2024

BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY: Celebrating The Formative Power of Reading Rainbow and LeVar Burton
BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY: Celebrating The Formative Power of Reading Rainbow and LeVar Burton

Reading Rainbow cultivated an environment that was safe for kids and equally empowering — it engendered curiosity.

WILDCAT: The Hawkes Bring The Prickly Southern Writer To The Screen With Tender Loving Care
WILDCAT: The Hawkes Bring The Prickly Southern Writer To The Screen With Tender Loving Care

Wildcat becomes a lens through which to see beauty and empathize with one of our great American writers – and what a gift it is.

ART COLLEGE 1994: An Anti-Nostalgic Trip Back To College
ART COLLEGE 1994: An Anti-Nostalgic Trip Back To College

Liu Jian’s Art College 1994 rejects these clichés and instincts, instead seeing youth in the face of art for what it is: blowing a lot of hot air.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT & WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS
Cannes Film Festival 2024: ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT & WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS

From Cannes Film Festival Wilson Kwong reviews Payal Kapadia’s Grand Prix winning All We Imagine as Light and Rúnar Rúnarsson’s When the Light Breaks.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE & WILD DIAMOND
Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE & WILD DIAMOND

From Cannes Film Festival, Wilson Kwong reviews
Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle and Agathe Riedinger’s Wild Diamond.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: GHOST TRAIL & BLACK DOG
Cannes Film Festival 2024: GHOST TRAIL & BLACK DOG

Jonathan Millet’s Ghost Trail and Guan Hu’s Black Dog both tackle serious subject matter with subdued restraint.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: MEGALOPOLIS
Cannes Film Festival 2024: MEGALOPOLIS

It’s truly difficult to qualify the beast of an experience that is Megalopolis, and because of that, there’s an undefinable elegance.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE SECOND ACT & ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
Cannes Film Festival 2024: THE SECOND ACT & ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL

At Canne’s 2024, Film Inquiry reviews Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act (Le Deuxieme Acte), and Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.

Cannes Film Festival 2024: FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA
Cannes Film Festival 2024: FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, is a prime example of how to craft a narrative expansion that ignites a creative spark worthy of praise.

I SAW THE TV GLOW: We're All Going To The Pink Opaque
I SAW THE TV GLOW: We’re All Going To The Pink Opaque

With I Saw the TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun stakes their claim as the preeminent chronicler of those specific horrors inherent in coming of age as a millennial.

CURL POWER: Strength In Unity
CURL POWER: Strength In Unity

Curl Power has a deep awareness of the bonds of sisterhood that exist between the girls, yet is clever enough to also understand their individuality.

HUMANE: Caitlin Joins The Cronenberg Family Business
HUMANE: Caitlin Joins The Cronenberg Family Business

A timely horror satire chock full of gore and guffaws, Humane entertains in spite of its flaws.

STRESS POSITIONS & Interview With Theda Hammel & John Early
STRESS POSITIONS & Interview With Theda Hammel & John Early

Film Inquiry had the extraudinary chance to discuss with actor, writer and director Theda Hammel and actor John Early to discuss Stress Positions.

AMAR SINGH CHAMKILA: A Spiced Venture Of The Formulaic Music Biopics
AMAR SINGH CHAMKILA: A Spiced Venture Of The Formulaic Music Biopics

Imtiaz Ali’s Amar Singh Chamkila takes us through the life of one of the most loved and hated singers in Punjab, Amar Singh Chamkila.

No Way Up Democratizes the Underwater Thriller
NO WAY UP Represents The Democratization Of Bad Underwater Thrillers

Formerly the realm of big-budget blockbusters, the subgenre of underwater thrillers has been flooded with relentless low-budget pictures.