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AP PHOTO Macau Daily Times | Edition 2787| 21 Apr 2017 The answer is a class of techniques Movies called “matrix factorization” – and and you’ve likely already interacted with these techniques in your everyday life: by rating movies on Netflix. The online movie-theater is about to reach 100 million tumors subscribers globally X3 How Netflix helps us treating cancer Movies: Free Fire Books: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Granm Music: Wrangled by Angaleena Presley Wine: Grape Power I Kitchen Wise: Mini Mocha baked Alaskas X2 PÁTIO DA ILUSÃO illusion DRIVE IN Jake Coyle, AP Film Writer BOOK IT WHEN THE BULLETS FLY, ‘FREE FIRE’ OIL WEALTH, GREED, PREJUDICE COMES TO A CRAWL FUELED MURDERS OF OSAGE INDIANS he FBI burnished its repu- corrupt guardianships that tation by gunning down allowed greedy whites to AP PHOTO TDepression-era gangster John AP PHOTO swindle the Osage out of their Dillinger and bringing to jus- headrights. At the center of tice the kidnapper of Charles the conspiracy was the politi- Lindbergh’s baby. However, cally powerful William Hale, a more challenging but long a one-time cowboy, part- forgotten investigation a de- time lawman and self-styled cade earlier gave the fledgling preacher, known to all as the agency its first major success. “King of the Osage Hills.” At least two dozen and White sought justice for the perhaps as many as seve- tribe at a time when rampant ral hundred Osage Indians prejudice made potential were murdered during what witnesses reluctant to impli- became known as a years- cate fellow whites in crimes long “Reign of Terror.” The against Indians; bribery, per- shocking episode that unfol- “Killers of the Flower Moon: jury and jury tampering were ded on the high-grass prairie The Osage Murders and the commonplace. during the 1920s was fueled Birth of the FBI” (Doubleday), As a prominent member of the by oil wealth, greed and pre- by David Grann tribe put it when Hale went judice. to trial: “It is a question in Like so many other Native the killings that first came to my mind whether this jury is Americans, the Osage were light in May 1921 when the considering a murder case or driven from their ancestral body of an Osage woman who not. The question for them to lands as settlers moved into had gone missing was found decide is whether a white man the West. The tribe ended by squirrel hunters in a ravi- killing an Osage is murder — up on barren and seemingly ne. The slain body of another or merely cruelty to animals.” worthless reservation lands member of the tribe was fou- Research by Grann, a staff in northeast Oklahoma. But nd at roughly the same time. writer for The New Yorker, when huge oil deposits were The body count kept growing. sheds new light on the mur- discovered there, it appeared Some of the dead were shot, ders, including archival evi- that the tribe had finally hit others had drunk moonshine dence implicating a bank the jackpot. whiskey spiked with poi- president. The author also Osage whose names were on son and two died when their suggests that the Reign of the tribal rolls received “hea- killer set off an explosion at Terror went on far longer than drights” that entitled them to their home. White authorities initially thought, beginning as a share of the income from oil seemed indifferent about the early as 1918 and continuing leases and royalties. The new- murders, prompting members for years after Hale’s arrest in found wealth allowed them to of the tribe to hire private 1925. build mansions, drive luxury detectives to try to crack the Readers with a taste for true- cars and send children to posh case. But the chilling conspi- crime narratives would be boarding schools, breeding re- racies designed to wrest the hard-pressed to find one more From left: Babou Ceesay, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, Sharlto Copley and Noah Taylor in a scene from sentment from jealous whites oil headrights from the vic- gripping than this unraveling "Free Fire" and giving rise to a growing tims came to light only after J. of a mystery that once cap- string of unsolved killings. Edgar Hoover’s Bureau of In- tivated the nation but is now “ he shootout, often a Copley’s South African; Ba- irreverent and violent — is “The world’s richest people vestigation, later renamed the barely remembered. History ballet, is a battle roya- bou Ceesay’s former Black undoubtedly “Reservoir Do- per capita were becoming the FBI, got involved in the case. buffs with an interest in the Tle in Ben Wheatley’s “Free Panther). The deal has been gs”-era Quentin Tarantino. world’s most murdered,” wri- The hero of the saga is Tom settlement of the West and the Fire.” brokered by a pair of savvy But “Free Fire” reminded me tes David Grann in “Killers of White, a larger-than-life for- treatment of its indigenous When the bullets start flying, Americans (Brie Larson’s more of a short by its execu- the Flower Moon: The Osage mer Texas Ranger who de- populations will find even Wheatley’s arms-deal-go- Justine, Armie Hammer’s tive producer, Martin Scor- Murders and the Birth of the ployed a network of under- more to chew on. ne-wrong 1970s shoot-up turtle-necked Ord) and then sese. His 1967 six-minute FBI,” his riveting account of cover agents to help expose Jerry Harkavy, AP comes to a crawl. There’s a there are a couple locals, “The Big Shave” showed a total absence of slow-motion Stevo (Sam Riley) and Ber- man who keeps cutting him- cartwheels. No one miracu- nie (Enzo Cilenti) brought in self shaving until his face is lously walks through a wall to carry the crates of assault a bloody mess — the Viet- of fire to kill the bad guys weapons. nam War in a nutshell. tTUNES with three precise shots. Not The latter two, sort of the “Free Fire,” too, would seem a single Scarlett Johansson Rosencrantz and Guildens- to be a satirical metaphor on roundhouse kick is in the tern of the bunch, play a mi- warfare, where guns plus an house. nor role in the meet-up but international group of pos- Instead, people get maimed, a pivotal one in its descent turing wannabe tough-guys NGALEENA RESLEY AFFIRMS bloodied and dead. There’s into orgiastic violence. Ste- equals mutual destruction. A P no subsequent chase or fli- vo, with a bruised face from But Wheatley’s devotion ght from the police, just bi- the previous night’s exploi- is less to any such critique HER RENEGADE STATUS ckering and trench warfare ts, ends up face-to-face with than to his movie’s hermetic ... for the majority of the 90 the man he tussled with and, form. He is clearly enjoying minute film. The movie is well, all hell breaks loose. himself, stretching his high- ngaleena Presley has earned her place in the resistance to the 100 percent O.K. Corral. All of them, while of various concept, criss-crossing chaos Aformulaic vibe that rules Nashville these days. On her new It’s a formally impressive degrees of level-headedness, to the comic limit, even whi- AP PHOTO album, “Wrangled,” she cements it with muscular fury. feat — set nearly entirely in are self-consciously playing le his characters limp along Presley established her credentials with “American Middle the same rundown warehou- a role as street toughs. Best behind. Class” in 2014. On the new album she confronts similar de- se — but a thin and tedious is Copley’s arch Verne, a sel- At one point in the melee, mons, raging against the Nashville hierarchy but also Christian one. f-described “rare and myste- one character speaks of the hypocrisy and any effort to pigeonhole her as a songwriter and The film, the British direc- rious jewel,” most concer- “golden rule” that one has a woman. tor’s sixth, spends its first ned with the stitching of his an hour and a half before a Rapper Yelawolf joins her on “Country,” a tirade against bro- third gathering an ensemble new suit. But once everyone bullet wound becomes fatal. country, complete with a “thank God for Sturgill Simpson” shout of retro-outfitted characters takes cover throughout the Wheatley’s film, too, comes -out to everyone’s current favorite rebel. And on a feminist colla- under the glistening wet of abandoned factory and spo- in exactly at that length. Af- Angaleena Presley, “Wrangled” boration with rockabilly legend Wanda Jackson, Presley declares a dark Massachusetts night. radically exchange fire in ter 90 minutes of occasio- (Mining Light/Thirty Tigers) herself “not just a pretty face, not a flower in a vase.” The setting and colorful, co- between snatches of ironic nally inspired dialogue and But Presley is at her best when she’s not ranting. She’s a world- mic banter would fit into a conversations, telling who’s labored if compelling anar- class songwriter, which she proves on the title cut and on “Cheer Up Little Darling,” co-written and George V. Higgins novel, or on which side becomes im- chy, it bleeds out. delivered with the late Guy Clark, a longtime mentor. The last song Clark completed, it serves as a Peter Yates’ 1973 adaptation possible for us and for them. gentle farewell. of “Friends of Eddie Coyle.” Nearly everyone is even- “Free Fire,” an A24 release, Presley channels her feminist anger most effectively on “Only Blood,” co-written with fellow renega- It’s an international, much- tually hobbled by a gun wou- is rated R by the Motion Pic- de Chris Stapleton.

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