A dear friend once compared grief to an abyss that we all fall into at one point or another. He said it’s all the same abyss. We stay in it until we either decide to climb out or die in there. Most people do climb out, fortunately. But it’s difficult—especially when the loss is catastrophic and sudden. It’s…
“When you owe, you have to pay.” Janus Films has revealed a stunning 4K restoration trailer for the classic Senegalese film Mandabi, also known as The Money Order. This originally premiered in 1968 in France, then played at the New York Film Festival in 1969. It was the second feature film made by award-winning Senegalese…
Diósgyőr Castle is situated in a small suburb in Miskolc, Hungary. It’s a window into the traditions and history of this often-forgotten section of Northern Hungary. It’s unlikely that you will find many tourists in this region of the country. The walls of the castle were likely constructed around the 13th-century upon a rock hill…
One of the most unsurprising social digressions that emerged when the world was forced to go into quarantine last year (and still continues to do so), is our reliance on television to give us a sense of subjective freedom when it felt like the entire globe was erupting in flames around us. While streaming services…
An hour east of Kathmandu is the small resort community of Nagarkot. The road to reach the town is steep, twisty, and rough, making a stop at the Buddha Peace Park a welcome respite. Hikers may choose to finish the journey to Nagarkot by taking the eight-kilometer Peace Park Hiking Trail into town. The trial…
Prestonpans, or Preston, is a small coastal region that lies some 50 miles east of Edinburgh. It currently boasts a vast number of murals painted by members of the local community and guest artists. It also happens to be the site of a historic battle. Here, Charles Edward Stuart suffered a massive defeat in an…
★★★★ Directed by #JerryRothwell Written by #NaokiHigashida ,,Film Review by ,,George Wolf Ten years ago, a Japanese teenager wrote a book that quickly became regarded as “an envoy from another world.” With The Reason I Jump, 13 year-old Naoki Higashida expressed in poetic detail how a nonverbal autistic child sees the world. In short, it’s…
I cannot remember the first time that I was introduced to DC’s trinity — Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman — because I must have been younger than three. In my childhood, Superman had recently died and had been resurrected; Batman was going through his transformation into a dark and gritty force of vengeance, which was…
Located in the Sheshan Seismic Station at the foot of West Sheshan Mountain, this museum features a theater hall, an earthquake information hall, an emergency rescue drill exhibit, and the Zhang Heng seismograph exhibition hall. Zhang Heng was a Chinese scientist and mathematician from the Han Dynasty. Inside is a replica of his ancient seismoscope….
This early 20th-century gas station was constructed to serve the town of Elberta and those commuting to and from a nearby gold mine. The Sinclair station on US 6 started serving early automobiles in 1917. When the gold mine closed in 1949, the town of Elberta situated in Utah’s west desert began to decline and…
If you’re like me, you know Mike Nichols through his affiliation with The Graduate or Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Maybe you have some notion of the Nichols and May improv team that conquered the comedy circuit in the 1960s. Perhaps you’re aware of Elaine May‘s own forays into writing-directing with the likes of A…
Think of your last road trip. There were sights, destinations, but as much as anything else, there were signs. For businesses, public safety messages, accident memorials, threats directed at outsiders, advertisements for worms, eggs, and firewood, reminders of sin (83-FOR-TRUTH), and, of course, political campaigns. In his book Political Sign, author Tobias Carroll compares the…
Comedian Michael Loftus didn’t lock down as long as many stand-ups did last year. The right-leaning comic returned to the stage weeks after the pandemic hit the states. He also kept on writing, recording his “Loftus Party” podcast and dodging social media censors. The latter proved only partially successful. Parts of the country remain locked…
“We just call him… the ‘slumbering one.’” Epic Pictures Group has released a trailer for a mysterious indie Lovecraftian horror film titled Sacrifice, made by filmmakers Andy Collier & Tor Mian. This film originally premiered at FrightFest in the UK last year. Inspired by the Paul Kane short story titled “Men of The Cloth”, Sacrifice…
On a hot November day in 1926, a 13-year-old boy dressed as the Pied Piper led more than 1,000 children not out of town, but to the Central Library of Los Angeles. He marched at the head of a parade held to celebrate the opening of the children’s reading room. The piper, who had earned…
★★★★ Directed by #JordanTetewsky Written by #JordanTetewsky and #JoshuaPikovsky Staring #HunterZimny , #MeganDecino , #PaulSouthard , #DannyFrye , #SarahHarper , #MichelleGirolami Film Review by Jasmine Holly Bullock Bolue Vience is a 2016 satirical short film that follows the life of a ‘tortured’ artist, named Vincent, who not only is a pretty bad filmmaker but also…
It boggles the mind how something so short in length can be so incredibly awful. Fish, the new pilot from writer/creator Curtis Johnson and Dog Den Films, seemingly managed to figure out the formula for such dreck. Let’s begin with the synopsis and try to take it from there. According to the IMDb- When Jacob Fiskel,…
Lighthouses have played a critical role in the daily life of maritime towns as nautical landmarks that provide directional signals to ships. They are traditionally located very close to the water. The Three Sister Lighthouses were originally located on Nauset Beach atop a cliff, just a quarter-mile from the Atlantic Ocean shore in Cape Cod,…
Chicago’s Lincoln Park is known as the largest park in the city. However, it’s much less common knowledge that many of the trees and plants originally came from a forest preserve more than 20 miles away. Lincoln Park has expanded from its much smaller origins into the massive park that exists today. It was created…
The construction of this cemetery was agreed upon between the British and German governments in 1959. It was designed to re-locate the remains of German service personnel and internees who died in the United Kingdom during World War I and II. A dedication ceremony took place in 1967. The cemetery contains almost 5,000 German and…
I’m hyping a short today because The Human Voice pairs Pedro Almodóvar with Tilda Swinton, and I think we’ll all take as much of that as we can get. With a reported run time of 30 minutes, this is nowhere near feature-length, but there’s still plenty of time for stuff to go down. From the trailer, what…
Phimeanakas was a Hindu temple constructed in the Khleang style. The name Phimeanakas actually translates to “Celestial Palace.” Construction started at the end of the 10th-century during the reign of Rajendravarma II and was completed by Suryavarma I. It went on to become the state temple of Suryavarman I and the focal point of his capital. The structure…
“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. The Pittsburgh Stock Exchange was originally known as Thurston’s Oil Exchange and opened…
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. American pioneer Richard Byrd explained, “little things … have the power to drive even the most disciplined ……
★★ Written & Directed by: #EvanLukeBarker Starring: #BradleyLuckett #JosieMorris #IbraheemToure #AijamalNova Short Film Review by: #ChrisBuick Four people who barely know each other, all living under the cloud of a dangerous pandemic without seemingly any idea what the government is doing (imagine that), decide to meet up on a video call in order to hatch…
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. The church takes its nickname from Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester and Baron of Denbigh, who was responsible for its construction. It was originally intended to be…
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. The building is also modified to showcase examples of products on sale as architectural elements. One of the best examples is a demolished…
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…