Mahwah Museum in Mahwah, New Jersey

Mahwah Museum in Mahwah, New Jersey

In the fall of 1871, the Mahwah Train Station was constructed. The new building helped the small town of Mahwah grow and to prosper over the years. After spending much of its life as a station, the former depot was utilized as a storage facility. Later, the station was moved to its current location and…

NOBODY: Maybe It’s Time To Let The Old Ways Die

NOBODY: Maybe It’s Time To Let The Old Ways Die

There’s an undeniable purity to Nobody. It’s bloody, bruised, and battered, but that’s the makeup of pure action. Flying punches and lovingly wielded guns hung on a framework plot that’s mostly there to get us from set piece to set piece, this is a specific kind of film that’s just getting back in vogue thanks…

Edstone Aqueduct in Warwickshire, England

Edstone Aqueduct in Warwickshire, England

Built in 1816 to carry the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, the Edstone Aqueduct is the longest canal aqueduct in England (although there are longer ones in both Scotland and Wales and a number of higher ones too). It is 475 feet long and 33 feet high at its highest point. The engineer was William Whitmore. Read moreA…

Old Two Spot Logging Train in Flagstaff, Arizona

Old Two Spot Logging Train in Flagstaff, Arizona

This old Baldwin locomotive once served the local lumber industry, hauling huge tree trunks from the forest to the mills. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonConstructed in Pennsylvania in 1911, the train came to Arizona in 1917 when it was purchased by the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. It passed through various…

Khari Baoli Rooftop in New Delhi, India

Khari Baoli Rooftop in New Delhi, India

Old Delhi is bursting with history and with modern-day activity. Built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in the mid-1600s as a walled city called Shahjahanabad, it served as the capital’s empire from then until the British Raj gained supremacy in 1857. Though India’s current center of government rests a few miles south in New…

Loved or Loathed: Can Madagascar’s Aye-Aye Survive Superstition?

Loved or Loathed: Can Madagascar’s Aye-Aye Survive Superstition?

In a remote rainforest in Madagascar’s northeast, Doménico Randimbiharinirina and Dominik Schüßler wandered into a ghost town. Its inhabitants were long gone, and the wooden frames and thatched roofs of dozens of huts slumped and rotted into creeping vegetation. Locals had told the two scientists about this abandoned village. About three years earlier, it was…

Estrella de los Deseos (Wishing Star) in Córdoba, Spain

Estrella de los Deseos (Wishing Star) in Córdoba, Spain

If you look closely, you can find a little star embedded in the wall of the Mosque-Cathedral in Córdoba. Known to some as the Estrella de los Deseos (Wishing Star), this star exactly is located in a corner of the Cathedral-Mosque, next to Torrijos street. It is actually a type of fossil. People who walk…

Get Wild With These Award-Winning Nature Photos

Get Wild With These Award-Winning Nature Photos

When photographer Vladimir Cech saw fresh lynx tracks by a fallen tree in the border region of the Bohemian Forest in Czechia, he hoped that his homemade DSLR camera traps would catch the wildcat. They didn’t, but what he did get was spectacular: a quiet image of a red fox delicately making its way across…

Christiansø in Gudhjem, Denmark

Christiansø in Gudhjem, Denmark

The easternmost point in Denmark might be also its most remote. Christiansø is a small Danish island, part of the archipelago known as Ertholmene, which is located 18 kilometers (11 miles) northeast of the island of Bornholm. It is also home to the easternmost point in Denmark (Greenland and the Faroe Islands included). Read moreA Guide to…

How They Shot the Stargate Sequence in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

How They Shot the Stargate Sequence in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

Welcome to How’d They Do That? — a monthly column that unpacks moments of movie magic and celebrates the technical wizards who pulled them off. This entry explains how they shot the trippy “stargate” sequence at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is difficult to speak about 2001: A Space Odyssey without careening…

SXSW 2021: Lily Topples the World, Subjects of Desire, The Hunt for Planet B

SXSW 2021: Lily Topples the World, Subjects of Desire, The Hunt for Planet B

Executive produced by Kelly Marie Tran, the heartwarming portrait (and documentary feature competition winner) “Lily Topples the World” celebrates the artistry of 20-year-old Lily Hevesh, one of the most popular domino masters on YouTube. (By the end of the doc’s filming, she’s reached around three million subscribers.) On her channel Hevesh5, Hevesh offers viewers a fantastic…

SXSW 2021: KID CANDIDATE, WEWORK & THE LOST SONS

SXSW 2021: KID CANDIDATE, WEWORK & THE LOST SONS

SXSW’s eclectic festival has gone virtual for this year and it could be amongst the last all-digital versions of the major film festivals as a promising global vaccine rollout suggests a healthy return to physical editions after the summer. The programmers at SXSW 2021 have wonderfully fulfilled their remit of showcasing high-quality, unique and innovative…

Queerly Ever After #48: JUST FRIENDS (2018)

Queerly Ever After #48: JUST FRIENDS (2018)

Queerly Ever After is a bi-monthly column where I take a look at LGBT+ films that gave their characters a romantic happily-ever-after. There will be spoilers. Also, don’t forget to buy your Queerly Ever After merch right here. Yad (Majd Mardo) is a 26-year-old Syrian-Dutch man, he has just returned home to his parents after being…

Official Trailer for the Oscar Nominee ‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’

Official Trailer for the Oscar Nominee ‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’

“You and I, we should turn the page.” Watch this official trailer for the indie drama The Man Who Sold His Skin, from Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania. This is one of the five Best International Feature nominees at the Oscars this year, an interesting choice considering the quality of all the films submitted. But…

LISTEN TO THE UNIVERSE: A Traditional Competition Film, With Something Extra

LISTEN TO THE UNIVERSE: A Traditional Competition Film, With Something Extra

“Why this obsession to find prodigies?” “Inferiority complex… we are not the geniuses who made history. That’s it.” Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThis exchange between Nathanael Silverberg (Andrzej Chyra) and Mieko Saga (Yuki Saito), two judges of the Shogei International Piano Competition, encapsulates a dark reality of being a talented youth….

Cabo Girão Skywalk in Câmara de Lobos, Portugal

Cabo Girão Skywalk in Câmara de Lobos, Portugal

The glass skywalk of Cabo Girão, situated at the top of the highest promontory in Europe, is the highest cliff skywalk in Europe. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonSituated nearly 2,000 feet (580 meters) above sea level, the cliff walk first opened in 2012. It is composed of a suspended glass platform, which…

Liberal Chuck Lorre Dragged by Cancel Culture

Liberal Chuck Lorre Dragged by Cancel Culture

Chuck Lorre is the latest progressive to learn the ugly truth about Cancel Culture. No amount of liberal bona fides can provide you with full protection from the woke mob. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonLorre routinely ends his shows with “Vanity Cards” sharing progressive messages. Consider how he mocked Donald Trump’s…

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER: A Flawed Reimagining of a Feminist Classic

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER: A Flawed Reimagining of a Feminist Classic

The most famous work by the progressive feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman is her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” published in 1892. Written after Gilman had experienced a bout of postpartum depression that doctors attempted to treat by forcing her to do as little as possible — the then much-vaunted “rest cure”— the story uses…

The Weeping Woman in Parkersburg, West Virginia

The Weeping Woman in Parkersburg, West Virginia

Parkersburg has been dubbed proudly by its residents as “the birthplace of West Virginia.” This small city sitting on the Ohio River served as the Union’s very first invasion point into the Confederate states, changing the course of the Civil War. The state of West Virginia was born by those remaining loyal to the Union,…