“Mr. Mayor” has a Ted Danson problem. Just now, you perhaps shouted “THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A TED DANSON PROBLEM” at your screen. You are not wrong to shout, reader. To imply that Ted Danson is the source of any sitcom’s problems should be enough to have me immediately struck from the membership…
At the beginning of the Pennsylvania oil rush, one of the first oil deposits was unearthed just north of Pittsburgh. From that time and well into the 20th-century, Pittsburgh was a major center of finance and home to the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe Pittsburgh Stock Exchange was…
I’ve thought a lot about White Noise since I saw the film at Amsterdam’s International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) in 2020. What struck me about Daniel Lombroso‘s documentary about three famous alt-right individuals – Lauren Spencer, Mike Cernovich, Richard Spencer – is how entirely ordinary and existentially conflicted they are behind closed doors. It’s a contrast to…
A holy text, in both form and content, is an instrument of awe. The first thing one might notice about them, in many cases, can be their sheer bulk, as if heft must correspond to importance. But it’s often the smaller objects that are most truly impressive, representing examples of discipline, precision, craft, and devotion….
David Maxwell’s office at Simon Fraser University could easily be mistaken for a dorm room. The walls are plastered with antique beer signs, which, when turned on, illuminate the small space in a neon glow. Beer cans are lined up like trophies on top of the bookcase and prop up archaeology textbooks. Maxwell is not…
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Due to Antarctica’s extreme winter, which includes four months of total darkness, polar explorers endured intense confinement in close quarters for long periods of time. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAmerican pioneer Richard Byrd explained, “little things … have the…
★★ Written & Directed by: #EvanLukeBarker Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonStarring: #BradleyLuckett #JosieMorris #IbraheemToure #AijamalNova Short Film Review by: #ChrisBuick Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Four people who barely know each other, all living under the cloud of a dangerous pandemic without seemingly any…
My final report of Amsterdam’s International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) 2020 examines four more incredible films from around the world about a diverse series of subjects. She Had a Dream (Raja Amari) Bearing a title similar to that of MLK’s most famous speech, She Had a Dream is an inspiring story about how a woman…
Saturday, April 25, 2015, was a devastating day for Nepal. At 11:56 a.m., an 8.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Gorkha District, about 60 miles west of Kathmandu. The quake killed some 9,000 people throughout Nepal. Around 243 of those unfortunate souls were visiting or living in the village of Langtang, which was almost completely annihilated by…
“What does the word ‘grief’ mean?” MTV Studios has revealed the official trailer for a documentary titled Beautiful Something Left Behind, an acclaimed film that premiered at a few documentary film festivals last year. It’s wonderful. At Good Grief groups, children meet to understand the passing of a parent or a sibling through play, giving…
St David’s Church, more commonly known as Leicester’s Church or “Leicester’s Folly” was designed to be the first great Protestant church constructed in Britain following the Reformation. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe church takes its nickname from Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester and Baron of Denbigh, who was responsible for…
This architectural reclamation yard, at Cheadle in Staffordshire, England, sells a fascinating mix of reclaimed materials and antiques. One could spend hours wandering around looking at examples of items from bygone eras. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe building is also modified to showcase examples of products on sale as architectural elements….
Pop culture has its crocodile hunters, house hunters, ghost hunters, and more. Matthew Moore, a photographer currently based in Maryland, has lived on and off in Czechia for the past 20 years. In that time, he has become fascinated by public relics of Soviet power. So he became a statue hunter or, more precisely, a…
A drone pilot gets a strange assignment in Outside the Wire, the latest from director Mikael Håfström. Given the remoteness of his work, Thomas isn’t used to things getting too messy. He gets his orders and carries them out from the safety of a base, his highly-trained role keeping him sequestered from front line action. All…
It’s not very common for a fruit to get its own monument. But residents of Blace, a small town in Serbia, are so thankful to plums that in 2012, the town erected a statue in their honor. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe town unveiled Spomenik Šljivi, “Monument to Plum” by Dragan Drobnjak,…
If there is one historical fact that most people are familiar with regarding the tragic life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland is that she lost her head due to a degree mandated by her cousin Queen Elizabeth II. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonMary, Queen of Scots’s life was fraught with misfortune…
After passing through a 19th-century turnstile, visitors to this area will come across the amazing Lady Wimborne Bridge, also known as the London and South Western Railway Bridge 77. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe bridge boasts some of the most elaborate carvings of any railway bridge in the country. It’s a reflection…
With a muscular 6’ 3” frame, gentleman thief Assane Diop (Omar Sy) shouldn’t fade into the background. But as a Senegalese immigrant living in Paris, he does. Ever since his father’s incarceration—accused of stealing a priceless necklace belonging to Marie Antoinette from his employer Mr. Pelligrini (Hervé Pierre)—and his father’s later death, Assane has known…
This article is part of our 2020 Rewind. Follow along as we explore the best and most interesting movies, shows, performances, and more from this very strange year. In this entry, we virtually travel beyond our border to find the best international movies of 2020. Every year is brimming with great international films, the majority of…
Lucinda Ganderton had the book hidden in the bottom of her shopping trolley. Around two years ago, she had taken a trip from London to Brighton, England, to visit Paul Couchman, a food historian and chef whom she met on Instagram. Ganderton, a textile artist whose family had once owned an antiques auction house, and…
Four hundred bricks line Jason Harris’s hallway, and none of them hold the ceiling up. Arranged in an earthy ombre from ruddy terra cotta to cream, these once-functional rectangles are now purely for show. The London-based architect doesn’t think this hefty display lends him much gravitas in British brick collecting circles, though. “I’m a lightweight…