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“Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man” star Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy, an Oscar-winner for “Oppenheimer,” is back in a new film, “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man,” a follow-up to his hit TV series about a charismatic gangster who rules post-World War I Birmingham, England. The Irish actor talks with Seth Doane about the appeal of portraying complicated or tormented characters; taking his work “deadly […]

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‘Closure’ Wins Golden Alexander At Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival; ‘Birds Of War’ Earns 4 Awards

Closure, Michal Marczak’s searing account of a man desperately searching for his missing teenage son, won the Golden Alexander in International Competition today at the prestigious Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece. It’s the festival’s top honor. Marczak’s film, which premiered in World Cinema Documentary competition at Sundance, follows a man named Daniel whose son

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Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life

The Quapaw Nation is the only US Native community to carry out a cleanup of one of the country’s worst sites of environmental contamination They call this land the Laue. In the late 1800s, part of these 200 acres of grassland inside the Quapaw Nation were allotted to tribal citizen Charley Quapaw Blackhawk. After forcing

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Could a recently detected ultra-high-energy neutrino be linked to new physics?

Neutrinos are extremely lightweight and electrically neutral particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter. Due to these rare interactions, neutrinos can travel across space almost entirely unaffected, carrying information about highly energetic cosmological events, such as exploding stars or supermassive black holes.

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Rising gas prices from Iran conflict put GOP on defense after previous Biden attacks

Republicans sharply criticized former President Joe Biden over rising prices at the gas pump, but a spike in energy prices amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran threatens to scramble the party’s affordability messaging. The Iran conflict has led to a surge in gas prices for Americans, leading to an average 50 cents a gallon increase

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‘Whispers in May’ Director on Coming-of-Age Roadtrip Set in Rugged Region of China: ‘It’s Not Just About Beauty; Those Mountains Carry Weight’

“I’ve made many wishes, but none have ever come true.” That line, written by a teenage girl in China’s remote Liangshan region, became the starting point for “Whispers in May,” the hybrid documentary by Emmy-nominated Chinese director Dongnan Chen (“14 Paintings,” “Singing in the Wilderness,” “Sound of Vision”), which will world premiere in the main

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