Category Archives: Variety

Brian Cox is set to make his return to Scottish theater after a decade-long hiatus in “Make It Happen,” a new satirical play about the 2008 Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) collapse from accla...

Finland's Helsinki-filmi is ready to hear "Dead Women Talking" in a new series set to be directed by Jojo Erholtz. Based on the original concept by Johanna Holvikallio - with Tua Harno as head writer ...

"Mr. Nobody Against Putin," which has its world premiere on Saturday in the World Cinema Documentary Competition section of the Sundance Film Festival, delivers an insider's view of the impact of Vlad...

Fifty years ago today, 18-year-old Vera Brandes organized a concert for jazz pianist Keith Jarrett in Cologne, West Germany, which went on to make music history: a recording of the concert became the ...

One of the most dehumanizing features - which is certainly a built-in component and not a bug - of the U.S. immigration system as it pertains to asylum seekers is that the applicant bears the burden o...

Based on the real-life experiences of co-writer and co-executive producer Nathaniel Deen, who appears at the end to bestow his approval on the dramatization and invite the audience to take its lessons...

Questlove confronts the life and legacy of Sly Stone, investigates it, holds it up to the light, tears it apart and puts it back together like the bravura mixmaster he is.

In James Sweeney's wise and disarmingly funny second feature, "Twinless," two men meet in an emotional support group for those who've lost an identical sibling. That seems as good a place as any to ta...

After nearly four decades of its one-child policy, designed to curb population growth and reform the country's economy, China has fully removed all childrearing limits in recent years. But the cultura...

Most fairy tales were told and retold countless times before Walt Disney ever got his hands on them, and yet, the sensibility behind such animated classics as "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Sl...