Cynics mock hashtags as virtue signaling on steroids. They’re only partly right. Yes, efforts to free imprisoned Nigerian girls via the #BringBackOurGirls effort, championed by former First Lady Michelle Obama, failed miserably. So did Twitter campaigns to fire Stephen Colbert for telling Asian jokes and Tucker Carlson for … being a conservative on TV. Read moreA…
★★★★ Directed by: James Kibbey Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: James Kibbey, Kevin Mears Starring: Hugo Chegwin, Felicity Montagu, David Schaal Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by: ,,Jason Knight Sometimes people need to reveal their secrets, in order to get things…
★★★★★ Directed by: #JonathanBlagrove Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #LyndaWilliams Starring: #RobertWhitelock #JonnyPhillips #VickyMcClure Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Short Film Review by: #ChrisBuick Tommy (Whitelock), an out of work building contractor who finds himself turned onto a life of crime as a…
Have you ever wondered what Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” might have been like minus any supernatural angle? That’s what writer/director Sean Durkin’s “The Nest” feels like, or at least aspires to be. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho Marathon It stars Jude Law as Rory O’Hara, an ambitious businessman who left England behind…
Stan is very big, very old, and very popular. Roughly 65 million years young, Stan long ago retired from trampling, stalking, and gnawing across a steamy landscape of palms and gingkoes, and tussling with family. Like many other retirees, Stan now lives a life of quiet leisure. Stan hasn’t been lounging on the lido deck…
The city of London becomes a tech playground for gamers to hack in Ubisoft’s “Watch Dogs: Legion,” a third game in this franchise about destroying Big Brother, and one of the launch games for the PS5. Sprawling and ambitious, the game brings the entire city to life in a way that can sometimes feels a…
Upon the official release of David Freyne‘s coming-of-age hit currently taking the world by storm, Film Inquiry’s Marc Ricov spoke with the Belfast-born actress to talk about her experience on making the film, who went on to discuss her blooming friendship with co-star, Fionn O’Shea, and how playing a role like Amber was a somewhat…
“He will transcend this game…” HBO has unveiled the first teaser trailer for an epic biopic documentary titled Tiger, a monumental and definitive look at the life and times of golf legend Tiger Woods. The doc will be released as a two-part “series” premiering together in January 2021 – a look at the life, success…
Body swap movies have been with us for as long as we can remember. In the original Freaky Friday from 1977, Jodie Foster’s character switches places with her mom, played by Barbara Harris. In 18 Again!, it’s a grandfather and his grandson. The switch always differs. It can be because of a car accident, magical…
At 3:00 a.m. on September 30th, Ryan Carney, a paleontologist and epidemiologist at the University of South Florida, was in a celebratory mood. It was the 159th anniversary of the first paper published on feathers from Archaeopteryx, a Jurassic-era dinosaur. When paleontologists first unearthed an Archaeopteryx in 1861, Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species was…
When people talk about filler episodes for “The Mandalorian,” they mean something like this week’s “Chapter 11: The Heiress.” The emotions are particularly hollow here and the action scenes are fairly rote, with both elements being overshadowed by the bits of story that will be remembered far more during later episodes. But it finally shows us more Mandalorians, especially…
The term “staith” is used in northeastern England to describe a ship or boat loading structure. They are usually served by rail lines and contain loading chutes for bulk minerals. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonDunston staiths is a 19th-century coal loading structure on the River Tyne near Gateshead, England. From here,…
★★ Directed by: Robert Gulassarian Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: Robert Gulassarian Starring: Fresno Phinx, Lawrence Bill, Alicia Kapudag Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by: ,,Jason Knight A crime thriller! Gangsters, guns, beatings, profanity and dark humor! Fresno (Phinx) is a…
The Climb is a marriage comedy about two men who don’t fully realize that they’re married to each other. Sure, it’s a buddy film in the vein of something like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and I certainly wouldn’t argue that the provisional marriage between these characters is necessarily romantic or sexual. But, The…
Pinova Vila was once a palace and one of the most beautiful buildings in Zrenjanin. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe building was constructed in 1894 by Leon Štegervald. However, it was later purchased by surveyor Paja Pin, hence the building’s namesake Pinova Vila (Pin’s Palace). Various elements of Romantic period architecture…
Like a natural pearl resting on a teal velvet bed, Hormuz Island lies a few miles off the coast of Iran, at the mouth of the strait of the same name. From its strategic perch where the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman meet, this 16-square-mile island was once a splendid historic trading port, described…
The Museo station of the Line 1 of the Naples Metro is one of the line’s many “Art Stations,” but, contrary to the other stops, this one also hosts a special area of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonIn this area, called “Stazione Neapolis,” from the…
Movie marketing can be a brutal task, made worse by the films themselves. “Come Away” offers a prime example. The film piggybacks on not one but two beloved children’s stories but feels as grim as the darkest Afterschool Special. Drinking Gambling Death Torture Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAre we having fun…
Bromma Blocks is actually a massive shopping center consisting of several large concrete buildings stacked side by side. The placement of the buildings seems a bit odd and the gigantic metal gates are unusual for a shopping center. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe buildings were once part of the Bromma Airport…
Surrealism and realism, regardless of the complementary nature of the words, are two broadly contrasting concepts in art. While realism urges for art’s compliance and accuracy with the real world, surrealism, on the other hand, ignores the precision, dwells into the subconscious, and emphasizes the depths of human imagination arising from reality. In a similar…
More than 20 years after the murder of Guidarello Guidarelli, a Cesare Borgia official, at Palazzo Monsignani in Imola, the sculptor named Tullio Lombardo dedicated this incredible masterpiece to the unlucky knight in 1525. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonDuring the centuries following the monument’s creation, it became legendary across the globe. According to…