In an area with many ancient temples and monuments sits the mostly overlooked Church of Agios Demetrios of Diakos. The church is named after Athanasios Nikolaos Massavetas, a hero during the Greek War of Independence. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonMassavetas was born in central Greece in 1788 into a family of…
Casa Isolani is a great example of a 13th-century house in Bologna. The structure is impressive, as the oak beams of the arcade reach 29 feet (9 meters) in height to support the third floor of the building. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWhat makes this stunning medieval structure even more intriguing are…
The machines come to life in Willy’s Wonderland, the latest Nicolas Cage goes berserk movie. Once a place of food, games, and fun, Willy’s Wonderland has fallen into disrepair. In need of sprucing up, the owners hire a man passing through town for a one-night cleanup job. Easy enough, the drifter thought, until the animatronic…
Since the 13th-century, water from the Lech river was drained at the retaining weir known as “Hochablass” towards the city of Augsburg to drive water mills. In the past, goods were shipped along the river to supply local industries. The weir was the place to reload goods from larger to smaller rafts, with several thousand…
On April 20, 1999, two Columbine High School seniors entered the school heavily armed and killed 12 students and one teacher in what became one of the most tragic events in United States’ history. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonIn 2007, a memorial was unveiled in Clement Park behind Columbine High School….
★★ Directed by #PeterPalma Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #PeterPalma Starring: #TommyBeswick #AimieGillan Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by Matthew Sawyer Downfalling shows us a brief glimpse of a young man’s life as he decides whether or not to take his…
The NEXT slate at Sundance is intended to celebrate digital filmmaking that pushes the boundaries of cinema to strange new places. For three films in this section, that means exploring love in the time of cellular. Mobile phones have forever changed the ways of wooing worldwide. More and more, couples are meeting through dating apps….
Guess who’s back?! Toho Pictures has unveiled the first teaser trailer for the monsterverse adventure Shin Ultraman, an update on the beloved ’60s TV character from Japan. Toho convinced filmmakers Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi to re-team again after making Shin Godzilla in 2016, updating the classic Ultraman character for modern times. The new Ultraman…
★★★★ Directed by: #DanielGreenway Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #DanielGreenway Starring: #DeeHarris, #RuthPownall, #DaisyHobbs Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Patrick Foley Inverting animal and human relationships is hardly a new metaphor to demonstrate uncomfortable truths about animal rights, factory-farming, or…
One of the happy byproducts of Sundance’s digital incarnation is time. Space to first consider, more space to reconsider. On first blush, Jessica Beshir’s abstract anthropological directorial feature debut, “Faya Dayi,” left me underwhelmed. Bewildered. In a normal festival setting, short on time, and with other movies to see, I would have bitten the bullet…
Harrison Ford’s character in “The Mosquito Coast” is a genius, a quality he goes out of his way to ensure everyone around him knows. Ford’s Allie Fox is a tireless inventor who has never received the recognition and respect he feels he deserves. He passive aggressively butts heads with anyone who disagrees with him or…
Welcome to How’d They Do That? — a bi-monthly column that unpacks moments of movie magic and celebrates the technical wizards who pulled them off. This entry explains why the “Ave Maria” sequence in Disney’s Fantasia was one of the most challenging filmmaking moments in animation history. Fantasia was Walt Disney’s greatest and weirdest experiment….
Nothing can compare to that experience of watching a film premiere for its first time, knowing that from this point on it will reshape the industry. That’s the case with CODA (which stands for Child of Deaf Adults) – one of the Opening Night films at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Despite all the hardship…
Fairness has been long delayed and denied in Zimbabwe. Following a military-backed coup of the country’s president-dictator Robert Mugabe after a 38-year reign, his former Vice President and successor President E.D. Mnangagwa is running for reelection against an upstart challenger, the young MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) leader Nelson Chamisa. Camilla Nielsson’s “President” retells the…
This story is excerpted and adapted from Megan Rosenbloom’s Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin, published in October 2020 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In the summer of 1868, a 28-year-old Irish widow named Mary Lynch was admitted to Ward 27 of Philadelphia General Hospital….
Serve spaghetti and meatballs to an Italian, and they may question why pasta and meat are being served together. Order a samosa as an appetizer, and an Indian friend might point out, as writer Sejal Sukhadwala has, that this is similar to a British restaurant offering sandwiches as a first course. Offer an American a…
Editors’ note: This story contains images of metal badges depicting human genitalia. In medieval Europe, Christian pilgrims walked all the way from England to Spain (with a brief reprieve on a boat), their long robes dragging along dirty, treacherous roads where solo travelers were frequent targets of thieves. Pilgrims carried only a leather pouch holding…
“If anybody that looked like me tried anything like that we’d be shot dead.” This captivating short doc film profiles the powerful movement to flip the vote in Atlanta, Georgia this January. Flipping Georgia Blue is a short doc made by i-D and filmmaker Issey Penwarden. The story they’re focusing on is the youth movement…
Phoebe Bridgers‘ new Christmas EP, “If We Make It Through December,” features four incredible, depressing odes to the holidays and loneliness, but the most formally interesting is “7 O’Clock News / Silent Night.” In it, Bridgers and Fiona Apple harmonize “Silent Night” over Matt Berninger’s news anchor readings, a highlight reel of awful stories from…
★★★★ Directed by: Ana Barredo Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: Ana Barredo Starring: Rhandy Torres, Noreen Lanie Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Jason Knight A man and a woman begin a distant relationship during COVID-19 lockdown. The coronavirus is spreading…
At the start of the Civil War, the current Cumberland Presbyterian Church was still unfinished. The property had been purchased by the church from then-Senator Andrew Johnson in 1860. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonIt was designed to replace a smaller building nearby that its congregation had outgrown. Located on the facade…