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Two Netflix films document the fragility of marriage over time.  Each does so in a compassionate and thorough manner.  One takes place in 1960, the other in present day.  Intimate as they are, the stories reflect the historical tensions of the periods in which they are situated. Wildlife is aContinue Reading

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‘The prospect of creating beings with intelligence far beyond our own is hugely exiting. It is also hugely worrying because we don’t yet know if the immense power that we believe these agents would possess is going to be wielded in a way that helps or hurts us. That is,Continue Reading

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“[T]he bare skull was marked by several extra lobes, which bulged from the apex of the brain stem. One does not have to be a phrenologist to recognize this extraordinary cerebral mutation, something on the order of a supermind, had emerged from the outer limits.” The subtext is clear: WhatContinue Reading

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this is a chilling documentary on American governmental and corporate inaction in response to an ongoing human and enviornmental catastrophe in the city of St. Louis. press coverage: https://www.atomichomefront.film/news/recent/ trailer: https://www.atomichomefront.film/clips/Continue Reading

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Charlotte Kirk is a 26 year old British actress. Two Hollywood execs and the casting couch are the battleground on which a young actress’s career hopes are negotiated. A three-year entanglement, revealed here for the first time, offers a window into a dark aspect of the entertainment industry, which regularly brings togetherContinue Reading

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The digital age has ment the end in Ghana of a unique industry and art form. Piles of amazing one-off hand painted publicity posters crafted by local amateurs have now become valued collectables. An exhibition in London surveyed some of them confirming they have taken on a second life…… (TheseContinue Reading

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Should be fun. “Nothing about Trump should now cast Cheney in a more favourable light. In truth they represent different versions – each nearly a caricature – of the American ruling class. Trump is a vain, imbecilic Master of the Universe who has sleazed his way to the top – first ofContinue Reading

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Link sent by Richard. You know, I like to think that the human capacity for credulity is unlimited, unfettered. But the human capacity for self-deception— the ultimate self-credulity — is also unfettered, unlimited. I look at him and I think to myself: You can’t really believe this stuff. And yet,Continue Reading