A Traveler’s Needs

Oct 30, 2024 | filminquiry.com | A Traveler’s Needs |Tej Narayanan

Moana was a paper-thin premise that lived up to the hype and became one of Disney’s most epic modern musical animated adventures. Eight years later, will lightning strike twice? This is the music-filled “special look” trailer for Moana 2. Following the events of the 1st film, Moana (Auli’I Cravalho) is an accomplished sailor leading her tribe across the seas in happiness.

Oct 29, 2024 | filminquiry.com | A Traveler’s Needs |Crockett Houghton

Most of the time when you watch a film you have a period of world-building. It takes you by the hand and walks you around, introducing you to the characters and the locations, getting you used to the area and the feel before it dives into the story headfirst. Hold Your Breath is not one of those films. As the first scene comes on screen we quickly realize that we are being thrust instantly into the action. It was a tale already in motion and I loved it for that.

Oct 28, 2024 | filminquiry.com | A Traveler’s Needs |Payton McCarty-Simas

Very few people, particularly the elderly, enjoy going to old folks’ homes. The Rule of Jenny Pen, a harrowing and darkly humorous horror thriller, turns the placidly soothing facade of this end of life institution into a maze as bleak, sinister, and choked with forgotten memories as the Overlook Hotel. It makes sense, then, that Stephen King would declare this gripping film, directed by New Zealander James Ashcroft (Coming Home in the Dark), .

Oct 28, 2024 | filminquiry.com | A Traveler’s Needs |Crockett Houghton

Independent movies aren’t on the decline, they’re just getting a little bit harder to find if you aren’t looking for them. Greedy People was a very sneaky film that I had heard a rumbling about, checked out the trailer for, and then kind of forgot existed (that part is on me). I think if this movie taught me anything it’s that if it grabbed my attention in the trailer I need to jot it down. Thirty-nine is apparently the age when I start forgetting about things that I’m excited to see.

Oct 26, 2024 | filminquiry.com | A Traveler’s Needs |Payton McCarty-Simas

For a brief period after the death of General Francisco Franco, Spain’s mid-century fascist dictator, the nation produced reams of genre cinema that, even today, make the works of Pedro Almodóvar look like episodes of Sesame Street.