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    Avatar: The Way of Water

    Trailer just dropped and I dunno, after 13 years I'd expect the CGI to be more impressive. This looks only marginally better than the first film, and still hasn't traversed the uncanny valley. Not that it looks bad mind you, I was just hoping for more photorealism. If the story is good that...
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    Alan Ladd Jr. RIP

    In my opinion, the last great studio executive, and one of the best period. Championed so many great movies including Star Wars which most likely would not have gotten made without him. When George Lucas showed him the script, he said "Look, it doesn’t make any sense to me whatsoever, but I...
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    The Uncanny Abba!

    They recreate vintage Abba with CGI and performance capture at the end, and I gotta say, they are like millimeters away from traversing the uncanny valley here. Almost. The song is sappy as all hell but I'm a big old sap and having been married for 25 years it made me a bit misty eyed.
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    RIP Richard Donner

    One of the great directors for me. He had an amazing run in the 70's and 80's, starting with The Omen and ending with the Lethal Weapon films. Superman 1 is his best for me, still the definitive Superman film and still one of the best superhero films. Just listened to this hilarious, informative...
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    DJI has competition

    Amazing how locked in mid-air this Kestrel's head is--
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    Zack Snyder's Justice League

    The Joss Whedon movie was a giant turd. Incohesive, truncated and uneven in tone. This has a more cohesive tone and storytelling but I was bored and didn't finish it. It's four hours long but that's probably because every third shot is in slow-motion. I'm just not a fan of Snyder. The only film...
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    David Lynch directing children

    I needed a laugh today, and by the end of this I was in tears laughing.
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    AMC Says ‘Almost All’ U.S. Theaters Will Reopen in July

    Since we're sharing-- This is what the main theater looked like AFTER it was cut in half.
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    Ted Lasso

    This show is so much better than it has any right being. Nothing about the concept interested me, an American football coach who gets hired to coach an English 'football' team, but enough people said great things about it that I gave it a shot. It's a funny, warm dose of optimism in dark times...
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    Star Wars: Squadrons

    Oh my holy god. This is basically my wet dream of a VR game. You can pilot several Starwars fighters on the rebel or empire side, engage in dogfights and go on missions, online multiplayer, and there is a story mode. The graphics and gameplay are amazing and you can control it with a flight...
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    RIP Chadwick Boseman

    Goddamn this one sucks. Hit me hard. The timing couldn't be worse to lose someone like this, who represented what he did. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/chadwick-boseman-black-panther-dead-1.5704780
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    Amazing new camera slider!

    Incredible new slider technology, at a price that can't be beat! https://twitter.com/pppdreams/status/1293577267818500102?s=20
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    Turns out, Satan's not so cool...

    https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/for-death-angel-drummer-coming-out-of-coronavirus-coma-was-like-escaping-hell
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    Next-gen game engine on PS5!

    This demo blew my mind, allegedly running in real time on upcoming Playstation 5 hardware. Watch it in 4K if you can.
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    RIP Cinematographer Allen Daviau of Covid-19

    This one hurt. Maybe my favourite cinematographer. Empire of the Sun is a masterwork of cinematography. Then there's E.T., The Color Purple, Bugsy, Avalon. He didn't work nearly enough. Goddamn coronavirus...
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    Hysterical deep fake!

    This one had me on the floor laughing. The vocal impressions are all spot on, which makes the effect all the more creepy and hilarious.
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    Deep fakes are getting scary...

    This is the first one I've seen where if you didn't tell someone it was faked, they probably wouldn't think anything was off about the video. When Back to the Future gets rebooted (and we all know it's just a matter of time), Tom Holland should have a lock on playing Marty.
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    McMillions on HBO

    Loved the first two episodes of this docu-series on HBO about the McDonald's Monopoly game being rigged for 12 years. The filmmakers hit the jackpot on this, as the major players involved are all caricatures straight out of central casting. FBI agent Doug Matthews is like a Coen Brothers...
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    Final Cut Pro 7 back from the dead!

    As you may know, Apple killed Final Cut 7 support after Sierra along with many 32bit apps. Someone patched it, and a bunch of other programs with a nifty app called Retroactive. https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive Can confirm it works in Mojave, although a couple third party...
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    This one has been pretty divisive. You either love it or hate it. My gut feeling coming out of the theatre is that I enjoyed it more than the previous two. The film seemed to get more of the core, fundamental Star Wars elements and values right than the other films in this trilogy. The plot does...
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