Scotland is home to between 2,000 and 4,000 castles. The vast discrepancy in the margins is due to the fact that some are just crumbling ruins, while others make the assertion to sound more grandiose than they are in reality. Still, a few thousand are either popular tourist attractions or stately homes passed down through…
In photography, as in life, sometimes a new perspective makes all the difference, and can make the mundane seem more special. Since photography was first introduced in the 19th century (the earliest surviving photograph was taken with a camera obscura in 1827 by Nicéphore Niépce in France), there have been daring and adventurous photographers who…
Like many short films, Trained finds a unique phobia/concept (Siderodromophilia: someone who cannot get aroused unless they’re on or around moving trains) then applies it to two emotionally involved people in an attempt to raise immovable questions. Comedy or drama? As aforementioned, the idea of finding a relatively unique phobia or personal tendency and applying…
The Old Town section of Alexandria, Virginia is packed with significant sites and artifacts, as echoes of the past dot the streets of this historical section. One intriguing vestige of this city’s past often overlooked is nestled in a suburban tract, several blocks removed from the hustle and bustle of King Street. Read moreA Guide to…
Nestled between the Alleghany River and Alleghany State Park in Western New York’s Southern Tier, is a sprawling museum dedicated to the Seneca-Iroquois Nation. Named after a prominent Seneca singer and teacher, the 33,000 square foot Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center opened in 2018. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe Seneca Nation, or more…
As we’ve done every December, we asked the writers of RogerEbert.com to pick a performance they particularly loved from the just-passed year of film. The submissions ranged from the performers who are picking up awards buzz to a group of actors and actresses who may not be getting as much as attention as they deserve. The…
Dante Lam‘s follow-up to Operation Red Sea, an invigorating, explosive action showcase that rests as the fourth-highest-grossing ever in China, is an equally exhilarating ensemble action film, The Rescue, one of the many cinematic releases that found itself displaced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Shifting gears from militaristic bullet ballet to crowd-pleasing Coast Guard…
This glass has a secret. It’s encoded in the images inscribed around the bowl: a blazing star, an oak leaf, a rose blossom, and two delicate buds sprouting from a thorny stem. They may seem like mere decoration, but to the right eyes, they were a message, and a dangerous one at that. The original…
“‘How could your friend do this to you?’” Altitude Films in the UK has released an official UK trailer for the documentary The Capote Tapes, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Ebs Burnough. This originally premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, and also played at the Hamptons and Rio de Janeiro Film Festivals. Using…
Welcome to Carnage Classified, a monthly column where we break down the historical and social influence of all things horror, then rank the films of each month’s category accordingly. Franchises, movements, filmmakers, sub-genres, etc … It’s all here! This entry is about the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise. December: the joyous month of holiday cheer….
Queerly Ever After is a bi-monthly column where I take a look at LGBT+ films that gave their characters a romantic happily-ever-after. There will be spoilers. Also, don’t forget to buy your Queerly Ever After merch right here. Alice Wu‘s feature film debut follows Wilhelmina ‘Wil’ Pang (Michelle Krusiec), a Chinese-American doctor who, while a lesbian,…
This story originally appeared on The Public Domain Review, and is reproduced here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. In the late 1860s, Jules Verne’s fictional Captain Nemo cruised the ocean deep, discovering new underwater worlds and creatures. In the same decade, the non-fictional Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez pursued his fascination with zoology by developing…
We’re living in the age of superlatives, yet not enough are heaped upon Jon Favreau. Not only did the writer/director jumpstart the MCU with 2008’s “Iron Man,” he directed the biggest Christmas movie of the modern age, “Elf.” He also wrote and co-starred in the seminal screen bromance “Swingers.” Read moreA Guide to The Perfect…
It’s safe to state that George Clooney‘s run as a director has been quite perplexing. The actor has given plenty of noteworthy performances throughout his expansive career, but his attempts at taking the director’s chair have been largely inconsistent, to say the least. His earlier efforts have certainly been more well-received than his later works,…
This majestic and beautiful palace stands on a cliff overlooking the Black Sea in Sochi. It originally belonged to a wealthy tsarist colonel, Andrey Valerianovich Kvitko. He had married an Italian woman, whose wealthy family had two big mansions in Italy. Together they moved to a prestigious Khosta area in Sochi, where Kvitko built the…
★★★★ Directed by: Kami Sadraei Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: Kami Sadraei Starring: Eric Roberts, Kami Sadraei Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by: ,,Jason Knight A psychotherapy session. A man is telling the therapist about his issues. But things are not…
Otto Benndorf was born in 1838 in the Principality of the Reuss Elder Line. As a youth he showed much interest in archaeology and eventually decided to pursue it in his higher education. He held a variety of academic positions over the years and participated in numerous archaeological expeditions in Greece, including in Samothrace (1875),…
In the early 1800s, Boston’s Catholic leadership decided to build a convent on the Ploughed Hill of Charlestown (now Somerville). Starting in 1820, Ursuline sisters ran the convent and its school for girls on the summit, which they renamed Mount Benedict. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonIn a predominantly Protestant environment, rumors started…
A woman reinvents herself in Land, the feature directorial debut of Robin Wright. Edee couldn’t go on like normal. Nothing was normal, not after the tragedy she’d endured, so she found a remote cabin in Wyoming and set up a new life there. She didn’t anticipate how hard it would be, though, and she quickly found herself…
Known as the Lambert Inn when it was built in 1872, the St. James Hotel became famous during its Wild West days, when such iconic and notorious figures as Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, Buffalo Bill, and Black Jack Ketchum were patrons. Located on the historic Sante Fe Trail, which Americans traversed as they traveled west, into land…
The Wichita State University campus is home to a small brick building. It might not look like much but it’s the structure where two brothers, Dan and Frank Carney, started one of the most popular pizza chains in the world. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe first thing you might notice when…