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The Idol, the Weeknd and Sam Levinson’s embattled, controversial, woefully received erotic thriller, wrapped up after five weeks last night – not with a bang, nor a whimper, but a profound: huh? What was this show about, if anything? Nothing happened: the plot points covered in this show could make about two tight hours’ worth of television – or one probably-quite-watchable film – and instead were stretched to five, each episode padded out with extended musical numbers, montages of a sun-drenched Los Angeles, and some…

Image via Netflix Netflix may have altered its metrics slightly and allowed several forgotten movies to creep back onto the all-time Top 10 list, but Red Notice couldn’t be dislodged as the platform’s number one most-watched original feature of all-time. In terms of both cumulative hours and total view count, the A-list blockbuster is at the head of the pack, so it was inevitable that a franchise would be born. That being said, it’s been a while since reports emerged offering that the streaming service was…

A high quality digital art view of a robot in the centre, who is able to do technical coding, write amazing prose and do strategic thinking (author created, with DALL-E).Data analysis can be equal parts challenging and rewarding. From cleaning messy datasets to building complex models, there’s always a lot to do, and not enough time to do it. But what if there was a way to streamline and automate some of the more routine tasks, freeing up more time for strategic thinking and decision-making? That’s where LLMs come in.LLMs…

via Polyband Cult classics aren’t designed or manufactured; it’s a status that needs to be earned. Nobody seemed to enlighten the team behind Iron Sky, though, because it made its intentions far too obvious from the start, and it never stood a chance of living up to the initial buzz when it was finally released for the world to see. “Nazis on the Moon” is a hell of a concept, so it was no surprise co-writer and director Timo Vuorensola’s insane sci-fi fantasy gained plenty of online traction long before it…

Diablo IV's dungeons will be undergoing some big changes in the final version of the game to be less tedious and repetitive, thanks to player feedback.In a new blog post, Blizzard dives into all the major changes the team is implementing based on feedback from the game's record-breaking open beta. One of the most common complaints, Blizzard notes, was about how Diablo IV's dungeons frequently required backtracking in order to complete objectives as well as how similar the layout of many dungeons felt.…

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETEverything is getting smaller, including the components that are inside the gadgets and gizmos that we're trying to diagnose and repair. For years now I've been getting along with a head-mounted magnifier.   for precision work.)A minute capacitor on the tiny circuit board looks enormous. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETThe large 7-inch display makes repairing parts as small as the minute capacitor much easier. Just make sure you're careful when moving loose parts around.Also: This powerful,…

Eugene Levy has had many iconic roles throughout his career, but he seems a little relieved that the films he gets recognized for the most has changed over the years. For decades, the Cheaper by the Dozen 2 actor was known for playing Jim’s dad in American Pie, a movie where four teenage boys enter a pact before graduation with the goal to lose their virginity by prom night. In the 1999 film, he catches his character’s son (Jason Biggs as Jim) in quite a sexual situation involving an apple pie.…

via Warner Bros. When is a spinoff not a spinoff? That’s usually a fairly straightforward question, but director Michael Chaves had some serious issues with The Curse of La Llorona being folded into the expanded Conjuring franchise. The filmmaker came right out and denied that his commercially successful – albeit critically shunned – supernatural nightmare was an official part of canon, even though it was produced by James Wan, features Tony Amendola’s returning Father Perez, and even saw Annabelle pop up in a…

via Warner Bros. Shazam! Fury of the Gods is already being bogged down by the same issue that has been haunting many superhero flicks of late, so we’re trying to pinpoint exactly what it is that’s putting us off, whether talking about DCU movies or the recent MCU Phase 4. An overemphasis on one particular trope often comes at the cost of outing your formula as the bland, unsophisticated ripoff that it really is, and if you’re wondering why most superhero movies and TV shows these days fall short of appealing to…

via Prime Video Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum’s The Lost City, as well as George Clooney and Julia Roberts’ Ticket to Paradise, proved that audiences will turn up in their numbers for some crowd-pleasing romantic frolics if the movie is good enough. Given that it endured a fairy tortured development and then got pulled from theaters, Shotgun Wedding doesn’t fit the bill. Ryan Reynolds was originally being lined up to headline the formulaic romp, with talk that he could even reunite with The Proposal co-star…