15 Great 2019 Movies You Can Watch Right Now
Last week, we ran our list of the 25 best movies of the year (and it’s right here, ICYMI), and it was a tough list to make – this year offered even more great films than usual, particularly in the indie and foreign space. So, in lieu of our…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Book Excerpt: James Thurber on Journalism
This month marked the 125th anniversary of the birth of essayist, novelist, and all-around with James Thurber. To celebrate the occasion, HarperCollins has published Thurber's Collected Fables (edited by Michael J. Rosen), which combines an…
Books | By Flavorwire Staff
The Top 25 Movies of 2019
I’ve been making this list for this site for eight years now (look it up!) and I can’t recall it ever being harder to make – or easier. It was harder in the sense that 2019 was an incredibly strong year for new movies, especially for a soft touch…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Let's Talk About the Grossest Scene in 'Bombshell'
Bombshell, Jay Roach’s dramatization of the fall of Fox News head Roger Ailes, went into wide release last weekend, propelled by a good early showing (at least for its actors) in the year-end awards: two Golden Globe nominations (Charlize Theron for…
Film | By Jason Bailey
15 Great 2019 Movies You Can Watch Right Now
Last week, we ran our list of the 25 best movies of the year (and it’s right here, ICYMI), and it was a tough list to make – this year offered even more great films than usual, particularly in the indie and foreign space. So, in lieu of our…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Book Excerpt: James Thurber on Journalism
This month marked the 125th anniversary of the birth of essayist, novelist, and all-around with James Thurber. To celebrate the occasion, HarperCollins has published Thurber's Collected Fables (edited by Michael J. Rosen), which combines an…
Books | By Flavorwire Staff
Heartwarming Photos of Polar Bears and Cubs
It's the holiday season and it's crazy cold, so how about warming your heart with some pictures of mama polar bears cuddling and nuzzling their cubs? They come to us (via Bored Panda) from Canadian photographer David Hemmings, who tells us, when…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff
Book Excerpt: A Heartfelt Apology from the @FakeThemePark
This time last year, we were telling you all about the exploits of former social media manager Jason Ginsburg, who turned his successful @FakeThemePark Twitter account into a book. Well, now there's a sequel, and we're here to share a bit of that…
Books | By Flavorwire Staff
The 15 Best Holiday Movies to Stream This Week (Plus ‘The Two Popes’)
Unsurprisingly, since the customary Tuesday release day falls on Christmas Eve this year, there’s not much on the new release shelf; if you’re buying something, they figure, you’ve already bought it. So instead, let’s seize upon the season, and…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Book Excerpt: Sex Ed for Fairy Tale Princesses?
Everybody loves a good foreword - you know, those bite-sized introductory essays, in which an expert or admirer or maybe even just some random celebrity tells you all about their very personal connection with the book you're about to read.…
Books | By Flavorwire Staff
Let's Talk About the Grossest Scene in 'Bombshell'
Bombshell, Jay Roach’s dramatization of the fall of Fox News head Roger Ailes, went into wide release last weekend, propelled by a good early showing (at least for its actors) in the year-end awards: two Golden Globe nominations (Charlize Theron for…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Stunning Photos Capture the Flight Paths of Birds
Catalan photographer Xavi Bou was always fascinated by birds - and figured out a unique way to photograph their flight patterns. "One day I asked myself what kind of trail the birds would leave in the sky if that were possible," he told My Modern…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff
The Top 25 Movies of 2019
I’ve been making this list for this site for eight years now (look it up!) and I can’t recall it ever being harder to make – or easier. It was harder in the sense that 2019 was an incredibly strong year for new movies, especially for a soft touch…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Book Excerpt: The Origins and Outcomes of #MeToo
It's easy to feel hopeless. We're knee-deep in a backslide into fascism and lawlessness, and structural change seems all but impossible. But in historical moments like this, as they say, you can't know your future if you don't know your past - and a…
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The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Ad Astra,’ ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’
If there were any justice in this world, this week’s big 4K and Blu-ray release would’ve been one of the year’s biggest hits. Alas. Also this week: two terrific new indies (one foreign, one doc) and a forgotten ‘90s gem on disc, and a couple of…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Striking Sculptures Capture Intense Emotions via Scrap Metal
British artist Penny Hardy works in hard, cold materials, yet uses them to convey warmth and emotion. Her creations, life-sized sculptures dramatizing the most extreme of human emotions, are crafted (according to her website) "from found bits and…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff
Awesome Art Inspired by 'Weird Al' Yankovic
Over the course of a four-plus decade career as pop's premier parodist, "Weird Al" Yankovic has sold more than 12 million albums, earning five Grammys, four gold records, and six platinum. But this month, he's receiving the ultimater recognition of…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff
Back to Macao: Flavorwire's IFFAM 2019 Diary
Attending a film festival in Macao, China, isn’t really all that different than going to one in Park City or Toronto. The food is better, to be sure. And the filmmakers and stars stand awkwardly in front of the audience before the movie rather than…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Book Excerpt: How Sidney Lumet and Al Pacino Made 'Dog Day Afternoon'
Few movie buffs would argue that Sidney Lumet – whose output included such classics as 12 Angry Men, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, and The Verdict – was one of the finest filmmakers of the 1970s (one of the most important eras in the medium’s…
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The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,’ ‘Hustlers’
Not one, not two, but three of the year’s best movies hit disc or streaming this week, which would be exciting enough on its own. But we’ve also got a restored ‘80s gem, one of the great ‘70s dramas, a new documentary movie lovers will adore, and a…
Film | By Jason Bailey
Noir-Infused Images of Snowy Japan
Finnish street photographer Teemu Jarvinen draws inspiration from the traditions of cyberpunk and film noir, so when he took his camera to Sapporo, Japan earlier this year, he inserted those influences into his images of the city's snowy…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff
Haunting Photos of an Abandoned Italian Madhouse
When German-born photographer Andy Schwetz visited the Manicomio di Racconigi, an abandoned insane asylum in Italy, he was struck by the horror of the procedures performed there, from electroshock therapy to experimental operations. He channeled…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff
Book Excerpt: How They Made TV's Most Iconic Opening Credits
The Brady Bunch is one of the strangest success stories in the history of television, running five modestly-rated and poorly-reviewed seasons from 1969 to 1974, then becoming a (sometimes ironic) hit via its seemingly endless reruns - resulting in…
TV | By Flavorwire Staff
Incredible, Photorealistic Paintings of Tattooed Women
Agnieszka Nienartowicz's work is a series of illusions and contradictions, in the best possible way: she crafts what appear, at first glance, to be photographs of women with tattoos of classic works of art. Only on closer examination does it become…
Art | By Flavorwire Staff