ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
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RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
TWO months ago, London-based designer Keiichi Matsuda released a short film depicting an augmented reality future called Hyper-Reality.
Filmed in Colombia, it’s a lurid conceptual video in which the real and the virtual have fused, with garish computer imagery presented as an overlay to drab shops and streets.
From our first person perspective we see the protagonist, a 41-year-old woman, navigate endless distractions as she plays games, accrues points, feeds a virtual top-hatted dog and eventually levels up to Catholicism.
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