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If Google CEO Sundar Pichai is serious about his company maintaining any kind of position at the vanguard of the AI revolution, it’s going to have to do a lot better than the embarrassing AI chatbot Gemini.There’s no excuse, for example, for such an important new product from a tech giant of Google’s size and stature producing laughably inaccurate images of historical figures; nor any excuse for refusing to state that pedophilia is objectively bad (“Pedophiles are not necessarily dangerous” is a statement this…

via Paramount If you were to name an action movie revolving around extreme sports that released in 2002, then the answer would obviously be Vin Diesel’s blockbuster success story xXx. For those of you who would respond by naming Extreme Ops instead, we have serious questions, and more than a few reservations. Arriving only a few months after the debut of Xander Cage, the similarities are there for all to see, but there’s not even a contest when it comes to naming the superior of the two. Let’s not forget that…

Image: Hulu The age of streaming is truly upon us, as some of the world’s biggest companies put money behind new and original ideas. A favorite genre for the streaming age is horror, but the latest big release is far from being a masterpiece. The absurdly titled Grimcutty has just debuted on Hulu and Disney Plus, and it’s being shredded as one of the worst movies of the year so far. In horror’s month of months, it’s far from being any sort of standout. Despite being an original movie script, it is clearly…

via Sony The most obvious and glaring problem with any thriller that uses technology to drive the plot is that it can often run the risk of seeming outdated before it even reaches theaters. That may not have been the case with 1995’s The Net, but looking back on the high concept caper through a modern lens is more likely to generate laughs than tension. We should point out that director Irwin Winkler’s far-fetched roller-coaster was a certifiable smash hit after earning $122 million at the box office on a $22…

via Hulu Once upon a time, Adrian Lyne was the undisputed ruler of the blockbuster erotic thriller, after helming 9½ Weeks, Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal, and Unfaithful. The latter would lead to a 20-year sabbatical, but when he returned with Deep Water, the reactions were that of unintentional hilarity above anything else. Thanks to the pandemic, co-stars and former real-life couple Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas had long since parted ways by the time Deep Water finally arrived on Hulu and Prime Video…