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
Monica Bellucci’s sneer is a thing of wonder, so why have so few directors used it properly? When allowed full rein to her sense of irony, as given her by Giovanni Tortorici in “Ketticè,” Bellucci has few equals in her ability to project self-aware drama queen with just the right dose of camp icon. Hers
On July 3, one of NASA’s two Mars-bound ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft captured photographs of the Earth and Moon in visible and thermal infrared light. At the time, the spacecraft was 584,600 kilometers (363,250 mi) from Earth and 186,100 kilometers (115,600 mi) from the Moon, making the Moon appear relatively
Henry James’ classic novel “The Portrait of a Lady” will be adapted for Masterpiece on PBS and the BBC, starring Bill Nighy, Gemma Arterton and Nell Tiger Free. “Game of Thrones” star Free will lead the six-episode limited series as Isabel Archer, James’ New World ingenue, who leaves the United States for Europe in search
Thousands of people in Colombia have been “forcibly disappeared,” as the euphemistic expression goes, since conflicts began in the mid-1960s between the Colombian government and various paramilitary and guerrilla groups. This reality is well known, and has been for some time; an awareness that, over such a long period of time, can mitigate the horror
The fashions and furnishings of Czechoslovakia in the 1980s (the height of the state’s racist program to repress the Roma population through forced sterilization) are painstakingly evoked in Slovak filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovský’s “Only Beautiful Things to Look At.” But the film’s attractive but strangely bloodless presentation gives the impression of a period drama set much