Mark Kermode's film of the weekDrama filmsReviewThe octogenarian director Alejandro Jodorowsky relives his troubled childhood in 1930s Chile in a film of carnivalesque exuberance
Jeremias Herskovits, left, as the young Alejandro Jodorowsky, with Pamela Flores as his mother and Brontis Jodorowsky, the director’s son, as his father in La Danza de la Realidad. Photograph: PRThe Chilean visionary Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first feature since 1990’s disappointing The Rainbow Thief is a fantastical quasi-autobiographical romp in the manner of Fellini’s Amarcord, or perhaps Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg. Read More...
05.23 ESTUkraine says it has shot down a Russian spy plane and command aircraftUkraine has said it shot down a Russian A-50 spy plane and Il-22 command aircraft in the area of the Sea of Azov.
Army chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi said on the Telegram messaging app:
Ukraine’s Air Force destroyed an enemy A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft and an enemy IL-22 air control centre. I am grateful to the Air Force for the perfectly planned and executed operation in the Azov Sea region! Read More...
Generation Y takeover: sexSexConfused about sex? The internet can offer advice, reassurance and information. For everything else, there is the Urban Dictionary and its treasure trove of sexual slangThere are teachers and parents for the facts of life. For the fiction, it's the Urban Dictionary. Created in 1999 by Aaron Peckham, who was then just a first-year student, the site allows anybody to add a word or phrase of modern slang along with its definition. Read More...
