IAN SINCLAIR draws attention to the powerful role that literature plays in foreseeing the way humanity will deal with climate crisis
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Film round-up: November 21, 2024
A bucket-list of visuals, the unsung heroine of IVF, queer love in the City of London, and half a musical: The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Blink, Joy, Layla and Wicked
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High quality pulp, rollicking online murders, Abnorman Britain, and high skates drama: reviews of The Get Off, Everyone In The Group Chat Dies, Pagans and First To Fall
DENNIS BROE notes what happens to content when the streaming giants incorporate AI and deregulation into their economic models
New releases from The Tenementals, Nik Bartsch’s Ronin, and Kuunatic
SCOTT ALSWORTH hears the call to burn down and rebuild the video game industry from the bottom up
The Chinese language only introduced a feminine pronoun in the 1920s. Now, it might adopt a gender-inclusive one, suggests JANET DAVEY
ALEX HALL is intrigued by a detailed history of Gaza that demonstrates its historic resilience and changing economy
Blink (U)
Directed by Daniel Roher and Edmund Stenson
★★★★
THIS beautiful yet heartbreaking film follows a Canadian couple who decide to take their four young children on a globe-trotting trip after they learn three of them are slowing going blind.
This awe-inspiring documentary begins with Edith Lemay and Sebastien Pelletier being told their daughter Mia (11) and their sons Colin (six) and Laurent (just four) have retinitis pigmentosa, an incurable and rare genetic disease. Their nine-year-old son Leo was spared.
A specialist advises the couple all they can do is to fill their kids’ visual memory by showing them images from books. Instead Edith says: “Let’s go all in and fill their visual memory with as many beautiful things as we can.”
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