An hour east of Kathmandu is the small resort community of Nagarkot. The road to reach the town is steep, twisty, and rough, making a stop at the Buddha Peace Park a welcome respite. Hikers may choose to finish the journey to Nagarkot by taking the eight-kilometer Peace Park Hiking Trail into town. The trial…
Prestonpans, or Preston, is a small coastal region that lies some 50 miles east of Edinburgh. It currently boasts a vast number of murals painted by members of the local community and guest artists. It also happens to be the site of a historic battle. Here, Charles Edward Stuart suffered a massive defeat in an…
★★★★ Directed by #JerryRothwell Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #NaokiHigashida ,,Film Review by ,,George Wolf Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Ten years ago, a Japanese teenager wrote a book that quickly became regarded as “an envoy from another world.” With The Reason I…
I cannot remember the first time that I was introduced to DC’s trinity — Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman — because I must have been younger than three. In my childhood, Superman had recently died and had been resurrected; Batman was going through his transformation into a dark and gritty force of vengeance, which was…
Located in the Sheshan Seismic Station at the foot of West Sheshan Mountain, this museum features a theater hall, an earthquake information hall, an emergency rescue drill exhibit, and the Zhang Heng seismograph exhibition hall. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonZhang Heng was a Chinese scientist and mathematician from the Han Dynasty….
This early 20th-century gas station was constructed to serve the town of Elberta and those commuting to and from a nearby gold mine. The Sinclair station on US 6 started serving early automobiles in 1917. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWhen the gold mine closed in 1949, the town of Elberta situated…
If you’re like me, you know Mike Nichols through his affiliation with The Graduate or Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Maybe you have some notion of the Nichols and May improv team that conquered the comedy circuit in the 1960s. Perhaps you’re aware of Elaine May‘s own forays into writing-directing with the likes of A…
Think of your last road trip. There were sights, destinations, but as much as anything else, there were signs. For businesses, public safety messages, accident memorials, threats directed at outsiders, advertisements for worms, eggs, and firewood, reminders of sin (83-FOR-TRUTH), and, of course, political campaigns. In his book Political Sign, author Tobias Carroll compares the…
Comedian Michael Loftus didn’t lock down as long as many stand-ups did last year. The right-leaning comic returned to the stage weeks after the pandemic hit the states. He also kept on writing, recording his “Loftus Party” podcast and dodging social media censors. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe latter proved only…
“We just call him… the ‘slumbering one.’” Epic Pictures Group has released a trailer for a mysterious indie Lovecraftian horror film titled Sacrifice, made by filmmakers Andy Collier & Tor Mian. This film originally premiered at FrightFest in the UK last year. Inspired by the Paul Kane short story titled “Men of The Cloth”, Sacrifice…
On a hot November day in 1926, a 13-year-old boy dressed as the Pied Piper led more than 1,000 children not out of town, but to the Central Library of Los Angeles. He marched at the head of a parade held to celebrate the opening of the children’s reading room. The piper, who had earned…
★★★★ Directed by #JordanTetewsky Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #JordanTetewsky and #JoshuaPikovsky Staring #HunterZimny , #MeganDecino , #PaulSouthard , #DannyFrye , #SarahHarper , #MichelleGirolami Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by Jasmine Holly Bullock Bolue Vience is a 2016 satirical short film…
It boggles the mind how something so short in length can be so incredibly awful. Fish, the new pilot from writer/creator Curtis Johnson and Dog Den Films, seemingly managed to figure out the formula for such dreck. Let’s begin with the synopsis and try to take it from there. According to the IMDb- When Jacob Fiskel,…
Lighthouses have played a critical role in the daily life of maritime towns as nautical landmarks that provide directional signals to ships. They are traditionally located very close to the water. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe Three Sister Lighthouses were originally located on Nauset Beach atop a cliff, just a quarter-mile…
Chicago’s Lincoln Park is known as the largest park in the city. However, it’s much less common knowledge that many of the trees and plants originally came from a forest preserve more than 20 miles away. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonLincoln Park has expanded from its much smaller origins into the…
The construction of this cemetery was agreed upon between the British and German governments in 1959. It was designed to re-locate the remains of German service personnel and internees who died in the United Kingdom during World War I and II. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonA dedication ceremony took place in…
I’m hyping a short today because The Human Voice pairs Pedro Almodóvar with Tilda Swinton, and I think we’ll all take as much of that as we can get. With a reported run time of 30 minutes, this is nowhere near feature-length, but there’s still plenty of time for stuff to go down. From the trailer, what…
Phimeanakas was a Hindu temple constructed in the Khleang style. The name Phimeanakas actually translates to “Celestial Palace.” Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonConstruction started at the end of the 10th-century during the reign of Rajendravarma II and was completed by Suryavarma I. It went on to become the state temple of Suryavarman I and…
“Mr. Mayor” has a Ted Danson problem. Just now, you perhaps shouted “THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A TED DANSON PROBLEM” at your screen. You are not wrong to shout, reader. To imply that Ted Danson is the source of any sitcom’s problems should be enough to have me immediately struck from the membership…
At the beginning of the Pennsylvania oil rush, one of the first oil deposits was unearthed just north of Pittsburgh. From that time and well into the 20th-century, Pittsburgh was a major center of finance and home to the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe Pittsburgh Stock Exchange was…
I’ve thought a lot about White Noise since I saw the film at Amsterdam’s International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA) in 2020. What struck me about Daniel Lombroso‘s documentary about three famous alt-right individuals – Lauren Spencer, Mike Cernovich, Richard Spencer – is how entirely ordinary and existentially conflicted they are behind closed doors. It’s a contrast to…