Bob Mondello
Stories
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Technology
'Open the pod bay door, HAL' — here's how AI became a movie villain
When Tom Cruise battles a sentient artificial intelligence "Entity" in the latest Mission Impossible film, he joins a long list of heroes who've had to fight a malevolent machine onscreen.
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National
Nolan's thriller 'Oppenheimer' is a monument to science and the arrogance of genius
Christopher Nolan's historical thriller Oppenheimer — based on American Prometheus, the biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer — chronicles the creation of the atomic bomb.
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Arts & Life
Wes Anderson's sci-fi 'Asteroid City' stays true to his look and feel
A Junior Stargazer convention is hit by world-changing events in Wes Anderson's Asteroid City, a comedy with an all-star cast including Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton and Bryan Cranston.
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National
'Guy Ritchie's The Covenant' marks a change of tone, but not pace for Ritchie
An American soldier struggles to help an Afghani interpreter who saved his life in Guy Ritchie's The Covenant.
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Arts & Life
2023 marks a watershed year for Asian performers at the Oscars
With four nominations, more Asian performers were recognized by the Academy in 2023 than in any single year in its history. In other respects, this year was a step back from diversity at the Oscars.
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Arts & Life
The theatrical curtain call is more than just bows
You're at the theater, the last scene ends, and the cast comes out for applause. It's pretty standard today. But curtain calls once were eccentric, revealing, funny and just plain effective.
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Arts & Life
'El Juicio' detalla el régimen de terror de la dictadura argentina 1976-'83
Cuarenta años después de la caída de la dictadura militar argentina que torturó y asesinó a miles de civiles, se muestra una grabación del juicio de los militares responsables por primera vez.
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Arts & Life
'El Juicio (The Trial)' details the 1976-'83 Argentine dictatorship's reign of terror
Forty years after the fall of an Argentine military dictatorship that tortured and murdered tens of thousands of civilians, a video record of its trial will be shown to the public for the first time.
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Movies
Movie review: 'Babylon'
Director Damien Chazelle's "Babylon" is a comically over-the-top look at scandal-ridden 1920s Hollywood. It's a celebration of an art form in turmoil as silent films give way to talkies.
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Arts & Life
5 films we can't wait to see: Here's Hollywood's holiday bounty
Avatar returns, Will Smith stars in a Civil War epic and Bill Nighy is Living. Also, a compelling novel adaptation and three hours of Jazz-era decadence. Find out what else the studios have in store.