SFIFF Review: FIRST REFORMED: The ‘Taxi Driver’ Of The Millennial Generation
“Courage is the solution to despair.” [Published at Film Inquiry] In a Q&A at Rotterdam Film Festival this year, writer...
AN ORDINARY MAN: Silberling At The Top Of His Game
Philosopher Hannah Arendt once had the famous theory that evil was simply banal. Essentially, what she meant was: “Evil is never ‘radical,’...
MIDNIGHTERS: A Perfectly Watchable Midnight Thriller
[Published at Film Inquiry] Midnighters knows exactly how to draw the viewer in. It starts off with a bang, or a...
THE FORGIVEN: Whitaker & Bana At Their Respective Bests
[Published at Film Inquiry] Michael Ashton is a playwright and screenwriter from Dundee, Scotland. Before he became a writer, he served...
LOOKING GLASS: Cage & Tunney Can’t Save This Mess
[Published at Film Inquiry] Nicolas Cage’s latest film, Looking Glass, is something of a Frankenstein’s monster that’s muddled in nostalgia and clichés. Looking...
SMALL TOWN CRIME: The Nelms Brothers Have Arrived
[Published at Film Inquiry] Renowned indie film directors and brothers Eshom Nelms and Ian Nelmscollaborate on their fifth feature film together with Small Town...
SHOT: A Gripping, Timely Pro Gun-Control Thriller
[Published at Film Inquiry] Shot tells the story of an expert sound mixer named Mark Newman (played ingeniously by Noah Wyle, also...
WALKING OUT: Bomer & Wiggins Commit To A Simplistic Script With Vast Depth
[Published at Film Inquiry] Rural Montana is an incredibly beautiful and serene place. It’s one of the last predominantly untouched...
SHOT CALLER: A Terrifyingly Accurate Castigation Of White Supremacy
[Originally published at Film Inquiry] Director Ric Roman Waugh is no stranger to gritty prison dramas. The former stuntman wrote and directed Felon and Snitch,...
GOOD TIME: Welcome To The Robert Pattinson Era
[Published at Film Inquiry] If you’ve read the title of this review, you’re probably thinking, “hasn’t Robert Pattinson been around forever?” Indeed, Pattinson has...