★★★ Stars Directed by: #BenSimms Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #RobertBuchta, #BearGrylls, #DelbertShoopman Starring: #BearGrylls Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Alicia Moore “The protective fence surrounding a wildlife sanctuary has mysteriously suffered a breach. Bear is called in to help…
Halfway through Steven Spielberg’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Indiana Jones sneaks into the mythical map room and discovers the location of the Well of Souls. Harrison Ford’s iconic character does this by placing Abner Ravenwood’s amulet onto a staff, allowing the sun to shine a beam through the crystal in the amulet’s center. The…
Shades of nihilism are no stranger to the horror genre. The human body is so often manipulated and destroyed in the face of an evil force. However, in the 21st century, a new type of nihilistic cinema was born in France with the New French Extremity. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the world felt…
Directed by: Sia Written by: Sia, Dallas Clayton Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonStarring; Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr and Maddie Ziegler Film Review by Robert Stayte Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Australian musical artist Sia’s approach to making a movie about autism was misguided…
Alyy Khan has had an eclectic career, working across Hollywood, Bollywood, and Lollywood – there’s a chance you’ll recognise him somewhere, for he has no prejudices towards industries and mediums and has played an astonishing range of characters, acting across some of the world’s biggest movie stars. Lately, he can be seen in the BIFA-nominated…
On certain days during Boston’s long winter, residents can glimpse the stars by looking down. On the dove-colored surfaces of frozen ponds or lakes, shapes appear, rounded in the center with spiky arms stretching outward. The water, a scramble of gray and white, seems to mirror a star-pricked sky. Instead of appearing brighter than their…
“What did you get me into?” Faith Media Distribution has revealed an official trailer for a New Jersey crime drama titled Dutch, from filmmakers Preston A. Whitmore II & David Wolfgang. Dutch introduces a player who will use any means necessary to dominate the streets and beyond. For Bernard James, Jr. aka “Dutch”, survival is…
“17 Blocks,” a documentary about 20 years in the life of a Washington, D.C. family, is so emotionally punishing that you might have to steel yourself at a couple of points to get through the roughest patches. This is by no means a knock against the quality of the filmmaking or the unvarnished truth of the events it…
No one film critic today matters as much as “Siskel & Ebert” once did. Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert became the dueling face of film criticism via their long-running review show. They bickered and battled over the latest releases but kept their love for cinema front and center. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong…
“Did you forget where you came from?” IFC Films has revealed an official trailer for a dramedy titled Last Call, from filmmaker / producer Paolo Pilladi. The film’s early working title was Crabs in a Bucket, which seems amusing but probably doesn’t really describe the story well. A “success story” real estate developer returns to…
You ever watch a film and find you seriously want to love it, but you just can’t? This was the feeling I had after watching Alice Fades Away from writer and director Ryan Bliss. While the film maintains your attention, there is a certain spark missing throughout its core, leaving it enjoyable but far from…
The Rangers FC are considered the most successful team in Scottish football history with 54 league titles. The first match that was played at the Ibrox stadium was against Heart of Midlothian in December 1899. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonIbrox underwent significant redevelopment in 1928, which saw the construction of the…
Before it became known for summer tourism and cranberry bogs, Wareham was the center for a more hard-hitting industry: nail manufacturing. The Tremont Nail Company, founded in 1819 on the ashes of a cotton mill that was partially burned by the British during the War of 1812, is the only remnant of what was once…
Inuksuit (singular inukshuk or inuksuk) are collections of rocks, most commonly arranged in a vaguely humanoid shape or as cairns, stacked by indigenous populations in northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska, such as the Inuit and Yupik. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWhile there are many theories about their traditional uses and symbolism,…
Filmmakers often create projects that are deeply personal, and with her documentary short, To Know Her, Natalie Chao does just that. Piecing together old camcorder footage of her late mother with newer footage shot on the same device, Chao creates a unique time continuum to capture an intimate part of her family’s story. Conceived as…
This well set into the hillside was first constructed during the Victorian period in the late 1800s. It was named after Jamie Wright, a local printer who worked at the Lennoxtown Calico Printing Works. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWright was a keen fisherman and during one fishing trip, he discovered a…
Fern (Frances McDormand) is grieving a life that’s been ripped away from her. It seems like she was relatively happy in Empire, Nevada, one of those many American small towns built around industry. When the gypsum plant there closed, the town of Empire quite literally closed with it. In six months, its entire zip code…
The 1970s was a period of new architectural discoveries in Estonia and designers were eager to experiment. This multi-purpose administrative building was designed by architect Toomas Rein and was completed in 1977. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe building was crafted as an octagonal space that rises up a central construction. Although…
Come January and February each year, much of China’s population gears up for the world’s most massive coordinated migration. The Lunar New Year is traditionally spent with family, which means that millions of people across the country pack their bags and head home, a process known in Mandarin as tuányuán (团圆), or “reunion.” Growing up…
“If you can’t go out to have fun, you have to go inwards.” High Octane Pictures has released an official trailer for an indie “sci-fi” thriller titled Buoyancy, the feature directorial debut of Dutch filmmaker Roel Leijten. The film tells the story of an ambitious young woman who is invited on a submarine by an…
Journalist Jessica Bruder spent three years inside the belly of America’s economic beast for her 2017 book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. Wheeling around inside were the nomads, a group of largely older Americans who traded in, for one financial reason or another, their roofs for vans. They’re not homeless, as Bruder explains, they’re…