In the ancient beech forests of Monte Fogliano, a 16th-century holy man, Fra Girolamo Gabrielli from Siena instructed his city’s craftsmen to carve a rock-dwelling from an enormous volcanic boulder. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonGabrielli was seeking a place to pray and meditate. He resided in the woods for a few years,…
More than 400 years ago, the coastal community of Patuxet was one of dozens belonging to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, spread across much of what’s now New England. The Wampanoag called the region home for more than 12,000 years, but most history books have reduced them to a footnote. Today, schoolchildren typically learn only that…
It’s the second go at the DCEU’s ultimate team-up in Zack Snyder’s Justice League. No, you haven’t seen this movie before. Well, you may have seen parts of it, but as we all know Zack Snyder wasn’t able to complete the movie he had been building to for years the first time around. It was no…
While this building has been included on lists of the ugliest buildings in the world, it’s still an impressive sight. The building is designed as an inverted steel pyramid that glows burnt orange in the sunlight. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonCompleted in the mid-1980s, this building continues to house Radio and…
This story was originally published in Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bryan Fry’s heart was pounding as he stepped back from the snake enclosure and examined the bite marks on his hand. He had just been bitten by a death adder, one of Australia’s most venomous snakes. Its neurotoxin-laced…
On December 12, 1866, firedamp caused a huge explosion in the Old Oaks Colliery, which later became the Barnsley Main pit. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWith around an hour of their shift left, around 340 men and boys were working at the pit, all but a handful were killed by the…
★★★★★ Directed by: #CozGreenop Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #CozGreenop Starring: #KimberlyBarrett,#AriadnaCabrol, #PhilipHillPearson Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by Lucy Clarke In 2014, Leeds City Council and the West Yorkshire Police set up an area of Leeds as a legal red-light…
“Saturday Night Live,” which once dubbed its rebellious cast the “Not Ready for Prime Time Players,” is now a propaganda tool of the Left. That’s not breaking news, but sometimes the lengths the show goes to remind us of it deserves mention. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho Marathon This week offered another…
“I came for you… You know that.” Dark Star Pictures has revealed the official trailer for an intimate, indie drama titled Luz, one of the latest films from filmmaker Jon Garcia. Ruben Gonzales is a young Latino man who’s fallen into the world of the mafiosos. When an accident leads him into incarceration, his relationship…
In our monthly column Laughed to Death, Brianna Zigler takes a look at the way comedy and existentialism go hand-in-hand in seemingly unlikely ways. For this installment, she examines the humanity lost on the pop star persona through Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana. “I’d love to get Conner to the point where…
This month, Disney announced it will be closing Blue Sky Studios, the 20th Century Fox animation division acquired during the 2019 takeover. The news drew immediate anger from the animation community, especially because the studio had only ten months of production left for its next picture, a feature-length adaptation of the fantasy webcomic Nimona. Further…
★★★ Stars Directed by: #BenSimms Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #RobertBuchta, #BearGrylls, #DelbertShoopman Starring: #BearGrylls Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Alicia Moore “The protective fence surrounding a wildlife sanctuary has mysteriously suffered a breach. Bear is called in to help…
Halfway through Steven Spielberg’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Indiana Jones sneaks into the mythical map room and discovers the location of the Well of Souls. Harrison Ford’s iconic character does this by placing Abner Ravenwood’s amulet onto a staff, allowing the sun to shine a beam through the crystal in the amulet’s center. The…
Shades of nihilism are no stranger to the horror genre. The human body is so often manipulated and destroyed in the face of an evil force. However, in the 21st century, a new type of nihilistic cinema was born in France with the New French Extremity. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the world felt…
Directed by: Sia Written by: Sia, Dallas Clayton Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonStarring; Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr and Maddie Ziegler Film Review by Robert Stayte Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Australian musical artist Sia’s approach to making a movie about autism was misguided…
Alyy Khan has had an eclectic career, working across Hollywood, Bollywood, and Lollywood – there’s a chance you’ll recognise him somewhere, for he has no prejudices towards industries and mediums and has played an astonishing range of characters, acting across some of the world’s biggest movie stars. Lately, he can be seen in the BIFA-nominated…
On certain days during Boston’s long winter, residents can glimpse the stars by looking down. On the dove-colored surfaces of frozen ponds or lakes, shapes appear, rounded in the center with spiky arms stretching outward. The water, a scramble of gray and white, seems to mirror a star-pricked sky. Instead of appearing brighter than their…
“What did you get me into?” Faith Media Distribution has revealed an official trailer for a New Jersey crime drama titled Dutch, from filmmakers Preston A. Whitmore II & David Wolfgang. Dutch introduces a player who will use any means necessary to dominate the streets and beyond. For Bernard James, Jr. aka “Dutch”, survival is…
“17 Blocks,” a documentary about 20 years in the life of a Washington, D.C. family, is so emotionally punishing that you might have to steel yourself at a couple of points to get through the roughest patches. This is by no means a knock against the quality of the filmmaking or the unvarnished truth of the events it…
No one film critic today matters as much as “Siskel & Ebert” once did. Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert became the dueling face of film criticism via their long-running review show. They bickered and battled over the latest releases but kept their love for cinema front and center. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong…
“Did you forget where you came from?” IFC Films has revealed an official trailer for a dramedy titled Last Call, from filmmaker / producer Paolo Pilladi. The film’s early working title was Crabs in a Bucket, which seems amusing but probably doesn’t really describe the story well. A “success story” real estate developer returns to…