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Sundance 2025: The Librarians, Middletown, Speak.
There’s a certain prescience to this year’s documentary selections that feel serendipitous given the unique afflictions besetting the world. Political, ecological, and societal grief are all at the forefront of attendees’ minds in Park City as the threat of California wildfires and the installation of the new administration rage on. These three documentaries orbit these…
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Sundance: Dead Lover, Touch Me
No Sundance is complete without a trip through the Midnight programming. And very few films playing at Sundance are as creative and, ahem, as lively as Grace Glowicki’s exquisitely crafted Gothic comedy-horror “Dead Lover.” The writer/director’s second feature is a resourceful and theatrical take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In fact, the film even begins with…
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Sundance 2025: Mad Bills to Pay, Rains Over Babel, Serious People
The NEXT category at Sundance is always the place to go if you want to see a big swing, and in this dispatch, there are three major ones. Two of the films take different routes to analyze men battling their anxiety about their impending fatherhood. One film is a modern adaptation of Dante’s Inferno. So,…
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Sundance 2025: The Wedding Banquet, Kiss of the Spider Woman
My critical efforts to never judge a film before seeing it are most challenged by remakes of movies I adore. Ang Lee’s “The Wedding Banquet” is a wonderful comedy, and Hector Babenco’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” was a powerful filmgoing experience for me as a young man. I once discussed why a film should…
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Eeny Meeny Miny Mo, Catch a Pterosaur by Its Neck
A puncture in the fossilized neck of a winged reptile that flew with the dinosaurs suggests the creature became a feast for a crocodile ancestor.
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How to Travel With Babies and Toddlers
Flexibility and preparation are key when taking young children on a trip. So is choosing the right place to stay and keeping your expectations reasonable.
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Bill Gates Isn’t Like Those Other Tech Billionaires
The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist is taking a break from the future to examine his past — and mulling where the billionaires now fit in.
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Tax Incentives for Taxpayers, Promoting Innovation and Dual Training Programs
On Jan. 21, the “Executive order that grants tax incentives to support the national strategy called “Plan Mexico” to encourage new investments, dual training programs, and promote innovation” (the “Decree”) was published in the Federal Register….By: Clark Hill PLC
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Trump Administration Rescinds Biden Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence
What Happened? Last week, President Trump signed an Executive Order that rescinded the Biden Administration’s October 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence….By: Alston & Bird
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Launching Agentic AI in an Uncertain U.S. Regulatory Landscape
Are you ready to begin adding AI Agents to your human teams? You will soon be getting requests to do so. While business teams will be wowed by what AI Agents and their subagents can do, the artificial intelligence regulatory environment is increasingly uncertain, and we advise caution….By: Dorsey & Whitney LLP