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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. BUDAPEST, Hungary — The celebrated Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, director of such works as “Sátántangó” and “The ...

Béla Tarr, the Hungarian arthouse director best known for his bleak, existential and challenging films, including Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies, has died at the age of 70. The Hungarian ...

Legendary Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr has died at 70, his family confirmed to the Hungarian national news agency MTI via filmmaker Bence Fliegauf. The European Film Academy added that Tarr passed ...

There are few topics that are as polarizing in the current political climate as gender identity and sexuality. Yet Preeti Deb, a Burlingame-based filmmaker, is adamant that doesn’t have to be the case ...

Despite receiving praise from both critics and players, Sleeping Dogs was not one of Square Enix’s biggest commercial successes. However, the open-world action game had a strong personality and was ...

It’s not quite Christmas in the Wasteland, but Prime Video has premiered the first episode of Fallout season 2. That’s impressive considering it’s only been 20 months since Prime Video dropped the ...

In his 2017 25 New Face profile of writer/director Ricky D’Ambrose (Notes on an Appearance, The Cathedral), Vadim Rizov described the filmmaker as having “a disciplined, honed gaze refined over years ...

Renowned Malayalam actor-filmmaker-writer Sreenivasan has passed away at the age of 69. Sreenivasan had been unwell for the past several years and breathed his last on December 20, 2025, bringing the ...

Something has been bothering me since 2022, when Blizzard announced Overwatch 2. Then it happened again with Counter-Strike 2. And now League of Legends 2. But let’s be real: These are not sequels – ...

According to @ai_darpa, Alibaba has released WAN 2.6 on ImagineArt, marking the first open-source AI model capable of generating both video and audio in a single pass directly from text input. Unlike ...

The director of Deepfaking Sam Altman created a “Sam Bot” when he couldn’t get an interview with the OpenAI CEO. Watch an exclusive trailer for the documentary, which comes out in January. Director ...