Actress Hiam Abbass (1960)

The Old Man (2022–2024) is an American drama thriller television series based on the 2017 novel The Old Man by Thomas Perry. As a Vietnam veteran and former CIA operative, Dan Chase lives off-the-grid in Connecticut for thirty years after killing an intruder who broke into his home. The show was developed by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine. While fleeing, Chase rents a room from Zoe McDonald, who becomes his forced partner. In light of Chase’s complicated past during the Soviet–Afghan War, FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Harold Harper was ...

Created by Jesse Armstrong, Succession (2018–2023) is an acclaimed American comedy-drama TV series that aired from June 3, 2018, to May 28, 2023 on HBO. The show follows the Roy family as they navigate the unpredictable world of their global media and entertainment empire, Waystar RoyCo. With its impressive writing, acting, humor, music, directing and production quality, Succession has received widespread critical praise throughout its four seasons. It has also been recognized with numerous awards and nominations such as the Golden Globe for Best Television Series – Drama and Primetime Emmy for Outstanding ...

Blade Runner 2049 (2017), a neo-noir sci-fi masterpiece from 2017, was directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green. It takes place in a world approximately two decades after the downfall of the Tyrell Corporation, the original creators and manufacturers of replicants – bioengineered superhumans. The collapse of natural ecosystems prompted industrialist Niander Wallace to develop a new generation of replicants for synthetic farming, effectively saving the planet. While the earlier ...

Filmmaker Ridley Scott brought the biblical story of Exodus to life through his epic film, Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014). At this time in history, Moses, a respected member of the Egyptian royal family and a skilled general, prepares for battle with the Hittites alongside his fellow prince Ramesses. A High Priestess delivers a prophecy to Ramesses’s father Seti I using animal entrails, foretelling that one of the two princes will save the other and become a great leader. During the intense battle, Moses risks his own life to save Ramesses, leaving both men unsettled. As events unfold, Moses takes on the ...

The American drama film, The Visitor (2007), was written and directed by Tom McCarthy and produced by Michael London and Mary Jane Skalski. Walter Vale, a widowed economics professor from Connecticut College, leads a mostly solitary life. He occupies his time by occasionally taking piano lessons in honor of his late wife, a renowned concert pianist, and rarely works on his latest book. Despite not being entirely enthusiastic about it, he is asked to present a paper at an academic conference at New York University as the ...