1990s
Clerks was an instant hit with festival audiences and cemented Kevin Smith as a name to watch. Thirty years later, how does it hold up?
Film Inquiry takes a look at the new Criterion release of Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy.
Shinji Somai’s magnificent 1993 coming-of-age film, Moving—now available in a new 4K restoration from Cinema Guild—can be interpreted in several ways.
With the recent temporary re-release of the Phantom Menace to honor its twenty-fifth anniversary, how does the film hold up?
From Ridley Scott’s Alien to David Cronenberg’s The Fly, From Little Shop of Horrors to Frankenstein, Leprechaun 4 not only takes us to the depths.
Criterion’s new 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray is the best Trainspotting has ever looked and sounded on home video format and is the definitive way of viewing.
Household Saints is a strange yet satisfying brew of family drama and spiritual contemplation that deserves the broader audience it has been denied.
“A Confucian Confusion” is quintessentially Yang, a needle-sharp satire of life in a city increasingly in the thrall of capitalism.
Welcome back to the scariest, and at times goriest, column here at Film Inquiry: Horrific Inquiry.…
Audition is a slow burner of a horror, an almost perfect example of a frog in boiling water.
In Ferrara’s world of fatalistic nihilism in The Funeral, there’s no escape from life torments, and only death and self-destruction hold the key.
Both a monumental piece of Chinese cinematic history and a lasting tribute to the special brilliance of its star, this is essential viewing.
For this edition of the column I decided to dive into two of Paul Verhoeven’s interesting and unique filmography.
The Truman Show manages to be inspiring and disturbing simultaneously, a symbiosis that is rarely seen.
Street Fighter reminds us that even a bad movie can be loads of fun and make you feel like a little kid again.