There’s finally a new book to put on the cinematic shelf next to “The Babadook.” Naturally, it’s a cyber-edition, one found on tablets and smart phones but mimicking that movie’s literary frights. “Come Play” follows an Autistic lad who discovers…
Attendees at the funeral of Adolf Emanuel Kjellén, in the autumn of 1884, received beautiful, solemn keepsakes. Small, sugar-sculpture doves perched among black lace and fabric flowers, all affixed to pieces of black paper. Inside each elaborate wrapper was a…
Page To Screen is a column examining literary adaptations in conversation with their source material. Call up your book club and set out some canapés, we’re talking reading. Let’s start with that title. A haphazard collection of syllables, borderline nonsensical…
Imagine a world that exists parallel to our own, unseeable to the human eye and full of spirits with their own society, their own tribes and classes, their own laws and schools. Like in our world, some of them are…
A young mother is rocking her newborn to sleep when suddenly the smell of vinegar fills the air. She quickly pulls the curtain back, and sure enough, the disembodied head of a woman is floating just outside the window, with…
The fifth feature film from legendary Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, Damnation chronicles the sad stasis of a depressed alcoholic who is obsessively in love with the married singer at one of his favorite watering holes. First released in 1988, a…
Thomas Vinterberg, one of Denmark’s most renowned and acclaimed filmmakers, returned with aplomb at this year’s London Film Festival. Another Round, on the back of strong reviews and a place as part of the Cannes Official Selection, took home Best…
The Adirondacks is known for its sprawling rustic private summer homes known as Great Camps, but only one is publicly owned. Camp Santanoni constructed between 1892-1893, is a sprawling log building modeled after a Japanese temple. It sits at the…
October is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “31 days of horror.” Don’t bother looking it up; it’s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we’ve taken that up a spooky…
Shinto, or Shintoism, is a pantheistic and animistic religion that originated in Japan. Lacking a doctrine, it’s more a traditional culture rather than a strict religion for most Japanese people. Reportedly there are over 88,000 Shinto shrines in Japan, so…