“I’m forty-four and starting to feel mid-life anxiety: mortality is actually feeling real,” Tim Heidecker reflects in an interview with Variety promoting his new indie rock album, Fear of Death. “I have kids now and I just start thinking dumb shit: ‘I might not know my kids’ grandchildren.’ It’s a waste of time.” He continues:…
“Pennies saved don’t add up to much.” Everyone loves idioms! Or at least, we love using idioms and tossing them into casual conversations all the time. Kill Your Idioms is a two-minute animated short created by Grant Kolton that riffs on some of the most popular idioms. “You decide, do your idioms live or die…
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 notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article, about…
★★★★ Directed by: Sylas Dall Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: Sylas Dall, Bry Troyer Starring: Mary Madaline Roe, Eden Campbell, Morgan Chandler Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Darren Tilby Drawing inspiration from the works of Stephen King and paying homage…
As we look back on 1995 and the cinematic buried treasure it left us, it’s time to give overdue praise to that year’s most notorious flop. No, not “Showgirls,” which has redeemed itself as a cult film with an adoring movement behind it. Look no further than Jeffrey McHale’s great 2020 documentary, “You Don’t Nomi.”…
Chelsea Handler takes her activism seriously. The former E! network star cares more about being woke and pushing progressive causes now than making us laugh. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonA review of her new HBO MAX stand-up special, “Chelsea Handler: Evolution,” compares it to Hannah Gadsby’s shtick. It’s a TED Talk…
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 notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article about…
Hannibal Rising will probably always be an under-appreciated footnote to the Hannibal Lecter literary and cinematic universes. The prequel takes us back to Lecter’s origins. First, we see him as a victim of atrocities during World War II, then we see the monster emerge in an extended revenge thriller. Both the novel and the accompanying…
If you ask a regular person to draw a city, not based on an existing city, but rather the concept of “city,” they might start by drawing the borders. To draw those borders, they might begin by doing something that almost no actual cities have done—make it some kind of simple shape. A square, or…
★★★★ Directed by: Diego Di Iorio Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: Diego Di Iorio Starring: Charity Rose Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by: ,,Jason Knight Darkness can be terrifying! People (especially children) are afraid of what might be hiding within it….
“Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.” -Marie Curie Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThere are pivotal moments in time where history has its course drastically altered by a…
The Roger Ebert Award, which is presented annually at the Chicago International Film Festival to an emerging filmmaker whose work represents a fresh and uncompromising vision, was received this year by “Memory House,” a highlight of the 2020 New Directors program, directed by João Paulo Miranda Maria. According to the official festival synopsis, this Brazilian-French co-production is “set…
At first glance, the cuscus looks like a cross between a cat, a monkey, and a Furby. An herbivorous marsupial found in New Guinea, Australia, and the surrounding islands, it has sharp claws, a tail that wraps around branches, and forelimbs that look eerily like human hands. The babies are also unreasonably cute. “They like…
It would be an understatement to categorize Miranda July‘s films as whimsical. Her debut feature Me and You and Everyone We Know is filled with plenty of irreverent, peculiar moments such as the introduction of “))<>((” — a weird emoticon to express “Pooping back and forth. Forever.” Then in her sophomore feature The Future, she…
“Each year, for one day, the dead return.” Epic Pictures is releasing this observational documentary film experience titled Day of the Dead to celebrate the Mexican tradition. The film’s full title is officially Day of the Dead: A Celebration of Life, and it’s made by a graphic designer / doc filmmaker named Denise Richards. Each…
When mining finally ceased in this Nottinghamshire town, the people wanted to install a reminder of a time foregone. This led to the creation of a magnificent sculpture depicting a giant Davy miner’s oil lamp with two figures of coal miners, one of which is inside the lamp as if working in a thin coal…
“Why is the foreman so intent on finding you?” The Match Factory has released an official promo / sales trailer for a Spanish indie film titled Out in the Open, also known as Intemperie in Spanish. Adapted from a novel by Jesús Carrasco, the film is a Spanish fable set in an “Old West” tyrannical…
We should not underestimate the power of one high-profile controversy to shape a generation’s perception of free speech. In 1977, when neo-Nazis sought to rally in Skokie, Illinois, then home to thousands of Holocaust survivors, they were blocked by Skokie village officials. The American Civil Liberties Union stepped in to successfully defend the neo-Nazis’ rights…
Synchronic, from directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, is a film you don’t realize has your attention until you find yourself struggling to look away, to hear the world around you. Like a drug, its effects are slow, building into an experience. And like with drugs, whether that experience is good or bad will depend…
Kings Square (also spelled King’s) is one of the main public squares in the city of York. Unlike others however, this was not always by design. Until 1937, a church was located here known as both Holy Trinity, King’s Court (to distinguish it from other Holy Trinity churches in the city such as Goodramgate) and…
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 notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article about…