In the congested traffic along a prominent Decatur thoroughfare, commuters may notice an unusual garden of giant metal sculptures, and a man playfully encouraging them to wake up from their lulled complacency. According the Clark Ashton, the exhibition’s sculptor and designer, the commuters are part of the “mechanical river,” and his garden, towers, and metal…

Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme truly are the Queens of Christmas. From their hit traveling stage tours of holidays past to making a memorable drag cameo in Happiest Season (the year’s hottest Christmas movie), what else could this dynamic duo have up their sequined sleeves? Why, their infallible chemistry and irrepressible talents in the form of…

On a stroll down Edinburgh’s Royal Mile/High Street, visitors can see some of the world’s first skyscrapers. That part of the capital’s Old Town was once encircled with a stone wall, which meant that the only way to increase housing capacity for a growing population was to build up. But this construction occurred at a…

The Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre is located at the Oldbridge House, on a site surrounded by restored Victorian walled gardens. Traveling to this area, allows visitors to appreciate the beautiful Irish countryside. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe Oldbridge House is a recently restored 18th-century mansion sitting on the banks…

★★★★ Directed by #ZeinaDurra Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #ZeinaDurra Starring #AndreaRiseborough #KarimSelah Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by ,,Matt Weiner Faulkner wrote that the past is never dead… it’s not even past. British aid worker Hana (Andrea Riseborough) is hellbent…

For the past six weeks, HBO’s The Undoing kept murder mystery fans, Nicole Kidman devotees, and past Big Little Lies watchers on the edges of their seats. We impatiently awaited the answer of ‘whodunnit?’ as every episode revealed more and more dark secrets, and we at one point suspected every single character. The last episode, though,…

This week, Paramount Home Video releases a Blu-ray of Robert Altman’s “Popeye,” one of the most unusual pictures in a filmography that’s already as far from conventional as Hollywood bodies of work get. For the loose, often acerbic Altman to take on a musical movie focused on an eccentric group of fantasy characters that originated…

“I’m sorry I’m late”, I say when I’m connected through to Karim Saleh. We’re here to discuss his new movie Luxor, in which he – alongside Andrea Riseborough – stars. I had gotten a call the exact moment I was due to call him, and so I was held up. “Ah, we’re here now”, he…

Remember this day. December 3rd, 2020. For today is the beginning of a new era in Hollywood. Warner Bros announced major, game-changing news: ALL of their big releases in 2021 will be available on HBO Max and in movie theaters on the same day. All of them. Every single one – from Dune to Godzilla…

The vaccines are coming! The vaccines are coming! Don’t tell that to Warner Bros. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe mega-studio just announced its entire 2021 film slate will bow in theaters AND HBO Max at the very same time. Can’t wait to see the “Dune” remake? The next installment of the “Matrix”…

“Jazz is dead.” So says The Cry of Jazz. “It cannot grow, it can only repeat itself, and so doing, it is stagnant: and so doing, it dies.” The Cry of Jazz was first shown in 1959. Confined within a lean thirty-four minutes, the film explains in philosophical language why jazz could have only come…

It was an unplanned detour that started the whole thing. On a lazy winter afternoon in January 2019, photographer Hemant Chaturvedi walked over to Allahabad University, an architectural landmark from the 1800s in the northern Indian city, to take a few images. En route, he remembered that there was an old, single-screen movie theater in…

I had run across the trailer for Fatman back in September and said to myself, “Self. You just watched the most bat crap crazy trailer Funny Or Die couldn’t have conceived on a good day. But, hold the phone, this movie has Mel “Hollywood Poison” Gibson as Santa Claus? What, the what?” So, needless to…

Starting in June 1967, Montreux Casino began to host the Montreux Jazz Festival. The annual event and featured legends such as Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, and Ella Fitzgerald. On December 4, 1971, the original Casino building burned down—during a Frank Zappa concert, after a fan set the venue on fire with a flare…

“You cannot capture a man’s entire life in two hours. All you can hope is to leave the impression of one,” purrs a drunk, dawdling Herman Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) in Mank. The same rings true of David Fincher movies. With the arrival of his eleventh feature comes the delightfully deranged process of diving back into…

The Battle of Verdun was a brutal battle that lasted from February 21 to December 18, 1916. Each foot around the city of Verdun was fought over by hundreds of thousands of French and German soldiers, and more from the farthest reaches of the European empires. That’s 302 days of bloodshed, and historians still argue…

Leather sofa seats, Mod bubble lights, elderly patrons smoking at the bar, and thick slices of pizza toast: These are the elements of a typical Japanese kissaten, or kissa coffee shop. Part bar, part restaurant, and part community center, these humble, Shōwa-era cafés serve tea, coffee, alcohol, and delightfully hybrid dishes such as pizza toast….

The Russian city of Saint Petersburg was named after its founder, Peter I the Great. So it’s no coincidence that several statues featuring Peter can be found throughout the city, although this one may be the most unique.  Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonDesigned by Russian sculptor Mikhail Chemiakin in the 1980s…

A family navigates a major adjustment in The Father, the debut of co-writer/director Florian Zeller. Anthony knows he’s gotten up there in years, but he and his daughter disagree on how much time has affected him. He thinks he’s doing fine, but she insists that he needs some help, contending that his mental slips are noticeable…

Visitors to this museum will get an up-close look at 17th-century Pilgrim culture. Exhibits are housed inside a grand Greek Revival building, where architecture and artwork reflect successive periods of patriotic fervor in the United States. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAmong the artifacts on display are William Bradford’s Bible, a 1651…