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Discs vs. data: Are we helping the environment by streaming?

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Earth Day was April 22nd, and its usual message—take care of our planet—has been given added urgency by the challenges highlighted in the latest IPCC report. This year, Ars is taking a look at the technologies we normally cover, from cars to chipmaking, and finding out how we can boost […]

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Daniels brings the multiverse to madcap life in Everything Everywhere All at Once

Enlarge / Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert—collectively known as Daniels—are the directors of the new sci-fi action/dramedy Everything Everywhere All at Once, starring Michelle Yeoh. (credit: A24) The incomparable Michelle Yeoh plays a harried Chinese American laundromat owner facing an IRS audit in the new science fiction action comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once. Evelyn […]

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Review: Bigbug is a sparkling comedy that lifts the spirits and dazzles the eyes

Household robots lock a group of bickering suburbanites in a house to protect them from an android uprising in Bigbug, a new film from visionary French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. There has been a fair amount of controversy in Hollywood about streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon Studios, and Hulu shifting from merely showing films to actually […]

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The doors to other dimensions open in latest Multiverse of Madness trailer

Benedict Cumberbatch travels across realities in the forthcoming film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\ . Marvel Studios dropped a spectacularly psychedelic new trailer for the particular upcoming Doctor Strange within the Multiverse of Madness just as the Super Bowl was getting underway. (Some spoilers for prior installments in the MCEU below. ) As […]

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Old friends return to save us from extinction in Jurassic World Dominion trailer

Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum will reprise their 1993 roles in Jurassic World Dominion. Cloned dinosaurs are roaming freely on the mainland as human beings face possible extinction in the official trailer for Jurassic World Dominion, the sixth installment in the hugely successful franchise. Universal Pictures describes the film as “a bold, timely […]

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Our fave Space Ranger gets the origin story he deserves in new Lightyear trailer

Chris Evans voices a young Buzz Lightyear in Pixar’s forthcoming Lightyear. We have a shiny new trailer for Lightyear, the latest animated feature from Pixar. It’s a spinoff from the studio’s hugely successful Toy Story franchise, with Chris Evans replacing Tim Allen as the voice of titular protagonist Buzz Lightyear. (The character’s name honors Apollo […]

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Moonfall trailer is gloriously ridiculous

Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson co-star in director Roland Emmerich’s latest film, Moonfall. Hello, police? I’d like to report a murder—the murder of credible science on the altar of entertainment, as evidenced in the latest trailer for Moonfall. It’s the latest epic disaster blockbuster from director Roland Emmerich, in which the Earth’s existence is threatened by […]

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Don’t Look Up is fiction. Here’s the real science of that doomsday scenario

Enlarge / Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence co-star as low-level astronomers in Don’t Look Up (credit: Netflix ) Two low-level astronomers discover a “planet killer” comet hurtling toward Earth but struggle to get anyone to pay attention in Don’t Look Up , a new satirical sci-fi from Netflix. Directed by Adam McKay ( The Big […]

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Jason Statham does what he does best in Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre trailer

Director Guy Ritchie is back with the action comedy Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, starring Jason Statham. Jason Statham is back doing what he does best—cracking heads while cracking wise as a badass globetrotting super spy—in a new trailer for director Guy Ritchie’s latest comedy action film, Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre. Ritchie made his […]

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Neo discovers he still knows kung fu in latest Matrix Resurrections trailer

Official trailer #2 for The Matrix Resurrections. Not even a full week has gone by since we got an exciting new trailer for The Matrix Resurrections, but with the film’s premiere just two weeks away, Warner Bros. is clearly intent on amping up the excitement. The company released another trailer on Monday, and while new footage […]