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What is a Godzilla anyway? The 70-year-old monster behind the movies

Al Jazeera

This is the second time Godzilla and King Kong have made a film appearance together in recent times with 2021's Godzilla vs Kong being the first instalment. Both films were directed by Adam Wingard. Godzilla x Kong made back its budget of 135m in the first weekend when it took in 195m at cinemas, according to figures from Box Office Mojo. In total, it has sold 209m in tickets so far and has scored a very respectable 92 percent Rotten Tomatoes audience rating. The origins of Godzilla go back 70 years to the first 1954 film release in Tokyo, Japan – Gojira, directed by Ishiro Honda.


Clang, Clang, You're Dead! Evil Movie Robots, Ranked

#artificialintelligence

Yes, you have your R2-D2, your BB-8, Data (Brent Spiner), even WALL-E. So while we still can, take notes on these robots before they become our technological overlords. Not only are the Fem-bots evil, they are Evil's evil. Dr. Evil's (Mike Myers), to be precise. Attractive and seductive, the Fem-bots were a means of distracting, and killing, Austin Powers (Mike Myers), not only with their agility but with their "machine gun jubblies," guns protruding from their breasts.


"Godzilla vs. Kong," Reviewed: A Monster Mush of Two Venerable Franchises

The New Yorker

The enduring appeal of both Kong and Godzilla has to do with their simplicity. "King Kong," made in Hollywood, débuted in 1933; "Godzilla," produced in Japan, came out in 1954. Both films relied on a stark and clarified premise: fantastic monsters let loose in ordinary human reality, which, in the light of their presence, is revealed to be even more hideous than the monsters themselves. That symbolic power, rather than their physical power, is the source of their enduring appeal, and it's the fundamental element that "Godzilla vs. Kong," the new mashup, directed by Adam Wingard, stomps into oblivion. The film is garishly overloaded with splices and grafts from other movies, other genres, and other premises, including a mythical setting and an evil corporation.


Stephen Schaefer's Hollywood & Mine

Boston Herald

'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,' now streaming on Disney, marks a new direction for Marvel – a downsizing to television after 2 decades of big-screen superhero splendor. Marvel's top gun Kevin Feige, stars Anthony Mackie/Falcon and Sebastian Stan/Winter Soldier, and others gathered for a virtual press conference and discussed current and maybe upcoming developments. Q: Is there a possibility that there could be more seasons of'Falcon'? KEVIN FEIGE: It's a funny question and it's one that we obviously get asked much more in television. Because people expect it to be like what people know before.


From video game to day job: How 'SimCity' inspired a generation of city planners

Los Angeles Times

Jason Baker was studying political science at UC Davis when he got his hands on "SimCity." He took a careful approach to the computer game. "I was not one of the players who enjoyed Godzilla running through your city and destroying it. I enjoyed making my city run well." This conscientious approach gave him a boost in a class on local government.


Netflix renews 'Aggretsuko' and commits to more new anime

Engadget

Netflix is going all-in on anime, renewing another series and bringing in a bunch of new ones, it announced at the Anime 2018 festival. There'll certainly be a lot of variety, starting with season 2 of Aggretsuko (below, arriving in 2019) about a red panda who bristles against her quotidian life via nightly death metal karaoke sessions. It also revealed that the second season of vampire-fighting show Castlevania will debut on October 26th. Also debuting in spring of 2019 is Ultraman, a continuation of the classic 1960s Japanese series about a man who can transform into a giant alien to protect the Earth from invaders. Kengan Ashura, launching in 2019, has a 56-year-old protagonist hired by his Japanese firm as a gladiator to protection the corporate rights of the company he works for (yep).


AI in the News

Glick, Jonathan

AI Magazine

Today a robot can do the jobs of 10 goal,' he says, 'is to rescue, revive Robotics. Steel mills are less dangerous. Sorting machines have made the movement symbolism and tradition'--a tradition com). New cars that began in biblical times and has made Corp., Houston, chronicled the oil are turned out in much quicker fashion--all its way through to the present day. Golem,' says Fleming, 'means artificial downhole robots in his presentation Organized labor understands that, intelligence, robots, cloning, the at the 2002 Society of Petroleum but, like [Dexter] Cato, feels left out of the Internet, computers.'