Back in 2013, actor George MacKay and director Paul Wright paired up for “For Those in Peril,” an atmospheric study of youthful alienation, trauma and psychological collapse in small-town Scotland that sealed both men’s place on the U.K. industry “ones to watch” list. Since then, MacKay’s career has gone from strength to strength, while Wright
Employees have long been sold the idea that working hard and outperforming their peers would lead to sizable pay hikes and title upgrades. But now, some companies are ditching merit-based wage bumps in favor of “peanut butter raises”—and it’s hurting employee morale. Around 36% of U.S. companies say they gave out standard, across-the-board pay increases
I did need to tweak graphics settings (such as dropping to the Medium preset) to get there, but I never felt as if I had to destroy a game’s image quality to achieve smooth frame rates. In a world where integrated graphics are increasingly powerful, the faster frame rates help make the Alienware 15 feel
Samantha Morton doesn’t have much screen time in “The Odyssey,” but when she appears about halfway through the epic action, she takes over the movie. In an electrifying sequence that lasts approximately 10 minutes, Morton gives a searing, richly textured performance as Circe, a sorceress who transforms Odysseus’s men into pigs. In Homer’s epic, Circe
There’s a more interesting story lurking in Jan-Eric Mack’s “The Happy Family” than what’s actually told. At times, the Swiss filmmaker teases the possibility that the conventional narrative shown so far could take a bold and daring turn. It’s a broken promise, though, and those glimpses of something thornier and more daring ultimately seem like
Tom Holland recently told Fandango that he thought director Christopher Nolan hated his performance on his first day of filming “The Odyssey” because he kept asking for it to be cut. In reality, Nolan’s cuts were due to the limitations of the Imax cameras he used. “Working with Imax cameras for the first time is