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As you may have noticed, things are looking a lot fresher round these parts in the last few days…
Apple
Whitney documentary review: an 80s icon contemplated, venerated, mourned
Deeply moving, truly tragic; a biography with a keenly journalistic but hugely sympathetic eye. Powerful compassion and a get-up-and-dance deployment of Houston’s music may well bring her a new generation of fans.
California Typewriter documentary review: a qwerty little passion
A winsome spell of romance and nostalgia and adorably dorky passion. This is not a portrait of people with an odd hobby: it is a hymn to mechanical beauty.
Steve Jobs movie review: insanely great (LFF 2015)
You’ve never seen such a compelling, entertaining movie about a genius jerk. As smart and as sleek as a Macbook Pro, and a compulsory bit of modern history.
New York photo: Apple Plaza
An Apple store overlooks the Plaza Hotel.
A Touch of Sin movie review: people’s uprising
It’s banned in China for its savage criticism of that nation’s economic and social policies. But its horrors look awfully familiar to us in the West, too.
Chasing Mavericks review
This gentle father-son(ish) tale about an expert surfer and his teen apprentice is a rare “family” movie that isn’t preachy or insipid.
Jobs trailer: can this do justice to one of the most important people of the 20th century?
The world would look very different without Steve Jobs, and I hope the movie captures this.
how much national cultural protectionism is feasible in a wired world?
Would you want your country to protect you from too much entertainment from another culture (such as Hollywood)?
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A teaching game about sweatshop conditions hits a little too close to home for Apple…
