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Photo: YouTubeArtificial intelligence is one of the buzziest terms in the tech industry right now and, while surely a lot of that buzz is just pure hype, one place where AI is actually scarily good is its ability to generate audio doppelgangers of celebrities and politicians. It’s sort of upsetting how good this tech is getting. Seemingly overnight, a slew of AI voice generators have emerged, all of which allow users the ability to quite easily get their favorite celebrity or fictional character to say whatever the heck…

Set during Edgar Allan Poe's brief time as a military cadet in 1830, The Pale Blue Eye imagines the young poet turning into a detective at West Point. Edgar (Harry Melling) joins Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), who is called down to the US military academy to handle a delicate manner by the higher-up authorities. A second-year cadet Leroy Fry has been found dead, after an apparent suicide. Landor, a former New York City constable, known for solving high-profile cases seems just the man for the job. (Also read:…

Disney+ Hotstar has announced a list of 42 movies and web series for release on its streaming platform in December 2022. Among new entries, David O. Russell's Amsterdam finally got its India premiere, transporting us back to the crime-ridden 1930s, to follow three close friends — Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and John David Washington — who find themselves amidst one of the most outrageous events in American history. The film marks Russell's first film since the Academy Award-nominated Joy, and was released December 7 on…

Image: Netflix | Scott GarfieldThe Pale Blue Eye is an adaption of a novel by Louis Bayard that imagines a chilling horror story set in West Point during the time that Edgar Allen Poe was in attendance. The early 1800s time period places the film well before Sherlock Holmes, offering a darker, more reserved kind of horror, creating a strange, slow-moving, threatening aura that I am, actually, all about.The Pale Blue Eye | Official Trailer | NetflixThe trailer shows Christian Bale as detective Augustus Landor, who is…

Screenshot: New York Times / YouTubeSam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX and former CEO, spoke with New York Times and CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin in a highly anticipated interview on Wednesday that had been booked before FTX imploded. And it was a master class in spin.Bankman-Fried, more commonly known as SBF, joined virtually from the Bahamas and spent the interview repeatedly adopting the posture and cadence of a 15-year-old kid caught with a baggie of weed in his sock drawer. But SBF wasn’t caught smoking weed by…

Image: Hasbro, Hot Toys, and LegoWelcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and greatest in toy news. This week, Lego gives you a much smaller Eiffel Tower than the five-foot monster it recently revealed, Nerf’s armory grows ever weirder, and a new Gandalf figure comes to us at the turn of the tide. Check it out!Lego Eiffel’s ApartmentRevealed a day before Lego announced its five-foot tall, 10,001 piece Eiffel Tower replica, Eiffel’s Apartment pays tribute to the designer of Paris’ most iconic and…

Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and The Big Short (left) and Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX (right)Photo: David Levenson / Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc (Getty Images)Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and The Big Short, has been following FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried for the past six months to write his next book. And while the potential ending of Lewis’s book has obviously changed in the past week since FTX’s $32 billion implosion, Lewis is already shopping around the movie rights, according to a new report from…

Leonardo DiCaprio is an actor who needs no introduction. He has been in the industry for over three decades, and worked with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Baz Luhrmann and Alejandro González Iñárritu, cementing his status as one of the very best actors of his generation.Although his performance as Jack in James Cameron's Titanic has been his most popular and enduring, DiCaprio has consistently delivered great performances in a range of films, including Romeo + Juliet, The Aviator, The Wolf of Wall…

Actor Christian Bale has opened up that the amount he received for his 2000 film American Psycho was the 'absolute minimum' that the team was 'legally allowed' to pay him. In a recent interview, Christian revealed that though initially, he thought he got a 'bit of money, later he came to know that he was getting paid less than any of his make-up artists. (Also Read | Christian Bale says he would return to screen as Batman but only if Christopher Nolan returns too)American Psycho is a 2000 horror film directed by Mary…

A new poster for Thor: Love and Thunder for its streaming debut.Image: Marvel StudiosThis sentence may have been crazy to imagine just a few short months ago but alas, here it is. If you missed Thor: Love and Thunder in theaters, you’ll get a chance to stream it at home on September 8.When the summer of 2022 arrived many experts pegged Thor: Love and Thunder as the season’s sure-fire mega-hit. The return of writer-director Taika Waititi, the addition of Christian Bale, and the debut of Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster as the…