What ever happened to Cheyenne, the (fictional) front man of the Fellows? The answer is first banal—he’s retired to a Dublin castle in a standard rock-star move—and then deeply consequential, as he embarks on an improbable…
Amazing but true stories, alas, seldom make for amazing films. In Juan Antonio Bayona’s eco-disaster flick, the 2004 tsunami that devastated Thailand sets the stage. It strikes not once but twice: first, near the beginning, to…
Seven years ago the photographer James Balog was something of a climatechange skeptic. In his view, nature was far too vast and supreme a force for mere mortals—in their puny insignificance—to have any lasting effect on.…
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