There are two takeaways from this week’s above-average episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race: every single editing choice pointed towards the 4th alternate to the crown (i.e., the queen booted from this episode) and, after 13 weeks of episodes, it should be obvious to these queens that the judges want to see more versatility and not…
Junaluska provides valuable insight into North Carolina’s history, Black Mennonites, and race in Appalachia. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThousands of tourists and Appalachian State football fans walk down King Street in Boone, North Carolina, past farm-to-table cafes and the Mast General Store, without knowing about Junaluska. The Junaluska community sits just…
The winner of the Special Jury Prize for Visionary Filmmaking at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and Lesotho’s first-ever submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is a devastating depiction of one woman’s fight to maintain the traditions of her people when the crushing…
American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell is the first name that comes to mind for many people when they think of art that captures “slices of life.” His cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post included some of the most iconic images of everyday American life during the early 20th-century. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
★★★★ 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…
“Those men that came for your father – did you see their faces?” Warner Bros has debuted the first official trailer for a thriller titled Those Who Wish Me Dead, the latest feature directed by writer / filmmaker Taylor Sheridan after he broke out as a director with Wind River a few years back. While…
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…
“I will kill everyone linked to you.” Well Go USA has released an official US trailer for a crazy fun Korean action thriller movie called Deliver Us From Evil, from filmmaker Won-Chon Hong, best known as the screenwriter of The Chaser, The Scam, The Yellow Sea, and Confession of Murder. This is actually more of…
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…
“There’s something about poetic justice that’s just so… poetic.” Disney has debuted a second official trailer for the new live-action Cruella movie, the new story about the rebellious early days of one of cinemas most notorious – and notoriously fashionable – villains, the legendary Cruella de Vil. We already featured the first teaser trailer and…
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…
“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…
“It sounds so crazy now.” HBO has revealed an official trailer for a mysterious, compelling new true crime doc series titled Pray, Obey, Kill. Yeah this one joins the ranks of many other religious cult / crazy sect stories before it. On a cold night in January 2004, gunshots rang out across the remote Swedish…
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…
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, 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…