Category: Year in Film

An icon of both cinema and literature, few characters are as recognizable as Count Dracula. So many artists have taken a stab at Bram Stoker’s…

This year’s Edinburgh Film Festival saw 43% of the films that made up the festival’s program being directed by a female filmmaker. While not every…

Every classic horror film has that scene. The scene that defines the experience for a first-time viewer, the scene friends all talk about after it…

In most films, we’re only aware of the last shot in retrospect. The screen cuts to black, and only then do we process after the…

In one of the most memorable sequences of Ratatouille,one of the film’s characters, Anton Ego (Peter O’Toole), who is one of Paris’s most influential food…

There is a shot early on in Andrew Dominik’s 2007 film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford which must be on…

There’s an exact moment, about 20 minutes in, when you realize The Bourne Ultimatum is a great movie. And it involves Matt Damon yelling at…

Today when we watch the latest given to us by Disney, it is easy to become a bit jaded with how self aware they have…

The thing that comes back to me as I think about a film like Away from Her is the snow. Snow feels like it’s flooding…

Horror is one of my favorite genres. This was not true a few years back, when I was still a kid and was easily scared…

FilmInquiry’s Kevin Lee becomes the next first-timer on the Filmotomy Podcast. He joins hostess Bianca Garner, writer Joel Melendez, and Editor Robin Write. This week’s…

Mark Twain once wrote, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.” Zodiac is pretty…

Superbad is more than just a film. It’s a nostalgia-filled, coming-of-age time capsule. And it’ll always be funny. It’s been 12 years and it still…

Persepolis redefines what a war movie, a coming-of-age drama, an animated picture can look like. It seems only fitting that a film about identity, and…