Welcome to Pitch Meeting, a monthly column in which we suggest an IP ripe for adaptation, then assign the cast and crew of our dreams. In this entry, we’re pitching ‘Kongzilla,’ the perfect ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ sequel based on the forgotten collectible sculpture from Bowen Designs. Sequels are beasts. Forever tasked with upping the ante,…
Movies allow us to live vicariously through others, act as voyeurs and witness things we’d never see in real life. Richard Linklater’s “Waking Life” lets us eavesdrop on great conversation and live in the mindscape of someone’s dreams. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho Marathon Linklater’s 2001 film is a sublime, one-of-a-kind experience….
★ Stars Directed by: #FilipZylber Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #WiktorPiatkowski, #MarzannaPolit Starring: #AdriannaChlebicka, #MateuszBanasiuk, #AgnieszkaZulewska, #KrzysztofCzeczot, #MiroslawBaka Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Alicia Moore “A celebrity journalist and renowned womaniser starts to rethink his life choices after he falls…
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 new Tom and Jerry movie’s arrival on…
In the clearing of the Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) forest of Abidjan is the only prison in the world ruled by an inmate—MACA. Far removed from anarchy, the Dangoro named Blackbeard (Steve Tientcheu) stands atop the prison by way of a traditional hierarchy governed by codes, laws, and beliefs. When a Dangoro falls ill, for…
“Death is weird.” Oscilloscope Labs has revealed an official trailer for the indie coming-of-age drama titled Sophie Jones, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Jessie Barr. This premiered at a few film festivals last year, and it’s getting a virtual release coming up soon in March. Inspired by true experiences of grief, girlhood, and…
“Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” disappeared from Amazon’s streaming shelves mere days into Black History Month. The 2020 documentary let the reserved legal mind narrate his own life story, a tale taking him from an impoverished childhood in the segregated South to decades on the Supreme Court. Read moreA Guide to The…
“You are being considered for the amazing opportunity of life.” Another year, another Top 10. Better late than never, as they say! Though this usually happens with me, getting this list out takes a lot of time… It was a tough year to keep writing during 2020, despite watching films all the time. I saw…
Once they reach adulthood, great capricorn beetles, Cerambyx cerdo, have only a brief time left on Earth. The bulk of their lives, which can span several years, is spent as larvae and pupae, boring through wood and nibbling as they go, then hunkering down beneath the bark of sun-warmed oaks until the weather invites them…
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…
Boris Behncke was growing impatient. The sun was setting, twilight was soaking the soil, and the sky was not yet on fire. For the past few days, Mount Etna’s almost preternatural displays of liquid hot rage had come along like clockwork, spaced roughly 30 hours apart on the 16th, 18th, and 19th of February 2021….
At first glance, Pastelaria Alcôa, a bakery in the charming little town of Alcobaça, Portugal, looks thoroughly modern. Behind a gleaming glass counter are colorful, award-winning pastries that have made the pâtisserie one of the most celebrated in the country. On warm days, customers sit outside at tables shadowed by large umbrellas and enjoy the…
The media’s coverage of Covington Catholic students’ 2019 trip to D.C. may be the worst journalism scandal in recent memory. Reporters pounced on a preferred narrative, slamming the high schoolers instead of waiting for more facts to emerge. In the process they let loose the social media mob, forcing students to flee their homes and…
Screen legends Jane Fonda and Norman Lear will be receiving honorary awards at the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards airing live at 7pm CST on Sunday, February 28th on NBC. Kerry Washington, Ted Danson, Brie Larson and Laverne Cox will pay tribute to Fonda, who is this year’s Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient, while Wanda Sykes, Marisa Tomei and Lin-Manuel Miranda will participate in the tribute package for Lear,…
What a year Mads Mikkelsen is having. The charismatic Dane is fresh from the success of Thomas Vinterberg‘s festival winning Another Round – which has rumours of Oscar noms in its future – and here he is with another Danish feature, Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders of Justice. It seems going home has served Mikkelsen very…
Standing like ancient, tortured sentries in the yard of Chatham Manor in Fredericksburg, Virginia, are two venerable Southern Catalpa trees (Catalpa bignonioides). Their gnarled branches and twisted, misshapen trunks appear to be manifestations of the horrors of war they witnessed in 1862, during the aftermath of the Battle of Fredericksburg. Read moreA Guide to The…
The Nansen Ski Jump was constructed in 1937 and was used as the location for the first United States Olympic Ski Jumping Trials. The jump is around 260 feet in length and was known as The Sleeping Giant. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonDuring its time in use, the Nansen Ski Jump was…
All of the stations on the Toei Ōedo subway line are adorned with some form of public art, from unusual sculptures to technological marvels such as the computer-designed “Web Frames” lighting at Iidabashi Station. The most fascinating of these is located in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonTitled “Fossils of the…
★ Directed by #TimStory Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #KevinCostello Starring #ChloeGraceMoretz #MichaelPena Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by Hope Madden Scooby-Doo is having a moment. The franchise got its first wide release feature film last year, and the brains of…
While I was getting my film major, I saw a lot of classic movies in class, many more than once. One film I did not expect to see was a 1970 comedy about race relations, a quarter of which relied on whiteface, which held up not adequately but magnificently. Watermelon Man is about a racist…
At a height of just over 90 feet (30 meters), this beautiful waterfall flows down off the Ontika limestone cliff situated on the northern coast of Estonia between Ontika and Valaste. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThere was once a rickety platform across the cliff, but it was eventually replaced by a…