An female android named “Geminoid F” stars in a new Japanese film from director Koji Fukada called “Sayonara,” which premiered this year at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Are human actors soon to be replaced with robotic ones?
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"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is the seventh episode in the legendary movie series, and we can't wait to see it. Here's everything we know about "The Force Awakens"before it hits theaters December 18.
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"Jem and the Holograms" a Universal film based on the 1980s cartoon of the same name, has been pulled from theaters after a mere 2 weeks.
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New footage of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' released in TV spots over the weekend shows Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega) taking control of the Millennium Falcon.
The Disney Channel featured a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming film, with a few seconds of the duo preparing themselves for their adventure. Rey is the pilot and Finn is in charge of the guns. Both say, "I can do this."
The promotional video also featured a glimpse of Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, shouting "Fire" from the Starkiller Base. 
A clip from another TV spot also shows Rey and Finn in action on the Millennium Falcon. 
There is a massive attack on a rather large castle-like building, Maz Kanata's presumably.
While footage of a battle between an X-Wing and TIE fighter isn't new, the full clip with an explosion at the end is.
And Kylo Ren fends off attacks with his three-pronged lightsaber.
Watch the TV spots below:
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This filmmaker captured Turkey's soul in just 280 shots.
Leonardo Dalessandri spent 20 days traveling through Turkey, visiting nine cities and capturing some incredible footage on the way.
The video, "Watchtower of Turkey," was nominated "Best Video of 2014" on Vimeo.
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Did you know that Luke Skywalker is functionally illiterate, or that most of the people in Star Wars can't read? That's what Ryan Britt, author of the upcoming book "Luke Skywalker Can't Read: And Other Geeky Truths," is claiming.
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A new video from Vickers Tactical gives a high-definition, slow-motion look at the US military's heavy weapons in action.
This video features RPGs, grenade launchers, Carl Gustav Recoilless Rifles, Javelins, and more. The slow motion brilliantly captures the slightest detail of these deadly weapons.
The video captures things that are virtually invisible in full motion, like the fins deploying on a rocket fired from a Javelin, or the shockwave after a recoilless rifle fires.
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Keeping facts about "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" under wraps has been an intense process, one that didn't even allow cast members to take scripts home.
Director J.J. Abrams and cast members John Boyega, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, and Carrie Fisher appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Monday night and gave some behind-the-scenes insights.
Boyega, who plays Finn, said he was nervous about losing the script but wasn't allowed to take it home during the audition process. "We had to go to Pinewood [studio] and learn our lines and then go home," he said. "I felt like I was living a double life like Batman."
Abrams added that Boyega had to audition eight or nine different times, so it was a long ordeal.
Kimmel asked the cast if they were signed on for the other films. Boyega responded simply, "I don't know what you're talking about." So Kimmel turned to Fisher (General Leia) for information about the ending. After jokingly whispering in his ear, she said aloud, "It involves nudity."
During the interview, Abrams revealed the first spoken word in "The Force Awakens": "This." Abrams also introduced a clip of the Finn and Rey running through the desert planet of Jakku.
Watch the cast talk behind-the-scenes stories below:
Watch Fisher whisper about the ending:
Watch Abrams talk about the first spoken word in the film:
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When he was 18 years old in 1977, Peter "Stoney" Emshwiller filmed half of an interview with himself. He always planned on finishing the interview when he was older.
As the years passed, Emshwiller avoided going back and looking at the old footage, not wanting to face his younger self until he was A) completely successful or B) completely unsuccessful.
It wasn't until a recent health scare that Emshwiller was compelled to answer his younger self's questions. At the age of 56, about 38 years after he'd filmed half of the interview, he finally revisited the old footage.
He realized that success is not black and white, and that this was the lesson he wished to impart upon his younger, more naive self.
Now, Emshwiller is working to complete the project, titled "Later That Same Life." He created a sizzle reel, which has been viewed almost one million times on YouTube.
He was astounded by the number of views, but he wasn't prepared for the "trolls," he told INSIDER. However, the amount of positive feedback, he says, has balanced out the negativity and vitriol.
He is turning his sizzle reel into a full-blown feature film. Through crowdfunding site Rockethub, and in partnership with Ovation TV and Creative Studio, he's been able to raise more than enough money to fund the feature. In fact, he's exceeded his fundraising goal by 336%.
The feature film won't be one long interview, he told INSIDER. It will have a full narrative arc that's genuine and emotional all the way through. He says it's going to be "naked and brutally honest," but not without laughs.
We can't wait until it's out.
Watch Emshwiller's sizzle reel here and check out his website.
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"The Good Dinosaur," Pixar's latest movie, was the highest-grossing new release this past weekend, and has won critical praise.
However, parents are taking issue with the film.
Parents are complaining that the movie, marketed as an animated film for kids, is not at all suitable for young children. One parent even wrote that it shouldn't be watched by anyone under the age of 15.
The movie is about a dinosaur that befriends a human boy. While its cute, wide-eyed characters are child-friendly, parents argue that the plot is not.
"Children were crying and leaving the theater. My little one asked me to never see it again," one parent wrote on CommonSenseMedia.com, a site that allows parents to rate activities for children.
Parents are angry about scenes depicting death, vicious dinosaur attacks, and emotionally harrowing events.
"My husband's sleeve was soaked from my 10-year-old's tears, the 2-year-old was terrified, and I could hear the 5- and 8-year-old crying throughout the movie," another parent wrote on the rating site.
"The Good Dinosaur" is not the first Pixar film to deal with death. The movie "Up," released in 2009, was also criticized for its surprisingly dark opening.
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The 2015 film, "Amy", based on the life of singer Amy Winehouse, has become the highest-grossing British documentary film ever. We recently sat down with the director Asif Kapadia, who discussed the transformations that take place in the film.
"Amy looks at the camera and looks at the audience all the way through the film, and what happens is, we, the person looking at her, change," he says. "We start off as Amy's friends, we become her manager, we become her boyfriend, we become the paparazzi eventually and her relationship with the camera changes during the film."
Kapadia continues, "I want people who really didn't like Amy to go and see 'Amy'. It's not just about appealing to the hardcore fan. It's about speaking to the people who really think they're not interested and getting them to fall in love with Amy Winehouse."
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Most people connect with "Star Wars" because we all either hate or fear our fathers. At least that's what Ryan Britt, author of the upcoming book "Luke Skywalker Can't Read: And Other Geeky Truths," thinks. In the book, Britt runs with this idea, which he says stems from fellow author Chuck Klosterman. See what he has to say about how our parental relationships color our feelings for the film "Star Wars."
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A movie about time travel is bound to be full of time paradoxes, and "Back to the Future" is just a buffet of them. We brought in Ryan Britt, author of the book "Luke Skywalker Can't Read: And Other Geeky Truths," to weigh in on the biggest "Back to the Future" time paradox of them all: When exactly did Doc and Marty meet?
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"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is the seventh episode in the legendary movie series, and we can't wait to see it. Here's everything we know about "The Force Awakens"before it hits theaters December 18.
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Saturday Night Live's latest sketch on "Star Wars" nailed some of the older fanboys of the beloved franchise.
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"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" premiered in Los Angeles on December 14, 2015 and the crowd was not left disappointed.
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With your busy and hectic life, you may not have 9 hours and 14 minutes to spare in order to get up to speed on the "Star Wars" universe before "The Force Awakens." Yes, that's how long it would take you to watch all six "Star Wars" films. So, we got several "Star Wars" experts to run through everything that happens before "The Force Awakens." Here's everything you need to know about the "Star Wars" universe.
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'The Big Short' actors discuss their interactions with the real people behind the characters they portray on screen.
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"Starship Troopers" has pretty much everything you could want from a satirical science-fiction action flick.
There's the over-the-top action and the cheesy dialogue with gems like, "The only good bug is a dead bug!"
And then there's the awesome technology that the makers predicted we'd have in the future.
While much of it's still in the realm of fantasy — like faster-than-light space travel — the movie also predicted many things that are already part of our everyday tech.
Perhaps most impressive, it did so in 1997 — before the internet completely changed our lives.
Read on to see what "Starship Troopers" totally nailed about today's tech.
This post is an updated version of one originally written by Kyle Russell.
