★★★ Directed by: #SrinathRao Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #SrinathRao Starring: N/A Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Theo Rintoul Unscripted, unearthly, and undeniably pretty; photographer Srinath Rao has created a beautifully framed and composed documentary. This first episode is filmed…

The tension in Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.‘s Wild Indian is palpable to say the least, and the film’s illuminating score by Gavin Brivik helps cement the cinematic experience as one that is both dark and enthralling. Having started off his musical career as a guitarist, a wrist injury re-directed Brivik to music composition classes during…

In a Youtube video, entitled A Tale of Two Fritters, Ozoz Sokoh is in her kitchen making both akara, a Nigerian bean fritter, and acarajé, the Brazilian equivalent. As she reviews the ingredients and aromatics—black-eyed peas, Thai and Scotch bonnet peppers for heat, tomatoes, ginger, and orange-red palm oil, it’s easy to see that the…

“You didn’t tell me this was church camp?!” Netflix has released an official trailer for A Week Away, a big summer camp musical teen love story film from music video director Roman White. Launching on Netflix in March, for those interested in something extra sweet and cheesy. Troubled teen Will Hawkins has a run-in with…

Gina Carano won’t bow to bullies, then or now. The MMA groundbreaker turned actress opened up to Ben Shapiro about her shocking dismissal from “The Mandalorian.” Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonCarano described what she called “bullying” tactics Disney deployed to make her apologize for Tweets she said were neither mean-spirited nor…

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. Akron, which, as you may have guessed, is set almost entirely in Akron, Ohio, opens on a woman,…

What a weird, wild, and sometimes wonderful virtual Oscar season this has been. And it is far from over, given that we are about two months out from the 93rd ceremony that will take place on April 25—the latest date ever. With some film productions having to shut down due to the coronavirus epidemic, the…

The concept of ‘love at first sight’ is strange and dubious, yet it always makes for a compelling and sumptuous cinematic premise. Hungary’s submission this year for the 2021 Academy Awards Best International Film Category, Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time, is a movie with a great title and a great…

The county of Norfolk contains the world’s greatest concentration of medieval churches, with over 650. Since some of these churches date from at least half a millennia ago, some have not survived as well as others. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonIn the woods of East Somerton barely stands one such church….

Legend has it that during the reign of King Jinheung of Silla, the county magistrate of today’s Goryongpo witnessed an extraordinary sight, ten dragons soared skyward as a sudden storm raged. A bolt of lightning hit one of the dragons, causing it to fall into the sea. This somehow calmed the storm and the county…

In the ancient beech forests of Monte Fogliano, a 16th-century holy man, Fra Girolamo Gabrielli from Siena instructed his city’s craftsmen to carve a rock-dwelling from an enormous volcanic boulder. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonGabrielli was seeking a place to pray and meditate. He resided in the woods for a few years,…

More than 400 years ago, the coastal community of Patuxet was one of dozens belonging to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, spread across much of what’s now New England. The Wampanoag called the region home for more than 12,000 years, but most history books have reduced them to a footnote. Today, schoolchildren typically learn only that…

It’s the second go at the DCEU’s ultimate team-up in Zack Snyder’s Justice League. No, you haven’t seen this movie before. Well, you may have seen parts of it, but as we all know Zack Snyder wasn’t able to complete the movie he had been building to for years the first time around. It was no…

While this building has been included on lists of the ugliest buildings in the world, it’s still an impressive sight. The building is designed as an inverted steel pyramid that glows burnt orange in the sunlight. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonCompleted in the mid-1980s, this building continues to house Radio and…

On December 12, 1866, firedamp caused a huge explosion in the Old Oaks Colliery, which later became the Barnsley Main pit. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWith around an hour of their shift left, around 340 men and boys were working at the pit, all but a handful were killed by the…

This story was originally published in Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bryan Fry’s heart was pounding as he stepped back from the snake enclosure and examined the bite marks on his hand. He had just been bitten by a death adder, one of Australia’s most venomous snakes. Its neurotoxin-laced…

★★★★★ Directed by: #CozGreenop Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #CozGreenop Starring: #KimberlyBarrett,#AriadnaCabrol, #PhilipHillPearson Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by Lucy Clarke In 2014, Leeds City Council and the West Yorkshire Police set up an area of Leeds as a legal red-light…

“Saturday Night Live,” which once dubbed its rebellious cast the “Not Ready for Prime Time Players,” is now a propaganda tool of the Left. That’s not breaking news, but sometimes the lengths the show goes to remind us of it deserves mention. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho Marathon This week offered another…

“I came for you… You know that.” Dark Star Pictures has revealed the official trailer for an intimate, indie drama titled Luz, one of the latest films from filmmaker Jon Garcia. Ruben Gonzales is a young Latino man who’s fallen into the world of the mafiosos. When an accident leads him into incarceration, his relationship…

In our monthly column Laughed to Death, Brianna Zigler takes a look at the way comedy and existentialism go hand-in-hand in seemingly unlikely ways. For this installment, she examines the humanity lost on the pop star persona through Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana. “I’d love to get Conner to the point where…

This month, Disney announced it will be closing Blue Sky Studios, the 20th Century Fox animation division acquired during the 2019 takeover. The news drew immediate anger from the animation community, especially because the studio had only ten months of production left for its next picture, a feature-length adaptation of the fantasy webcomic Nimona. Further…