For most tourists, Uzbekistan is synonymous with its ancient Silk Road bazaars in Samarkand or Bukhara. To wander through markets whose predecessors date back a millennia surrounded by blue-tiled minarets and mosques, can be a breath-taking experience. But there’s also a museum quality to these well-preserved, popular destinations. Visitors are far more likely to bump…
We Broke Up, directed by Jeff Rosenberg and written by Laura Jacqmin and Jeff Rosenberg, explores the relationship between Lori (Aya Cash) and Doug (William Jackson Harper) right when they break up, a milestone which occurs just before Lori’s sister Bea’s (Sarah Bolger) wedding to Jayson (Tony Cavalero). Emotional Strength and Realism We Broke Up shows a…
On May 3rd, 2003, the iconic Old Man of the Mountain collapsed. Much beloved by New Hampshire residents and tourists alike, the picture of the legendary rock face is on the state’s license plates, road signs, postage stamps, and so much more. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe citizens of New Hampshire…
Chad Prather has an old-school philosophy when it comes to free speech. He supports it unequivocally. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe way Prather sees it, speaking one’s mind sans filter can be healthy and revealing. Don’t pretend to be what people expect. Be authentic. The host of Blaze TV’s “The Chad…
This 17th century palace was the home of Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma and an influential favorite of Spain’s King Phillip III. The duke was an important diplomat who negotiated numerous treaties and his magnificent and imposing palace was meant to serve as a symbol of his power. He was also…
A woman goes through the relatable experience of losing it inside her home in The Woman in the Window, the latest from director Joe Wright. Anna wasn’t looking for trouble. In fact, she was doing quite the opposite, never leaving her New York apartment due to agoraphobia. Despite this, she manages to befriend a neighbor, who…
As a former gritty and coal-fueled industrial powerhouse, Cleveland, Ohio was once crisscrossed by the steel rails that brought coke, coal, iron ore, and untold other materials to the steel mills and factories. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonRail was king at the time. Across the city were gleaming steel twin rails…
Christopher Smith’s “The Banishing,” premiering today on Shudder after a brief fest run, has the stately style and tone of a classical period piece, but it’s also kind of insane. It blends what one would expect from something like “The Haunting of Bly Manor” (and there’s a dose of Mike Flanagan’s “Oculus” along the way…
Since it first opened in 2000, Tateishi Burger has been a favorite of those who enjoy oddities, which are known in Japan as “B-spots.” Located in a quiet neighborhood, its raggedy façade may not lure in a lot of passersby, but it never ceases to attract said B-spot enthusiasts from around the country. Read moreA Guide…
Few humans live in the Falkland Islands, an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean off the southern coast of Argentina. But there is a lot of wildlife, especially seabirds, including the largest breeding population of black-browed albatrosses in the world. Considered endangered as recently as 2013, the numbers of these big migrators have since rebounded, and…
The cancellation of the 2020 San Francisco International Film Festival was one of the things that really let me know that COVID was happening and here to stay. Attending the longest-running festival in the Western hemisphere is one of the highlights of living in the Bay Area; it’s something I always look forward to and…
When he was about nine or 10 years old, Devadatta Rajadhyaksha read the book The Adventures of Dennis, by Victor Dragunsky. Rajadhyaksha was mesmerized by naughty little Dennis, who kept grass snakes, lizards, and frogs in his pockets, made funny faces in front of the mirror, and liked to hop and skip. The book was…
“This city chews ’em up, and it spits ’em out.” Saban Films + Paramount have released an official trailer for yet another small town football underdog sports story called Under the Stadium Lights, also known as Brother’s Keeper. The film tells the true story of the 2009 Abilene High School Football team. After a crushing…
Late night shows often burst out of the gate with all the celebrity firepower they can muster. For Chevy Chase, that meant corralling on-screen partner Goldie Hawn, along with fellow Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg, for his anticipated 1993 debut. We all know what happened next. Suffice to say the Chevy Chase Theatre is known more…
The Nave de Motores de Pacífico (Pacifico Engine Shed) was designed by the Spanish architect Antonio Palacios. It is an outstanding example of clarity and functionality, and a perfect model of industrial building in the 1920s. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe engine shed was built in 1922 and 1923 and started…
Like partners doing a tango, two rivers in Nunavut, Canada, become a single unit without losing their individual appearance as they move sinuously across the tundra. The darker Back River flows north toward the Arctic Ocean. Along the way, its tributary, the Hayes River, a light, milky blue, joins it but remains visually distinct for…
★★★★ Directed by: #AdamBailey Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #SophieDutton Starring: #EmillieThomasCurtis, #MarkLewisJones, #SharonMorgan Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Short Film Review by Taryll Baker Winter is fast approaching, and everyone is getting ready for a nice long sleep… but a certain Little…
Why are we still doing this? Aren’t we past this? Hasn’t culture evolved to a point where autism is given better representation? We’ve come so far in trying to push back against homophobia, transphobia, racism, and sexism in film. But here we are again, once more saddled with another ableist film. So why are we…
The word Spelter means commercial or smelted zinc. Beginning in 1910, workers from Spain were brought to this company town in West Virginia to operate a new zinc smelter. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonOver the next 90 years, some four billion pounds of slab zinc were produced, along with 400 million…
The Moorten Family Botanical Gardens was created to share the beauty and extraordinary varieties of desert plants with everyone who visits. It was established in 1938 by Chester “Cactus Slim” Moorten and his wife, Patricia, and features desert trees, plants, and cacti come from around the world and range in size from miniature to giants. Read…
Until it was restored in 1994, this first century Roman theatre in Spain was a magnificent ruin visible on the hillside from a long distance. Though the restoration has made it functional once again, it has covered up much of this historic structure. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe theatre was originally…