“Cobra Kai” has become a pop culture hit not just because everyone loves “The Karate Kid,” but because this series has found a balance between easy-to-watch nostalgic entertainment and excellent dramatic plotting. Now in its third season, and still obsessed with every detail from “The Karate Kid,” the series owns its cheesiness while showing the…
Completed in 2011 after seven years of construction, this 144-foot tall statue presenting the hand gesture (or mudra) offering blessings of peace stands approximately 12 miles east of Kathmandu. Nearly as tall as the Statue of Liberty (151 feet), Shiva is comprised of copper, zinc, concrete, and steel. It’s also the second tallest Hindu deity…
You’re not going to find jello cups on the menu at Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. Instead, patients and visitors choose between reindeer pot pie, smoked hooligan, birch sourdough biscuits with fireweed jelly, herring roe, salmon-belly or seal soup, and Eskimo ice cream (made with animal fat, fish oil, and berries). Depending on…
A family adjusts to a new life in Acasa, My Home, a documentary from first-time director Radu Ciorniciuc. The Bucharest delta is a natural haven within the bustling city. Or it’s a trap. Or it’s simply a park, and everything we ascribe to it is our own creation. Undoubtedly all of these possibilities will come up…
During the Meiji Restoration of the late 1800s, the Japanese government sent many students abroad to learn more about Western society to better modernize their home country. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonOne of the first American schools to accept Japanese students was Rutgers University in New Jersey. Rutgers is rooted in…
In a converted cattle shed in central Kenya, a mischief of rats is getting up to some. Bristling with energy, the salt-and-pepper animals—African crested rats, which look like skunks that tumbled around in a dryer—gnaw on the stalks and leaves of a poisonous plant. Raising the fur on their flanks, the rats use their tongues…
Philip K. Wrigley began the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) in 1943, as many male athletes were fighting in World War II. The AAGPBL was at the forefront of women’s professional sports. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe Rockford Peaches were one of the teams that operated during the first year of…
While speech itself has been identified by social media giants and the Left as ‘inciting’ violence — why won’t Twitter censor literal calls for violence? Trump Derangement Syndrome has caused Hollywood to do shameful things over the past four years. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonIn 2017, comedian Kathy Griffin tweeted a…
Christmas in Nazi Germany was as twisted as one might expect. German families ate swastika-shaped cookies, decorated fir trees with “traditional” Nordic runes, and sang hymns rewritten to avoid reference to God, Christ, and Christianity. Since Jesus is one of the most prominent Jews in history, the Nazi party went to war with the holiday…
In our Color Code column, Luke Hicks chooses a handful of shots from a favorite film in order to draw out the meaning behind certain colors and how they play into both the scene and the film as a whole. For his fifth entry, he digs into Todd Haynes’ Carol. Todd Haynes introduces us to…
Off a seemingly sleepy exit on Interstate 5 in Oregon sits a trippy theme park. Enchanted Forest, which has occupied 20 acres on a hill in the woods between Portland and Eugene for 49 years, is what Disneyland might look like if it had been designed by Ken Kesey and filled with 1960s-era sculptures and…
Robert Connolly‘s dust bowl noir The Dry is a desolate, outback murder mystery where the haunted qualities of its hero and the drought-stricken town he descends upon is edged with an undeniable bleakness that puts the full stop on the stark cinematic year it’s been released in. Concurrently, it’s also a languid adaptation of Jane…
St. Canute’s Cathedral is a Gothic, red brick building constructed in the 1300s. The church is named after Danish King Canute IV, who was murdered at this location. He ruled Denmark from 1080 to 1086 and was later canonized. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAccording to legend, Canute was murdered in the…
The Devil’s Gate is a rock formation located in Natrona County. Crafted by the Sweetwater River, the limestone formation is a narrow passage stretching 1,500 feet from end to end Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAs a noticeable feature of the frontier, Devil’s Gate served as a landmark for fur traders and…
★★★★ Directed by: Christopher Sampson Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: Christopher Sampson Starring: Nathan Draman, Jye Whatson, Madi Jennings Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by: ,,Jason Knight An emotional story about three youths, who go on a road trip together. Michael…
“The fact that I’ve already seen Palm Springs evolve with every single viewing leaves me with no doubt that the movie is going to continue to inspire me to push myself further.” Yes! Big fan of that movie, too. Fellow movie geek Perri Nemiroff, who works for Collider, has debuted her end of the year…
This article is part of our 2020 Rewind. Follow along as we explore the best and most interesting movies, shows, performances, and more from this very strange year. In this entry, we have a laugh (and often a cry) with the best comedy movies of 2020. In a year that needed comedy more than ever, some reliables kept…
This sculpture is from a series entitled “First Crew” by Russian artist Denis Prasolov. The monkey depicted in the sculpture is known as “Sam” and is a tribute to the animals who died during spaceflight survival tests. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe former Soviet Union used a variety of animals for…
While David Fincher’s recent Netflix film “Mank” adamantly sticks to Welles’ co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz’s bitter viewpoint on how he came to write “Citizen Kane,” Benjamin Ross’ 1999 HBO movie “RKO 281” mainly presents director and co-writer Orson Welles’ viewpoint on the classic film’s production. It also pays some attention to Mankiewicz and several other real-life…
Scotland is home to between 2,000 and 4,000 castles. The vast discrepancy in the margins is due to the fact that some are just crumbling ruins, while others make the assertion to sound more grandiose than they are in reality. Still, a few thousand are either popular tourist attractions or stately homes passed down through…
In photography, as in life, sometimes a new perspective makes all the difference, and can make the mundane seem more special. Since photography was first introduced in the 19th century (the earliest surviving photograph was taken with a camera obscura in 1827 by Nicéphore Niépce in France), there have been daring and adventurous photographers who…