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After Yang review – what to do when your AI robot child goes wrong?

Kogonada’s enigmatic sci-fi drama channels Charlie Kaufman and Philip K Dick as Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner Smith try to fix the faulty AI bot they bought for their adopted daughter

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21, 2022

Defiant Laoximen residents cling to homes as Shanghai's former cultural centre is redeveloped

One of Shanghai's oldest neighbourhoods is barely clinging to life as the city presses ahead with demolition and redevelopment plans.

ABC News · Jul 29, 2022

Taiwan kidnapping charges over botched marriage proposal dropped

Prosecutors decide woman bundled into suitcase and driven off in car boot was surprise gone wrong

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2022

China tries to quell ‘chained mother’ scandal marring Olympics

China is stepping up efforts to ease broad public anger over a mother of eight children who was found chained by the neck in a shack after local authorities were accused of downplaying the matter.

Tribune News Service · Feb 18, 2022

Video of Chinese mother chained by her neck sparks outrage

Chinese social media has blown up over a horrific video showing a mother of eight chained by her neck to the wall in a dirty home, apparently because of “mental issues”. Since the video first emerged on January 26, Chinese authorities have released few details on the woman’s fate.

France 24 · Feb 7, 2022

Trending in China: Video of Mother in Chains Causes Uproar

Xuzhou authorities were quizzed on why more hadn’t been done to help the woman, who was previously hospitalized with mental illness

Caixin Global · Feb 7, 2022

'After Yang' review: A24 just made the first great sci-fi film of 2022

Elevated by Colin Farrell's aching performance and its meditative look at life, loss, and memory, Kogonada’s second film is another transcendent marvel of insight.

Inverse · Feb 4, 2022