Awoken is a horror movie about insomnia and demonic possession. It was co-written and directed by Daniel J. Phillips and filmed in South Australia. It is the story of Kara, a young medical student, who moves her sleep-deprived brother into a secret medical facility when doctors refuse to treat his Fatal Familial Insomnia. Trapped together underground,…
At the onset of World War II, the Kingdom of Norway was not allied with the Axis or Allied Powers, leading both factions to consider invading the country due to its strategic position in the North Sea. While the British in particular drew plans to mine Norwegian waters and prevent Axis ships from transiting these…
The world-famous Louvre Museum has a couple branches outside Paris, namely in Lens and Abu Dhabi. There is also an officially sanctioned “sister” museum in Japan, however, albeit of a somewhat different kind. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe Louvre Sculpture Museum opened in the city of Tsu in 1987, privately funded…
This week, all of our content on the site is written by women. We’ll update this table of contents page with links to new pieces as they go up. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonINTRO Introduction to Women Writers Week 2021 by Chaz Ebert & Nell Minow Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a…
The site of the former 17th-century garrison house of Rev. Joseph Rowlandson and his family is wonderfully bucolic, set beneath a canopy of shade trees and tucked behind a handsome low stone wall. But the scene was much different during King Philip’s War. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonIt was from this…
One winter morning, prisoners at the Akmola Labor Camp for Wives of Traitors to the Motherland, part of the Soviet gulag system from the 1930s to 1950s, trudged to a nearby lake. As they began gathering reeds to heat their frigid barracks, children and elders from the neighboring community approached the shore. The kids hurled…
Adam (Mark Duplass) is getting ready for yet another regular morning when he sees a young woman waiting for him in the living room. She is not, however, physically there, her face on the screen twisted in slight confusion, mirroring the one of the man. The predicament was created by Adam’s husband, Will, as a…
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. New Kid in School Chance Marquis (Tad Hilgenbrink) is a new student at the European-set, English-language Brickland International…
What would you do if you had the chance to go back to the past and meet your parents when they were the same age as you? That’s the main question and the basic premise of Céline Sciamma‘s fifth directorial feature, Petite Maman. Following her piercing queer romance Portrait of a Lady on Fire, the…
“Why do you live like this? The windows, the lights, the traps…” Signature Entertainment from the UK has unveiled a new UK trailer for an indie living-in-seclusion horror-thriller titled Rose: A Love Story, which initially premiered at last year’s London Film Festival. The film, which also goes under the simple title Rose, marks the feature…
Happy International Women’s Day and thank you for joining us this week at RogerEbert.com as we celebrate our annual Women Writers Week. We are pleased to share with you once again a week of reviews and articles all written by female contributors. Collectively, the world felt that 2020 was unlike any other year in our…
Come True is written and directed by Anthony Scott Burns, who previously directed Our House and the segment “Father’s Day” in the anthology film Holidays which I discuss in Hidden Gems in Anthology Films. Come True is an atmospheric science-fiction horror film examining sleep paralysis and the nature of dreams in its own unique ethereal…
This atmospheric location on the surface is masked by an inconspicuous gray building. However, the true nature of this location is hidden more than 100 feet underground, similar in-depth to the Moscow underground/subway (Metro). This former bunker was constructed during the Cold War and wasn’t declassified until 2018. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong…
British actors Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley anchor two of the more profitable film franchises in Hollywood today. Holland took over for Andrew Garfield as cinema’s Spider-Man, drawing both raves and boffo box office in three MCU films and two “Spidey” features. Ridley became a household name when Lucasfilm tapped her to anchor a new…
★★ Directed by: #AdamTaufiqSuharto Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #AdamTaufiqSuharto Starring: #AlifIsmailLuqman Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film review by William Hemingway Guy Ritchie once said something in an interview about conceptual films being the future of movie-making; that story driven films were…
On the second day of their December 2020 voyage through the punishing Sierra mountain range, the four team members of the Forlorn Hope Expedition woke to find six inches of snow had piled on their tents, and more was falling. They made oatmeal on their camp stoves and hustled to get moving. The previous day,…
This peaceful spot in the middle of the 54-acre Brookside Gardens recalls a very somber span of three weeks in October 2002 when local residents were gripped by fear as a series of random and mysterious killings unfolded across Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe perpetrators left behind…
Azmaris are Ethiopian bards, poet-musicians as skilled in lyrical double-entendre and pun as they are with their instruments. They are comparable to the griots of West Africa, who capture the cultural history of their communities in verse and song and the troubadours of middle-ages Europe, wandering composers and performers of lyrical poetry. Read moreA Guide…
Yep, there’s another Zack Snyder movie coming your way, but instead of superheroes this one’s got zombies and a huge pile of cash. In this genre mashup for Netflix, a massive zombie outbreak has left Las Vegas overrun. Everyone considers the city, along with all its supplies, lost, everyone except a group of visionary mercenaries….
The medieval village of Dozza sits amidst miles of vineyards just outside Bologna. The first houses date back to the ninth century, and the wall surrounding the city to 1086, when Bolognese forces conquered the village. In 1960, Dozza established the Biennale del Muro Dipinto (Biennial of the Painted Wall). It was, and still is, a…
In 1904, a collector named J.T. Micklethwaite brought a rare “death’s-head” spoon to a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Declaring it “too grim to be put to ordinary use,” he pointed to the engraved skull at the top of its stem, complemented by the message “Live to Die” on one side and…