Off a seemingly sleepy exit on Interstate 5 in Oregon sits a trippy theme park. Enchanted Forest, which has occupied 20 acres on a hill in the woods between Portland and Eugene for 49 years, is what Disneyland might look like if it had been designed by Ken Kesey and filled with 1960s-era sculptures and…
Robert Connolly‘s dust bowl noir The Dry is a desolate, outback murder mystery where the haunted qualities of its hero and the drought-stricken town he descends upon is edged with an undeniable bleakness that puts the full stop on the stark cinematic year it’s been released in. Concurrently, it’s also a languid adaptation of Jane…
The Devil’s Gate is a rock formation located in Natrona County. Crafted by the Sweetwater River, the limestone formation is a narrow passage stretching 1,500 feet from end to end Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAs a noticeable feature of the frontier, Devil’s Gate served as a landmark for fur traders and…
St. Canute’s Cathedral is a Gothic, red brick building constructed in the 1300s. The church is named after Danish King Canute IV, who was murdered at this location. He ruled Denmark from 1080 to 1086 and was later canonized. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAccording to legend, Canute was murdered in the…
★★★★ Directed by: Christopher Sampson Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: Christopher Sampson Starring: Nathan Draman, Jye Whatson, Madi Jennings Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by: ,,Jason Knight An emotional story about three youths, who go on a road trip together. Michael…
“The fact that I’ve already seen Palm Springs evolve with every single viewing leaves me with no doubt that the movie is going to continue to inspire me to push myself further.” Yes! Big fan of that movie, too. Fellow movie geek Perri Nemiroff, who works for Collider, has debuted her end of the year…
This article is part of our 2020 Rewind. Follow along as we explore the best and most interesting movies, shows, performances, and more from this very strange year. In this entry, we have a laugh (and often a cry) with the best comedy movies of 2020. In a year that needed comedy more than ever, some reliables kept…
This sculpture is from a series entitled “First Crew” by Russian artist Denis Prasolov. The monkey depicted in the sculpture is known as “Sam” and is a tribute to the animals who died during spaceflight survival tests. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe former Soviet Union used a variety of animals for…
While David Fincher’s recent Netflix film “Mank” adamantly sticks to Welles’ co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz’s bitter viewpoint on how he came to write “Citizen Kane,” Benjamin Ross’ 1999 HBO movie “RKO 281” mainly presents director and co-writer Orson Welles’ viewpoint on the classic film’s production. It also pays some attention to Mankiewicz and several other real-life…
Scotland is home to between 2,000 and 4,000 castles. The vast discrepancy in the margins is due to the fact that some are just crumbling ruins, while others make the assertion to sound more grandiose than they are in reality. Still, a few thousand are either popular tourist attractions or stately homes passed down through…
In photography, as in life, sometimes a new perspective makes all the difference, and can make the mundane seem more special. Since photography was first introduced in the 19th century (the earliest surviving photograph was taken with a camera obscura in 1827 by Nicéphore Niépce in France), there have been daring and adventurous photographers who…
Like many short films, Trained finds a unique phobia/concept (Siderodromophilia: someone who cannot get aroused unless they’re on or around moving trains) then applies it to two emotionally involved people in an attempt to raise immovable questions. Comedy or drama? As aforementioned, the idea of finding a relatively unique phobia or personal tendency and applying…
The Old Town section of Alexandria, Virginia is packed with significant sites and artifacts, as echoes of the past dot the streets of this historical section. One intriguing vestige of this city’s past often overlooked is nestled in a suburban tract, several blocks removed from the hustle and bustle of King Street. Read moreA Guide to…
Nestled between the Alleghany River and Alleghany State Park in Western New York’s Southern Tier, is a sprawling museum dedicated to the Seneca-Iroquois Nation. Named after a prominent Seneca singer and teacher, the 33,000 square foot Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center opened in 2018. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe Seneca Nation, or more…
As we’ve done every December, we asked the writers of RogerEbert.com to pick a performance they particularly loved from the just-passed year of film. The submissions ranged from the performers who are picking up awards buzz to a group of actors and actresses who may not be getting as much as attention as they deserve. The…
Dante Lam‘s follow-up to Operation Red Sea, an invigorating, explosive action showcase that rests as the fourth-highest-grossing ever in China, is an equally exhilarating ensemble action film, The Rescue, one of the many cinematic releases that found itself displaced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Shifting gears from militaristic bullet ballet to crowd-pleasing Coast Guard…
This glass has a secret. It’s encoded in the images inscribed around the bowl: a blazing star, an oak leaf, a rose blossom, and two delicate buds sprouting from a thorny stem. They may seem like mere decoration, but to the right eyes, they were a message, and a dangerous one at that. The original…
“‘How could your friend do this to you?’” Altitude Films in the UK has released an official UK trailer for the documentary The Capote Tapes, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Ebs Burnough. This originally premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, and also played at the Hamptons and Rio de Janeiro Film Festivals. Using…
Welcome to Carnage Classified, a monthly column where we break down the historical and social influence of all things horror, then rank the films of each month’s category accordingly. Franchises, movements, filmmakers, sub-genres, etc … It’s all here! This entry is about the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise. December: the joyous month of holiday cheer….
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. Alice Wu‘s feature film debut follows Wilhelmina ‘Wil’ Pang (Michelle Krusiec), a Chinese-American doctor who, while a lesbian,…
This story originally appeared on The Public Domain Review, and is reproduced here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. In the late 1860s, Jules Verne’s fictional Captain Nemo cruised the ocean deep, discovering new underwater worlds and creatures. In the same decade, the non-fictional Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez pursued his fascination with zoology by developing…