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Extra 2706 – Miss Toughness AP PHOTO Macau Daily Times | Edition 2706 | 16 Dec 2016 Miss Toughness Miss Canada will be vying for more than the winner’s tiara when she competes in the annual Miss World pageant in Washington this weekend. Anastasia Lin wants to tell a global TV audience about the evil of organ-harvesting X3 uliflower! Out of Bounds by Val McDermid 4 Your Eyez Only by J. Cole Books: Wine: The Holy Spirit Music: Movies: lion Food & Drink: Ready for breaded cutlets of a different kind? Ca MANCHESTER BY THE SEA BY MANCHESTER X2 PÁTIO DA ILUSÃO illusion DRIVE IN Mark Kennedy, AP Entertainment Writer AN YOU GO HOME AGAIN C ? AP PHOTO THE LOVELY ‘LION’ SAYS YES here are two ways to view ley lost hundreds of miles in eas- 1986 with the younger Saroo “Lion.” One is as a hear- tern India and the less dramatic, tagging along with his older Tt-warming tale of love beyond and slightly forced, story of that brother to scrounge for work. boundaries and the incandes- same boy all grown up looking He then falls asleep on a decom- cent pull of home. The more for answers about his past. missioned train that travels some cynical view is that it’s a two Dev Patel, of “Slumdog Millio- 1,600 kilometers to Calcutta. -hour advertisement for the naire” fame, proves he’s a ta- Lost, hungry and scared, the wonders of Google Earth. lented, striking leading man, boy isn’t even able to seek help Let’s not be cynical, shall we? but even he would admit he’s since he speaks only Hindi in Let’s just enjoy this poignant delightfully overshadowed by an area where Bengali is the and true story of a man who be- newcomer Sunny Pawar, who common language. He scrou- came separated from his family plays his 5-year-old self with nges for food, turns a piece of in India at age 5, was adopted irrepressible sweetness. “I can cardboard into a bed and nar- by an Australia couple and then lift anything,” he says at one rowly escapes child abductors tracked down his family 25 point, and proves it by lifting before being taken to an orpha- years after going missing. this film. nage that resembles a prison. “Lion “ is really two beauti- Luke Davies’ screenplay, adap- It’s a grim journey in which few fully-shot films — the tenacious ted from Brierley’s memoir adults are good. The camera story of 5-year-old Saroo Brier- “A Long Way Home,” starts in doesn’t shy away from staring Dev Patel appears in a scene from "Lion" at gritty places and forgotten showing Saroo’s solitary wan- Mara) and studying satellite ima- people. derings and sleeplessness. The ges from India by a certain inter- Salvation comes in the form dense crowds of harsh, urban net company, tracing train tracks of Nicole Kidman in a truly India give way to the empty, from a laptop. He has no idea appalling ‘80s wig. She and lush expanses of Tasmania. where he came from and the film David Wenham play an Aussie The adult Saroo seems un- nicely uses flashbacks to show couple who adopt young Saroo moored from his Indian roots partial memories flooding back. and Kidman turns in a very un- until — like Marcel Proust’s A breakthrough gets him on the glamorous, quiet and meditati- madeleine — he encounters a right track and soon he’s back ve performance. fried cake called a jalebi that on a plane, heading to his former Director Garth Davis has got us triggers childhood memories. home and a bittersweet finale in the palm of his hand at this Someone helpfully suggests he with the people he left behind. point, with Saroo wide-eyed at look at Google Earth — yes, It’s all thanks to love, tenaciou- encountering a plane and a re- it’s actually written into the sness and, of course, the good frigerator for the first time. But script. (The company’s logo folks at Google. the second half of the film sla- also appears on the screen mul- ckens somewhat as Patel takes tiple times, on the movie pos- “Lion,” a Weinstein Company over 25 years later. ter and Google is thanked in release, is rated PG-13 by the Mo- He’s great as a brooding, haun- the end credits. This is product tion Picture Association of America ted man but he has less to work placement on par with Reese’s for “thematic material and some with. If the first half was a Pieces in “E.T. the Extra-Ter- sensuality.” MPAA definition of compelling, physical journey, restrial.”) PG-13: Parental guidance sugges- the second is one taken solely Soon, Saroo is pushing away ted, with some material may not inside the mind and the film his girlfriend (a very bad idea be suitable for children. Running time: 119 minutes. Rooney Mara and Dev Patel degenerates into long moments since it’s the marvelous Rooney BOOK IT tTUNES POLICE DETEctIVE KAREN PIRIE J. COLE’S LOW-KEY RETURNS IN ‘OUT OF BOUNDS’ RETURN FOCUSES ON FRAGILITY OF LIFE etective Chief Inspector was in any way linked to the DKaren Pirie has always death of his mother, who was been a workaholic. But AP PHOTO killed in a plane crash deca- . Cole’s latest album, “4 Your Eyez Only,” is an in- now immersion in her work des earlier. timate one. It unfolds like an old journal that’s been doesn’t just give her life The caseloads help distract Junearthed and shared with an audience of one — that structure, it also has become Karen from her grief over is, an audience of you, or, more important, the daugh- a kind of comfort that allows the death of Phil Parhatka, a ter of a friend whose shooting death ties the rapper’s J. Cole, “4 Your Eyez Only” (Dreamville) her to deal with grief in “Out fellow detective who was kil- latest set together. of Bounds,” Val McDermid’s led in the line of duty. She lo- “Bloodshed done turned the city to a battlefield, I call of feeling low even when I’m high. Ain’t no way to latest exciting novel about ved Phil and longs to discuss it poison, you call it real,” Cole raps on “Change,” live, do I wanna die?” he sings. this Scottish police detective. every investigation, twist and before narrating the final moments in the life of James Cole is constantly drawing parallels between him- Pirie, now head of Police theory with him. When not at McMillan Jr., whose life was cut short at 22. The fra- self and the guys still grinding. It’s a struggle he Scotland’s small Historic work, she drinks and walks gility of life — particularly that of young black men can’t shake — even with fame and fortune — as Cases Unit in Edinburgh, the streets and neighborhoods who too often are felled by violence — shapes the illustrated on the powerful “Neighbors,” where Cole tackles a decades-old mur- of Edinburgh at night to ease frustration and desperation that permeates the album. raps that any black man can be “a candidate for a der after 17-year-old Ross her insomnia. Low on frills (production or otherwise), and rich with Trayvon (Martin) kinda fate. Even when your crib Garvie goes on a high-speed “Out of Bounds” (Grove Karen is easily the smartest introspection, the Grammy nominee’s fourth studio sit on a lake.” ride with three of his friends. Atlantic), by Val McDermid person in the room. She of- set may not immediately resonate with listeners anti- But for all the looming dangers, Cole has hope and A horrific crash results in the ten infuriates her bosses, who cipating an album to match the buzz surrounding Co- he’s moving in a beautiful direction. He’s unguarded death of the three drunken neuvering the Scottish legal grudgingly acknowledge that le’s alleged digs at Kanye West on “False Prophets.” and in love on the delicate “She’s Mine, Pt. 1” and teens and leaves Garvie in a system to track down Gar- her insight and intelligence What’s clear now is that “False Prophets” was less “She’s Mine, Pt. 2.” He even turns the act of doing coma. vie’s male relatives is fraught gets the job done. about throwing rocks at the throne and more about laundry into a grand romantic gesture on the omg- Karen and her partner, Detec- with complications. McDermid balances the in- Cole bearing his disappointment over a fallen hero. that’s-so-sweet “Foldin Clothes.” tive Constable Jason Murray, Another case also occupies tense character studies in He’s over fakeness, and if sincerity and storytelling The album’s title track is the last of the bunch, and become involved when Gar- Karen’s time — the alleged “Out of Bounds” with an in- matter more than sensationalism, then fans will find over the course of nearly 9 minutes, Cole relays a vie’s DNA is shown to be a suicide of Gabriel Abbott, side view of the Scottish le- “4 Your Eyez Only” to be a solid — albeit, someti- heartfelt and frank message from McMillan to his familial match to that of a who lived in Kinross. The gal system and again shows mes slow-moving — follow-up to 2014’s “Forest daughter. The meandering, jazz-tinged track is Glasgow hairdresser whose Abbott case isn’t Karen’s, but her acuity in producing inte- Hills Drive.” tragic, touching, wise — and a little bit sleepy — rape and murder has gone she becomes nearly obsessed lligent thrillers.
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