Netflix's offers a different spin on one of literature's all-time assholes. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. You're already subscribed to the aa_Laura_Miller newsletter. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.

Jacob Elordi's portrayal of the monster in the Netflix movie is unlike we've ever seen him before. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. You're already subscribed to the aa_Rebecca_Onion newsletter. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.

Guillermo del Toro's lavish "Frankenstein" adaptation starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi delivers stunning visuals but struggles to emotionally connect in this Netflix release.

In Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein," a Vast Vision Gets Netflixed Down to Size The latest reanimation of Mary Shelley's classic tale, starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, is a labyrinthine tour of a filmmaker's career-long obsessions. Earlier this year, Quentin Tarantino, when asked to parse the high points of his filmography in an interview, described the two-part "Kill Bill" (2003-04) as "the movie I was born to make." He added, "I think'Inglourious Basterds' is my masterpiece, but'Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood' is my favorite." Might these be distinctions without a difference? I'm generally wary of artistic-birthright narratives, not least because a filmmaker of remarkable talent, consistent vision, and good fortune might well wind up with multiple candidates for the honor.

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Artificial intelligence has been a buzzword for futurists as long as computers have existed, but 2022 was the year the public started to dread its advancement. With the chatbot ChatGPT released to the public and generating complex answers to millions of prompts in seconds, many people in the business of storytelling have been worried about new competition. Hollywood screenwriters don't have to know how to save the cat if a computer can do it for them. This has been a year loaded with dramatic uncertainty for the industry, from the wild oscillations of the streaming market to the bombardment of doom-and-gloom prognoses for arthouse cinema. But these ephemeral dramas have nothing on the fear of encroaching A.I.

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Humanoid robots spend a lot of time failing at not falling over. Humans are slightly better, because we cheat, by bracing ourselves against things when our balance starts to go wonky.

The same goes for Uprising's talk of the strange scientific properties of kaiju blood and the importance of banding together at the end of the world, which can feel like a strong case for un-canceling the apocalypse. Sequels are never going to be truly original--canonical consistency is the entire point--but any subsequent installments in a franchise should at least try to further the lore, and I'm fairly certain the only new thing I learned in Uprising was that tapping into kaiju brains can get you so high you'll want to marry a kaiju brain.

If you're placing any Golden Globes bets, then maybe you might want to consider what the latest A.I. predictions are saying. In both Golden Globes Best Picture categories -- comedy and drama -- Unanimous A.I. and applied their unique systems to forecast possible winners. And it looks like this year, you can place a lot of faith in a certain sea monster cleaning up. The Shape of Water is looking good in the categories of Best Actress, but also Best Picture, too. On Friday, in order to forecast possible outcomes in a variety of categories at the Golden Globes, Unanimous A.I. used what's known as "swarm intelligence."

The latest movie by Guillermo del Toro is the genre-hopping "The Shape of Water," which manages all at once to be a romance, an espionage thriller, a period story, a monster movie and even make time for a full-fledged musical number. His previous feature, "Crimson Peak," was a gothic romance and horror tale. A trilogy of novels he co-wrote became the basis for the television series "The Strain." The "Trollhunters" book he co-wrote became an animated series. And Del Toro often expresses an ongoing interest in video games.