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Morphing into James McAvoy
Playing with AI to transform a selfie into a stylistic portrait inspired by James McAvoy’s movie “Pose.” After describing the desired photo detail to Gemini Pro, they generated an impressive monochrome image. The process evolved into animating the image, showcasing a novel technique for creating unique personalized visuals.
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San Andreas (2015)
This movie I walked into with my eyes wide open and with full expectation this was going to be a cheesy Sharknado type of disaster flick. The full on B style movie with awful laughable special effects and a lame story line. Boy was I surprised. Relatively lame story line aside for the moment, from the opening scene of the girl driving over the cliff and the Rock coming in…
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Terminator Genisys (2015)
Can you believe this is my 50th movie review in this movie-a-day-for-a-year series? What a better way to mark this milestone with a good old fashioned post-Governor Arnie terminator romp? We can all agree that the first Terminator, from James Cameron, out 31 years ago, truly set the standard and put Arnold into the big league movie stars. There has been a number of reboots of this series, including a…
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Z for Zachariah (2015)
Post nuclear war and very few human survivors are left. We open up with Ann (Margot Robbie) taking various things from an abandoned town in her radiation suit. She then walks out far enough into the country and gets rid of the suit – clearly setting up that there is an area that for some reason is not bathed in radiation. She goes about her lonely existence, when she happens…
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Results (2015)
Where do you even begin with this train wreck of a romantic comedy? Though, if we look at it as infomercial for how fit and trim Guy Pearce is then we have a winner. So the setup is around a private fitness center run by the aforementioned Mr Pearce. He, Trevor, is very passionate about his mission statement that getting fit is more than just the physical body. He…
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Galaxy Quest (1999)
This is one of those movies that creeps up on you over the years. While not an instant hit at the box office on its arrival, it has attained cult status as we learn to appreciate some of the in-jokes and references to the science fiction convention sub culture. The basic premise of the story is simple; you have a bunch of TV stars who are still trading on their…
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Jurassic World (2015)
Here we go again with the CGI dinosaurs 22 years from the first outing. This time we have a brand new theme park that is built upon the old Jurassic Park location. So plenty of opportunity to have the odd nod back to the original movie, complete with buildings named after the late John Hammond (Richard Attenborough). The story is pretty much the same, the messing around with DNA has…
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Gallipoli (1981)
This movie is about the famous failed World War One military operation to attack Gallipoli as told from the prospective of the Australian army. The movie started off life as a 2 part mini-series that was later edited into a feature length. The first half of the movie is the back story of all the characters who find themselves signing up to the war effort. It is by’n’large seen…
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The Martian (2015)
This is going to be a tough year for best movie. We’ve had some real high quality delivers and the year has still to finish, with James Bond, Yoda and Tarrantino still to make an appearance. The Martian was one that came out of no where. The trailer was giving the same excitement I had for Interstellar. Though that sadly failed to deliver on what was going to be…
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Tequila Sunrise (1988)
There are some movies that you remember fondly, sparking memories of the time, but yet, after a re-watch nearly 25 years you wonder what it was about the first outing that made it seem a classic. We have Mac (Mel Gibson) the drug dealer who is trying to go straight, even though his oldest best friend, Nick (Kurt Russell) the detective who sometimes steps over the line is trying to…
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