Yorgos Lanthimos’ new feature Bugonia is launching at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday night and critics are starting to have their say on the offbeat sci-fi black comedy starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. Bugonia marks a reunion for the director and Stone after the four-time Oscar-winning Poor Things. In their latest collaboration – an English-language remake of South Korean filmmaker Jang …
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Bubble or not, the AI backlash is validating one critic’s warnings
First it was the release of GPT-5 that OpenAI “totally screwed up,” according to Sam Altman. Then Altman followed that up by saying the B-word at a dinner with reporters. “When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth,” The Verge reported on comments by the OpenAI CEO. Then it was the sweeping MIT survey that put …
Read More »US Critics Praise ‘Ne Zha 2’ As English Dub Opens In Theaters—It’s 2025’s Highest-Grossing Film
Topline An English dub of “Ne Zha 2,” the Chinese animated movie that shattered box office records and has grossed more than $2 billion to date, mostly in China, opens in American theaters this weekend as Western critics give it positive reviews. Michelle Yeoh stars in the English dub of “Ne Zha 2.” (Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images) …
Read More »Stephen King Thriller Devastates Critics
The first reactions are in for Stephen King‘s dystopian cardio thriller The Long Walk, and critics say that the film is a brutal and riveting adaptation that might even generate Oscar buzz for its young stars. Based on King’s 1979 novel, The Long Walk (trailer below) chronicles an annual state-sponsored contest where 50 teenage boys set out on a march …
Read More »Brain Implant Translates Silent Inner Speech into Words, But Critics Raise Fears of Mind Reading Without Consent
Postdoctoral scholar Erin Kunz holds a microelectrode array. Surgically implanted in the brain’s surface layer, the array records neural activity patterns directly from the brain to a computer. Credit: Jim Gensheimer Our inner voice has always been a sanctuary — a private psychological space where half-formed sentences float safely between thought and speech. But what happens when machines can hear …
Read More »‘And Just Like That’ boss addresses season 3’s critics and the ‘press piñata’
Love it or hate it, you probably watched And Just Like That all the way to the end to see what happened to Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and the rest of the ladies on the Sex and the City sequel series. And even before we knew this would be the final season, everyone seemed …
Read More »8 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week – The New York Times
8 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week The New York Times New movies to watch this weekend: See ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ in theaters, rent ‘Superman,’ stream ‘Night Always Comes’ on Netflix yahoo.com A new Spike Lee crime thriller and more to see this weekend NPR On the Big Screen This Week: New Movies Starring Denzel, Odenkirk, and History’s Greatest Monster, …
Read More »As Trump Seizes D.C.’s Police, Critics Say He’s Undercut Its Ability to Fight Crime – The New York Times
As Trump Seizes D.C.’s Police, Critics Say He’s Undercut Its Ability to Fight Crime The New York Times WATCH: National Guard humvees, roughly 30 troops stand guard outside DC’s Union Station amid police takeover Fox News ‘These are human beings’: Religious leaders criticize President Trump’s grim portrayal of DC WTOP Live updates: Dozens arrested in Washington as White House ratchets up federal police …
Read More »Christian Pulisic, his father and Tim Weah rail against ‘evil’ US soccer critics | USA
Tim Weah, Christian Pulisic and his father, Mark, delivered searing takes on ex-US men’s national team players who criticized the team during their recent run of bad form, with Weah calling the pundits “evil”. The trio made the comments in the latest epsiode of the Pulsic docuseries on Paramount+, the final episodes of which were released this week. The new …
Read More »Jimmy Kimmel Reveals He Secured Italian Citizenship as Fellow Trump Critics Flee U.S. – Realtor.com
Jimmy Kimmel Reveals He Secured Italian Citizenship as Fellow Trump Critics Flee U.S. Realtor.com Jimmy Kimmel’s backup plan may be a move to Italy CNN Jimmy Kimmel secures Italian citizenship in case he needs to escape Trump’s second term Los Angeles Times Jimmy Kimmel obtained Italian citizenship in response to Trump’s ‘unbelievable’ re-election The Guardian Jimmy Kimmel secures Italian citizenship as liberal celebrities threaten …
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