Isabelle

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIsabelle Thomas, the British documentary filmmaker and wife of Oscar-nominated Killers of the Flower Moon producer Bradley Thomas, has died aged 39 after falling from a hotel in Los Angeles. Thomas, also known as “Izzy”, died by suicide and was discovered “with multiple traumatic injuries” at the Hotel Angeleno, according to records from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s…

Isabelle Thomas, a documentary filmmaker and the wife of “Killers of the Flower Moon” producer Bradley Thomas, has died. She was 39. Isabelle Thomas died by suicide on Monday at a Los Angeles hotel, the Los Angeles Medical Examiner determined in a report. “Multiple traumatic injuries” is listed as her primary cause of death. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to The Times on Friday that officers responded to reports of a suicide at a West Los Angeles hotel at approximately 1:20 p.m. LAPD said…

‘My name is Maureen Kearney. I didn’t lie. I didn’t make anything up.” This French drama about a blood-boiling real-life case of injustice is the story of whistleblower and rape survivor Maureen Kearney, who for four years lived with a criminal record: falsely convicted of wasting police time, accused of inventing her rape. It’s a political thriller that tells the story matter-of-factly, and is perhaps a little lacking in the pace department. But Isabelle Huppert carries it along with a performance every bit as gripping…

Isabelle Huppert has a way of inspiring intrigue – even without trying. On the red carpet at Cannes last month, she raised eyebrows with her choice of footwear: a pair of Balenciaga Anatomic heels, whose tips are moulded to look like human toes. It seemed like quintessential Huppert: an arch joke about the furore over the festival’s insistence on heels for women at events, rising above the idiotic dictate and the barefoot rebels who have recently flouted it.Except apparently I’m overthinking it: “People were looking at my…

At long last, researchers from Stanford University and Google teamed up to answer one of the most pressing questions about AI: Can we make ChatGPT play The Sims? The answer, thank god, is yes (sort of). In a new study, computer scientists whipped up a pixel-art game to test whether you can separate AIs will simulate human behavior.The Hunger Games | The Last of Us Episode 8 ReviewIn the simulation, ChatGPT-fueled avatars “wake up, cook breakfast, and head to work; artists paint, while authors write; they form opinions,…

Screenshot: Warner Bros.The cast of Dwayne Johnson’s wild Santa Netflix movie Red One continues to get more absurd. Chris Pratt’s Garfield adds a few more faces to its cast. The Walking Dead’s Daryl Dixon spinoff has found a major star. Plus, The Umbrella Academy teases its end. Spoilers, away!Red OneAccording to Deadline, J.K. Simmons and Bonnie Hunt have joined the cast of the “four-quadrant holiday family film” Red One as Mr. and Mrs. Claus, respectively.LonglegsDeadline also reports Nicolas Cage is attached to star in…

via Paramount Players Isabelle Fuhrman is set to reprise her role as the chilling and murderous Esther in Orphan: First Kill, the prequel to the 2009 psychological horror, and is sharing just how difficult it was getting into the role 13 years later.  In a chat with Movie Web, the Orphan actress explained that so much time has passed since the original film was released that she had a hard time getting into the character of a nine-year-old.  “For me, a lot of the preparation for the new thing was kind of…

Image via Warner Bros. The long-dormant Orphan franchise recently returned after more than a decade away with Orphan: First Kill. The prequel film to Orphan has been receiving better reviews than its predecessor, will run on Paramount Plus, and its Esther actor is down for more. In a new report published by MovieWeb today, Isabelle Fuhrmann talks about what it was like to come back as a child who is not who she appears to be. Fuhrmann says options are open, and, if something does happen, she hopes it does not…

Top Trends 2022Understand what it is and the difference to traditional data sciencePhoto by Romson Preechawit on UnsplashThe Internet of Things, or IoT, lifts finally off.14.4 billion connected IoT devices will be globally available in 2022. That is a growth of 18% compared to the previous year.The IoT market size is USD 478.36 billion in 2022, whereas the enterprise IoT market share is around one-third of that.80 zettabytes of IoT data are expected to be generated in 2025.Somebody needs to analyze that data.What is the…

Generating value from the project needs more than data, coding skills, and toolsPhoto by Andrea Piacquadio by PexelsMore than 85% of data science projects fail, and only 20% of analytic insights deliver business outcomes, according to Gartner. I can confirm these rates from my experience when advising companies.And no, it is not the data. It is neither missing data nor bad data.The Data Days at ETH Zurich closed with a 24-hours Machine Learning hackathon on May 15, 2022, and I was a jury member in one of the four…