Wagner Moura has picked up awards right and left for Brazil's Oscar hopeful "The Secret Agent." The dictatorship drama couldn ...

Though network content restrictions remained firmly in place compared to TV programming today, popular shows advanced what could be aired publicly. Meanwhile, creative talent began to use the medium ...

A casual disregard for human life contrasts with a colorful, hard-partyin’ atmosphere of 1977 Carnaval in Brazil in “The Secret Agent,” director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s momentous epic, a mercurial ...

“The Secret Agent,” Brazil’s entry for this year’s Best International Film Oscar nomination, arrives in Boston Friday on the heels of last year’s multiple Brazilian Oscar nominee “I’m Still Here” as ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Drenched in sex and death, “The Secret Agent” peers into the past in order to make sense of the present. The ...

If you've spent any time in a dictatorship — I've had that happy experience — you understand why your high school teachers were always praising democracy. You quickly learn that authoritarian states ...

A Newport News man was charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting Saturday morning at Patrick Henry Mall. Gary Carlton Moore III, 26, also faces gun charges in the slaying of Diamante Tre ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Newport News police responded to a shooting inside a store at Patrick Henry Mall that left one man dead Saturday, authorities said. Officers arrived at 10:52 a.m., just one minute ...

“You’re telling me hit men are out to get me?” asks the baffled scientist Armando (Wagner Moura) in “The Secret Agent,” a tale from Brazil of murder, corruption, political intrigue, corporate ...

TIFF People’s Choice Award Winner Hamnet, Cannes-decorated The Secret Agent and afterlife romcom Eternity have settled into theaters for the Thanksgiving frame with Friday set to usher in another wave ...

The past is never the past is never the past — especially if you lived in Brazil in 1977, “a period of great mischief.” That’s the scene-setting intertitle that opens The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça ...

The protagonist of “The Secret Agent” isn’t a secret agent; he only lives like one. The reason for his clandestine maneuvering is apparent from the film’s first scene, when he pulls into a gas station ...