If you think the selfie was born as a direct result of the cellphone, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” painted just over 500 years ago by Francesco Mazzola, the Italian artist commonly ...

“ Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is a portrait of what it’s like to be at the beck and call of a despot,” says Director Peter Kominsky.

Still, even amid slower and meandering scenes, rehashings and even a few cast replacements (Charlie Row takes over for Tom Holland as Cromwell’s son, Gregory), “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the ...

“Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light” picks up where “Wolf Hall” left off, amid the gruesome beheading of Anne Boleyn in 1536, which we get to see this time in even more gruesome detail.