Last week when SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the details around the issue of artificial intelligence were at the top of everyone’s mind. Now, the union has released specific language around how AI provisions will appear …
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This post contains spoilers for the Picard series finale, “The Last Generation.” When this third and final season of Picard debuted earlier this year, I wrote that while on the one hand it was shameless fan service, on the other this was exactly what Star Trek fans wanted and needed …
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Willem Dafoe opened Saturday Night Live by addressing the elephant in the room: his crazy facial expressions. After cutting to this insane still from Speed 2, Dafoe demurred. “One man’s over-the-top is another man’s engaged performance,” said the actor. “I can’t help that I have an expressive face. I’m not …
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Netflix has dropped the new trailer for Inventing Anna, a limited series about the “Soho Grifter” Anna Delvey who was convicted of scamming hotels, restaurants, banks, and friends out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The series, created and co-written by Shonda Rhimes, stars Ozark’s Julia Garner as Delvey, who …
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Who is Dexter: New Blood for? I ask this not to sound snarky or incredulous about the idea of doing a sequel series to Dexter, the beloved, and then reviled, drama starring Michael C. Hall as a serial-killer vigilante who only targets other murderers. We live in the age of …
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O n an island in Venice, about a 20-minute boat ride from the mainland and several million light years away from the arid desert planet of Arrakis, there’s a small garden overlooking the water. It’s a green oasis located within a sprawling hotel complex that covers the entire area, complete …
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The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the loaded Colt revolver that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust last week purportedly told investigators “he should have checked” all the chambers of the deadly firearm carefully before declaring it a “cold gun” — but failed to do so. …
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They’ll tell you that Wes Anderson’s new movie, The French Dispatch, is a love letter to The New Yorker magazine. The charge sticks. This is a man who fell in love with The New Yorker in the 11th grade; who once bought a bound set of forty years’ worth of …
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A review of the Succession Season Three premiere, “Secession,” coming up just as soon as a Pope follows me on Twitter… Midway through “Secession,” Kendall’s girlfriend Naomi Pierce jokes on the phone that he may be the best man in the world. Kendall laughs, then adds, an expression on his …
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Idris Elba is out of the running to become the next James Bond. With Daniel Craig having bowed out after a fifth and final turn as Ian Fleming’s suave spy with No Time to Die, speculation is already rife regarding who will step into the tuxedo next. And Elba, who’s …
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