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The Big Short tells the story of the global economic meltdown in 2007-2010 and the men who made millions of dollars from it. Four men saw the global collapse of the economy coming while the big banks, media and governments still refused to and had an idea: The Big Short.
Zinana is a prison film from the United Arabic Emirates and looks quite intruiging, based on the trailer. It is set in a dimly lit prison cell (a Zinzana) in a remote police station in Jordania. While awaiting his verdict, a prisoner is tortured by visions of his beloved ex-wife and son.
Bridge of Spies tells the story of American lawyer James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks), as he is thrust into the center of the Cold War. He is given the mission to negotiate the release of U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers, who was shot down over the Soviet Union.
Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Hotel Transylvania 2, The Intern, The Green Inferno, Stonewall, Labyrinth of Lies, 99 Homes, A Brave Heart:
The director of the first Pitch Perfect brings you the Amy Poehler/Tina Fey comedy we’ve all been waiting for: Sisters. Plenty of crude humor, hilarious one-liners and all the crazy you’re expecting when you cast these two comedy queens as siblings.
What with Disney giving all their classic animated films the live-action treatment, it was only a matter of time until we’d get a live-action Jungle Book. The trailer is impressive, but the giant amount of CGI on display here does make you wonder: it must’ve been hard for new-kid-on-the-block Neel Sethi, who plays Mowgli, to interact with all the green screens and actors fitted with giant motion capture suits.
There are some things to mention here. First, this is not Point Break (2015). Second, this is pretty much the Adam Sandler-type movie we wished for, but Adam Sandler can no longer make them since he sold his soul.
It’s a feel-good comedy but way more ridiculous than I expected. Most often, a feel-good comedy is centered around tame jokes and a situation that is easily identifiable. This film seems to be based around a young man’s coming-of-age through time spent with a retired CIA assassin suffering a terminal illness.
Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Everest, Sicario, Maze Runner:
Okay, this has everything I need as a young adult with no children. This movie has everything from a cavalcade of comedy stars, child zombies and a super stupid but ultimately inspired plot. Chicken nuggets have infected elementary school children with a strange virus.
I flipped the final page of Andy Weir’s “The Martian” a couple of weeks ago. Thousands of other people have done the exact same thing since, and we all had similar motivations. I didn’t do it because I had heard good things about the book (at least, that was not the primary reason); rather, I did it because Ridley Scott’s adaptation of the book will be released in theaters this October.
Have you ever known anybody who wanted to be different than they were? Of course you have. Then have you ever known someone who wanted to be the opposite of what they were?
Why are you here, Jack Black? You weren’t a part of my childhood. No, you were the uncredited side character during my awkward adolescent years!
Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: The Visit, The Perfect Guy, 90 Minutes in Heaven, Coming Home, Wolf Totem, Sleeping With Other People and Time Out of Mind.
If you don’t know who William Shakespeare is, we have failed you as a society. Hollywood has decided to make up for that shortcoming with the story of Macbeth. This interpretation comes as a war drama that has way more colors and wide shots than my middle school English class informed me about.