2020 is looking up with the return of Monster Fest to Melbourne. The festival of horror, gore, trash, and midnight madness was originally postponed due to COVID-19, but Melbournians rallied, followed the rules, wore their masks, and said “No, COVID, we want the best horror movie festival in the world to come back to the…

“Look at me. Here I am.” Magnolia Pictures has unveiled an official US trailer for Two of Us, a passionate love story drama by filmmaker Filippo Meneghetti. This is France’s official submission to the Best Foreign Film selection in the Academy Awards this year, and it originally premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year….

I didn’t go home to visit family for Thanksgiving this year. Instead, I decided to spend it with J.D. Vance’s family. I didn’t plan any of this obviously, but I figured in the spirit of this holiday I should try to make it sound as lively as possible in my apartment. Ron Howard’s adaptation of…

★★★ Directed by #GabrielMascaro Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #GabrielMascaro #RachelDaisyEllis Starring #DiraPaes Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by ,,Cat McAlpine In the near future, Brazil is under Evangelical leadership. Middle-aged Joana, a devout believer in both Jesus and bureaucracy, is…

Welcome to Horrorscope, a monthly column keeping horror nerds and initiates up to date on all the genre content coming to and leaving from your favorite streaming services. Here’s a guide to all the essential horror streaming this December: Well, boils and ghouls, we made it. It’s the end of 2020. And as the days…

The Berkeley Building, affectionately known as the “Old John Hancock Building,” is a 495-foot tall, 26-story office building located in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Completed in 1947, the building was the second tallest in the city until the completion of the Prudential Tower in 1964. However, it remains an iconic Boston landmark….

It’s a miracle “Half Brothers” doesn’t name check Trump at any point during its strained 96 minutes. Then again, the high-concept comedy doesn’t have to speak the president’s name. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe farce plays out like an open borders campaign ad, albeit one that can’t stop slamming the country…

I don’t know for sure if Ammonite is simply a romance. The marketing around it is doing everything it can to tell me it is, but I feel as if writer/director Francis Lee has created something else here. It’s a slow and quiet drama, guided by a steady hand, about two vastly different but equally…

The Ralph Foster Museum on the campus of the College of the Ozarks, grew from its humble beginnings in the 1920s to become one of the Midwest’s foremost institutions of historical preservation. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonThe primary focus of the Ralph Foster Museum today is to collect, preserve, interpret, and…

Not so long ago, villagers across Turkey practiced an ancient tradition of horsemanship that stretches back centuries, to the days of the Mongol Empire. Work horses spent three seasons on the farm, pulling plows in the spring and carts laden with hay, corn, and other produce through summer and fall, before villagers turned them loose…

The debate regarding the actual name of this castle began during the 17th-century. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonCastell Dinas Bran is sometimes wrongly translated as “The City of Crows” because the word dinas in modern Welsh means “city,” while in Middle Welsh it means a defended enclosure. Brân meanwhile is Welsh for “crow,” suggesting that the castle’s…

Today, my friends, the Unloved is seven years old. I decided to celebrate with a big action movie that happens to be set in 2020 and be about the last survivors of the apocalypse. Couldn’t possibly be a little relevant or upsetting, could it?  Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAnyway, I just…

Visitors to the town of Gadheim will find a very unique geographical marker known as the center of the European Union. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonUnlike many central points located across various geographical regions, the honor of being the center of the EU is not very long-lived, as it shifts every…

On September 10, 1579, Doña María de Guzmán, a young, beautiful, and rich widow founded this monastery which only accepted young women from upper-class Spanish families. Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonAt the time, it was a tradition for the second daughter of a wealthy family to enter a life of service…

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 Netflix arrivals for December 2020. This month’s titles include new films directed by David Fincher and George Clooney, loads of new holiday originals, and more! Keep reading to see…

On a brisk autumn flight from San Diego to Portland, Oregon, cookbook author and chef Jenn Louis was suffering from a particularly bad cold. Achy and exhausted, she came home to find a giant pot of chicken soup on her porch, lovingly prepared by her sister Stacy. As she gulped down three bowls, Louis felt…

Back in 2010, you might have seen a movie called The Imperialists Are Still Alive! It starred Élodie Bouchez as an artist navigating the post-9/11 world of New York and was directed by Zeina Durra, a British born woman of Middle Eastern descent (her mother is Bosnian-Palestinian and her father is Lebanese-Jordanian). Reviews at the…

Every Saturday morning, around 8:30 a.m., Munaivar Muneeswaran, 37, head of the department of history at Saraswathy Narayanan College in Madurai in southern India, gathered his friends. They packed meals and essentials, and then set off on weekend-long archaeological expeditions. These jaunts began in 2002, when he chanced upon an ancient signpost near his home…

“Don’t ask those questions in public. You don’t know who’s listening.” Kino Lorber has unveiled an official US trailer for an indie mother drama from Mexico titled Identifying Features, also known as Sin Señas Particulares (No Particular Signs) in Spanish. And the German title is Was Geschah mit Bus 670?, which just translates to What…

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. At 25-years old, best friends Myles (Jack Turner) and Brody (Michael Adam Hamilton) make a deal. If, by…

★★★ Directed by #JustinGDyck Read moreA Guide to The Perfect Bong Joon-ho MarathonWritten by #KeithCooper Starring #SheilaMcCarthy #JulianRichings #KonstantinaMantelos Read moreRobert Stack Finally Solves a Mystery in ‘The Strange and Deadly Occurrence’,,Film Review by ,,Hope Madden Writer Keith Cooper and director Justin G. Dyck collaborate often, but nothing either one of them has done will…