Movies like “The Little Things” feel like a vanishing breed. In the wake of the success of “The Silence of the Lambs,” there seemed to be a dark, brooding thriller adaptation every week with titles like “Kiss the Girls” and “The Bone Collector,” and it felt like half of them starred Denzel Washington. In recent…

You know a conservative is winning an argument when the other side screams, “shut up!” Sadly, the Left has been screaming just that for so long they don’t realize how weak, and frightened, they sound. It’s why far-Left radicals shout down conservatives on college campuses and, more recently, on social media platforms. Read moreA Guide…

An article from the ‘Hollywood Reporter’ earlier this month suggested that Parasite’s major awards victories last year ushered in a wave of “weird” entries into the Oscar International Film category. The term “weird” was later changed to “genre” after backlash on Twitter which considered the wording to be alienating and condescending towards non-American films. I…

Not much is known about the history of this site. The scant ruins of a medieval structure suggest the existence of an ancient rural church inside one of the largest caves of the Sant’Angelo Canyon. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonLike the nearby hermitages associated with Peter of Morrone, the hermit who…

★★★★ Directed by: Mark Grabianowski Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: Mark Grabianowski Starring: Sheila Dionne, Alicia Blasingame, Garrett Botts Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Jason Knight A bad man is being held captive in a basement by a woman who…

As visitors wander the streets of Jaffa Old Town, this fully grown orange tree that appears to float will certainly come as a surprise. However, the tree is actually suspended by chains, hanging roughly one foot above the street. Despite being created by Israeli artist Ran Morin in 1993, this installation somehow looks at home…

Hidden past vineyards and hilly fields, this location is often missed or completely disregarded. Not far from the popular town of Onetangi, a short drive down the remote gravelly roads of the Eastern part of the island takes visitors to the aptly named, Stony Batter Historic Reserve. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho…

To spot arrogance and pretension in others is easy because these traits are conspicuous in their ugliness. But when I see it in myself, my instinct is to deny that I have behaved with the same unpleasantness. Financial success, employment, creating, art-appreciation, religion, education, even exercise – almost every form of personal fulfillment can lead…

Dimitrovgrad is said to be the first socialist industrial town in Bulgaria. It started from scratch in 1947 when thousands of youth gathered at this spot and started a colossal building project to create a new city. The result was a utopian Socialist environment with straight streets, large squares, park areas, and districts that were…

Opened in 1930, the Metropolitan State Hospital (MSH) in Waltham, Massachusetts was once the largest, most sophisticated facility for treating the mentally ill in New England. At its peak, around 2,000 patients were residents at the hospital. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonConstruction on the complex began in 1926, a few years…

Film Feature by Lawrence Bennie With ongoing uncertainty over major theatrical releases, audiences can rest assured that their favourite film festivals will continue in the year ahead, albeit in a slightly different format for some. With Sundance and Göteborg already wrapping for another year, we look at the major film festivals that lay in wait…

Sam Pollard’s captivating “MLK/FBI” addresses how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a deeply secret side which the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation used to torment him. Pollard’s documentary begins in 1963, with Dr. King’s “March on Washington” speech (“Free at last, free at last…”). From there, we learn that Dr. King was…

This story originally appeared on The Public Domain Review, and is reproduced here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. The first European settlers arrived at Nantucket, an isolated island some 30 miles from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1659. They built homes, Quaker meeting houses, and cattle farms, swiftly and forcibly colonizing the island, which…

Welcome to Shot by Shot, our ongoing series of movie trailer breakdowns. We’re constantly scouring for perfect shots, and in this column, we share our favorites and discuss them. In this entry, we’re getting in the ring and goin’ shot by shot with the Godzilla vs. Kong trailer. In the red corner, we have the…

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. Private Romeo is an adaptation of Shakespeare‘s Romeo and Juliet that transposes the action from the streets of…

Sleek. Legendary. Huge. Extremely vulnerable. That is the picture emerging from new research on killer whales from California to British Columbia to Alaska. Revered by some indigenous cultures as guardians of the sea and reincarnations of chiefs, orcas are apex predators whose numbers have dwindled. The new study is one of the first in-depth examinations…

Every now and then there’s a horror movie that proves reboots aren’t an inherently craven concept. (I happen to think that the recent “Child’s Play” and “The Grudge” movies fit that description.) “Wrong Turn,” directed by Mike P. Nelson and written by Alan McElroy (of 2003’s “Wrong Turn”) is such a gem. And it’s not…

The television goes from an old tape of a gymnast graciously contorting her body to the raspy, instantly recognisable voice of Bob Dylan as he soulfully sings “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”. “To keep it in your mind and not forget, that it is not he, or she, or them, or it that you…

This often-overlooked monument was salvaged from obscurity and reconfigured to help celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 1977. The monument also has ties to one of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and legendary directors, Stanely Kubrick.  Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe story of the monument begins when Kubrick decided to make a film…

John Hessing was a Dutch traveler turned army officer who served the Scindia Marathas in Agra at the turn of the 19th-century. He was eventually in charge of defending Agra Fort and during a battle with the British in 1803, he was killed. Just as the original Taj Mahal was built as a symbol of…

Blood is one of the most vital fluids necessary for the existence of many forms of life on the planet. It’s a quintessential key to life. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonBlood donations are essential across the globe and often save many lives. It’s always important to have a reminder of how…