Everyone's So Pissed That Spike Lee Is Remaking 'Oldboy'

Our friends at Grolsch Film Works have a website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we'll be plucking the highlights. This is that.

THE QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS: FRANCES HA AND GIRLS

Twentysomethings really are just as selfish as everyone thinks. Not content leaving the life crisis to those in their forties and beyond, the young and confused have birthed the term “the quarter-life crisis”: that feeling of terror and deliriousness suffered by those finding themselves suddenly ejected from cosy university and college dorms and landing broke and direction-less in adult life. Maybe we are just spoilt and self-entitled as a generation, but there does seem to be a dawning realisation that being in your twenties nowadays just doesn't seem to grant the freedom and personal security we were promised as teens just dying to leave the schoolroom politics behind.

READ FULL STORY AN INTERVIEW WITH GRETA GERWIG

We caught up with the in-demand star to chat French New Wave films, character idiosyncrasies and how men's fashion in NYC today is not that dissimilar to 1960s Paris…

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TRAILER: NEW YORK STREET PHOTOGRAPHY DOC 'EVERYBODY STREET'

Featuring the legendary likes of Bruce Davidson, Ricky Powell, Martha Cooper, Jamel Shabazz, Jamel Freedman and more, this new documentary on raw NYC street photography by Cheryl Dunn –  herself a local photographer – looks incredibly awesome.

Entitled Everybody Street, the doc features the aforementioned talents wandering the streets and sharing stories of the lengths they went to to get their shots. Clearly insightful and inspiring, this is one of our most anticipated documentaries of the year.

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FIVE REASONS WHY PEOPLE SHOULD CHILL OUT ABOUT THE 'OLDBOY' REMAKE

Ever since the announcement that native New Yorker Spike Lee would be remaking Park Chan-wook’s cult classic Oldboy in the Hollywood style, messageboards and comments sections have been ablaze with the standard fanboy grousing and griping about the pointlessness of the whole endeavour. Some have even gone as far as to wish failure upon the project. But here at Grolsch Film Works we don’t subscribe to such negativity, and we’re here to tell you to chill out, relax, and look forward to what could be a great cinematic event.

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Keep your peepers peeled for more Grolsch Film Works updates next week. Go to grolschfilmworks.com to see what’s happening right now.