In 2019, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite took the world by storm, becoming the first South Korean film to win the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and further garnering a large assortment of (very well-deserved) accolades throughout the year, before being awarded Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film…

“You can’t be following me!? Like, I’m ‘No One Special’, man.” IFC Films has unveiled an official trailer for the indie film Mainstream, which originally premiered at last year’s big Venice Film Festival during the pandemic. The second feature from filmmaker Gia Coppola (following Palo Alto) is another intense social media cautionary tale about a…

“It sounds so crazy now.” HBO has revealed an official trailer for a mysterious, compelling new true crime doc series titled Pray, Obey, Kill. Yeah this one joins the ranks of many other religious cult / crazy sect stories before it. On a cold night in January 2004, gunshots rang out across the remote Swedish…

It is a mango tree like no other. Standing tall in a nursery near Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, its massive canopy is large enough to seat 15 people for a picnic and its branches hang heavy with fruit. Unlike the young trees it towers over, though, the texture of the leaves on each…

Because of abundance of mineral veins in the earth, these mountains in Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province are painted with a rainbow of colors. Bands of red, white, yellow, grey, orange, and other pastel hues tint the rocky landscape. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonLocated outside the city of Tabriz in the northwestern part…

The Oak Room, directed by Cody Calahan and written by Peter Genoway as an adaptation of his play of the same name, examines storytelling and masculinity through a series of stories told within different bar settings. Atmosphere The Oak Room builds its story through setting and atmosphere. The snow-covered roads and dark neon lighting filling…

Between the 7th and 9th-centuries, the city of Gyeongju was the main cultural and political center of Korea, as the capital of the powerful Silla Kingdom that conquered most of the Korean peninsula. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonDuring this period, known as Unified Silla, many grandiose palaces were constructed in the…

Like the main character in one of this year’s nominees, I feel like I’m experiencing a “Groundhog Day”-like loop when I cover the Oscar Shorts nominees every year. We have a Kid-In-Peril storyline for the Live Action category, confounding animated shorts that will surely lose out to the cute Pixar/Disney offering, and documentaries of great…

Feeling dapper? Well, as visitors pass through the Cedars neighborhood of Dallas, Texas they are sure to notice this enormous sculpture of a bowler hat. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonDesigned by Keith Turman, the enormous hat resides on an empty block between Ervay and Browder streets. The sculpture was commissioned by the British…

The majority of tourists who visit the Kazbegi region in Northern Georgia travel to see the Gergeti Trinity Church, a famous church amid the backdrop of the spectacular Caucasus Mountains. Those who travel the short distance further up the Georgian Military Road are rewarded with this truly magnificent waterfall.  Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong…

After a year spent eating many of the same meals, made in the same kitchen, in the same house, I think many of us are yearning to get out, travel, and taste a larger slice of the world. Around the globe, people have sacrificed to keep each other safe during the pandemic: We gave up…

I told Carlos Alazraqui – the iconic voice actor behind characters like Rocko, Spyro the Dragon, Mr. Crocker, and the Taco Bell chihuahua – that writing out this interview as a transcript was like putting a symphony recording inside a glass case; it didn’t do the form justice. And I was absolutely right. Our conversation about…

Located in the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District is the world-famous honky-tonk, Billy Bob’s Texas. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThis huge country/western nightclub opened in 1981 and was named after its founder Billy Bob Barnett, a former professional football player. The building dates back to 1910 when it was once…

“Those were revolutionary times.” Screen Media has released an official trailer for acclaimed documentary Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, directed by the doc filmmaker Marilyn Agrelo (Mad Hot Ballroom). This premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival this year, and will be arriving in theaters + on VOD soon. The film chronicles…

An easel on the sidewalk suggests a pop-up-style shark museum exhibition hiding on the third floor of one of many historical buildings in the heart of downtown Westerly. A coastal town in Rhode Island, Westerly is known for its sandy shoreline access, world-renowned surf haunts, and sleepy upscale living communities. Read moreA Guide to The…

One of New Zealand’s most spectacular fossil sites originated 23.2 million years ago. It was formed in a valley dotted with small volcanoes, when rising magma deep below the Earth’s surface came into contact with groundwater. Lava and water don’t mix—they explode. The resulting detonation obliterated the surrounding forest and left a circular, low-rimmed volcanic…

★★★ Directed by: Jane Stephens Rosenthal Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: Jane Stephens Rosenthal Starring: Evee White, Austin Crist, Marcus Doyle Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Vikas Yadav Jane Stephens Rosenthal’s 15-minute (approx.) short, The Hideaway, is charged with the…

Welcome to a list of The Best Final Shots in Movie History, presented by the team behind One Perfect Shot. It could go without saying, but we’ll say it anyway: this list includes spoilers for at least 75 movies. Please be sure that you’re ready for that before scrolling any further. Anyone in storytelling will…

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. After his grandfather, Sam (George Coe), suffers a stroke, New York City artist Henry Hart (Arye Gross) returns…

This small Catholic church is located amid farmland near the communities of Reyes Etla and Villa de Etla in Oaxaca. It houses an effigy of Christ that is highly venerated by the locals, specially on its feast day during Lent. Known as both “El Señor de las Peñas” (the Lord of Rocks) or “Señor de…

In 1979, When Rodrigo Carvalho was nine years old, his mother took him to Rio De Janeiro’s largest outdoor market, Feira Nordestina, where more than 600 vendors from Brazil’s Northeast region came to sell their wares. These include food, folk medicine, handicrafts—and cages upon cages of wild animals. “I very much remember the snakes, because…