October 2014 Favourites
Just a quick (and quite late) favourites post for October, as for about two weeks of it I was on holiday in New York City! If you’d like to see what I got up to over those two weeks, feel free to check out my On Location posts, where I tracked down some awesome film […]
Search & Rescue #5
It’s been a while since my last Search & Rescue post, and given the strange questions that have been posed to me via the search terms that have found this blog, it’s well overdue for another! For those who don’t know, Search & Rescue is where I provide answers and guidance to the search terms […]
Search & Rescue #4
It’s that time again – time to answer some of the strangely specific questions that are posed to me through the search terms that enable people to stumble across this blog. This edition is strangely Game of Thrones heavy, with an additional healthy dose of existentialism.
Fishing Without Nets (2012): “If I fish with violence, will my net be full of blood?”
Cutter Hodierne’s short fictional film Fishing Without Nets (2012) confronts the issue of piracy in Somalia. Shot using non-actors on location in East Africa, the film is a brief yet blunt portrayal of life as a Somali pirate, and gives an insight into what might lure an individual into a life of piracy from a […]
Angels & Demons (2009): “Vatican City will be consumed by light.”
Consumed by light? More like consumed by trite… storylines. That’s right, I went there. Ron Howard’s Angels & Demons (2009) is the second film that follows the adventures of Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), a professor of ‘symbology’ from Harvard University. In this film, Langdon is brought to the Vatican to solve a mysterious mystery that […]
Blindspot 2017: Knife in the Water (1962)
On their way to an afternoon sailing on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej (Leon Niemczyk) and Krystyna (Jolanta Umecka) nearly run over a young hitchhiker (Zygmunt Malanowicz). Inviting the young man onto the boat with them, Andrzej begins to subtly torment him; the hitchhiker responds by making overtures toward Krystyna. When the hitchhiker is […]
Blindspot 2017: The True Cost (2015)
This is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary film that pulls […]
Game of Thrones – Season 7 Episode 4: “The Spoils of War”
It’s episode four! We’re approximately halfway through the season now. This was possibly the perfect episode for the middle of the season – something to give us the kind of action we’ve been looking forward to seeing since the end of season one, when Daenerys’ dragons were born.
Game of Thrones – Season 7 Episode 1: “Dragonstone”
I’m back again with the newest recap of Game of Thrones! It’s season seven – technically the last season, but it’s split into two half-seasons of seven and six episodes each. Even though I accidentally caught some huge (and potentially completely destructive) spoilers on Reddit, which I half-regret, I’m optimistic for this final season. In […]
April 2017 Favourites
Happy May everyone! I hope everyone had an excellent, productive and relaxing April. It was yet another quiet month here at Film Grimoire. Due to a number of different factors (the most significant of which is discussed below), I had no brain time to actually sit down and write anything this month. But I did […]
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