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WarnerMedia, a division of AT&T Inc., announces an expanded entry-level Access Writers program that aims to amplify underrepresented voices and historically marginalized narrative writers to provide a pathway into the television industry. The WarnerMedia Access Writers program, formerly known as HBO Access, is one of several innovative initiatives being led by the company’s new Enterprise…

John Smith’s Citadel perfectly captures the United Kingdom’s 2020. Beginning with a boisterous Boris Johnson, still bouncing from his general election win, and ending with the worst COVID-19 death toll in Europe. The story of the country’s battle with the Coronavirus pandemic is told both visually, with shots of the capital’s skyline and buildings, but also…

This “modern megalithic garden” has three stone circles, a seven-circuit classic labyrinth, dolmen, dry-stacked stone sculpture,  many boulders and standing stones as well as natural buildings and restored prairie.  Visitors can walk in a self-guided manner along mown grass paths and there are signs at many of the features explaining a bit about each one….

The small village of Onogur, Bulgaria stands on land that, some 14 centuries ago, was home to a large and well-fortified city. Though there seems to be nothing left of it to this day, the strategic nature of the location makes it clear how convenient it would have been for a fortress. The site is…

From its original construction in 1226, all the way up through the 20th century, Burg Lahneck has experienced many notable events that have led to it’s intriguing tale including several wars, political unrest, the tragic death of a young noble. The castle even inspired the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Read moreA Guide to The…

In the classic American play Our Town, Emily Webb and George Gibbs stop at Mr. Morgan’s drug store. There, at the soda fountain that serves as the center of the social life in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, young love blossoms over strawberry ice-cream sodas: Emily and George realize they are “fond of” each other and…

There’s a new superhero team on the job in Thunder Force, the latest from writer/director Ben Falcone. The world needed superheroes. Supervillains were running amok, so scientist Emily Stanton developed a procedure to give regular people powers. She hoped that, eventually, it could be used on people who would be willing to battle the evil forces…

The City of Frankfurt Oder is often overlooked and forgotten, especially in light of sharing its namesake with the much larger and internationally well-known Frankfurt to the west. However, this abstract fountain, which also serves as a working clock, does a good job of making sure visitors leave the city with a memory. Read moreA…

At Crow Wing State Park, visitors can enjoy hiking, snowshoeing, and skiing on the peaceful forested trails at the confluence of the Crow Wing River and Mississippi River. This intersection once provided more than natural beauty, the region was once home to French and Ojibwe residents who constructed a thriving trading town in 1823.  Read…

Streaming might be the future, but physical media is still the present. It’s also awesome, depending on the title, the label, and the release, so each week we take a look at the new Blu-rays and DVDs making their way into the world. Welcome to this week in Home Video for March 9th, 2021! This week’s…

Watch Over Me – dir. Farida Pacha Rating: (3.5/5) Death, always a ripe subject for cinema, is something that is incompatible with the way we have built society. Financially, emotionally, and socially, death is considered an inconvenience. It is something that is not at the whims of our need for control and comfort at every turn….

For one of horror’s best and newest, The Stylist, I was able to speak with writer/director Jill Gevargizian and the star Najarra Townsend about the creation of the character, story, style, and bringing this sympathetic killer to life: Jill Gevargizian This is Kristy Strouse with Film Inquiry. I really loved the film! As a big…

This story was originally published in The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. More than 17,000 earthquakes have been recorded in the southwest of Iceland, in the Reykjanes Peninsula, in a little over a week. People living in the area have been advised to be extra careful due to dangers of landslides…

When Jen Jack Gieseking started researching his book on queer nightlife in New York, he learned that one of the city’s hottest lesbian watering holes was not a bar at all. Sure, participants had fond memories of dancing and flirting at historically lesbian bars. But if the queer women and transgender and nonbinary people in…

The Lone Ranger galloped into our lives first via a radio series in the 1930s, followed by two serialized movie adaptations, novels, comic strips and an animated series. The story: a do-gooder lawyer named John Reid is ambushed by the devilish Butch Cavendish. He’s left for dead and nursed back to life by the noble…

Fang. Heart. Spine. Talon. Tail. Long ago, the five nations of Kumandra lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Druun attacked. Only the dragons, masters of life and magic, could stop it, and when the world needed them most, they sacrificed their lives and vanished. Five hundred years passed and I eventually discovered…

★★ Directed by: #MukeshAsopa, #CharlesRoss Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #MukeshAsopa, #RajeshAsopa, #TwinkleAsopa, #KyleClimans Starring: #MukeshAsopa, #SiobhanJohnson, #JasmineSawant, #KamalNandi Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Emily Davison Death of Pyaar (2020) is a film which is very difficult to summarise due…

“The unsolved murder of two young men… Have any suspects?” Saban Films has released another official trailer for City of Lies, an investigative crime thriller from director Brad Furman (of The Lincoln Lawyer, Runner Runner, The Infiator). The film is about how the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG spark an investigation, following an…

Has there ever been a more aptly titled film than Chaos Walking?   Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe production has been plagued with highly publicized setbacks. First, there was a carousel of screenwriters, whose ranks include Charlie Kaufman, who penned the first draft in 2012, and Patrick Ness, author of the source material. Another complication followed; the…

The monument to Chief Maqoma, at the summit of the Ntaba ka Ndoda mountain, is a commemoration of one of South Africa’s greatest heroes, and a celebration of a life devoted to the struggle of his Xhosa nation against colonialism. The mountain is revered as one of the country’s most historically significant and sacred sites,…

Traffic crossings have become a popular place for various messages and symbols. In Stockholm, the traffic counselor decided their traffic signals needed an update that better reflected society.  Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonInitially created as a temporary installation in 2017 to celebrate Pride and to raise awareness of issues affecting the…