SetinNigeria,Olotureisthestoryofayoung,naiveNigerianjournalistwhogoesundercovertoexposetheshadyunderworldofhumantrafficking.Unusedtothisbrutalenvironment,crawlingwithruthlesstradersandpimps,OloturefindswarmthandfriendshipwithBlessing,LindaandBeauty,theprostitutessheliveswith.However,shegetsdr...
ThestoryofParker’sneweffort,pennedbyWilliam“Billy”Ivory,isinspiredbytrueeventsandissetinthesummerof2014.Ontheoccasionofthe70thanniversaryoftheD-DaylandingsinFrance,octogenarianBernardJordan(playedbyMichaelCaine)madeglobalheadlines.He’dstageda“greatescape”fromhiscarehometojoinfellowwarveterans...
ThreeyearsafterthelossofhisbrotherVittorio,withwhomhesharedhisentirecareer,PaoloTavianireturnstotheworksofLuigiPirandello,whichthepairadaptedin1984(Chaos)and1998(YouLaugh).InkeepingwiththeSicilianplaywright’svision,thefilmisnotatallwhatitappearstobe.Thetitlemaycomefroma1910novella,butthereisn...
Inthistwo-partseries,SimonReevetravelstoGreece,oneofthemostbeautiful,troubled,andextremecountriesinEurope.TravellingfromtheIslandsoftheAegeantotheruggedandmountainousnorth,Simongetsbehindthepicture-postcardimagetolearnmoreaboutGreeceandtheGreeks-andwhythecountryhasfacedaseeminglyendlesseconom...