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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ fondness for exploring old ideas and structures doesn’t just rely on an affection for the original Star Trek. It’s willing to take on tones, ideas, and experiments from across the franchise’s history—and even its most recent past, as is the case this week,as the show takes on Discovery’s largest unexplored aftermath. But it might be coming to its own limits on just how dark a path it can take some of its heroes down.Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 Interview“Under…

Joseph Gordon Levitt has taken aim at the major film and television studios and any other industry considering using artificial intelligence in a new op-ed for the Washington Post titled “AI Should Pay Actors and Trainers.” “I’ve been fascinated with AI for years and as the technology is getting more and more powerful. I’ve just grown really concerned about what it’ll might mean for my industry and honestly not even so much just for my livelihood but people I work with,” the actor told Morning Joe on Wednesday.…

Ben Tarnoff / The Guardian: A profile of Joseph Weizenbaum, who created the first chatbot in 1966 but turned against AI, believing the computer revolution constricted our humanity — Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence - but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans Ben Tarnoff / The Guardian: A profile of Joseph Weizenbaum, who created the first chatbot in 1966 but turned against AI, believing the computer revolution…

It is an interesting fact of history that the concept of civilization emerged in northwestern Europe in the same decades of 1750s and 1760s during which the foundations of the colonial regime were laid in India after the East India Company’s successive victories in the battles of Plassey (1757) and Buxar (1764) (Febvre, 1998). While initially emerging as a concept to refer to and theorize the emergent modes of civility and urban sociability of the post-feudal bourgeois world in Europe, civilization soon came to be used…

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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJoseph Fiennes has spoken out about how an interaction with Harvey Weinstein influenced his choice to step away from a lucrative multi-film deal in the late 1990s.The actor starred in the Best Picture Academy Award-winning historical drama Shakespeare in Love in 1998, playing a fictionalised version of the playwright.Fiennes was cast in the film by disgraced film producer Weinstein,…

Joseph Fiennes, star of the television series The Handmaid’s Tale and of the 1998 hit movie, Shakespeare in Love, has explained why he turned down the chance to play major roles in a run of Hollywood blockbusters early in his career.It was, he said, a reaction to bullying pressure put on him by Harvey Weinstein, who wanted to take control of his life, and Fiennes does not regret the decision.Speaking to the Observer this weekend, the younger brother of Ralph Fiennes revealed that he backed away from a lucrative deal with…

The first thing Joseph Fiennes does, when we meet at London’s National Theatre so I can quiz him about playing England manager Gareth Southgate on stage, is quiz me about England manager Gareth Southgate. This is disconcerting, but understandable. Fiennes has yet to meet Southgate, having had to make do with YouTube. I’ve interviewed Southgate, albeit for half an hour a couple of years ago.Did you like him, Fiennes asks? Did anything stand out? What was he like?To which I can only mutter: yes, not really, and… um, he’s…

DASHCAM | Official Teaser TrailerAfter director Rob Savage released Host—the shockingly effective Zoom horror film created at the height of the pandemic in 2020—he turned to another technological gimmick for his 2021 follow-up, which is evidenced by its title (his next movie, Stephen King adaptation Boogeyman, is shot in a more conventional style). Framed as a livestream, complete with in-picture “viewer commentary,” Dashcam—which also has pandemic themes—follows an odious internet celebrity (Annie Hardy) whose…

The CW is a network that’s often taken some strange swings, and whose shows like Riverdale or The Winchesters cause no small amount of confusion when they first get announced. When it was revealed in 2020 that the network was aiming towards a live-action reboot of The Powerpuff Girls, one of Cartoon Network’s most popular animated series back in the day, the reaction was more...erm, mixed than usual. Reboots themselves are always crapshoots, and it didn’t help that we already had a Powerpuff Girls reboot that didn’t go…