Welcome to Saturday Morning Cartoons, our weekly column where we continue the animated boob tube ritual of yesteryear. Our lives may no longer be scheduled around small screen programming, but that doesn’t mean we should forget the necessary sanctuary of Saturday ‘toons. In this entry, we celebrate the arrival of Justice League Unlimited on HBO…
Every February in Catania, an ancient Sicilian city in the shadow of Mount Etna, the breast reigns supreme. During the first week of the month, crowds fill the streets in tribute to Saint Agatha. Local guilds carry massive, golden candle holders, or candelore, featuring sculptures that depict the martyred maiden and her gruesomely amputated breasts….
“You’re saying it’s priests that are after us?” “Deadly, gangster priests – yeah.” Paramount + Saban Films has debuted a new official US trailer for the crime comedy Pixie, the latest film from St Trinian’s director / producer Barnaby Thompson. We posted the original UK trailer for this last fall before it opened over there,…
Despite the tragedy of real, distinguishable love being held back – albeit by time, societal restraints, or medical/life reasons, we still seek its portrayal in film. Either we are gluttons for punishment, or, like in the case of Little Fish, the love is worth experiencing, even with the heart-aching loss. Even without knowing the finale,…
“Who on Earth could believe that of Woody Allen?” HBO has unveiled the teaser trailer for a documentary mini-series titled Allen v. Farrow, and we just have to post it anyway (breaking our no-TV rule). This is a new doc from the award-winning filmmakers Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering, who last made the outstanding On…
Christopher Plummer knew that he would remain best known to a mass audience as Captain von Trapp in “The Sound of Music” (1965), a worldwide mega-hit that he sometimes called “The Sound of Mucus,” but he had come to terms with its popularity by the end of his long life. That very wholesome picture needed…
While much of America rehashes the outcome and aftermath of a recent election, voters in Massachusetts have been electing another official. The job description is vague, the duties negligible. The gig is mainly as a figurehead, which is good, because the candidates aren’t particularly revved up about representing their constituents. They demonstrate astonishingly little interest…
Theo Anthony’s “All Light, Everywhere” is one of the more mind-bending films from Sundance this year, and also the only one I saw that included an extensive bibliography in its closing credits. The film finds Anthony confidently wading into the discussion of police surveillance, engaging the viewer by highlighting the artifice of making a doc,…
France’s submission for Best International Film at this year’s Academy Awards is an intense drama about two women secretly in love, but before you jump to any conclusions, it is not Portrait of a Lady on Fire. (That was eligible last year, and passed over by France in favor of Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables.) The…
Throughout cinema, there have been a bevy of plots revolving around individuals whose humanity got pushed to their limits, teetering good people to lash out at a world that brought them harm, heartache, and loss. Societally fractured characters like Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver, D-Fens played by Micheal Douglas in Falling Down, and most recently…
This magnificent geyser has become a must-see for visitors to this region of Germany. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe geyser was actually the result of a drilling expedition in 1903 to extract carbon dioxide from mineral water. The geyser is fed from an artisan well and became a well-known tourist attraction…
It was only a matter of time before filmmakers would start creating content about the COVID-19 pandemic, and it makes perfect sense that documentaries would be at the forefront of these artistic endeavors. Taking a step back and examining how the pandemic started, it’s hard not to be curious about Wuhan, China; the city that…
This nearly 40-year-old plane wreckage is located in the Great Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina. A moderately difficult two-mile round trip hike from the Waterrock Knob Visitor Center and trailhead in Sylva, North Carolina lead to the wreckage. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe trail begins at the Waterrock Knob Visitor…
The exact age of the painting in this cave is unknown, but it’s estimated that the artwork is well over a thousand years old. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAccording to creation stories from Aboriginal Australians, Bunjil is a principle legendary hero, the creator who provides for all and remains a protector…
★★★★ Directed by #FilippoMeneghetti Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #MalysoneBovorasmy #FilippoMeneghetti #FlorenceVignon Starring #BarbaraSukowa #MartineChevallier Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by George Wolf The plan was to sell each of their neighboring French flats and move to Rome. After decades of…
It may have been reduced to a tiny box on my Zoom program – which was further reduced to half of my computer screen – but there was no doubt that what iconic performer Sam Neill was basking in, living in, and talking to me from was a slice of paradise. With tranquil hymns from outside…
The little town of Fillmore is known for its authentic steam train rides and this unique curiosity shop that also happens to have a bakery. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAcross from city hall is a classic 1900s bungalow that is home to various industrial treasures. Visitors to this curiosity shop will…
Constructed in 1934, this small service station is an architectural rarity. American architect Carl-August Petersen designed the building in the Tudor Revival style. The rounded doorways and windows, steeply-pitched roofs, and chimneys are similar to those found on old English cottages and homes in the surrounding Island Park neighborhood. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong…
Crossing the Streams is our monthly look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the new Netflix arrivals for February 2021. This month’s titles include a disappointing shortage of older, non-Netflix movies, but we’re also getting new films starring Rosamund Pike, Zendaya, and more! Keep…
The disconnect between movies and reality is unavoidable. Contrary to what we assume from films like “The Breakfast Club,” life offers few fist-raising moments like Judd Nelson’s triumphant scene in that John Hughes classic. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonFor this reason, the 1988 Italian film “Cinema Paradiso,” a movie which says,…
More than 20 million years ago, off the coast of what is now northern Taiwan, a marine creature tunneled vertically in the seafloor sand, then veered to the side. Every now and then, the animal—probably a skinny, sprawling, ancient worm—jutted its head above the sediment, snatched some prey, and dragged the unwitting morsel into its…