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Neill Blomkamp once almost made a film called RoboCop Returns, which would have been a direct follow-up to Paul Verhoeven's original.

Martin Bax, who has died aged 90, combined a career as an internationally renowned paediatrician with work as founder and editor for more than 50 years of Ambit, a distinctive and often controversial literary quarterly; he even found time to write novels.

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Elysium director Neill Blomkamp spent his lockdown directing a secret project: Demonic. The film is slated to come out later this summer, and earlier today, Fandango premiered a teaser trailer for it, showing off a tale of virtual worlds and gruesome deaths. The film stars Carly Pope—a collaborator in a couple of Blomkamp’s projects over the years ( Elysium and Rakka)—who we see entering a virtual world. After that, things get creepy: something is unleashed, and it’s affecting things ...

Died: February 22, 2021. LAWRENCE Ferlinghetti, who has died aged 101, was an American literary revolutionary who opened out the world of books to all. As a poet, his work possessed a pared-back directness and Zen simplicity. He wrote for the tongue as much as the page, and delivered his words in energetic sing-song tones that paved the way for spoken-word scenes to come. His 1958 collection, A Coney Island of the Mind, sold more than a million copies. He once said that “art should be a...

American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1919–2021 Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1960s (Photo credit–Elsa Dorfman) Ferlinghetti’s poetry provided a glimpse of the restlessness and rebelliousness of generations that emerged from and after the Second World War, who felt strongly the possibilities of global modern life and, at the same time, the terrible constrictedness of the dominant politics and culture in the Cold War era. His work often gave voice to the existing, but suppressed opposition to th...

Letters: Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s legacy is monumental.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet who founded City Lights bookshop, epicentre of the Beat movement – obituary He published Kerouac and Ginsberg and helped to establish San Francisco as a hub of Fifties and Sixties counterculture Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1998 Credit: REUTERS Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who has died aged 101, was a poet who, as founder of the celebrated City Lights bookstore and publishing house in San Francisco, was a key player in the Beat movement. He was immortalised in Jack Kerouac�...

San Francisco literary lion Lawrence Ferlinghetti died Monday at 101. Advertisement A prolific poet with more than 30 collections published over a half-century, Ferlinghetti was known for the central role he played in San Francisco’s literary universe, where he arrived in 1951 in search of bohemia. (Quite literally. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that, soon after arriving, he “asked a stranger to point him in the direction of the bohemian quarter in the city” and then moved in.) Fer...