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A European trader's dreams of striking it rich in Malaysia have faded, and all he has is his ruptured relationship with his half-Malay daughter; Akerman...

© Pavel Ignatov/Shutterstock.com Over the course of human history, a variety of novel inventions have helped facilitate and advance the dissemination of knowledge across the world. Those outlined in the list below are some of the most important. The Printing Press. While Johannes Gutenberg is often credited with inventing the printing press, his great contribution actually was improving the technology. Printing was developed in China, with The Diamond Sūtra, printed about 868 CE, believed to be the oldest known printed book. It was created using a technique known as block printing, which ...

Blacklisted during the release of The Brave One, Dalton Trumbo (seated) finally received the best story Oscar from Walter Mirisch in 1975, 18 years after the ceremony, in recognition that he was the film's real author — a fact some still dispute. Courtesy of AMPAS by Gary Baum, Scott Feinberg April 21, 2021, 6:45am PDT How Robert Rich's 1957 story win for the film (despite the fact that he didn't write a word) kicked off one of Hollywood's most intriguing credit battles — and why it remains unsolved. On May 15, 1975, Dalton Trumbo was vindicated. One of Hollywood's top screenwriters...

The new Netflix documentary Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal carries an unorthodox tagline for a nonfiction film: "Starring Matthew Modine." The award-winning actor, best known for his fictional roles in Full Metal Jacket, Vision Quest and The Dark Knight Rises, plays William "Rick" Singer, whose academic-coaching business was a front for an elaborate cheating and bribery scheme to get the children of wealthy parents into universities that included Harvard, Georgetown and Stanford. Although Operation Varsity Blues has plenty of talking-head interviews with real-li...

▶︎  A One-Woman Confessional: Eight Films by Cecilia Mangini is streaming for free until 22 March 2021 on Another Screen, a new, irregular streaming platform provided by the non-profit feminist film journal Another Gaze. Please consider supporting them. Cecilia Mangini was a gifted artist, and a key figure in Italian documentary cinema, but like many other wayfarers her work has not been too widely seen. There is a potential remedy, as the feminist film journal Another Gaze have christened their new streaming service Another Screen with a freely and internationally avail...