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Disney’s Live-Action ‘Moana’: First Reactions From Premiere
Disney’s latest live-action remake, Moana, held its world premiere at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, prompting a wave of early social-media reaction ahead of the film’s theatrical release on 10 July. Although full critics’ reviews were embargoed until 8 July, press and attendees were permitted to post brief impressions, and the…
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A Grand Day Out/The Wrong Trousers review – rereleased Nick Park classics are a complete treat
Nick Park’s first two Wallace and Gromit films, A Grand Day Out (1989) and The Wrong Trousers (1993), have been rereleased in cinemas, and this Guardian review hails both as excellent family entertainment, awarding each a full five stars. The critic celebrates the stop-motion classics as “jewels” of animated comedy, each introduced by Julian Nott’s…
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Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
French AI startup ZML has released ZML/LLMD, an inference-server product that lets a range of open-source large language models run across chips from multiple vendors — including Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal and Intel Arc. The launch matters because inference — the processing of prompts, as opposed to model training — has become a…
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Virgin Media fined £28m for preventing customers from cancelling contracts
Virgin Media has been fined £28m by the UK telecoms regulator Ofcom for repeatedly obstructing customers who were trying to cancel their contracts over a period of almost three years. It is the largest fine Ofcom has ever issued under its consumer protection rules, and it matters because the watchdog found the obstruction was deliberate,…
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‘The Kitchen’ Director Alonso Ruizpalacios at BAM: ‘We Need More Trojan Horses’
At a masterclass during the Bogotá Audiovisual Market (BAM), Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios reflected on resilience, co-production and the growing role of artificial intelligence in filmmaking. The session, presented by Mediapro and delayed by an hour after Colombia’s World Cup defeat to Switzerland, saw the director address a subdued audience by reading Elizabeth Bishop’s poem…
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Trains face heat-related delays as Sheffield temperatures climb sharply this week
The article’s text could not be retrieved, as the supplied link leads only to a Google sign-in and cookie-consent page rather than the news report itself. As a result, no details from the piece are available to summarise. Based on the headline alone, the story concerns train services around Sheffield facing heat-related disruption as temperatures…
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Charli XCX shares ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ tracklist, including a collaboration with David Cronenberg
Charli XCX has revealed the tracklist for her forthcoming album ‘Music, Fashion, Film’, due for release on 24 July, headlined by an unexpected collaboration with film director David Cronenberg. The reveal, posted to Instagram, matters because it confirms the direction of her first major body of work since her acclaimed 2024 album ‘Brat’, from which…
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Klonoa Plush With “Removable Collar” Now Available For Pre-Order
Video game merchandise company Fangamer has opened pre-orders for a new official Klonoa plush in the US and Europe, priced at $39 / €44. The item is based on Namco’s 1997 platformer Klonoa: Door to Phantomile and stands about 8.5 inches tall, with orders not expected to ship until the first quarter of 2027. Designed…