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Godzilla Minus One Just Made Kaiju History With Its Oscar Win
Godzilla is a titan of moviemaking, but now he’s toppled his loftiest goal yet: award season. Just announced at the 2024 Academy Awards, Godzilla Minus One—io9’s favorite movie of 2023—has won the Oscar for best VFX. The movie overcame strong competition from the likes of Disney—with Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and 20th…
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10 Movies to Stream Tonight If You Can’t Stand Christmas
Christmas horror movies are never not popular—but what about those holiday-themed dramas, film noirs, and action comedies that never seem to surface on festive watch lists? We’ve gathered 10 movies to stream if all the traditional titles make you want to gouge your eyes out with candy canes. L.A. Confidential LA Confidential (1997) Official…
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The 11 Best (and Worst) Sentient Robots From Sci-Fi
Earlier this month, a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, claimed his employer had inadvertently created a sentient AI chatbot system, called Language Model for Dialogue Applications — or LaMDA, for short. Lemoine had been tasked with seeing if the LaMDA’s programming showed any tendencies toward hate speech or discrimination in conversation with the average person, the…
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18 Halloween Thrillers That Are Scary but Not Gory
I give director James Wan an awful lot of credit. After making a boatload of money creating the Saw franchise (a series of movies that popularised the term “torture porn”), he turned around and reinvented the spooky haunted house genre in Insidious and The Conjuring. Tastes in thrillers vary wildly, but it’s hard to argue…