Ambition trumps experience in writer-director Phil Plattenberger’s “Laws of Man,” whose meandering plot ends up looking like a wild goose chase — and whose execution should have been even wilder. Suspense and atmosphere are so poorly provided that this stab at an old, noisy thriller comes across as anything other than talky, weird, and unconvincing. … Read more
Berlin — Polish President Andrzej Duda requested a special exemption to allow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attend events in the country marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, without risking arrest under an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court. Poland will host a memorial service eight decades … Read more
Iran’s military forces conducted four days of extensive exercises on Wednesday that many believe are essentially preparations for how the country might respond to a U.S., Israeli or combined attack on its nuclear facilities. Brigadier General Mohammad-Nazar Azimi, commander of the western headquarters of Najaf Ashraf, the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, touted the national … Read more
When counting the casualties of war, there is rarely an idea of the animal kingdom beyond our own bipedal species. It is assumed that Mother Nature will simply “adapt”, with its less evolved inhabitants abandoning old habitats and finding new ones on their own when they have to. Checkpoint Zoo is training its lens on … Read more