Where have all the birds gone?
At this time of year many people get in touch with the RSPB asking; “where have all the birds gone?” Gardens previously teeming with all sorts of species appear to fall silent almost overnight and wil ...
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A timely, personalised story about the collapse of Venezuela
Joyce Glasser reviews La Soledad (August 18, 2017) 89 min Venezuelan films, like news about the country itself, seldom make it to our shores, so the timing of La Soledad, Canadian resident Jorge Thiel ...
From the euphoric 2016 Paris Agreement to Trump’s election, Al Gore soldiers on
Joyce Glasser reviews An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Cert PG) 94 mins It is possible to disagree with Al Gore, but it’s impossible not to admire the man. While causes célèbres and their celeb ...
Stanley Tucci’s slight portrait of the sculptor Giacometti fails to spark the imagination
Joyce Glasser reviews Final Portrait (August 18, 2017) (Cert. 15), 90 min. In his mammoth biography of the Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, the American writer James Lord wrote that Giac ...