Next door to Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Batlló and comprising part of Barcelona’s Illa de la Discòrdia is Casa Amatller. The building was designed by architect Josep Puig I Cadafalch for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller. Cadafalch combined elements of Catalan Modernism and Catalan Gothic for this gorgeous, lavish dwelling. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho…
The Monastery of the Most Holy Mother of God (Manastir Presvete Bogorodice), also known as Petkovača, was constructed between 1159 and 1168 by the Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonDuring the 17th-century, the monastery was destroyed by the Ottoman Empire. Today all that remains are the ruins of…
Two very different worlds exist in Bliss, the latest from writer/director Mike Cahill. Life wasn’t going well for Greg. He was divorced and scattered, very close to losing both his job and his daughter. So when a strange woman introduces herself at a bar he’s open to her assertion that there’s a better world he…
Mammoths once roamed across the Northern Hemisphere and their remains are scattered across the region. The Zoological Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia contains a large collection of mammoth remains, including some very exclusive specimens. Most are skeletal remains or tusks. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonOccasionally, entire skeletons have been unearthed. These…
Nodens is a Celtic deity associated with the sea, hunting, and healing, chiefly worshipped in ancient Britain. Despite his obscurity, his name has become quite significant in literature over the years, especially in the genre of fantasy fiction. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonJ. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and its famous sequel…
Sasha Stone learned long ago the secret to standing out in a crowded online field. Be honest, bold and truthful. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThose qualities allowed her to build AwardsDaily.com into a self-sustaining career that snared the attention of Hollywood studios. Now, those same practices could get her canceled. “The industry…
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 January 26th, 2021! This week’s…
In the autumn of 79 AD, Pliny the Younger wrote a letter to the Roman historian Tacitus, detailing the early stages of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. From his villa in Misenum, across the Bay of Naples from the volcano, he described seeing a dark cloud, shaped like an umbrella pine tree, filling the sky…
“No one sees anything. Ever. They watch, but they don’t understand.” Janus Films has debuted a re-release trailer for the 2K restoration of acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’ early 00s film Demonlover, which first premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. The film is about a French corporation that goes head-to-head with an American web…
Sadly, another series has faced the end, Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina embracing and launching into its final season. While no explanation was given for the sudden cancelation of the fan loved series, the end has come and gone for Sabrina, resigning itself to the void of TV history. And I wish I could say…
On February 18, 2021, if all goes to plan, NASA’s Perseverance rover will land on Mars. While it’s poking around, looking for signs of past habitability, Ingenuity—a tiny, experimental solar-powered helicopter hitching a ride on its underside—will try to demonstrate the possibility of flight on another world for the very first time. We may be…
Movies like “The Little Things” feel like a vanishing breed. In the wake of the success of “The Silence of the Lambs,” there seemed to be a dark, brooding thriller adaptation every week with titles like “Kiss the Girls” and “The Bone Collector,” and it felt like half of them starred Denzel Washington. In recent…
You know a conservative is winning an argument when the other side screams, “shut up!” Sadly, the Left has been screaming just that for so long they don’t realize how weak, and frightened, they sound. It’s why far-Left radicals shout down conservatives on college campuses and, more recently, on social media platforms. Read moreA Guide…
An article from the ‘Hollywood Reporter’ earlier this month suggested that Parasite’s major awards victories last year ushered in a wave of “weird” entries into the Oscar International Film category. The term “weird” was later changed to “genre” after backlash on Twitter which considered the wording to be alienating and condescending towards non-American films. I…
Not much is known about the history of this site. The scant ruins of a medieval structure suggest the existence of an ancient rural church inside one of the largest caves of the Sant’Angelo Canyon. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonLike the nearby hermitages associated with Peter of Morrone, the hermit who…
★★★★ Directed by: Mark Grabianowski Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: Mark Grabianowski Starring: Sheila Dionne, Alicia Blasingame, Garrett Botts Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Jason Knight A bad man is being held captive in a basement by a woman who…
As visitors wander the streets of Jaffa Old Town, this fully grown orange tree that appears to float will certainly come as a surprise. However, the tree is actually suspended by chains, hanging roughly one foot above the street. Despite being created by Israeli artist Ran Morin in 1993, this installation somehow looks at home…
Hidden past vineyards and hilly fields, this location is often missed or completely disregarded. Not far from the popular town of Onetangi, a short drive down the remote gravelly roads of the Eastern part of the island takes visitors to the aptly named, Stony Batter Historic Reserve. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho…
To spot arrogance and pretension in others is easy because these traits are conspicuous in their ugliness. But when I see it in myself, my instinct is to deny that I have behaved with the same unpleasantness. Financial success, employment, creating, art-appreciation, religion, education, even exercise – almost every form of personal fulfillment can lead…
Dimitrovgrad is said to be the first socialist industrial town in Bulgaria. It started from scratch in 1947 when thousands of youth gathered at this spot and started a colossal building project to create a new city. The result was a utopian Socialist environment with straight streets, large squares, park areas, and districts that were…
Opened in 1930, the Metropolitan State Hospital (MSH) in Waltham, Massachusetts was once the largest, most sophisticated facility for treating the mentally ill in New England. At its peak, around 2,000 patients were residents at the hospital. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonConstruction on the complex began in 1926, a few years…