“News of the World” reminds us how vital, and easily fumbled, third acts can be. Director Paul Greengrass reteams with his “Captain Phillips” star, Tom Hanks, for a smart, textured take on Paulette Jiles’ novel of the same name. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonIt’s a perfectly Hanksian role, demanding endless gravitas,…
The title of Safety couldn’t be more fitting for this sentimentally simple true story of a college football athlete Ray McElrathbey who overcame hardship. There was no doubt someone within Disney heard the story of Ray’s problems at home that followed him to campus and made him struggle to prove himself worthy. And while the…
For several centuries, the village of Walraversjide (also called Raversyde) thrived through fishing and farming. Largely abandoned due to conflicts in the 16th century, it was not rediscovered until 1992. Since then, it has been meticulously studied and partially reconstructed, complete with medieval buildings and a history museum. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong…
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Not far from the headwaters of the Manohara River, Shiva sits overlooking a sacred spot marked by the Swasthani Mandir. It was here that Parvati fasted and endured extraordinary hardships in an effort to charm a grieving Shiva to become her husband. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAs the story goes, Shiva…
A hydrochronometer is a type of water clock. There are actually two of these extremely rare clocks located in Rome, the other is at Palazzo Berardi. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonFather Giovan Battista Embriaco was an inventor and professor at the College of St Thomas. Embriaco created this hydrochronometer in 1867, and…
The movies are going back to Guantanamo in The Mauritanian, the latest from director Kevin Macdonald. The horrors and hypocrisies of the Guantanamo Bay detention center shouldn’t be news to anyone, but the ways in which it disregarded the fundamentals of American law and values are worth examining again and again. This time it’s the story…
A small stretch of West Mersea’s beach is known by the strange moniker, Monkey Beach. The reason for this curious name, as well as its adjoining Monkey Steps, is believed to have stemmed from the beach’s past. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonIt’s believed by some that at the bottom of the…
This story is excerpted and adapted from Peter Godfrey-Smith’s Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind, published in November 2020 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Wandering on scuba across a sandy plain populated by scallops during an exploratory dive in 2008, off the east coast of Australia, diver Matt Lawrence came across a…
★★★ Stars Directed by: #DetlevBuck Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: #DetlevBuck, #MartinBehnke Starring: #KostjaUllmann, #AlliNeumann, #SaschaAlexanderGersak, #SophiaThomalla, #MerlinRose Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Alicia Moore “A man foils an attempted murder then flees the crew of would-be killers, along with…
“You are running out of time… go save her.” Netflix has debuted an official trailer for an intriguing new film from India titled AK vs AK, from filmmaker Vikramaditya Motwane. This is a wacky, meta action-comedy film about Bollywood, but it isn’t really a Bollywood film, more about the inner workings of Bollywood and all…
One of the most embarrassing aspects of modern Hollywood is its penchant for PSAs. Some stars serve up messaging for noble causes, like Ben Affleck’s work on behalf of Paralyzed Veterans of America. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho Marathon Other celebrity PSAs, though, get far more attention. Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves…
Yingying Zhang was a promising young graduate student who left her home, family and boyfriend in China to pursue her studies in the United States. She’s one of thousands of students who make the same journey, whose parents sacrifice both financially and emotionally to let their children go to an unknown country all in the…
Welcome to Movie DNA, a column that recognizes the direct and indirect cinematic roots of both new and classic movies. Learn some film history, become a more well-rounded viewer, and enjoy like-minded works of the past. This entry recommends movies to watch after Jonathan Lynn’s Clue. We’ve all been there. You google “movies like Clue” and…
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The never-ending pandemic gave us a deeper understanding of social isolation and a kinship with the fictional characters who experienced it. It’s safe to say we’re all ready for this to be over (in fact, that might be the understatement of the year). Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonIn the meantime, we…
Melissa Haizlip’s award-winning documentary, “Mr. Soul!”, has now been nominated for Outstanding Debut Feature at the Cinema Eye Honors. According to the awards group, which has been annual honoring nonfiction work since 2007, over 65% of its nominees this year are first-timers. “Women filmmakers and craftspersons made up 44% of today’s announcements, a record for Cinema Eye, and…
The city of Usuki in Oita Prefecture is noted for its Stone Buddhas believed to date back to the 12th-century. Their origins are quite unclear, as no historical records of them have survived. According to local folklore, they were created in memory of a princess who died young, but according to archaeological evidence, this seems…
★★ Directed by: Jorge Villacorta Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by: Jorge Villacorta Starring: Jorge Villacorta Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’Film Review by: Patrick Foley We’re living in a golden age for conspiracies right now. Everyone from Donald Trump to Denise Welch seems…
★★ Directed by #AlexAppel #JonathanLisecki Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #AlexAppel #JonathanLisecki #BarbaraRadecki Starring #AliciaWitt Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by ,,Cat McAlpine Wren Cosgrove is happy to go on her morning runs, talk to her cat Wentworth, and work too…
If you are ever moved to be needlessly cruel to someone hunkered down for the winter in a dull, drafty place, you might send them a picture of Heron Island. A lush, sand-fringed freckle several hours by boat from Gladstone, Australia, it looks like a screensaver version of paradise. Adorably dour-looking black noddies perch in…