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News - 14th January 2026
Happy New Year! Hope you all had a fun and relaxing holiday break!
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January 14, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Gotta say, this is a nice little regular-moviegoer-friendly featurette on the visual effects of "F1" (2025). There are around 2500 digital visual effects shots in the movie.

youtu.be/I_XJSaWMMo0?si=AokI3...

F1® The Movie — Behind the VFX | Behind the Scenes | Apple TV
Invisible by design, engineered for authenticity. This is the story behind the visual effects in F1® The Movie. #F1TheMovie is now streaming exclusively on Apple TV https://apple.co/_F1 From Apple Original Films and the filmmakers from Top Gun: Maverick comes the high-octane, action-packed feature film F1, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Joseph Kosinski. The film is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Kosinski, seven-time FORMULA 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton, Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Chad Oman. Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was FORMULA 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He’ll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team's hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him and he finds that in FORMULA 1, your teammate is your fiercest competition—and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone. F1 also stars Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia, and Javier Bardem, and has been shot during actual Grand Prix weekends as the team competes against the titans of the sport. Kosinski directs from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger. The film is executive produced by Daniel Lupi. Collaborating with Kosinski behind the scenes are his creative team, including director of photography Claudio Miranda, production designers Mark Tildesley and Ben Munro, editor Stephen Mirrione, costume designer Julian Day, casting director Lucy Bevan and composer Hans Zimmer. Apple Original Films Presents a Monolith Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer / Plan B Entertainment / Dawn Apollo Films Production, A Film by Joseph Kosinski, F1, distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures. Subscribe to Apple TV’s YouTube channel: https://apple.co/AppleTVYouTube Follow Apple TV: Instagram: https://instagram.com/AppleTV TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@AppleTV Facebook: https://facebook.com/AppleTV X: https://X.com/AppleTV Giphy: https://giphy.com/AppleTV More from Apple TV: https://apple.co/32qgOEJ Apple TV is a streaming service with original stories from the most creative minds in TV and film. Watch now on the Apple TV app: https://apple.co/_AppleTVapp Subscription required for Apple TV #F1TheMovie #BehindTheScenes #AppleTV
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January 14, 2026 at 5:22 PM
'Bizarro World' - The Boston Globe
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January 7, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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my face when someone tells me "Christopher Nolan REFUSES to use 'CGI'"
January 5, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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Top: A well-reported story about how ChatGPT basically killed a kid giving him drug advice
Bottom: A desperate plea to help SFGate survive in the era of Google's AI summaries
In between: A GenAI ad for an impossible object that dispenses butter, and generates the money to pay for the reporting
January 6, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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when macOS 26 added menu item icons, i checked the HIG immediately.

it had two pieces of advice, one of which was: "not all menu items need an icon […] don't add icons for the sake of ornamentation."

but… i mean… then when do you… how do you decide? aren't they all ornamentation? please, help us!
January 5, 2026 at 6:44 PM
this clip is killing me.

Also: 🤣🤣🤣💀
this is how the "Abridged" version of "It's A Wonderful Life" ends - this is real
December 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Prime Video has 3 versions of a certain film, and they're presented in this order:

🍿 "It's a Wonderful Life" [colorized version]
🍿 "It's a Wonderful Life Black & White Version"
🍿 "It's a Wonderful Life Abridged Version"

The abridged version omits the alternative world where George was never born.
December 24, 2024 at 6:57 AM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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You can’t deny the biggest cultural impact of AVATAR, which is that I’ve had to strain to see movies projected through a 3D polarizer (that the theater employees couldn’t be bothered to remove) for the past 16 years.
December 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The folks who know the least about how movies are made argue the loudest about movie budgets.
December 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" (2015), visual effects by ILM. Visual effects supervisors Roger Guyett and Pat Tubach.

Every single shot of this guy's entire face was computer graphics.

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December 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Batman's first appearance in Batman (1989)
December 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Destroy one of the oldest and most beloved entertainment properties in the world, get paid $567 million
December 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I love how journalists asked OpenAI executives if they stole every single video on YouTube to train their stuff and the execs said “huh, I dunno” and there’s been no follow up or clarification and apparently we are all fine with that.
December 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Part of the fun of these kinds of illustrations in context is the janky, home made feel of the graphics. Having them be “photorealistic” is boring. Let’s hope The Daily Show/John Oliver/The Onion do not follow suit.
SNL used AI art tonight, multiple times.

Booooooo.
December 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Truth. So many...
They will throw them at your head if you drive by a Goodwill
December 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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$10 for a Blu-Ray player at a thrift store near you.
December 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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USB DVD players for Mac/PC are also under $40.
Brand-new Sonys and Panasonics start under $60, if you’re wondering
A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"

He said, "I don't know, like $500?"

Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
December 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Brand-new Sonys and Panasonics start under $60, if you’re wondering
A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"

He said, "I don't know, like $500?"

Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
December 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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if you squint at the 2025 worldwide box office of this year so far, you might see a few are vfx-driven/animation

and avatar 3 hasn't been released yet
December 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM