Folktales review – taking on tyranny of social media as teens learn to live like hunter-gatherers

In this documentary, high schoolers camp out in subzero temperatures, making their own fires and driving sledges in the wild The Pasvik Folk high school in remote northern Norway teaches teenagers to grow as young adults and escape the pressures of toxic social media by challenging them to get back in touch with their “stone age brain” and live like hunter-gatherers in the snowy wild. This is the subject of a documentary from Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. Over winter months of almost continuous darkness, the teens cleanse themselves with tasks such as camping out in subzero weather, making their own fires and driving sledges with huskies. Prior to all this of course is presumably a solemn promise to do without their phones, tablets and laptops, although there are no scenes of the kids actually having to surrender these gadgets (this isn’t rehab, after all). They have to swim in icy water; and they make it look like fun. What doesn’t look like fun is the camping out and there is one t...

Ryan Gosling tipped to sing I’m Just Ken at the Oscars

Variety reports that the Barbie star will perform the film’s keynote anthem at the Academy Awards on 10 March

Barbie’s chances of sweeping the Academy Awards may be looking slimmer, but the odds of the movie nonetheless dominating this year’s ceremony have increased with reports that Ryan Gosling will perform I’m Just Ken.

Variety reports that Gosling will perform the keynote anthem from Greta Gerwig’s smash hit comedy at the event on 10 March. Speaking to the magazine earlier this month, Gosling said that he hadn’t then been invited to sing.

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