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The ‘M3GAN’ ‘Second Screen’ Chatbot Is an Epic Fail — and Offers Another Dire Warning for Our Future

The ‘M3GAN’ ‘Second Screen’ Chatbot Is an Epic Fail — and Offers Another Dire Warning for Our Future

While the rest of the world was in Easter mode, Blumhouse hatched a deliciously blasphemous bit of counterprogramming the horror shingle is calling...

01.05.2025 1

Variety

Peter Debruge

How Streaming Services Can Stay Ahead of the AI and Social Media Disruption Wave (Guest Column)

AI isn’t just changing entertainment — it’s redefining it. Social media platforms have leveraged AI to create hyper-personalized, endlessly...

26.03.2025 2

Variety

China Widener

Gene Hackman Remembered: How the ’70s Acting Legend Left His Mark and Shaped ‘The Conversation’

On the Mount Rushmore of great American actors — specifically those who emerged in the late 1960s and brought a transformative, bone-deep intensity...

28.02.2025 3

Variety

Peter Debruge

Critic’s Notebook: At Berlin, New Talents and Youthful ‘Dreams’ Signal a Fresh Chapter for 75-Year-Old Fest

How far back in the Berlin Film Festival’s 75-year history do you have to go to find an edition as strong as this one? About a quarter-century, I...

24.02.2025 2

Variety

Peter Debruge

Was Chappell Roan’s Grammys Speech Naive or Necessary? Why Both Sides of the Debate Are Right, and Sometimes Not

Late Wednesday evening, an uproar erupted across the music industry over an op-ed published in the Hollywood Reporter, in which Jeff Rabhan (former...

06.02.2025 10

Variety

Jem Aswad