“It’s just code.” Gravitas has released an official trailer for Hello World, an indie documentary about bias in coding and building more diverse programming teams. A good double feature with Coded Bias, another doc film this year about bias and prejudice being worked right into software and algorithms. The film delves into the history of…
As a curly-haired writer living in a big city, I often find myself comparing my life to Carrie Bradshaw’s in Sex and the City. I know I’m not the only one: somehow her mediocre sex column pays for a massive apartment, a new pair of designer shoes each week, and countless brunches and cocktails with…
And we’ll all go together To view Wild Mountain Thyme Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAnd fill the room with laughter Will ye go, buddy, go? Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Fantasy is a surprisingly large element of Wild Mountain Thyme, a romance with bookend…
The trail networks crisscrossing El Malpais National Monument are often marked with lava cairns, rocky reminders of the arid New Mexican park’s previously volcanic life. Below the monument’s striking surface are numerous corridors—close to 500 lava tubes, formed when searing channels of liquid rock made trails through the land. Recently, one of those tubes gave…
David Cronenberg‘s films are some of cinema’s finest enigmas. Each entry in his filmography seems to have developed a cult following over the years since their respective releases, not the least of which include 1981’s Scanners, 1983’s Videodrome, and 1991’s Naked Lunch. Another standout in his repertoire is Crash, released in 1996. The film stars James…
Suggest women aren’t funny and you’ll be quickly attacked, if not outright canceled. Podcast giant Adam Carolla found that out the hard way. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonSay that conservatives lack a sense of humor, though, and there’s little to no outrage. After all, the comedian class is overwhelmingly left of…
A dying man trudges across a dying planet in George Clooney’s ambitious sci-fi epic for Netflix, “The Midnight Sky.” Based on the book by Lily Brooks-Dalton, this is a piece that almost feels designed by a screenwriting algorithm informed by some of the top genre films of the last couple decades. The recipe here is a base…
Constructed between 1905 and 1907, this amazing twin swing bridge links the harbor area of Wilhelmshaven, Germany with the popular South Beach. It’s not the only route to the thin strip of land where South Beach is located, but it’s seen as the most direct and picturesque. South Beach is unique in Germany as it is…
If you bike along the scenic, border-crossing Vennbahn, or Fen Railway, you’ll pass through a section that’s in Belgium, but where Germany is visible to your left and right—an unusual legacy of the days when Europe’s borders were more contentious and fluid. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonConstructed by the Prussian State Railway around…
The Temple of Minerva in the town of Assisi, in Umbria, appears to be a perfectly preserved example of a Roman temple from the outside, but inside is home to a Catholic church. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe Roman building was christened during the 1st-century BCE, probably as part of the…
Hidden among the bustling streets of central Tokyo, a dimly lit porch leads to a venue that feels a world away from the Korean barbecues and neon-lit karaokes that draw night-time crowds to the Ōkubo neighborhood. Through the door, which is often left open, is a corridor lined with photographs and a softly lit room….
Even within Japan, the food, culture, and history of the Ainu—an Indigenous people native to the country’s northernmost main island, Hokkaido, as well as Russia’s Sakhalin and Kuril Islands—is not well known. But at Harukor, a small izakaya in Tokyo, diners can order ohaw (a delicate soup of wild vegetables and salmon that was once an Ainu staple), a crisp…
History is changed by poking around in the backyard in The Dig, the latest from director Simon Stone. The mounds had been around for forever, or at least seemingly forever, and Edith decided it was time to find out what they covered. Never mind the looming war and the lack of supplies and experts. It…
This artwork by Lulu Quinn, with assistance from Alan Hart, consists of a series of speakers assembled with stone such as granite and serpentine, tying them to the iconic geology of Shetland. They are also dotted with seashells and play a series of recordings by Shetlanders. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAround…
Sweet Parents is a feature film fresh off the festival circuit. It follows a young couple: Will, a talented but overlooked chef, and Gabby, a yet-unrecognized sculptor, struggling to get by in New York. When each finds an interested and wealthy older companion who supports and bolsters their career, things become tense as they try…
★★★ Written & Directed by: #ArunKonda Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonStarring: #PaulLogan #JohannaAnttila #EricGorlow #RyanManuel #HaileyHayes Film Review by: #ChrisBuick Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Three years after his daughter Grace’s (Hayes) kidnapping, ex-cop Jordan (Logan) still hasn’t given up on finding out what…
“I was face to face with Rembrandt.” Strand Releasing has unveiled an official US trailer for a documentary titled My Rembrandt, which originally premiered at the IDFA Film Festival in The Netherlands last year. Rembrandt, the grandmaster of intimacy rocks the art world… many people, even entire nations, are still obsessed with his paintings. Aristocrats…
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 December 8th, 2020! This week’s…
Over the course of his filmmaking career, Mariusz Wilczynski has been creating animated shorts. However, at the time of making shorts, Wilczynski was also trying to finish his first feature-length film. Fifteen years in the making, Mariusz Wilczynski’s debut feature-length film, Kill It and Leave This Town, is starkly animated, composed of frazzled, curly sketches…
Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi was born in Leith, a northern suburb of Edinburgh to Italian immigrants. He would go on to become one of the most influential sculptures of the 20th and 21st-centuries. In 1994, he personally donated his entire Chelsea based studio to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. This included a vast…
From 2017 to early 2020, Dr. Mieneke te Hennepe prepared to warn the world about the devastating potential of viral outbreaks. Dr. te Hennepe is a curator at the Netherlands’ Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, a museum in Leiden dedicated to the medical sciences, research, and innovation. The exhibit she was working on, Besmet! (“Contagious!”), was scheduled to…