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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe daughter of the late Diana Rigg has shared heartbreaking details about the end of the actor’s life.Rigg, known for her roles in The Avengers, James Bond and Game of Thrones, died of cancer in September 2020 at the age of 82. Her daughter, the actor Rachael Stirling, wrote about her mother’s death and her passionate advocacy of assisted dying in a new piece for The…

When his wife is brutally murdered, immigrant labourer Dasru (Manoj Bajpayee) flees from Mumbai with his baby daughter back to his former home in the tribal lands in the east Indian state of Jharkhand. The police regard him as a key suspect in the case, but while Dasru maintains his innocence, he has other dark secrets festering in his homeland.This gritty, propulsive chase thriller combines a heart-in-mouth survival story with a backdrop of simmering violence and political unrest – the tribal lands from which Dasru hails…

A free-spirited young beauty in late 19th-century rural Poland falls foul of the repressive patriarchy, the petty-minded jealousies simmering in her village and her own extremely poor judgment in this lavish rotoscoped and oil-painted animation. Directors DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman, the team behind the Oscar-nominated Loving Vincent, employ the same painstaking and striking animation technique as they used to explore the final days in the life of Vincent van Gogh.This time, the source material is The Peasants, the 1924…

More than 20 years have passed since the claymation magicians at Aardman Animations had the brainwave of relocating The Great Escape to a north of England chicken farm. The original Chicken Run remains a classic of family entertainment, unbeatable in its inventiveness, distinctive aesthetic and deliciously absurd humour. Disappointingly but perhaps not surprisingly, this sequel fails to match the original on any level whatsoever. It’s not bad exactly, although there’s a synthetic look to the colour palette that feels very…

A few days ago, Game of Thrones fame Sophie Turner confirmed she is dating Peregrine ‘Perry’ John Dickinson Pearson after pictures of the two making out in London appeared. Now, as per a new report by Us Weekly, a source has confirmed that 'she’s really happy' with Perry, after her divorce from singer Joe Jonas a couple of months ago. (Also read: GoT Star Sophie Turner confirms new love with this British aristocrat Peregrine Pearson amid divorce from Joe Jonas) British actor Sophie Turner and Peregrine Pearson…

From The Hours and Still Alice to The Hunger Games and Boogie Nights, Julianne Moore’s career has spanned blockbusters and romantic comedies, period dramas, low-budget horror and indie cult classics. She inhabits each role with empathy and meticulous attention to detail, and her latest, Gracie in Todd Haynes’s seductive, slippery May December, is no exception. In her 30s, Gracie scandalised America by having a sexual relationship with Joe, a 13-year-old boy. She’s served her time in jail, married Joe and raised three…

Actor Stephen Fry injured his leg, pelvis and several ribs after falling off the stage in London. The 66-year-old actor was a speaker at CogX Festival in September when he took a fall as he left the stage and suffered horrific injuries. "I was doing an event at the O2 arena. I did my hour after delivering this lecture, turned to go off stage and didn`t notice I was walking off a part stage where there was nothing but a six-foot drop onto concrete," he said to Claudia Winkleman on BBC Radio Two, reports aceshowbiz.com.…

Jonathan Glazer grew up in Hadley Wood, close to Barnet on the northern outskirts of London, where his family were part of a thriving Jewish community. “There were all these fantastic characters, who were in and out of my house when I was a little boy,” he says. “Many of them were East End Jews who had moved to the suburbs for a better quality of life, not super-intellectual people, but incredible entertainers – vaudeville musicians, writers and the like. As a child, I loved and absorbed the richness of that culture.”The…

Adam Driver joked that he did not kill Han Solo as he referenced his role as a Star Wars villain on Saturday Night Live.The actor performed his opening monologue while playing the piano and reciting a letter of Christmas wishes to Santa.“I would like people to stop coming up to me on the street saying, ‘You killed Han Solo!’” Driver sang.“I didn’t kill him. Wokeness killed Han Solo.”The joke referenced his role as Kylo Ren in Star Wars, which saw him kill Harrison Ford’s Han Solo in The Force Awakens - a widely…

Rapper 2 Chainz, whose real name is Tauheed K. Epps was rushed to the hospital early Saturday morning after he met with a car accident in Miami.The `It’s a Vibe` rapper took to his Instagram Story to share video footage following the crash. In the clip, he showed himself getting loaded into the back of an ambulance on a stretcher, reports pagesix.com. TMZ reported that 2 Chainz, 46,m suffered neck injuries and possibly other injuries but is in stable condition at the hospital. According to the outlet, a driver…