Samantha Bee Trashed Trump for Kids in Cages, Ignores Worse Under Biden

Samantha Bee Trashed Trump for Kids in Cages, Ignores Worse Under Biden

Few late night hosts badgered President Donald Trump more than Samantha Bee. The progressive TBS star hounded the president for four-plus years, particularly over his immigration policies. For Bee, the “kids in cages” saga, where children were separated from their parents and held in “internment camps,” was arguably the worst of the worst. Read moreA…

Illsan Lake Park in Goyang-si, South Korea

Illsan Lake Park in Goyang-si, South Korea

Ilsan Lake Park first opened in May 1996. It was constructed over a period of about three years, an impressive feat considering its size. The lake’s surface area is well over 3,o00,000 square feet making it the largest man-made lake in Asia. The park was designed to provide a natural-looking outdoor space in an urban area….

VisArt Video in Charlotte, North Carolina

VisArt Video in Charlotte, North Carolina

Step back in time inside one of the largest video stores on the east coast.  Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAs a non-profit, VisArt Video is a movie museum of sorts and is an educational resource for the community regarding all things related to the filmmaking process. With more than 35,000 movies…

SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY Trailer

SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY Trailer

Gear up for round two in Space Jam: A New Legacy, the latest from director Malcolm D. Lee. The ’90s hit that smooshed Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes together is getting a revamp with today’s king of basketball, Lebron James. He’s sucked into the animated world through a computer along with his son, and in order to…

De Brandgrens (The Blaze Boundary) in Rotterdam, Netherlands

De Brandgrens (The Blaze Boundary) in Rotterdam, Netherlands

Rotterdam is known for its modern and daring architecture that draws many people to the city’s center. The center is also home to reminders of when the city was bombed by Nazi Germany in 1940.  Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe local government has fought hard to make certain the city’s history…

Oscar Nominated Shorts: Documentary film review

Oscar Nominated Shorts: Documentary film review

★★★★ Directed by #SophiaNahliAllison#KrisBowers #SkyeFitzgerald #AnthonyGiacchino #AndersHammer #BenProudfoot Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonFilm Review by George Wolf As usual, these nominated documentary shorts are often heart-wrenching, but able to speak necessary truths to power and our collective human experience. Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly…

What’s New to Stream on Amazon Prime for April 2021

What’s New to Stream on Amazon Prime for April 2021

Crossing the Streams is our series of guides looking at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month. This time we’re checking out the new Amazon Prime arrivals for April 2021, including plenty of new releases, great Westerns, Russell Crowe movies, and more!  Amazon Prime Pick of the Month for April 2021 Read…

We’re Finally Getting a Picture of How Dangerous PPE Is for Wildlife

We’re Finally Getting a Picture of How Dangerous PPE Is for Wildlife

The latex glove was a streaky, dirty, yellow-gray, the color of a plastic bag that somersaulted into a tree and got tangled in the branches. When citizen scientists in the Netherlands spotted it in August 2020 while collecting trash along Leiden’s Oude Vest canal, they noticed something unsettling. The glove was torn, and wedged inside…

MEMORIES OF MURDER Criterion Review: Bong Joon-Ho’s Masterpiece, Restored

MEMORIES OF MURDER Criterion Review: Bong Joon-Ho’s Masterpiece, Restored

In 2019, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite took the world by storm, becoming the first South Korean film to win the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and further garnering a large assortment of (very well-deserved) accolades throughout the year, before being awarded Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film…

Trailer for Wacky ‘Mainstream’ with Andrew Garfield & Maya Hawke

Trailer for Wacky ‘Mainstream’ with Andrew Garfield & Maya Hawke

“You can’t be following me!? Like, I’m ‘No One Special’, man.” IFC Films has unveiled an official trailer for the indie film Mainstream, which originally premiered at last year’s big Venice Film Festival during the pandemic. The second feature from filmmaker Gia Coppola (following Palo Alto) is another intense social media cautionary tale about a…

How India’s ‘Mango Man’ Grew a Tree With 300 Flavors

How India’s ‘Mango Man’ Grew a Tree With 300 Flavors

It is a mango tree like no other. Standing tall in a nursery near Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, its massive canopy is large enough to seat 15 people for a picnic and its branches hang heavy with fruit. Unlike the young trees it towers over, though, the texture of the leaves on each…

Painted Mountains of Tabriz in Tabriz, Iran

Painted Mountains of Tabriz in Tabriz, Iran

Because of abundance of mineral veins in the earth, these mountains in Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province are painted with a rainbow of colors. Bands of red, white, yellow, grey, orange, and other pastel hues tint the rocky landscape. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonLocated outside the city of Tabriz in the northwestern part…

THE OAK ROOM: Atmospheric Slow Burn With Potential

THE OAK ROOM: Atmospheric Slow Burn With Potential

The Oak Room, directed by Cody Calahan and written by Peter Genoway as an adaptation of his play of the same name, examines storytelling and masculinity through a series of stories told within different bar settings. Atmosphere The Oak Room builds its story through setting and atmosphere. The snow-covered roads and dark neon lighting filling…

Poseokjeong Pavilion in Gyeongju, South Korea

Poseokjeong Pavilion in Gyeongju, South Korea

Between the 7th and 9th-centuries, the city of Gyeongju was the main cultural and political center of Korea, as the capital of the powerful Silla Kingdom that conquered most of the Korean peninsula. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonDuring this period, known as Unified Silla, many grandiose palaces were constructed in the…

Short Films in Focus: The Oscar-Nominated Short Films of 2021

Short Films in Focus: The Oscar-Nominated Short Films of 2021

Like the main character in one of this year’s nominees, I feel like I’m experiencing a “Groundhog Day”-like loop when I cover the Oscar Shorts nominees every year. We have a Kid-In-Peril storyline for the Live Action category, confounding animated shorts that will surely lose out to the cute Pixar/Disney offering, and documentaries of great…

Bowler Hat Sculpture in Dallas, Texas

Bowler Hat Sculpture in Dallas, Texas

Feeling dapper? Well, as visitors pass through the Cedars neighborhood of Dallas, Texas they are sure to notice this enormous sculpture of a bowler hat. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonDesigned by Keith Turman, the enormous hat resides on an empty block between Ervay and Browder streets. The sculpture was commissioned by the British…

Gveleti Waterfall in Georgia

Gveleti Waterfall in Georgia

The majority of tourists who visit the Kazbegi region in Northern Georgia travel to see the Gergeti Trinity Church, a famous church amid the backdrop of the spectacular Caucasus Mountains. Those who travel the short distance further up the Georgian Military Road are rewarded with this truly magnificent waterfall.  Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong…