Add a bit of drama, lights and action, and you’ll have people flocking to the theaters to catch up on the latest blockbusters at the state-of-the-art cinemas in the region. So what makes watching movies in Bahrain a unique experience? Watching movies with your family is always a ...
A while back, a business trip took me to Memphis for the first time. Me and my boss at the time, let’s call her Daphne, were just there for a morning presentation, but I made sure to book a late flight home in order to have time to visit Graceland – something I had always wan...
I had the honor of writing theSanta Barbara Independent‘s Best of Santa Barbara winners once again this year. It was a huge, fun project, and a little easier the second time around. Even (or maybe especially) in this weird year, people were so happy to hear from me and so excited t...
The sheer amount posed the first and biggest challenge of putting together this list: deciding which of the movies that filtered through theaters and VOD services and streaming platforms qualified for a ranking of the decade’s best films. Perhaps arbitrarily, we decided that for a film to be ...
Even if you have the best home entertainment setup, it will be impossible to replicate the exhilaration of seeing this in 3D in theaters, but luckily there’s more to How to Train Your Dragon than just its gorgeous visuals. Its animation remains thrilling even on a smaller screen, but it...
unforgettable is the way it stages its murders around a perfect storm of mundane events: One person dies by slipping in the bathroom, another by a kitchen knife. It’s the type of endlessly inventive horror flick that, by the end, makes you want to accident-proof your entire house.—R....
Many years later I had asummer job counting change from pay telephones at a New York Telephonefacility near 12thAvenue and I frequently took walks at lunchtime and ate my lunch at Hell’s Kitchen Park among some homeless people and the pigeons. ...
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation and Tangled are some of the best kids movies on Disney+ right now.
Revisiting “The Comedy” eight years later, it’s hard to shake the feeling that the world might look radically different right now if the movie had grossed more than $41,000 in theaters. A scabrous, borderline sociopathic condemnation of an increasingly online world that was just starting to...
James C. Collins:“Good is the Enemy of Great” And I end this by a touch of Star Trek and a bit of“All Good Things Come To An End… to make way for better things?”. So I’m hoping that the ‘death’ of something was good for me will eventually turn out to be something be...