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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAnna Kendrick has opened up about how making her forthcoming film Alice, Darling helped her recover from her own difficult relationship.The process of filming the thriller, which deals with psychological and emotional abuse, was a “cathartic” experience for the actor.“The movie was so personal, there was a point where I was like ‘Oh, I don’t know if this is too soon to be doing this…

Earlier this year, while attending the Toronto International Film Festival on behalf of her new movie Alice Darling, Anna Kendrick had to channel her inner John McClane and “escape” from an elevator when the car got stuck between floors. Weirdly enough, I was in the same building the day that this happened. I was meant to interview Kendrick about the movie (it really is the best work of her career). And when I arrived, I was told that I had to climb seven flights of stairs, because the elevator had broken. I just didn’t…

The Mean One and his victim who knows who?Image: Sleight of Hand Productions / Amy Rose Productions / Kali Pictures/Atlas Film DistributionThis trend is so edgy, right? I guess if you want to satisfy your inner child who is into this sort of thing, The Mean One might be for you; it definitely looks to prove that the lowest forms of entertainment keep it “real” by bastardizing children’s IP without any real intention outside of making Bambi, Pooh, and now the Grinch go homicidal. This Dr. Seuss parody—whose budget clearly…

It’s often joked that hearing about other people’s dreams is boring. While the scattered poetics of Anna Mieke’s lyrics are indeed dreamlike, the mesmeric artistry of her second album, Theatre, means that Mieke’s images, her sense memories, start to feel like your own: from “trees evergreen blinking in the car lights” to “plastic flowers cast across the Tarmac”. In part, it’s the power of the words themselves (one imagines Mieke’s notebook crammed with scribbled gems). But it’s also the music: rippling Spanish guitar…

Anna Sacks, in her TikTok videos. Photo: Anna Sacks/@thetrashwalkerAnna Sacks has an entire TikTok account dedicated to being a “trash walker.” She walks around Manhattan, looking for items that were left out on the curb, and salvages them: Her finds have gone viral for exposing obscene amounts of waste, including bags and bags of unopened chocolates outside of a major pharmacy chain, and barely used school supplies in outside of schools.Sacks started posting videos of herself on the platform in 2020. In the two years…

Do generative models rely on their sources the same way as humans?When the discussion about large pre-trained generative models hits the question of "what about all this work of artists, programmers and writers that is used in commercial products/models without their knowledge or consent?", one of the arguments for why this is ok is the comparison of such models to latent search engines. It goes something like this:As a human, you can and do search for inspiration in other people's writing, code snippets and art. A…

Ideally, the holiday season is about families coming together out of love and letting go of any grudges or arguments, at least until the new year. But we don’t live in an ideal world, and if you want to see a movie like that, then you should go watch The Hallmark Channel. The Apology is definitely a Christmas movie, but it’s certainly not an uplifting one. This is a horror story, and a tale of vengeance on a dark, stormy night. THE APOLOGY | Official Trailer Judging from the trailer, this film may only feature three…

Make stronger and simpler models by leveraging natural orderCo-authored with Dmytro KarabashPhoto by JD Rincs on UnsplashIntroductionImagine that you have 2,000 features and you need to make the best predictive model (“best” in terms of complexity, interpretation, compliance, and — last but not least — performance). Such a case will be familiar to anyone who has ever worked with a large set of categorical variables and employed the popular One-hot encoding method. Usually, sparse data sets don’t work well with highly…

If you find yourself listening to free advice from notorious fraudster and pharmaceutical price-gouger, Martin Shkreli, then it might be time to re-evaluate some things. And that’s exactly the scenario Do Kwon, Terra’s disgraced CEO and “not on the run” fugitive, ended up in on a Tuesday podcast stream.Star Wars: Shatterpoint Announcement Trailer02:27The First Things To Do In VR, Part 3Yesterday 9:39AMBoth the “pharma bro” and the crypto-crash king made surprise guest appearances on a live streamed episode of Up Only, a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAnna Faris has shared her thoughts on ex-husband Chris Pratt and his marriage to Katherine Schwarzenegger.Scary Movie and Mom star Faris was married to the Guardians of the Galaxy actor from 2009 to 2018, with the pair announcing they had split in a joint statement released in August 2017.Faris, 45, has been candid about her relationship breakdown in the past, and once suggested that…