20 best African films ranked! | Movies
Posted on April 12, 2024
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| Brenda Moya
ranked! Mame Bineta Sane as Ada in Atlantique. Photograph: Les Films du BalAs the UK’s leading African film festivals showcase the past decade’s classics online, we pick 20 great landmarks from the continent’s dazzling movie-making history
by Peter Bradshaw20. Borders (2017)The film’s director, Apolline Traoré, was born in Burkina Faso and educated in the US before returning to the country of her birth and working with Idrissa Ouédraogo. Borders is her third feature, a road movie about four very different women travelling across beautifully evoked landscapes from Senegal to Nigeria, having melodramatic, shocking or comic episodes on the hot and dusty road.
[Read More]Cyanide coffee death: prosecutors in murder case call for 20 years' jail for Australian | Indonesia
Posted on April 12, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
Indonesia This article is more than 7 years oldCyanide coffee death: prosecutors in murder case call for 20 years' jail for AustralianThis article is more than 7 years oldJessica Kumala Wongso denies murdering Wayan Mirna Salihin by putting cyanide into her coffee but court hears she carried out her plan ‘meticulously’
Indonesian prosecutors have demanded that a former Sydney-based design student accused of murdering her friend by slipping cyanide into her coffee spends 20 years behind bars for the high-profile case.
[Read More]Fur flies over 16th century 'rocket cats' warfare manual | Animals
Posted on April 12, 2024
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| Brenda Moya
Animals This article is more than 9 years oldFur flies over 16th century 'rocket cats' warfare manualThis article is more than 9 years oldResearcher baffled by document written by artillery master Franz Helm featuring pictures of jetpacks strapped to cats and dovesYou're a 16th century German prince plotting to crush a peasant rebellion, or perhaps you're leading an army against the Ottoman Empire or settling a score with a rival nobleman.
[Read More]It's turkey time!
Posted on April 12, 2024
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| Delta Gatti
FilmJen'n'Ben's Gigli reeks of focus groups, says Miranda Sawyer. Why don't they use common sense instead?Scanning the pages of online satirical rag the Onion this week (www.theonion.com), one article in particular catches the eye. Its opening sentence goes like this: "Focus groups at advance screenings for Gigli, a romantic comedy starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez set to open here on September 26, have demanded a new ending in which both stars die 'in as brutal a manner as possible', sources at Sony Pictures said Tuesday.
[Read More]Keep your voice down, judge warns Donald Trump at fraud trial | Donald Trump
Posted on April 12, 2024
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| Merlyn Hunt
Donald Trump This article is more than 3 months oldKeep your voice down, judge warns Donald Trump at fraud trialThis article is more than 3 months oldArthur Engoron gives warning after ex-president conferred aloud in court and threw hands up in frustration as witness testified
A judge warned Donald Trump and others at his New York civil fraud trial to keep their voices down on Wednesday after the former president threw up his hands in frustration and spoke aloud to his lawyers while a witness was testifying against him.
[Read More]Venice city guide: a day in Dorsoduro
Posted on April 12, 2024
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| Delta Gatti
Squero di San Trovaso, one of just two surviving squeri in Venice (see point 4 below). Photograph: Sarah Lee Photograph: Sarah Lee/GuardianSquero di San Trovaso, one of just two surviving squeri in Venice (see point 4 below). Photograph: Sarah Lee Photograph: Sarah Lee/GuardianCity neighbourhoods in a dayVenice holidaysHop over the Grand Canal to Dorsoduro and you’ll get a flavour of the ‘real Venice’ without the crowds of San Marco and for a fraction of the cost
[Read More]AI girlfriends are here but theres a dark side to virtual companions | Arwa Mahdawi
Posted on April 11, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
The Week in PatriarchyArtificial intelligence (AI)AI girlfriends are here – but there’s a dark side to virtual companionsArwa MahdawiCreators of these chatbots often tout them as a way to combat loneliness, but they can create unhealthy attachments and affect gender roles
Love in the time of ChatGPTIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a computer must be in want of an AI girlfriend. Certainly a lot of enterprising individuals seem to think there’s a lucrative market for digital romance.
[Read More]Ask Molly Ringwald: my best friend is dating my ex I cant forgive them
Posted on April 11, 2024
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| Brenda Moya
Ask Molly RingwaldLife and style‘The real betrayal is that of your best friend. Honesty and trust are the foundations of friendship and she has effectively trashed both’I split up with my ex a year ago and quickly started dating. I met someone nice, but within weeks I discovered that my ex and my best friend had started a relationship. When I found out, I felt a rage I had never experienced.
[Read More]Barber: Cello Concerto; Cello Sonata, etc review
Posted on April 11, 2024
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| Brenda Moya
Classical musicReviewPoltéra/Stott/Bergen PO/Litton
(BIS)The 1945 Cello Concerto is probably the least performed of Samuel Barber's concertos – less winsomely melodic than the work for violin, less flamboyantly virtuosic than the Piano Concerto. But as Christian Poltéra's fierce, theatrical performance demonstrates, it's a ruggedly impressive achievement in its own right, in which the romanticism associated with Barber's music only emerges from time to time, particularly in the slow movement and one of the episodes of the finale.
[Read More]Europes hidden coasts: Costa de Prata, Portugal
Posted on April 11, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
Portugal holidaysCentral Portugal’s pristine beaches are pounded by the Atlantic and dotted with simple restaurants, but barely touched by tourists, making them havens for those who crave space – and great seafood More hidden coasts: France | Spain | Greece | Italy Theo and I saunter along the road from Aveiro that crosses its wide, shiny, tame lagoon, and arrive in north Africa, or so it seems. We find scissored-leaf palm trees and heavy white sand dunes on the march, and the relentless wild rumble and roar of the unquiet Atlantic.
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