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Film Inquiry Recommends: 1986 In Film

Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations, with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! This week’s theme is the year of 1986.

Film Inquiry Recommends: Monte Hellman Films

Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations, with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! This week’s theme is the filmography of progressive genre director Monte Hellman.

10 Great Coming-of-Age Films
10 Great Coming-of-Age Films

Whether it’s aimed at big kids or little kids, one of the most common themes in films from the last few decades has been the concept of ‘coming-of-age’. What this actually means can vary. For instance, ‘coming-of-age’ films may be ‘teen dramas’ or stories about childhood, sexuality, gender, or (auto-) biography.

Film Inquiry Recommends: Women-Directed Films of the 1980’s

Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations, with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! This week’s theme is women-directed films of the 1980’s.

Film Inquiry Recommends: Prison Films

Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations, with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! This week’s theme is prison films.

Film Inquiry Recommends: Films Passing The DuVernay Diversity Test

Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations, with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! This week’s theme is films which have passed the Ava DuVernay Diversity Test.

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Film Inquiry Recommends: Non-Romero Zombie Films

Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations, with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! This week’s theme is focused on zombie films not directed by George A.

Pan's Labyrinth
Staff Inquiry: Get in My Belly – Food Scenes Good Enough To Eat

One of the few common experiences not only among different cultures, but different species, is the act of eating. We all just have to do it, and we don’t have a say in it. Food unites high and low, left and right, young and all, through necessity and playful manipulation of our senses.

Film Inquiry Recommends: 1970’s Films Directed By Women

Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations, with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! This week’s theme is focused on women-directed films of the 1970’s.

The Laughing Policeman
Film Inquiry Recommends: Little-Known Cop Films

Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations, with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! This week’s theme is focused on obscure cop procedural films.

Film Inquiry Recommends: Time Travel Films

Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations, with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! This week’s theme is focused on Time Travel films.

Top 15 2015 Inside Out
Film Inquiry’s Top 15 Movies of 2015

The cinema is under attack. Streaming services threaten the long-held monopoly that the theater has always had on new releases. Studios spend more and more money on fewer and fewer films that are bigger and bigger yet take less and less risks.

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Film Inquiry Recommends: The Films of David Bowie

Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations, with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! This week’s theme is focused on the cinematic work of the late singer and actor David Bowie.

Film Inquiry Best of 2015
Film Inquiry’s Best Articles Of 2015

Happy new year! Although the end of 2015 was already 19 days ago, it’s never too late to reflect on what a terrific year we’ve had at Film Inquiry and highlight some of our favourite articles. We hope that in 2016 we can bring you more cinematic goodness – we’re looking forward to it!

Legend
A Guide To 2015’s Failed Oscar Bait

Every year, it is easier for audiences to grow more cynical as awards season comes ever-closer, with the plethora of middle-of-the-road “prestige pictures” being dumped by the truckload at multiplexes worldwide, to indifferent audiences who would prefer to watch a star war. For the standard movie fan, prestige season should be an embarrassment of riches, the best films of the year being released all at once like a smorgasbord of cinematic delights. But with each passing year, audiences have wised up to the cynical nature of these movies: