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Jennifer Lopez’s Mecha Movie Is All About Learning to Love Artificial Intelligence
Everyone’s a little freaked out about AI right now—the ramifications of unregulated tech bro start up culture smashing into industries across the board, from journalism, to science, to entertainment, being turned upside down by the hot new trend. But together, Jennifer Lopez and Netflix boldly ask in Atlas the primordial question: what if learning to…
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A Decade Later, Pacific Rim Remains a Worthy Delight
You can always count on tentpole blockbusters to give bombastic spectacle and massive action. During the 2010s, audiences watched plenty of CG armies fall, crossovers happen, and superheroes rise to the challenge. But one niche that wasn’t exactly being filled at the time (at least in the West) was the giant robot niche. The closest…
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Jordan Peele Goes Over the Answers to Everyone’s Nope Questions
If you haven’t seen Nope, you’ve had plenty of time to catch up — but if you want to have it explained and don’t care about spoilers, here you go.
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Gundam: The Witch From Mercury’s Mobile Suits, Ranked
This weekend a new era of one of the most iconic anime franchises around kicks off, when Gundam returns to TV with the arrival of The Witch From Mercury. A new story, a new timeline, and new characters means, also: a new generation of mechs to covet as potential model kits. But from what we’ve…