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THE KING’S SPEECH
SOMEWHERE
The King’s Speech was this year’s Best Picture Oscar winner and award season darling. The film is more personal than its title might immediately suggest— it’s not about the rousing speech King George VI gave to his countr y on the brink of World War II. The real battle here is internal: The king of Britain, leader of a nation about to face one of the darkest points in histor y, has a stutter. The film was lauded for the strength of its performances and the intimacy felt by audiences, despite a small budget and high-profile characters. For many, this DVD has been eagerly awaited so that it could be watched again and again.
At the end of Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, Scarlett Johansson whispers into Bill Murray’s ear something the audience never hears. For all her films, Coppola crafts that dreamy mood like a tone poem. Her movies are like the champagne created for her at her father’s winery: “lightly textured and vibrant through the finish.” Somewhere, Coppola’s latest film, is just that, critics would argue. Stephen Dorff stars as actor Johnny Marco, who is reunited with his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning). Somewhere has a bubbly-yet-pensive feeling: dreamy with a message. Some critics argue that this isn’t enough; others say this ennui is just her style. —Jordan Wilson
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SCREEN/APP I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE SOMEBODY’S WATCHING ME When programmers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden unveiled their iPhone app on April 20, no one was more uncomfortable than Apple executives. Allan and Warden had just revealed that they had discovered a “glitch” on Apple iPhone 4 and iPad 3G: a file called “consolidated.db,” which regularly stores users’ locations. Allan and Warden said the data is also being sent to the iTunes application when users sync or backup their iPhones or iPads. A travel journal is one thing but this is ridiculous. Controversy erupted. Within minutes, the pair announced a free app that allows users to see the data collected could disable location services. However, on through their iOS devices. Called iPhone TrackApril 25, the Wall Street Journal reported that er, it syncs with controversial data on iPhones testing showed the iPhone was still collecting or iPads. When it finds and storing information the file, it displays the when location services Download Allan and Warden’s app at user’s location history were turned off. Apple petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker. on a map. didn’t respond to a Apple had previousrequest for comment. ly said that any data it received was anonymous and that users —George Prentice
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