is still the present. It’s also awesome, depending on the title, the label, and the release, so each week we take a look at the new Blu-rays and DVDs making their way into the world. Welcome to this week in Home Video for October 20th, 2020 including our…