Every autumn, a quarter million people go to Virginia’s famed Shenandoah National Park to see the spectacular fall colors of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Those traveling along Skyline Drive, the park’s main road, pass a routered wood sign pointing to Lewis Mountain. Eighty years ago, the park marker included an additional line: “Negro Area.” It…

Queerly Ever After is a bi-monthly column where I take a look at LGBT+ films that gave their characters a romantic happily-ever-after. There will be spoilers. Also, don’t forget to buy your Queerly Ever After merch right here. It is also important that I include a content warning for suicide attempts in this article. Read moreA…

★★★★ Written and Directed by: #StefanGeorgiou Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonStarring: #MatLaroche, #HannahEmanuel, #SarahNiles, #HelenaBanerjee #WillKenning and #ComfortFabian Short film review by: Brian Penn Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Loneliness and isolation are two of the greatest enemies we face in life. The notion…

Traumatic events have a way of exploding us. They reassemble us again afterward, but we’ve changed, completely and irreversibly. In Rose Plays Julie, a dark Irish thriller from Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy, trauma, and the reconciliation with it, soaks into every scene. Lawlor and Molloy also wrote the film, which screened at Nightstream’s Virtual…

During the last Ice Age, the Finger Lakes region of New York was covered by a glacier over two miles thick. This wall of ice permanently sculpted the landscape, scratched rocky outcrops, and gouged deep valleys that became the Finger Lakes themselves. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe Museum of the Earth,…

In the third episode of Lovecraft Country, the 10-part horror drama series from HBO, a character named Letitia “Leti” Lewis moves into an all-white neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago. Leti, who is played by Jurnee Smollett, is prepared for backlash from her neighbors. What she isn’t prepared for is a basement haunted by…

Despite the incredible events that have taken place in the world since the multiple Oscars for “Parasite,” Neon is still basking in the afterglow of that history-making night, releasing another Bong Joon-ho flick for the first time in many markets today and tomorrow (10/19-20) and then putting it on VOD next week (on 10/27). The film…

I’ve never managed to review a François Ozon film without speaking, at length, about how he is one of the few truly chameleonic directors working. And, unfortunately for those of you crying out for me to offer any original insight, that isn’t going to be changing here, as the director who followed his sleazy De…

The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina was a Roman temple located in the area now known as the Roman Forum, a large archaeological site in the middle of the city of Rome. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonConstruction on the temple began around 141 CE by Emperor Antoninus Pius to celebrate the…

October is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “31 days of horror.” Don’t bother looking it up; it’s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we’ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article, about…

One of three churches named Holy Trinity in York (with the other two being Micklegate and the former King’s Court), Goodramgate is thought to be the oldest. It’s estimated that the church’s earliest building date was around 1250. Most of the structure was completed during the 15th-century. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho…

The beautiful, yet small, heritage houses of Madeira are made from wood and thatch. Originally, they were constructed by farmers and other rural inhabitants during the settling of the island. Each house consists of just one or two rooms where a single-family could live. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonDespite being composed…

The ladies have to save the day in The 355, the latest from co-writer and director Simon Kinberg. We all know this story. There’s a fancy new weapon that could take out the world, it falls into the wrong hands, an elite group of spies has to get it back. Cool, we got it, get on…

Lemgo is a small town in northwestern Germany known for witch hunts that took place between 1583 and 1681. A total of 254 people, both men and women, were executed during this period. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonOne of the most famous buildings in the town is the Hexenbürgermeisterhaus, a 16th-century townhouse famous…

The city of Vienna is a wonderful place known for its beautiful palaces, coffee houses, and its amazing history. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonA segment of that history often overlooked is the founding of the city by the Roman Empire. Vienna, known during the days of the Roman Empire as Vindobona,…

Directed by: Brandon Cronenberg Written by: Brandon Cronenberg Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonStarring: Andrea Risborough, Christopher Abbott, Sean Bean, ,,Film Review by Robert Stayte Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Nepotism is often seen in an overly negative light, even though it is often the…

The name’s Bond. Bondathon. With twenty-four official James Bond films to conquer before No Time To Die hits theaters, Bond fan Anna Swanson and Bond newbie Meg Shields are diving deep on 007. Martinis shaken and beluga caviar in hand, the Double Take duo are making their way through the Bond corpus by era, so hang up your hats and pay…

“America’s Forgotten” packs a considerable punch, but it rope-a-dopes for the first few rounds. Director Namrata Singh Gujral spends too much time clearing her narrative throat. Once done, though, the documentary offers a blistering rebuke to outlets that soft-pedal the dangers lurking along the U.S.-Mexico borders. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAnd…

October is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “31 days of horror.” Don’t bother looking it up; it’s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we’ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article, about…

Filmmaker interview by Jason Knight For those who haven’t seen it yet, what is Dual Action about? Dual Action is a short story about a dying gangster, confronted by two mysterious figures in his final moments. It’s sort of a Reservoir Dogs meets Christmas Carol type of story, where the main character is forced to…

“Show some respect, he’s an icon!” “Respect?! We just dug him up!” OutThere McFilms & High Octane Ent. have released an official UK trailer for a crime comedy titled Stealing Chaplin, inspired by real events. Two wacky Las Vegas-based con men dig up and steal the corpse of comedian Charlie Chaplin in order to ransom…