revisiting

There are only two actors who I would categorize as chameleons, and they are Gary Oldman, and Jeffrey Wright. And by a chameleon, I mean an actor who is SO good, that I can watch an entire movie with them in it and not even realize that they're in the film until I read the end credits, to which I sometimes exclaim, “That was HIM?”  Jeffrey Wright seems to be everywhere right now, from being the voice of The Watcher in Marvel’s What If?... series, to FINALLY getting nominated for an Academy Award, but the man has built an…

Zurich was quick to embrace techno and, by the time the music reached its zenith in the 1990s, the city had become a prime destination for the genre in Europe. Techno parties began as one-time events in cellar and warehouse squats before expanding to become an established club scene with a programme of regular events.The Swiss city’s techno scene was shaped by Street Parade, which was authorised in 1992 as a “demonstration of love freedom, generosity and tolerance”. Kicking off with fewer than 1,000 participants, they…

Karuna Banerjee would have celebrated her 104th birth anniversary on December 25. Who is Karuna Banerjee? She is the actor who is still identified with Sarbajaya, Apu’s mother in Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali and Aparajito. This, despite the fact that she did other notable films, including Kanchenjungha and Devi by Ray himself. Among the very few female actors who were college graduates at the time, she stepped into Ray’s first film after marriage and motherhood. Karuna Banerjee in a scene from Aparajito (1956),…

Jessica Chastain is so much more than one of the most talented actresses of our time. When she’s not starring in three to five movies a year on a regular basis, she’s busy advocating for the rights of actors everywhere as the Hollywood strike’s de facto spokesperson. When she’s not flexing her muscles as a producer and investor, she’s headlining Broadway plays, resurrecting classic female protagonists like Catherine in The Heiress and Nora in A Doll’s House. And when she’s actually done working for the day, she somehow…

And what the Gen-AI revolution has taught us for 2024Photo by JJ Shev on UnsplashEvery trendy thing comes with the concern of its future obsolescence. Trends capture us. They draw us in with their novelty and promises of belonging, coolness, and for the data scientist, their value. We don the latest models, adopt the buzzwords, chase the viral experiences — all in the pursuit of that feeling of “in-ness.” The ability to proudly profess that “I am a data scientist” and feel confident that it still means something.But…

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When Christopher Nolan releases a new movie, it’s an event. Few filmmakers, even our most successful and well-known ones, carry the weight, expectations, and name recognition that Nolan does these days. So, as one might expect, film fans everywhere are currently getting ready to see his latest film Oppenheimer, which opens July 21.Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 InterviewNolan’s film before Oppenheimer, though, didn’t quite fit that typical narrative. That movie was Tenet and it released on…

Animal Crossing: New Leaf is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, June 9, 2023. Below, we reexamine New Leaf next to the explosive popularity of its successor, New Horizons, and find appeal in the simpler approach.It's no exaggeration to say that Animal Crossing: New Horizons changed everything for the once-sleepy life simulation series. Thanks in large part to the onset of the pandemic, New Horizons blew past the combined sales of all previous entries just six weeks after release, and it's sold…

Lose weight. Have money. Give away money. Hire a publicist, even if it bankrupts your daddy. The no-bake recipe for becoming an icon of the 2000s is laid out in the opening salvo of Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl, Zackary Drucker’s fizzy documentary about the founding daughters of a social revolution.It girls, armed with appurtenances both flashy and furry, have swarmed the earth since the creation of capital. But privacy used to be a cornerstone of privilege, and the gilded-age dictum held that the names of…

“Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” PREMIUM Theatrical poster for the American release of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film Rebecca based on Daphne du Maurier’s novel. (HA.com/wikipedia) Rebecca’s melancholic opening line establishes the setting, locale, and atmosphere of the gothic classic, which was published in 1938 and has never been out of print. Written by Daphne du Maurier and set in the wilds of Cornwall, Rebecca is a psychological thriller about a young woman who impetuously marries a…