Met

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeChristopher Nolan has explained why he was “little afraid” of Robert Downey Jr when they first met in the early 2000s during casting for Batman Begins. Downey Jr, 58, revealed earlier this month he had an interview with Nolan regarding his potential casting as the villain “Scarecrow” in the Dark Knight franchise. Instead, Nolan decided to cast Cillian Murphy, in a move that kicked off…

Tinder can be a hard place to find love, especially without an AI assistant.When Aleksandr Zhadan got out of his last relationship in 2021, he started looking for a girlfriend in Moscow the old-fashioned way: swiping through Tinder. He sank hours into sending out likes, messaging, and going on dates which all went nowhere. So he decided to program OpenAI’s GPT-2 to be his dating assistant. His program conversed with 5,239 women on Tinder, scheduling him over 100 dates, and ultimately finding his wife.Why is Everyone Suing…

While we won’t know much about Dune: Part Two, and specifically Chani and Princess Irulan’s on-screen relationship until the film premieres on the 2024 movie schedule on March 1, we do know that Zendaya and Florence Pugh are great friends in real life. Amazingly, we got to learn even more about how these two powerhouses became pals, and their A+ styles plus their empowering support of one another have a lot to do with it. Before Zendaya and Florence Pugh became part of the Dune: Part Two cast, they were admirers of each…

If you’ve heard anything about the relationship between Big Tech and climate change, it’s probably that the data centers that power our online lives use a mind-boggling amount of power. And some of the newest energy hogs on the block are artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT. Some researchers suggest that ChatGPT alone might use as much power as 33,000 U.S. households in a typical day, a number that could balloon as the technology becomes more widespread. The staggering emissions add to a general tenor of panic…

Still, to some ears, the exclamation "I love the metaverse" may feel akin to "Wow, I miss Google Glass" or " I admire all tech leaders for their limitless humanity." So I had to ask what had driven this woman to such sincere passion. Naturally, I assumed she'd communed with some immensely cool nerdy people -- in real life -- who were all devotees. Naturally, I was grotesquely mistaken."My dad's partner bought some Oculus for her grandkids. They didn't want it. So she gave it to me to try and I love it," she…

Variety falsely announced your death in 2015 with the headline “Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam dies at XXX”. How did the news reach you? DoubleRDinerI saw it online. I couldn’t believe I died in a Vin Diesel movie! I thought it was very funny. My family were a little more concerned. My son went into work and his boss said: “Oh, Harry, I’m so sorry for your father’s death,” and Harry knew nothing about the fact that I had died. They have the obituaries ready to go for anybody halfway known. Whoever pushed the button, it was…

We are “Not good, Elmo. Not good,” but thanks for asking.The beloved “Sesame Street” character put feelers out into the ether Monday, the final Monday in what feels like the longest January ever, checking to see how everyone was doing with a seemingly innocuous tweet.What transpired was an existential crisis by way of X users sharing their sense of overwhelming dread and anxiety — from the personal to the global — that got even the little red Muppet in his feelings. He probably did not expect the internet to unload its…

Just when you thought the hype about room-temperature superconductors was over, it’s not. A Swiss quantum algorithm startup, Terra Quantum, and a research lab at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) in Brazil claim that they have discovered a form of graphite that superconducts at ambient temperature and pressure. Terra Quantum isn’t a small operation. The company raised $60 million early in 2022 for its quantum-as-a-service platform. But that doesn’t mean you should get your hopes up.…

My earliest reading memoryReading with my female cousins on a veranda above the Macleay River, cicadas burring, the river dark and robust far below, and the distant blue aspect of the Kookaburra Ranges. We read Susan Coolidge’s What Katy Did series and Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. I noticed my mother, a girl from the bush, loved me to read, and kept priming me with books when we moved to Sydney. She did not let us complain of boredom in our house by the Western railway. Her war cry was, “A child with a book is never…

Teen classic Mean Girls is one of the most-loved Amanda Seyfried movies around, and though the actress has previously been candid about how playing the movie's ditzy blonde Karen led to setbacks early on in her career, she has been nothing short of supportive of the new Mean Girls musical movie. Seyfried recently showed the 2024 movie—which is an adaptation of the stage musical of the same name—some love on social media after running into the new Karen, a.k.a. actress Avantika, at an InStyle and Lancome event on January…