The Terrorium Shop is a quaint hidden gem tucked away in Denver, Colorado. What started out as a strange little hobby, blossomed into a business after owner Amber Hage-Ali gifted her partner Ian Johnson with one of her “terroriums,” a glass vessel showcasing a skull with living plants. Johnson, a taxidermist, loved the concept of…
On the outskirts of Sheffield is the Rivelin Valley Trail, where beautiful riverside walks provide a mixture of nature and the industrial, lined as it is by ruins and remnants of various water wheels’ used to pump water to the mills and steelworks of the city in a bygone age. Not far from the cafe…
In 1865, an enterprising local farmer, Upton Darby, began raising funds to build a schoolhouse for the children of local farmers, which inspired neighbors to pitch in with cash and labor to bring his vision to life. This beautiful one-room schoolhouse was up and running the following year, using distinctive red sandstone from nearby Seneca…
It’s a night of The Smiths in Shoplifters of the World, the latest from director Stephen Kijak. The young, bored characters of this movie could be found at any time in history, but there are only a few moments when they could mourn the breakup of a truly great band. One of those came in 1987…
These small, Small strange-looking buildings can be found along the seafront of Brighton & Hove. These little shelters actually date back to the Victorian era. There are seven, elegant matching cast iron shelters along the seafront. They have provided residents and tourists with a place to rest and relax for many years. What most people…
Latinas are supposed to be quiet—or at least, that’s what you might have heard. Historically, we’ve attempted to silence our own with “advice” like “calladita te ves más bonita” (which loosely translates to “you’d be prettier if you talked less”). It’s not exactly a feminist sentiment and it’s reinforced externally by Hollywood’s portrayal of Latinas—we’re…
The Canadian fishing village of Glover’s Harbour, Newfoundland (formerly known as Thimble Tickle) claims to be the “Home of the Giant Squid.” It earned this distinction in 1878, when a living giant squid (Architeuthis dux) was discovered stranded offshore. According to contemporary documents, on the morning of November 2, 1878, Stephen Sherring, a local fisherman, and…
Since January, the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon, England, has been selling copies of one of the strangest cookbooks ever published. That’s according to Stuart Orme, the museum’s curator, who’s also written the new introduction to The Court and Kitchen of Elizabeth, Commonly Called Joan Cromwell, the Wife of the Late Usurper. This is no Joy…
On a hot, sunny morning in June 2006, Reginald Van de Velde was walking in the center of Sorrento, the famous Italian town on the Gulf of Naples, when something struck him. “I was walking on a footbridge to get back to my car,” says the Belgian photographer, “and noticed something unusual under the bridge.”…
Radu Jude‘s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn took this year’s Golden Bear at the Berlinale. The director sat to discuss the film’s controversial themes, the politics behind the humour and how cinema can subvert art to shine a light at political and societal hypocrisy. On the inspiration for the film I think it’s a…
When icebergs make news, it is generally due to something rare and dramatic: a chunk twice the size of New York City, another threatening the ecosystem of an entire island, or, of course, Titanic. But each day human eyes are watching bergs of many shapes and sizes, mapping their movements at both ends of the…
“All we see are walls. But what these walls contain, all of our memories, what our parents passed down to us…” Still Here is a stunning short film directed by Taiwanese-American filmmaker Sean Wang, and it already won a Sundance Ignite award last year. It also was chosen as the Best Doc of the Year…
We had to sit in agony for two weeks for the Snatch Game, a RuPaul’s Drag Race staple where queens must use their wit and improvisational skills to make RuPaul laugh, and it was well worth the wait. Snatch Game is a notoriously difficult maxi-challenge that often makes or breaks the contestants as it always causes a…
Doug Liman’s “Chaos Walking” has been covered heavily in the press, stating it underwent extensive re-shoots and is a “troubled” film. The end credits even list “Additional Editing” and “Additional Scoring.” It sure sounds like a disaster-in-waiting, but the end result isn’t a botched or even a bad movie. In fact, it’s an enjoyable sci-fi/western…
★★★★★ Directed by: #ShaunJamesGrant Written by: #ShaunJamesGrant & #LukeShentonSharp Starring: #JaneDowden, #YannGael Short Film Review by Taryll Baker A couple on an ominous journey pull into a rest stop diner in the early hours of the morning. As Hope opens, I’m immediately met with the smokiness of 35mm, accompanied by a short monologue that plays…
In terms of universal ailments, we can all say we’ve had at least one sleepless night. A night of lying in the dark, waiting for sleep that never comes and no matter how many sheep you count or glasses of warm milk you chug, you just lie there, the world around you reduced to a…
The late 18th century was an era of rapid expansion in the American West, especially the areas known now as Ohio and Indiana. In this land, John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, took it upon himself to travel the countryside, spreading the Gospel and planting orchard after orchard of apple trees. The apple crops…
WarnerMedia, a division of AT&T Inc., announces an expanded entry-level Access Writers program that aims to amplify underrepresented voices and historically marginalized narrative writers to provide a pathway into the television industry. The WarnerMedia Access Writers program, formerly known as HBO Access, is one of several innovative initiatives being led by the company’s new Enterprise…
John Smith’s Citadel perfectly captures the United Kingdom’s 2020. Beginning with a boisterous Boris Johnson, still bouncing from his general election win, and ending with the worst COVID-19 death toll in Europe. The story of the country’s battle with the Coronavirus pandemic is told both visually, with shots of the capital’s skyline and buildings, but also…
This “modern megalithic garden” has three stone circles, a seven-circuit classic labyrinth, dolmen, dry-stacked stone sculpture, many boulders and standing stones as well as natural buildings and restored prairie. Visitors can walk in a self-guided manner along mown grass paths and there are signs at many of the features explaining a bit about each one….
The small village of Onogur, Bulgaria stands on land that, some 14 centuries ago, was home to a large and well-fortified city. Though there seems to be nothing left of it to this day, the strategic nature of the location makes it clear how convenient it would have been for a fortress. The site is…
From its original construction in 1226, all the way up through the 20th century, Burg Lahneck has experienced many notable events that have led to it’s intriguing tale including several wars, political unrest, the tragic death of a young noble. The castle even inspired the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The castle was built at…
In the classic American play Our Town, Emily Webb and George Gibbs stop at Mr. Morgan’s drug store. There, at the soda fountain that serves as the center of the social life in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, young love blossoms over strawberry ice-cream sodas: Emily and George realize they are “fond of” each other and…
There’s a new superhero team on the job in Thunder Force, the latest from writer/director Ben Falcone. The world needed superheroes. Supervillains were running amok, so scientist Emily Stanton developed a procedure to give regular people powers. She hoped that, eventually, it could be used on people who would be willing to battle the evil forces…
The City of Frankfurt Oder is often overlooked and forgotten, especially in light of sharing its namesake with the much larger and internationally well-known Frankfurt to the west. However, this abstract fountain, which also serves as a working clock, does a good job of making sure visitors leave the city with a memory. Known as…
At Crow Wing State Park, visitors can enjoy hiking, snowshoeing, and skiing on the peaceful forested trails at the confluence of the Crow Wing River and Mississippi River. This intersection once provided more than natural beauty, the region was once home to French and Ojibwe residents who constructed a thriving trading town in 1823. At…
Streaming might be the future, but physical media is still the present. It’s also awesome, depending on the title, the label, and the release, so each week we take a look at the new Blu-rays and DVDs making their way into the world. Welcome to this week in Home Video for March 9th, 2021! This week’s…
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 Written by: #MukeshAsopa, #RajeshAsopa, #TwinkleAsopa, #KyleClimans Starring: #MukeshAsopa, #SiobhanJohnson, #JasmineSawant, #KamalNandi Film Review by: Emily Davison Death of Pyaar (2020) is a film which is very difficult to summarise due to the deliberately broad scope of its narrative, with elements of crime, family drama, mystery, romance and thriller all blending…
“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? The 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 film required reshoots — a common practice in…