Film Inquiry

It’s been five years since Daniel Craig’s Bond shuffled off this mortal coil, and with him a lot of certainty about the franchise’s trajectory. After sixty years and twenty-five films, EON pulled off not one but two unprecedented maneuvers: they killed off the hero of their blockbuster franchise, and they sold off the creative control for all things Bond to Amazon MGM Studios...

Filmmakers over the years have gotten more than a little inspiration from the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, so it’s no surprise that there have been numerous screen adaptations of his 1848 story of unrequited love on the streets of Saint Petersburg, “White Nights.” Last fall, Janus Films gave us

In the current moment, it may seem exceedingly controversial for a movie to be shown from the full perspective of a Hitler Youth member, but Fatih Akin’s Amrum is one of the most surprising and compassionate films of the year. The film is based on the life of writer Erik Bohm’s childhood time spent on the island of Amrum off the coast of Germany in t...

Pixar, for thirty-one years now, has been a leading name in the world of mainstream animated cinema. From their groundbreaking first feature with Toy Story (1995), 

The whole world is watching the World Cup. They’re reveling in triumphs like Argentina’s win over England, the heroics of star players like Argentine team captain Lionel Messi and France’s top goal-scorer Kylian Mbappe, and fun assertions of national identity like