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I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Leave it to slow cinema auteur Lav Diaz (2013’s four-hour “Norte, The End of History”) to serve you colonialism in ...

When we first glimpse the explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the stunning new film that bears his name, he is lying on a corpse-strewn beach, looking near death himself. It’s 1511, and he has just ...

With his immersive latest, the Filipino director deconstructs the record of Portuguese explorer and colonizer Ferdinand Magellan. Despite our best efforts to go into a film completely blind, sometimes ...

Gael García Bernal plays the explorer Ferdinand Magellan in Lav Diaz’s portrait of a brutal adventurer and his travels across the globe. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

The audience doesn’t see Ferdinand Magellan for the first seven-and-a-half minutes of Magellan. Instead, the film begins on the wailing fear of the Indigenous people of Malacca at the sight of a white ...

Expected in theaters January 9, this Cannes debut aims to be the first official selection from the Philippines on the Oscar shortlist for Best International Feature. With a film career spanning from ...

Watch the Magellan trailer for this upcoming film starring Gael Garcia Bernal. 16th century. Magellan, a young and ambitious Portuguese navigator, rebels against the power of the King, who doesn’t ...