What to Expect from the Remake of Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Scenes From a Marriage’
It’s not easy to follow in Ingmar Bergman’s footsteps. But Hagai Levi is going to try.
It’s not easy to follow in Ingmar Bergman’s footsteps. But Hagai Levi is going to try.
A hearing-impaired woman, a sadistic killer, and a date with terror.
Welcome back to the newest, and at times goriest, column here at Film Inquiry – Horrific Inquiry. Twice a month, I will be tackling all things horror, each month bringing two films back into the spotlight to terrify and frighten once more. And occasionally looking at those that could have pushed the envelope further. Join…
In life, Peder Winstrup was a man of both god and science, and a practical politician who advocated for his city of Lund, in what is now southern Sweden. In death, the 17th-century bishop is still providing assistance—as well as a puzzle, hidden in the folds of his funerary garb, that researchers are only now…
La Soufrière, the skyscraping volcano on the northern side of the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, began exploding on April 9, 2021. At press time, no deaths had been recorded, but ash has smothered the entire island, causing power cuts, polluting waterways, and burying crops. The volcano upped the ante that day, but the eruption…
“Only 20 of your crew were ever found. What happened to the other 100 men you were sworn to protect?” An intriguing, low key sci-fi short film that is built entirely around dialogue. Mimic is a short film made by LA-based filmmaker Scott Jeschke, who has been cooking up shorts for years while working to…
★★★★ Director: #AlexandreRichards Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonMusic written and performed by: #MadaMada Starring: #CharlesAlexisDesgagnés Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Music video review by David Richards The music video for Montreal artist Mada Mada’s ‘Autonome’ is presented to us as a compelling short film…
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, or Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächniskirche, was originally constructed in the 1890s as part of the Protestant church-building program started by Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife Augusta Victoria. They hoped that the program would launch a return to traditional religious values, a move away from the labor and socialist movements that were prevalent…
In The Earth is writer and director Ben Wheatley‘s answer to the current pandemic. In The Earth uses contagion as the vessel and nature as the monster and makes use of the limitations of pandemic-era filmmaking to push the envelope through innovative, unconventional aesthetics and choices. The rough-around-the-edges eco-horror film stars Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, Reece Shearsmith, John…
Nowadays when people think Wisconsin Dells, they probably think water parks. However, this part of southern Wisconsin is home to a number of beautiful sandstone cliffs. One particular slot canyon, known as the Witches Gulch, is almost otherworldly. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe sandstone in this area formed millions of years…
I’ve always had trouble waking up. My parents would take turns yelling my name, trying to get me up for school. (Since I was named after the Katherine Ross character from “The Graduate,” they often found this amusing. “Elaaaaaaine!”) One morning, after a few rounds of shouting my name and even turning on my bedroom…
Hollywood has taught us a painful lesson in recent years. No amount of fame, fortune, prestige or power is enough to inoculate you against the woke mob. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWe’ve seen powerhouse figures like Scarlett Johansson, Stephen King, Matt Groening and Halle Berry all buckle when pressured by woke…
Jon Gnarr, the legendary former mayor of Reykjavík, took the first putt at Skemmtigarðurinn during the opening of this pirate-themed mini golf course in August 2010. The Best Party politician’s name was added to the massive ship that serves as the centerpiece of the Treasure Hunt course and bears resemblance to the vessels Vikings settlers used…
Located at the parking lot of one of the largest shopping centers in Brazil, this huge tower with a metallic bird statue on its top is has become a landmark of Campinas and its surrounding metropolitan region. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonBuilt in 2002, alongside Parque Dom Pedro’s opening, the monument’s purpose…
When documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky was a child, he befriended a pig. Eventually, the pig was slaughtered and served for New Year’s Eve dinner, and Kossakovsky was so distressed that he became a vegetarian on the spot. Yet his latest film, Gunda, is not the piece of vegan propaganda that you might expect from such…
The mining history in Idrija goes back to 1490. At its peak, it was one of the main sources of mercury, along with Almaden, in Spain. Mercury is a rare metal and its deposits are scarce. Most of it is in the form of ore known as cinnabar (mercury sulfide). Idrija is one of the…
Born locally, in Smithies, Thomas (Tommy) Taylor was in the prime of his life and career as a footballer for both Manchester United and England, when he became one of the eight United players killed in the 1958 Munich Air Disaster. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonBy that time at just 26…
If cookies go a few weeks without getting eaten, they turn weirdly soft or dissolve into fine dust. If cookies go 1,300 years without getting eaten, they get carefully preserved in a case at the British Museum. In the winter of 1915, the British-Hungarian archeologist Marc Aurel Stein opened a tomb in Xinjiang. Known as…
For years, the short film medium has been a launching pad for some of the most successful horror films and horror franchises. The Babadook, Ju-on: The Grudge, When A Stranger Calls, Trick ‘r Treat, and Saw all found their starts through short films – a proof of concept leading to a full-blown feature loved by…
On 8:30 p.m. on any given Monday before the pandemic, The Griswold Inn would be packed. A stately colonial building in the sleepy, coastal New England town of Essex, Connecticut, the Griswold Inn sits just steps from the water. Flying gallantly above the sidewalk was a flag featuring an anchor and the phrase “Chanteys tonight!”…
★★★★★ Stars Directed by: #TravonFree, #MartinDesmondRoe Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonStarring: #JoeyBada$$, #AndrewHoward, #ZariaSimone Film Review by: Alicia Moore Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Two Distant Strangers follows Carter (Joey Bada$$) as he repeatedly attempts to travel back home to his loving dog; each…