In supporting roles, Toby Jones, Timothy Spall, Gillian Anderson, Charlotte Gainsbourg and an almost unrecognizable Robert Duvall, playing an expert in the occult, are all reliably entertaining.

Helena Blavatsky, also known as Madame Blavatsky, was a 19th-century Russian mystic who co-founded the Theosophical Society and wrote extensively on Theosophy. But who was this woman, really? What was ...

In the latter part of the 19th century, a range of powerful new visual technologies were developed that used the intrinsic mechanics of light-sensitive media to achieve spiritual allusions and ...