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A documentary about the life and career of legendary R&B singer Luther Vandross is in the works, with Jamie Foxx and Colin Firth serving as producers. Sony Music Entertainment’s (SME) Premium Content Division, Sony Music Publishing, Foxx’s Foxxhole Productions and Firth’s Raindog Films have joined forces to produce the first-ever doc on the eight-time Grammy winner, who died in 2005 at age 54. Award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter is directing, and production is underway. Vandross began his…

Colin Walsh’s remarkably assured debut begins with an epigraph from Margaret Atwood. In Atwood’s 1988 novel Cat’s Eye, an artist returns to her Canadian home town only to be flooded with painful memories from her youth, particularly related to her estranged friend – and erstwhile bully – Cordelia. In Walsh’s novel, it is the eponymous Kala who plagues the memories of her former friends as they reunite for the first time in more than a decade in the Irish seaside village of Kinlough.Spiky journalist Helen has returned,…

Jason Blum’s Spawn remake is for sure in the works, even though there’s no writing happening due to the producers’ and studios’ continued refusal to bargain fairly. He says 2025—maybe. Regardless, I think we can say with confidence that Barney & Friends will be out before Spawn. Get ready to share the love, and spoilers. Spoilers of the Week: July 29thBarney & FriendsDuring a recent interview with The New Yorker (via The Wrap), Mattel Films executive Kevin McKeon stated the upcoming Barney & Friends movie…

Pete Davidson Admits His & Colin Jost’s Ferry Boat Will Be A ‘Lifelong Problem'(Photo Credit: Bang Showbiz/Instagram) Pete Davidson joked that the Ferry he bought with Colin Jost will be a “lifelong problem”. The 29-year-old former ‘SNL‘ star and the staff writer for the late-night NBC sketch comedy show, 41, decided to buy the Staten Island ferry boat last year on a whim, and now they have major plans in place to turn it into a multi-use venue docked in New York and Miami in the future. Appearing on the ‘Family…

A dark coming-of-age novel, this is an impressive debut from Irish author Colin Walsh, winner of several awards for his short stories and named in 2019 the Hennessy new Irish writer of the year. It’s set in 2018 in Kinlough, on the west coast of Ireland, where three friends recall the summer they spent together 15 years earlier. Helen, Joe and Mush belonged to a gang of six teenagers with beautiful, intrepid Kala Lanann at their heart. Then Kala disappeared.Using narration by three distinct voices, Walsh brilliantly…

Kirsten Dunst Once Shared How She Was Awkward While Filming S*x Scenes With Colin Farrell In The Beguiled(Photo Credit –Imdb) Kirsten Dunst and Colin Farrell worked together in The Beguiled, which was a remake of the movie of the same name. The movie did have quite steamy scenes, which were not very much okay for the actress. Reacting over the same, Dunst once recalled filming the scenes as she explained how it made her feel awkward and didn’t enjoy the process. In the movie, Farrell starred as a Civil War soldier…

An alternative to traditional hyperparameter tuning methodsVisualization of TPE for 2-dimensional hyperparameter tuning. Image by Alexander Elvers via Wikipedia Commons.The way a machine learning model fits itself to data is governed by a set of initial conditions called hyperparameters. Hyperparameters help to restrict the learning behavior of a model so that it will (hopefully) be able to fit the data well and within a reasonable amount of time. Finding the best set of hyperparameters (often called “tuning”) is one of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeColin Farrell appeared to call out Saturday Night Live at the 2023 Oscars.The actor was one of many celebrities in the star-studded crowd at the 95th Academy Awards, which took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday (12 March).Farrell, who was in contention for the Best Actor award for his role in The Banshees of Inisherin, was approached during the ceremony by host Jimmy…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMichael D Higgins has marked Ireland’s success at the Oscars by hailing a “remarkable” year for the Irish film industry.The Irish President congratulated those behind An Irish Goodbye which took the award for best short film, as well as Richard Baneham who was among those who won the Oscar for visual effects for Avatar: The Way Of Water.Shot entirely on location in Northern Ireland,…

The Penguin Series Is A Spin-Off To The Batman Starring Robert Pattinson (Pic Credit: Movie Still) The DCU is finally getting shape after the shuffle in leadership and James Gunn with Peter Safran taking over the boss chair at Warner Bros for the comic book universe. One of the most prominent projects that have managed to stay like it was without any change is The Batman universe. While there is sequel to the Robert Pattinson starrer there is also a Collin Farrell starrer spin-off series The Penguin in work. But now…