John Cusack
A preview for the upcoming new Film Inquiry Network Podcast: So Grosse, Such Point, Much Blank.
Kristy Strouse includes audio of her interviews for the exciting upcoming Amazon original: Utopia.
Violence is key to the narrative of Grosse Pointe Blank, and it forces Martin Blank to contend with who he was and who he has become.
We revisit the film Max, a controversial WWII film from 2002 starring John Cusack.
Better off Dead uses the tropes and political incorrectness of many 1980s teen comedies but its absurdity is able to undermine these regressive areas.
Although it’ll be overshadowed by The Hate U Give, River Runs Red is an important film. The themes it explores make it a vital piece of social commentary.
Distorted leaves viewers with a disjointed, unoriginal story, a made-for-tv feel, and underwhelming thrills, with the only saving graces being the presence of Ricci and Cusack.
The Grifters is a films which has largely been lost through time; here, we explore why it might be worth revisiting.
Ever since the glory days of silent cinema, Hollywood has been criticised of running out of ideas. This is why the biopic is the perfect genre for screenwriters and directors. A typical life doesn’t neatly fit into a simple three-act structure, but by highlighting an individual’s greatest successes, and framing them in a way that makes everything else inconsequential by comparison, you can turn something as uninteresting as somebody’s life into a thrilling drama.