AS soon as he sipped his glass of Armenian brandy, Oleg Gordievsky knew he was in a fight for his life. If he could only keep his story straight, he…
UKRAINE delivered a brutal double blow to Vladimir Putin on Christmas Day, reports say. Kyiv is said to have smashed a key Russian oil refinery with British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles…
Now that movie-theater crowds barely exist, how do we know what it means to make a crowdpleaser? Even if we no longer have the usual metrics, Craig Brewer’s delightfully unapologetic…
How much do ambition and chutzpah count in filmmaking these days? The Testament of Ann Lee, directed by Mona Fastvold, is for better or worse like no other movie you’ve…
There’s no better time than now for an adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s unsparing 1997 novel The Ax, an acutely observed book about downsizing as a form of dehumanization. The…