Bree Turner glows beneath that soft beauty that the screen wants to squeeze close. There are many different ways an actor can draw you in. Turner is like a magnetized down comforter. Her big round eyes and medium-length...

It may be hard to imagine now, but a hundred years ago trains were the de rigueur mode of transportation. They were luxurious, extravagant affairs, where men in smart suits smoked handcrafted pipes while women in...

One of the most powerful things a filmmaker can do is to elicit beauty from the most unexpected of places, thereby challenging our preconceived notions and reframing the question of beauty itself. Well, Russian film...

What first greets the eye in Samuel Beckett’s radio play, All That Fall, currently playing at 59E59 Theatre, is the sparseness of the whole enterprise. Seven mics are suspended from the rafters, and an unsightly...

The last time GALO Magazine spoke with Brooklyn artist Oliver Warden, he was between two worlds: the virtual world of video game-based art and the reality of art world skeptics. Now, little more than a year since,...

Desert Runners, a documentary film from director Jennifer Steinman, is not just about running in extreme conditions and crossing the finish line just to say that you did. More than that, it is a film that explores the...

The lovely, vivacious and talented Cuban actress Yara Martinez has done her fair share of supporting roles — guest-starring on series such as Southland, Nashville and Breakout Kings as well as appearing in the...

Fashion is big business in Indonesia, a Southeast Asian nation that is home to more than 200 million people. How big, you ask? Try employing more than three million people and contributing some $15 billion to the...

The philosophy behind The Ghosts in Our Machine is simple: Humans are animals; they are as animal in nature as “non-human” animals inhabiting the planet; therefore, non-human animals, possessing a similar sentience...

The ’60s were raw, urgent years, indicting form in favor of free expression, and with independent cultural eruptions on every corner, from bucolic college campuses to the dark depths of inner cities. Trying to...