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Film: Arthur The King Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Nathalie Emmanuel, Simu Liu, Bear Grylls, Michael Landes, Paul Guilfoyle, Ali Suliman, Rob CollinsDirector: Simon Cellan JonesRating: 3/5Runtime: 107 min. “Arthur the King” is based on the true story about a team participating in an adventure race - the most extreme conceived. Mark Wahlberg plays team leader Michael Light of The American team, that is making a last-ditch effort to score big, racing through the jungles, mountains, and rivers…

Katie Walsh | Tribune News Service Move over Messi — there’s a new canine thespian in town. Ukai, the Australian shepherd/border collie/bouvier mix who stars opposite Mark Wahlberg in the new film “Arthur the King,” undertakes a performance that is more physically rigorous, if not dramatically suspenseful, than the one delivered by the French border collie who appeared in the Oscar-winning film “Anatomy of a Fall.” But dog movies, and dogs in movies, aren’t just having a moment, they’ve been an important part of cinema…

Awards season campaigning is a notoriously competitive and fickle thing, a calculated mix of schmoozing at industry parties, charming audiences at late-night talk shows and being not too publicly thirsty to take home the gold (sorry, Bradley Cooper). And apparently one Icarian hero flew too close to the sun this year: Messi, the Border Collie breakout of France's exquisite courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall, who will reportedly not be attending this year's Oscars after movie studio reps allegedly complained that he was…

An innovative AI algorithm developed by experts in canine behavior aims to accurately assess working dogs’ personalities, facilitating better training and placement outcomes. This collaboration between academia and the canine technology startup Dogvatar uses C-BARQ survey data to predict dog personality types, offering a new approach to dog-human matchmaking. Algorithm generates canine personality thumbprint, much like the popular Myers-Briggs test does for people.A multi-disciplinary research team specializing in canine…

Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have innovatively reprogrammed canine stem cells from urine to create induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) without feeder cells. This breakthrough in non-invasive, pain-free stem cell generation paves the way for new advancements in veterinary regenerative medicine and genetic disease research, offering hope for treating previously incurable diseases in dogs. Credit: Shingo Hatoya, Osaka Metropolitan UniversityA new method has been developed to generate canine-induced…

The 160-year-old pelt of the woolly dog Mutton in the Smithsonian Institution's collection. A little-known dog lineage with fur so thick it was spun into blankets was selectively bred for millennia by Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest until its rapid demise following European colonization, a study in Science showed Thursday. The new research…

Shedding the voice of Bill Murray like a snake sheds its skin, Garfield returns to the big screen next year, just as fat, orange, and lovably misanthropic as ever. And with your help, he won’t have to do it alone. Does your cat despise Mondays? Have you ever fed them an entire lasagna, only to realize at a primal level that deep down, what they really wanted was for you to prepare and feed them a second lasagna? Have they ever lured a dog onto a raised surface, then pushed them off of it, cold eyes following the…

If you’ve played video games like Gears of War or Fortnite, you’re more than likely familiar with the work of game designer Cliff Bleszinski. Now the video game industry vet will be making his comics writing debut this July with Scrapper, a six-issue miniseries from Image Comics. Bleszinski is joined on the series by co-writer Alex De Campi and artist Sandy Jarrell. Pitched by the publisher as “Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon‘s Pride of Baghdad meets Ridley Scott‘s Blade Runner,” here’s how Image Comics…

In 2020, the first-ever robot police dog was leased in the city by former Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the contract was terminated early due to criticism from those who found it eerie and reminiscent of a dystopian society. The remote-controlled Digidog will be deployed in risky situations like hostage standoffs…

The crypto world as we know it today is extremely unpredictable; you can either win a fortune or end up losing all your savings. Despite such high risks, investors are still showing intense interest in the crypto world and believe that cryptocurrency is the future of the global economy. After the recent change of season in the crypto world, investors are once again seen flocking towards a new meme coin that is all set to give its investors a 900% ROI. The crypto coin that is making these daring claims despite market…