Sensibility

The world isn’t short of audio versions of Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen’s first published novel, which follows the fortunes of sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and their pursuit of love. Rosamund Pike recorded one in 2018 while Kate Winslet, who appeared in Ang Lee’s screen adaptation, did one in 2007. Juliet Stevenson recorded her version in 2004, though not before Prunella Scales and Glenda Jackson got theirs in.Now we have another, courtesy of Derry Girls actor Nicola Coughlan, which does seem superfluous to…

As a guitarist, Tom Verlaine was a player whose unhinged vibrato, sweeping volume swells, splintered harmonics, cool noir ambience, and, most crucially, his discursively elegant lyricism, emerged in the mid-1970s as a moody antidote to the macho guitar heroism of that era. And for a certain kind of guitarist – like me – he was a fountainhead for an entirely new era to come.I struggle to think of a player before Verlaine who synthesised the same range of influences – early Stones stomp and sneer, angular Ayler-isms,…

Brooks and Jackson use their voice to deliver their dialogue with comic timing and gusto and so do the rest of the voice cast. The script is downright silly but fails to bring on the laughs in a big way Still from Paws of Fury: The legend of Hank Film: Paws of Fury: The legend of HankCast (voices): Michael Cera, Samuel L. Jackson, Ricky Gervais, Kylie Kuioka, Mel Brooks, George Takei, Gabriel Iglesias, Djimon Hounsou, Aasif…

Autonomous vehicles are facing massive backlashes after GM’s Cruise blocked an ambulance Autonomous vehicles are experiencing mainstream adoption in the market, but currently, there have been several controversies regarding the use of self-driving cars in the real world. And quite rightly so, these controversies have some meaning behind them. A few days ago, early in the morning, a San Francisco Fire Department truck was responding to a fire and tried to pass a doubled-parked garbage truck by using the opposite…