ocean
A quiet, poignant, and moving documentary, The Deepest Breath is unforgettable.
Inventive and enchanting, once Wittman’s Human Flowers of Flesh takes hold it becomes clear what the film is.
While it doesn’t dig as deep as one may hope, Becoming Cousteau is an honest yet engrossing portrait of one of the most iconic explorers.
A notorious box office flop, revisiting Waterworld today reveals a sturdy but middling treasure, as astonishing as it is underwhelming.
Harpoon never gets deep enough to attain full authenticity, but it’s still a fittingly tense and amusingly deranged romp, poking fun at how low these people are drowning into moral abyss.
Thoughtfully composed and steadily educational, Super Whale Highway’s reflection on the domestic duties of the humpback whale is a trip worth taking.
Wonders of the Sea following explorer and filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau is well-intentioned but never a truly satisfying experience.
Beyond catchy scores or bad special effects or bloody fun, shark films have a great deal to say about our own anxieties on commercial exploitation of the environment.
Watson is a vital showcase of the power a person can have to affect change and how far reaching that change can be to others.
47 Meters Down is a total shark sandwich of a film, that will leave every audience member wishing they were watching Jaws instead.
I am a huge Pixar fan and Finding Nemo is one of my favourite films, so I was thrilled to know a sequel was being made. However, I was a little reticient. Toy Story 2 & 3 were remarkable sequels to be sure, but they are unique in cinema, Pixar also made Cars 2.
Nearly everything about the film The Shallows seems to indicate that you wouldn’t be at a loss for missing it in theaters. The premise of an attractive woman in turmoil, coupled with an unbelievably vicious shark – each of these stories on their own has been done time and time again. Yet, somehow, The Shallows manages to just surpass the murky depths that most of those films sink to.
According to my personal checklist, the extent to which a film can affect a viewer is a mark of its quality. Pioneer must have done something right, because it absolutely wrecked my sense of calm. A full 24 hours after watching director Erik Skjoldbjærg’s thriller for the first time, I still find myself feeling strangely uneasy – stealing glances over my shoulder, eyeing my friends and family with icy distrust…I even threw out a plate of unattended food on the off chance it had been poisoned by the shady agents of a deep-sea drilling conglomerate.