Film Stories issue 59, featuring exclusive cover art by director Ben Wheatley, is available to purchase now. Find out what's in the 168-page magazine and order your copy here:
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OpenAI’s decision to scrap Sora means its $1bn deal with Disney is over. A few thoughts on why the House Mouse may have had a lucky escape…
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EXACTLY!
‘Where once there was a yearning to be “exposed to something extraordinary”, today politicians and arts administrators are besotted by the notion of “relevance”, of the arts as something with which people must immediately identify or recognise.’ observer.co.uk/news/columni...
63 years ago tonight Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? exploded on to Broadway. Uta Hagen played Martha and when she left the show she was replaced by, um, Elaine Stritch. Can you imagine? You don’t have to because 11 years later she recorded the whole damn thing.
AND HERE IT IS.
youtu.be/sx2qZmT4lGc
Today is the centenary of the birth of the great Tony Hart who opened the eyes of generations to visual art and who is forever associated with this, the shimmering Gallery theme from Vision On – which was also pretty much everyone’s introduction to the vibraphone. youtu.be/-ZNkJXKV7_w
Cheeky, detail-heavy article with much industry insight!
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Stronger Together
Another from my Crow Helpline series.
#crows 🪶
Realising i am clearly not OK because I feel slightly disappointed by this update?
well that's depressing
Can we please get to the part of this simulation that when an adult lies, we call it a LIE????
Please and thank you.
It's that time of day again. The tiny doggo is outside in the garden going rowf rowf reh reh reh and over the fence something that sounds like a slavering wolfhound is barking back half a dozen octaves deeper.
Seeing my socio-political views supported on the front page of The Sun is making me feel funny
From Goldman Sachs' "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?"
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“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness."
Alain de Botton
Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.
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You added the veggies yourself, I presume?
Journalists deserve good visuals to support good science writing.
Don't use generative AI to illustrate stories, it cheapens your brand and undercuts the science you are trying to share.
Unfollowing, @psypost.bsky.social . Disappointed.
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A mate of mine was tasked with revealing to the late great Archbishop of Cape Town — when the latter came to speak at the Oxford Union — that his Christian name was Oxford slang for a lower second class degree. The grand old man cackled with delight like schoolboy. Finest of fellows.
Only an idiot would share this
Here we see a Himalayan marmot defending itself from attack by impersonating Liza Minnelli
Great recommendation, WAKE IN FRIGHT is one of the few movies that has made me viscerally uncomfortable. Totally unpredictable descent into dark soul of man (and manhood). Haunting & unforgettable. #filmsky 📽🎬🎞🎥
“Roughly 90 percent of women who marry adopt their husband’s last name. Roughly 90 percent of married female voters have different name on their ID than on their birth certificate. 34 percent of women could be turned away from polls unless they have precisely the right documents.”
FUCK THESE FUCKS.
In a PRRI poll, 67% who view Trump positively say undocumented immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country." Large majority of overall Americans disagrees.
MAGA impulse is all about expulsion/purification of the nation (@jamellebouie.net is good on this) 5/
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