Watch Over Me – dir. Farida Pacha Rating: (3.5/5) Death, always a ripe subject for cinema, is something that is incompatible with the way we have built society. Financially, emotionally, and socially, death is considered an inconvenience. It is something that is not at the whims of our need for control and comfort at every turn….
For one of horror’s best and newest, The Stylist, I was able to speak with writer/director Jill Gevargizian and the star Najarra Townsend about the creation of the character, story, style, and bringing this sympathetic killer to life: Jill Gevargizian This is Kristy Strouse with Film Inquiry. I really loved the film! As a big…
This story was originally published in The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. More than 17,000 earthquakes have been recorded in the southwest of Iceland, in the Reykjanes Peninsula, in a little over a week. People living in the area have been advised to be extra careful due to dangers of landslides…
When Jen Jack Gieseking started researching his book on queer nightlife in New York, he learned that one of the city’s hottest lesbian watering holes was not a bar at all. Sure, participants had fond memories of dancing and flirting at historically lesbian bars. But if the queer women and transgender and nonbinary people in…
The Lone Ranger galloped into our lives first via a radio series in the 1930s, followed by two serialized movie adaptations, novels, comic strips and an animated series. The story: a do-gooder lawyer named John Reid is ambushed by the devilish Butch Cavendish. He’s left for dead and nursed back to life by the noble…
Fang. Heart. Spine. Talon. Tail. Long ago, the five nations of Kumandra lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Druun attacked. Only the dragons, masters of life and magic, could stop it, and when the world needed them most, they sacrificed their lives and vanished. Five hundred years passed and I eventually discovered…
★★ Directed by: #MukeshAsopa, #CharlesRoss Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #MukeshAsopa, #RajeshAsopa, #TwinkleAsopa, #KyleClimans Starring: #MukeshAsopa, #SiobhanJohnson, #JasmineSawant, #KamalNandi Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Emily Davison Death of Pyaar (2020) is a film which is very difficult to summarise due…
“The unsolved murder of two young men… Have any suspects?” Saban Films has released another official trailer for City of Lies, an investigative crime thriller from director Brad Furman (of The Lincoln Lawyer, Runner Runner, The Infiator). The film is about how the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG spark an investigation, following an…
Has there ever been a more aptly titled film than Chaos Walking? Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe production has been plagued with highly publicized setbacks. First, there was a carousel of screenwriters, whose ranks include Charlie Kaufman, who penned the first draft in 2012, and Patrick Ness, author of the source material. Another complication followed; the…
The monument to Chief Maqoma, at the summit of the Ntaba ka Ndoda mountain, is a commemoration of one of South Africa’s greatest heroes, and a celebration of a life devoted to the struggle of his Xhosa nation against colonialism. The mountain is revered as one of the country’s most historically significant and sacred sites,…
Traffic crossings have become a popular place for various messages and symbols. In Stockholm, the traffic counselor decided their traffic signals needed an update that better reflected society. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonInitially created as a temporary installation in 2017 to celebrate Pride and to raise awareness of issues affecting the…
Many of the millions of visitors snapping selfies on the Grand Canyon’s rim have no idea that the ruddy limestone cliffs are pockmarked with caves. “There’s really more caves in the Grand Canyon National Park than any other place,” says Jim Mead, a paleontologist and director of The Mammoth Site in South Dakota. Carlsbad Caverns,…
Chances are that if you’ve walked through the big yellow departure gate of Brisbane International Airport, you have passed this inconspicuous glass cabinet. Upon closer inspection, the contents inside are not what you’d typically see in an airport terminal, such as a taxidermized mongoose in mid-fight with a cobra. This display is comprised entirely of…
In search of an original khaki military jacket or camouflage trousers from World War II? An open-air Italian market has you covered. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe market of Pugliano (also known as the market of Resina) is one of Italy’s best-stocked spots for secondhand clothes and military surplus items. It…
Awoken is a horror movie about insomnia and demonic possession. It was co-written and directed by Daniel J. Phillips and filmed in South Australia. It is the story of Kara, a young medical student, who moves her sleep-deprived brother into a secret medical facility when doctors refuse to treat his Fatal Familial Insomnia. Trapped together underground,…
At the onset of World War II, the Kingdom of Norway was not allied with the Axis or Allied Powers, leading both factions to consider invading the country due to its strategic position in the North Sea. While the British in particular drew plans to mine Norwegian waters and prevent Axis ships from transiting these…
The world-famous Louvre Museum has a couple branches outside Paris, namely in Lens and Abu Dhabi. There is also an officially sanctioned “sister” museum in Japan, however, albeit of a somewhat different kind. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe Louvre Sculpture Museum opened in the city of Tsu in 1987, privately funded…
This week, all of our content on the site is written by women. We’ll update this table of contents page with links to new pieces as they go up. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonINTRO Introduction to Women Writers Week 2021 by Chaz Ebert & Nell Minow Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a…
The site of the former 17th-century garrison house of Rev. Joseph Rowlandson and his family is wonderfully bucolic, set beneath a canopy of shade trees and tucked behind a handsome low stone wall. But the scene was much different during King Philip’s War. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonIt was from this…
One winter morning, prisoners at the Akmola Labor Camp for Wives of Traitors to the Motherland, part of the Soviet gulag system from the 1930s to 1950s, trudged to a nearby lake. As they began gathering reeds to heat their frigid barracks, children and elders from the neighboring community approached the shore. The kids hurled…
Adam (Mark Duplass) is getting ready for yet another regular morning when he sees a young woman waiting for him in the living room. She is not, however, physically there, her face on the screen twisted in slight confusion, mirroring the one of the man. The predicament was created by Adam’s husband, Will, as a…