Movie talk

“As good as the original, maybe even better?” It can’t be! This is some of the best 30-seconds of nostalgia bliss you will enjoy this entire year. Many try, but few succeed, in making great commercials based on our favorite movies. But this one perfectly pulls it off and goes even further to make us…

Popular game designer and Dungeon Master Matthew Colville explains that one of the central tensions in games like Dungeons & Dragons is order versus chaos. He explains this tension can be represented by “civilization versus wilderness. Civilization represents order, the wilderness represents chaos.” This tension is at the heart of PG: Psycho Goreman, a film…

This story was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It is dusk beside a creek and we are instructed to look for a trail of bubbles, under which could be one of the world’s weirdest mammals. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWhen you’re…

The trailer for Fatale, the most recent film from Deon Taylor, previews a mysterious, action-packed caper the likes of which you have not seen since your last Deon Taylor film. In it, Michael Ealy’s character, Derrick, offers a cautionary proverb: “Life is a road, straight and narrow. Stay on the road, and it will take you…

One of the greatest chapters in the history of United States westward expansion is the Transcontinental Railroad. The train allowed passengers and cargo to cross the country in a fraction of the time of wagons and stagecoaches. It also gave rise to the railroad tycoons and robber barons who had a virtual monopoly on transportation….

On August 6th, 1903 two train cars carrying members of the Great Wallace Shows Circus collided in the Durand railroad yards. The incident killed 23 people along with several animals. Nine of those killed were never identified and lie buried in Lovejoy Cemetery. The animals, including an elephant named “Maude,” were buried at the scene…

In 1911, Berlin got its first crematorium: a dramatic, domed building that stands amidst a graveyard in the multicultural district of Wedding. After it closed in 2002, holding its final cremations, a group of Berliners reinvented the space as a hub for art, events, and learning.  Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe former crematorium…

The Old Hill Street Police Station is a former station used by the Singapore Police Force. It now stands as a historic building with an amazing facade.  Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe building has a total of 927 windows, each with a wooden shutter painted in one of the colors of a…

A mesmerizing sight to behold, the intricacies of this temple are what make it so amazing. The Sun Temple is a Hindu temple constructed after 1026 CE, during the Chaulukya dynasty. The complex was designed in the Māru-Gurjara style. Unlike other tourist destinations around the country, this temple isn’t usually overrun with tourists, which adds to…

A couple gets strange and not so friendly advice in Happily, the feature debut of writer/director BenDavid Grabinski. Tom and Janet are a happy couple. Unusually happy according to their friends and a mysterious stranger who shows up at their house, and they recommend Tom and Janet come down to everyone else’s level. The stranger even…

This little bridge near the heart of Darlington has a wondrous and under-appreciated history. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe Skerne Bridge is officially the world’s oldest railway bridge in continuous operation. The bridge was constructed as part of the Darlington to Stockton railway in 1825, the world’s first public railway to…

Author Larry Correia read the cultural tea leaves before some of his peers. The mind behind the “Monster Hunter” series saw how publishers put increasing pressure on writers to toe a progressive line. Those who didn’t paid the price. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonNow, Cancel Culture is in full swing, but…

“Let your frenemy know how you really feel!” Warner Bros has released a fun “Valentine’s Day” promo spot for the new Tom and Jerry movie, a mix of live-action and old school animation. It’s arriving in theaters + on HBO Max later this month, and it looks like a clever and amusing update mixing cartoon…

Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs” introduces each of its main characters by showing them in their home or temporary habitat. We meet FBI cadet Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) while she’s training outside at Quantico, sprinting through the woods, a proper metaphor for her current existence and the event of her past that gives…

The low-budget, idea-driven corner of science fiction has become a crowded place recently. “Lapsis” is the latest entry worth seeing and arguing about. Written, directed, edited, and scored by Noah Hutton, and shot (by Mike Gomes) on location in New York City and in forests upstate, this is a rare American feature that not only dares…

Disney took a principled stand in erasing Gina Carano from its signature show, “The Mandalorian.” Or so the mega-company suggested by severing ties with Carano for her “abhorrent” message comparing Nazi Germany to attacks on conservatives today. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonLet’s take Disney at its word. It can’t continue doing…

A mouse orchestra. A crab giving advice on love. A boy who sings along to Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb as he delivers newspapers. Big musical numbers. Candy-colored oceanside architecture. Jamie Dornan. A screenplay by stars Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who play two irrepressibly cheerful best friends who wander through it all. Josh Greenbaum…

★★★ Directed by: #TerrellWilliams Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonStarring: #ChristinaMancari, #JafethGarcia, #BobbyJRomay Short Film Review by Taryll Baker Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Lilly, living in a society that cages people like animals for not adapting to the new world order, is joined by…

★★★★ Directed by: #SimisolaoluwaAkande Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #SimisolaoluwaAkanda Starring: #MaryamAhamdu, #AnjolauluwaAkande, #OluwatoyinAkande Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film review by: Patrick Foley Whilst 2020 may have been a year when a desire for racial justice collided with institutional barriers like a…