To quote Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning rock musical Rent: “Leave your conscience at the tone.” Brendan ...
It's not just Google's Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 we have to be thankful for this year around the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. No, today the German AI startup ...
It sounds rather like a mixed compliment to say of an actor that he’s persuasive at playing, well, a mediocre actor. But then, this is Brendan Fraser we’re talking about. The man seems to become more ...
Acting is a tough industry to find steady work in, as any actor can attest. Things are no different for Phillip in “Rental Family” — at least, until he comes across what seems like the strangest job ...
Phillip Vandarpleog is a struggling American actor who traveled to Japan to star in a series of silly toothpaste commercials and stayed to try his luck. But even after years of living in Tokyo, his ...
The Oscar winner's latest leading role in Hikari's crowdpleasing "Rental Family" allowed him to take Method acting in some cuddly directions. As he tells IndieWire, those sorts of choices excite him, ...
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released a new generation of its flagship large language models, designed to compete more squarely with industry and academic heavyweights. The Seattle-based nonprofit ...
Brendan Fraser is quietly endearing in this fish-out-of-water tale of an American actor in Tokyo who accepts some highly unusual assignments. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an ...