Art and movie

HAVANA, Mar 19 (IPS) - Cuban hip hop music is past its peak, and is struggling to survive in a context where it lacks performance venues, receives only weak institutional support, and has to compete with more commercial music styles alien to the critical discourse that the movement has promoted since its origins.

SANTIAGO, Mar 14 (IPS) - Fears of censorship were triggered by a decision by Chile's public television station to postpone the broadcast of a documentary on the 1879-1883 war between Chile, Peru and Bolivia in response to a request by Chilean Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley, who had been contacted by the Peruvian government.

BUENOS AIRES, Mar 13 (IPS) - Armed with a computer and their passion for literature, a group of blind people in Argentina have created the first digital library for Spanish-speaking people who are visually impaired. It already has some 20,000 volumes and over 3,000 subscribers in 40 countries.

Tristan Bauer’s film portrays the Falklands War in 1982 as a mismanaged, vainglorious spasm of nationalism.

Tian Zhuangzhuang’s biopic is a stately and respectful reflection on the life of Wu Qingyuan, one of the 20th century’s top players of go, a Japanese game said to rival chess in complexity.

A CITY photographer who famously set fire to ?20,000 pounds worth of pictures over a dispute with the city council is about to unveil a new exhibition.

A MASS volunteering event will take place in the Capital next Thursday for staff at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop.

The playfully self-aware touches of “Dead Silence” distract from its leaden pacing, three too many final twists and various behavioral idiocies.

The serial-killer parody “Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon” has nerve, rapier-sharp observations and a firm grasp of tone.

“Nomad: The Warrior” looks and feels like an old-school American western. Not a great western, but a reasonably good example of that genre.