![]() ![]() ![]() When it cannily hits the streaming platform on Christmas Day, “Matilda” could well grow into a phenomenon - especially in Britain, to which the film has been uncompromisingly tailored. That balance, correct or otherwise, isn’t likely to diminish the cross-family appeal of this year’s London Film Festival opener when it reaches audiences in December - via Sony in the U.K., and Netflix elsewhere. What you remember from it, however, is each scene in which elder malevolence deliciously spoils the party. ![]() The film, on balance, is cheery, sherbet-colored stuff, bursting with goodwill for all good people. 12-year-old Alisha Weir’s agreeably precocious title character and a large, eager ensemble of self-proclaimed “revolting children” fill the screen in one busy number after another, as they vocally stand up for kids’ right to be kids in the face of authoritarian adult opposition - only for Emma Thompson’s towering, truck-jawed antagonist to rather greedily pull focus from them with each rancorous line reading. ![]() And yet, even as its script dictates otherwise, grownups still get the upper hand in director Matthew Warchus’ bouncy screen transfer of his hit stage musical. ![]()
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Her work is published in Al Jazeera, The Chicago Quarterly, Huizache, and acclaimed anthologies including Good Girls Marry Doctors & All the Women in My Family Sing. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation. Tara Dorabji is a writer, radio journalist, mother, filmmaker and Vice President at The Center for Cultural Power, a home for artists and activists. Set in a fictional land that draws much from occupied Kashmir, FIRE is an intergenerational story of love, betrayal, and family secrets that takes the reader into everyday life under military occupation. NEW YORK, February 21-Simon & Schuster announced today that Tara Dorabji won the 2022 Books Like Us first novel grand prize, for her novel FIRE. ![]() ![]() ![]() Keanu Reeves, 58, and his Dogstar bandmates pose for a photo as they tease their first new music in 20 years Want to make your future fiancée feel like royalty? 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The current study compares diffusion properties along 18 major cerebral white matter pathways in children and adolescents born preterm (n = 27) and full term (n = 19), using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging and tractography. To date, tractography studies of white matter pathways in children and adolescents born preterm have evaluated only a limited number of tracts simultaneously. Adverse outcomes, particularly in children born before 32 weeks of gestation, have been attributed in large part to white matter injuries, often found in periventricular regions using conventional imaging. ![]() Premature birth is highly prevalent and associated with neurodevelopmental delays and disorders. ![]() ![]() ![]() Coming from humble, blue collar beginnings in a world overpowered by the advancement of technology, Lawrence had had an unmediated experience of the grinding life and atrocious circumstances that made it quite unfeasible for the common man to lead his life peacefully. ![]() Born as the son of a miner, in 1885, in the mining town of Nottinghamshire, Lawrence had seen life very closely. During his childhood days, D.H Lawrence had himself bore the brunt of industrialization. He focuses on the intricate link of psychology with class division and industrialization. ![]() But no one does it as beautifully as D.H Lawrence. 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