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Actor Idris Elba, best known for his roles in `Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom`, `The Suicide Squad` and the popular British crime-thriller show `Luther`, has recently spoken on the prospects of doing a second `Luther` film after `Luther: The Fallen Sun`, telling people to keep their fingers crossed. According to The Sun, the actor said that while he loves the character and is very happy about how well the movie performed, he`d like to give it some breathing room before making another one so while he is excited for where…

Future iterations of AI-generated art are set to be more realistic thanks to an upcoming version of Stable Diffusion that specifically tackles the problem of depicting fingers and hands. According to a recent Bloomberg report, the company Stability AI, which develops the Stable Diffusion AI image generator, has plans to release a new SDXL 0.9 model that will propel the abilities of Stable Diffusion. Stability AI shared a blog post on Thursday, which has since been deleted, detailing the specs and launch details of…

via Sony Although movies like Fight Club and The Sixth Sense can be appreciated in an entirely different light once you discover the big reveal on your first watch, the same can’t be said about 2003’s serial killer Identity. The entire narrative is so reliant on the third act twist to succeed, that viewing Logan and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny director James Mangold’s cult classic for a second time doesn’t have anywhere near the same impact. That’s a problem to affect many stories revolving around a…

via Marvel Studios They certainly aren’t everybody’s cup of tea, but perhaps the single greatest appeal of comic book films – much like the comic books that came before them – is their boundless capacity for possibility and wonder. Whether it’s fighting dragons, exploring undiscovered planets, shooting lasers out of your nostrils, or in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘s case encountering bank issues, the genre can really capture the imagination like no other. They can also be the site of a character’s…

The literal flexibility of OLED screen technology has allowed us to create everything from tablets that fold in half, to TVs that disappear into furniture. But researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are leveraging the flexibility of OLED panels in another way, and have created touchscreen devices your fingers can actually feel.It's Magic: LG's Rollable OLED TVVersatility is what led smartphones to abandon tiny built-in keyboards for all touchscreen interfaces, as apps can take better advantage of screen real estate…

A team of researchers performed magic tricks for several species of monkey, and they found that the animals’ gullibility may depend on the structure of their hands.Rare Polar Bear Attack in Canada | Extreme EarthSpecifically, the team found that the monkeys were more likely to be duped by the sleight of hand if they had opposable thumbs. The research is published today in Cell Biology.Magic tricks are a great way to test animal intelligence, perception, and cognition. The researchers used a classic trick called the French…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIf you’re a fan of animated movies and TV shows, chances are you’ve spotted a recurring feature among your favourite characters.Not sure what we’re talking about? Look closely at the hands of Genie in Aladdin, Mickey Mouse, Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, Homer Simpson...Now do you see it? That’s right... they all have three fingers, instead of four.Emmy-award-winning animators Dan…

Smuggled booze, awkward dancing, clumsy kissing and the burning stare of a watchful teacher are experiences that may spring to mind when you think of secondary school dances in the UK. However, if you were a pupil in mid-1980s Chicago, you might find house music heroes such as Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy rocking up on a weekly basis to turn your school gymnasium into scenes of sweat-drenched jacking pandemonium.In her new book, Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor, Emma Warren describes such a scene as…

Imeh Akpanudosen/WireImage When the blind, Force-believing warrior named Chirrut Imwe — played by Donnie Yen in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — has a bag placed over his head to prevent him from knowing where exactly he is being taken, he humorously comments, “Are you kidding me?! I’m blind!” Little moments like that would not have happened, had the Chinese actor not changed the character almost completely.  Donnie Yen, Kung Fu film superstar, sat down in a recent interview with GQ Magazine to discuss his…

Hotdog hand prosthetics, a raccoon puppet dubbed Raccacoonie and a rock with googly eyes have fetched thousands of dollars in an online auction of props from the award-season favourite film, Everything Everywhere All at Once.The week-long auction, which ended on Thursday, featured 43 props and costumes from the multiverse comedy-drama, which is nominated for 11 Oscars. The film stars Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang, a Chinese-American laundromat owner who is trying to hold her life and family together while hopping between…