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Goodbye cartoon breasts, hello sweat stains: the feminist reinvention of Tomb Raider

The Guardian

Hot on the heels of that Oasis reunion comes news of the return of another 90s icon – Lara Croft. She bounds back on to our screens with a new animated series, still sporting that holy triumvirate of classic ponytail, backpack and combat boots. From the get-go she's performing seemingly impossible feats in the name of archaeology: she outswims a ravenous crocodile, and uses her signature blend of parkour and gymnastics to avoid a pit of sharp spikes. But this isn't the Tomb Raider star quite as you might remember her. The eponymous star of Netflix's Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft – voiced by Agent Carter's Hayley Atwell – looks different to how she appeared in the original games.


We're Virtually There

#artificialintelligence

I recently watched a movie called'Her' starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. Set in the future the beautiful, strange and emotional story of a letter writer, Theodore Twombly (Phoenix) who, after separating from his girlfriend, downloads an intelligent computer operating system (OS) personified through a female voice, 'Samantha' played by Johansson. Director Spike Jonze conceived the idea of the film after reading about Cleverbot, a web application that uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to have conversations with humans. Twombly had quite simply created his'perfect' woman. He had answered a few questions; What gender was he?

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