To play the English major taken prisoner by the Japanese in World War II in his 1983 film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, director Nagisa Ōshima cast David Bowie. It was an inspired choice to complete the superb quartet at the heart of the film: English actor Tom Conti, another musician in Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Takeshi … Read more

Steve Martin has long marveled at the many phases of his life. There’s his youth as a Disneyland performer, surrounded by vaudeville performers and magicians. A decade as a stand-up before the sudden onset of stadium-sized popularity. An abrupt shift to movies. Later, a new chapter as a banjo player, a father and, a comedy … Read more

Drama plays out in the coastal towns of the North African country of Somalia and off its coast when pirates hijack an Indian-owned Ukrainian merchant ship transporting contraband. Under the command of Captain Singh (Rajat Kapoor), the ship and its crew (of various South Asians) are held hostage by armed men for days as politics, … Read more