With Exam, writer-director Sonia K. Hadad and co-writer Farnoosh Samadi expose the familial and cultural demands that an Iranian teenager must confront over the span of 15 suspenseful minutes. Exam is a riveting short film about a teenage girl named Sadaf (Sadaf Asgari) who lives in Iran. The film follows Sadaf over the course of…
Usually, looking at public art is a fairly passive experience. Often, viewers are completely forbidden from directly interacting with art, much less changing how it looks entirely. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonBut Show Your Stripes by Jim Conti, a glittery piece of public art above a vacant San Jose storefront, is different….
Deep in the Lost Coast of Northern California, one stand of peculiar redwood trees survived multiple logging efforts that cleared most of the old-growth in the surrounding forest. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonSalty ocean air and frequent harsh ocean winds through Shady Dell are thought to have caused these trees to…
It’s January 2021 and I’m reminiscing on the future of Black British filmmakers and their current state in the film industry. Coming off the back of Steve McQueen‘s Small Axe anthology and films like Blue Story and His House which made waves last year, I hope we’re just about on the precipice of seeing a…
Pies can be finicky. Overwork the dough, and the crust won’t flake. Too-liquid filling can hesitate to set, or ooze out of the tin. Most people, as a result, stick to the pies they know how to make, or simply buy them from the store. But Stacey Mei Yan Fong, a Brooklyn-based baker, has invented…
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. In Different For Girls, former school friends Paul Prentice (Rupert Graves) and Kim Foyle (Steven Mackintosh) reconnect after…
★★★★ Directed by #AlexKnapp Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #AlexKnapp Starring #AlexKnapp #OliviaLuccardi Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by Brandon Thomas The opening minutes of Go/Don’t Go hint at a burgeoning relationship drama. Shy boy meets an outgoing girl. Girl draws…
There’s a chance the year’s Best Picture Oscar winner could feature non-English speaking leads … again. The Asian drama “Minari” led the way with six nominations from the Colo.-based Denver Film Critics Society, followed by five nominations for “Nomadland” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” [Editor’s Note: This reporter is chair of the DFCS]…
One of my favorite animals on this planet is the pink flamingo. From their fabulous pink color to their simultaneously elegant yet awkward posture, courtesy of their lanky legs and necks, they are like no other creature on Earth, and I find that fascinating. So, naturally, I was thrilled to hear about Spanish filmmaker Javier…
This exhibit is located across the street from the Palm Springs Art Museum in a large courtyard. Easy to overlook, these sculptures of babies appear to crawl through the dirt and along the walls of the sandpit. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThese ten, unique sculptures are intended to be a statement…
In the Autumn of 1819, the body of a 15-year old girl was found floating along the estuary of the River Shannon. Through a police investigation, it was discovered that her death was orchestrated by her recently eloped husband John Scanlan, who was a few years her senior. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong…
Atop Prospect Hill Park in Somerville, Massachusetts stands a 34-foot tall, four-story granite tower constructed in 1903. Soldiers fighting in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars camped on Prospect Hill. It’s said that George Washington ordered the raising of a Grand Union Flag on the site on January 1, 1776. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho…
It’s the perfect time for a heist in Locked Down, the latest from director Doug Liman. Now we’re getting the pandemic content started. Sure, we’ve has some smaller productions rush out, but this is our first big affair, one with A-list stars and glitzy locales conceived, produced, and released during the pandemic. Aren’t we living through…
In the 11th century, the Normans built a motte-and-bailey fortification on the coast, opposite a castle in Abergwyngregyn across the Menai Strait, suggesting the castles engaged in coastal communications. Named after a local river, it was a fortified structure built on raised ground, and you can stroll through what remains of the site today. Read moreA Guide to…
Editor’s note: To give you a chance to get to know our writers better, we’ve asked them to respond to some questions. Here’s Carlos Aguilar. Read his work here. THE MOVIE LOVE QUESTIONNAIRE Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho Marathon1. Where did you grow up, and what was it like? I was born…
Situated on the Swedish west coast, Tjörn is the country’s 7th-largest island. Like the rest of Bohuslän during the summer, the island hosts tourists from around Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Germany. However, what many visitors don’t know is that a little further inland in Pilane resides a very unique sculpture park. Read moreA Guide to…
The basement of Laura Holder’s 1925 bungalow looks like many others in her Milwaukee neighborhood. Dappled sunlight streams through glass-block windows onto an assortment of exercise equipment and her husband’s woodworking tools. An unfinished corner houses the washer and dryer and a second fridge and freezer. But instead of meat and leftovers, Holder’s basement freezer…
★★★ Directed by #YelitaAli Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #SophieMax Staring #SophieMax #KajaChan Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by ,Matthew Sawyer The Whole Truth mostly takes place during an ABE interview as Mallory (Max) tries to get the truth, the whole…
“You’re a doctor. You know exactly where feelings get you.” Greenwich has released an official US trailer for a Hungarian romantic drama called Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (originally Felkészülés meghatározatlan ideig tartó együttlétre in Hungarian). This premiered at the Venice Film Festival in the Venice Days sidebar last year….
The Spanish Inquisition ended in 1834. Its junior partner in crime, the Portuguese Inquisition, finished in 1821. So should we still be interested in Inquisitions today? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. There is too much evidence that the ugly spirit of the Inquisition lives on. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonToday’s cancel…
Crossing the Streams is our monthly look at all the offerings hitting the big streaming services each month, and this time we’re checking out the new Hulu arrivals for January 2021. This month’s titles are light on new movies, but they still include plenty of old favorites from Stephen King, the 90s, Mike Myers, and…