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Meta builds AI "for everyone" in secret

Meta and other AI giants tout open access, but their biggest deals happen out of public view

Salon

Tall tales: the 20 best giants in film – ranked!

On the 300th anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels, we celebrate the biggest film stars of them all – from a stone colossus to a metal-munching alien and a 50ft woman on the rampage

The Guardian - UK

Need another Odyssey? The best Greek mythology films ever made

THE COUNTDOWN: If Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation of ‘The Odyssey’ has whet your appetite for more Greek myths and legends on screen, Kevin E G Perry rounds up six of the best examples

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The Odyssey was inspired by retro stop-motion animation – but that could be its downfall

Can Christopher Nolan's epic live up to the myth movies of the past?

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From Greek epics to biblical blockbusters: the 20 best mythological movies – ranked!

Ahead of the release of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, we rate the top films based on myths, legends and fables

The Guardian - UK

70 Years Ago, A Sci-Fi Cult Classic Changed The Genre Forever

With 'Earth vs. The Flying Saucers,' Ray Harryhausen pioneered the flying saucer movie.

Inverse

45 Years Later, The Influence Of A Hollywood Legend's Magnum Opus Is Undeniable

'Clash of the Titans,' Ray Harryhausen’s magnum opus, came out just as the tide shift for stop-motion effects was taking place in Hollywood.

Inverse

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I went behind the construction walls at Disney World's future Monsters, Inc. land, and Monstropolis is already taking shape

Disney World has shared new details about Monstropolis, and we also went behind the scenes at the active construction site, revealing how the future Monsters, Inc. land aims to immerse guests in the city itself through storytelling, technology, and ambitious new attractions.

TechRadar

Guillermo del Toro to auction horror treasures after triumph at Venice Film Festival

Among the highlights in the auction are Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein drawings, concept art from Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy’s shotgun “Big Baby.”

Euronews

"I'd never experienced heartbreak before." How Coheed And Cambria's The Suffering helped Claudio Sanchez translate personal turmoil into a pop metal banger (via space operas and Ray Harryhausen)

Good Apollo Vol. One... might've reinvented Coheed And Cambria as prog metal stars, but The Suffering was pure power pop bliss

Metal Hammer

Pink smoke, pigs and Pixar: a dozen movie Easter eggs to feast on

Hidden references and in-jokes in cinema can be an acquired taste, but here’s a festive selection of the best arch nods for aficionados to enjoy

The Guardian - UK

4 eye-popping movies that revolutionised special effects

And where to watch them

What Hi-Fi?

Cartoons of the 1960s – the best animated movies feature the work of Chuck Jones, who ensured characters were "not realistic, but believable"

Today's filmmakers pick the best animated movies of the 1960s, including The Jungle Book and Yellow Submarine.

Creative Bloq

The best stop-motion movies and where to watch them

Discover some of the best stop motion movies ever to be made and where to watch them

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Stop-motion animation: everything you need to know

Aardman Animations uses claymation, a form of stop motion animation, to create films like Wallace and Gromit

The Conversation

A century in motion: how stop-motion films went from obscure ‘creature features’ to winning Oscars

The 2025 Academy Awards could shape up to be a big one for stop-motion animation. Australian director Adam Eliott’s Memoir of a Snail (2024) has raked in a nomination for Best Animated Feature Film, alongside Wallace Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024).

Creative Bloq

Rick Catizone interviewed: from Night of the Living Dead to Evil Dead 2 to Shudder's Creepshow, reflecting on 50 years in animation

Who better to pick the brains of this Halloween?

The Guardian - UK

Tim Burton’s bestiary, Vivienne Westwood’s baroque and fashionable figuration – the week in art

The film-maker reveals his visual secrets, the great designer goes rococo and George Rouy gets fleshy – all in your weekly dispatch

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Unreal Engine 5 leads a lineup of stellar new indie games

The game art impresses in these highlights from Gamescom 2024.

Creative Bloq

The best movie monster designs: Godzilla, King Kong and more

From Clash of the Titans to Godzilla x Kong, cinema has delivered from fearsome characters.

Total Film

The 32 greatest movie monsters

They've got horns, scars, scary teeth, and sometimes, a sense of humor.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh cinema celebrating 60 years of Ray Harryhausen classic with special screening

Edinburgh's Cameo Cinema to host awards bash and special 60th anniversary screening celebrating the work of legendary Hollywood special effects guru Ray Harryhausen.

The Guardian - UK

Hits and myths: why has Hollywood abandoned ancient Greece?

Tolkien-inspired mythology has taken over our screens while a treasure chest of epic fantasy tales lies unused

Bristol Post

Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh to be honoured at film festival in former Bristol IMAX

Early bird tickets have already sold out for this event

The Guardian - UK

La Brea review – this sinkhole drama is gloriously, brazenly bad. I love it

An instantly annoying family fall into a sinkhole and find themselves trapped in prehistoric times with sabre-toothed tigers after them. To say the plot is by numbers is to slander numbers

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