2024.09.27

Mechanical mom meets nature in ‘The Wild Robot’
From DreamWorks Animation, based on a best-selling children’s book, a tale of high tech gone AWOL.
Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) and Brightbill (Kit Connor) in “The Wild Robot.” (Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Animation) (PayWalled)
Review by Ty Burr (2.5 stars)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/09/26/wild-robot-book-movie-review/

Review
The Outrun review – Saoirse Ronan is mesmerising in sobering addiction drama
Heart-wrenching story adapted from Amy Liptrot’s memoir is as tough as its Orkney landscapes
Peter Bradshaw (4 stars)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/sep/27/the-outrun-review-saoirse-ronan-amy-liptrot-orkney

Interview
‘There was just this beautiful openness’: behind the scenes of Heartstopper’s steamiest season yet
Scott Bryan
For its third series, hit LGBTQ+ teen drama is entering the wild new world of sex – while getting darker and scarier. The cast talk love, longing and courgette pasta
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/sep/27/heartstopper-third-season-interview-lgbtq-teen-drama-netflix

Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89
In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall
Mark Lawson: Maggie Smith was a magisterial star with the courage and talent to do absolutely everything
Andrew Pulver
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/sep/27/maggie-smith-oscar-winning-star-of-stage-and-screen-dies-aged-89

Maggie Smith: the magisterial star of Harry Potter and Downton had the courage and talent to do absolutely everything
The real-life dame and on-screen dowager countess, who has died aged 89, earned fame in her 70s and 80s for blockbuster roles. But her early work at the National Theatre marked her out as a talent for the ages
Mark Lawson
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/sep/27/maggie-smith-the-magisterial-star-of-harry-potter-and-downton-had-the-courage-and-talent-do-absolutely-everything

Maggie Smith – a life in pictures
Maggie Smith. Photograph: Jane Bown/The Observer
Dame Maggie Smith, who has died aged 89, had an incredibly varied career as a star of stage, screen and TV – from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie to Downton Abbey to Harry Potter. We look back at her career high points
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2024/sep/27/maggie-smith-a-life-in-pictures

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Arizona county sheriffs say they will not enforce immigration measure if passed
On the ballot in November is a measure that will make it a state crime for migrants to cross into the US unofficially
Justo Robles in Ajo, Arizona
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/arizona-mexico-border-migration

FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia, a potential ‘game changer’ Cobenfy showed in clinical trials that it was effective without causing common side effects that lead patients to stop taking their medication. (DePayWalled) By Daniel Gilbert https://wapo.st/47JyDSn
Free covid tests by mail program revived by Biden administration People can again order four covid tests per household. The move comes ahead of an expected winter coronavirus wave. (Not PayWalled) By Fenit Nirappil https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/09/26/free-covid-test-mail/