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Film: Imaginary Cast: DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Veronica Falcón, Betty Buckley, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, Dane DiLiegro, Alix AngelisDirector: Jeff WadlowRating: 1.5/5Runtime: 104 min. “Imaginary” the latest horror-thriller from Blumhouse, directed by “Truth or Dare” producer Jeff Wadlow, fails to find the scares that it intended to. The plot is typical of the ‘voodoo cursed doll’ construct ( Chucky, Annabelle etc.) and uses the same old mechanics to charge up the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeGwyneth Paltrow has confirmed a longheld rumour about former US president Bill Clinton’s reaction to her film, Emma. Paltrow played the title role in the 1996 Jane Austen film adaptation directed by Douglas McGrath, and won critical acclaim for her performance. In her appearance on the long-running YouTube series, Hot Ones, the 51-year-old actor and businesswoman confirmed how Clinton…

Back in the day, if you accidentally created a giant plot hole in your science fiction saga, you were done, your goose droid cooked, with nothing to look forward to but the prospect of future generations looking back scornfully at your ever-sullied work of cinema.But then along came Star Wars: Rogue One, a movie that somehow made sense of all the really silly bits in 1977’s Star Wars, such as the climactic sequence in which Luke Skywalker managed to blow up the Death Star in his tiny little star fighter. It turned out…

In the name of rock, Jack Black is “ready” to revisit the musical comedy mayhem cooked in the 2003 hilariously gleeful flick. The School of Rock may as well be in session because the cat-fishing Mr Schneebly would love to rock and roll again. While his Primetime Emmy winning-pal and screenwriter Mike White, AKA the actual Ned Schneebly, is away wallowing in The White Lotus luxury, the Tenacious D rockstar has already suggested a killer title for the potential sequel. Jack Black is "ready" for a School of Rock…

Film: Arthur The King Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Nathalie Emmanuel, Simu Liu, Bear Grylls, Michael Landes, Paul Guilfoyle, Ali Suliman, Rob CollinsDirector: Simon Cellan JonesRating: 3/5Runtime: 107 min. “Arthur the King” is based on the true story about a team participating in an adventure race - the most extreme conceived. Mark Wahlberg plays team leader Michael Light of The American team, that is making a last-ditch effort to score big, racing through the jungles, mountains, and rivers…

Spider-Man fans were left hanging with the cliffhanger ending of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in 2023. Thankfully, a sequel to the movie is in the works.  However, while it’s going to be a minute before Beyond the Spider-Verse hits the screens, Sony has announced a new project that will tide fans over until then. Titled The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story, the animated short film is set to release soon. Here’s everything you need to know about the spin-off. The Spider Within release date and time Sony has…

In an ideal world, Spider-Man fans would've been treated with the Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse premiere on March 29, 2024. Nevertheless, there's more to the web-slinger's story than just protecting the city from evil. Behind the Spidey mask is a teenager grappling with his coming-of-age chapters, which often get sidelined while the city's well-being checks off all his priority boxes on the agenda. This March, Sony is releasing a new animated short set in the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse universe. Taking a…

They are films that claim to tell the “real story” of India’s history, taking aim at the evils of “leftists” and “intellectuals” and even the freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi.As Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) seek a third term in next month’s election, a feverish pro-government momentum has gripped Bollywood, blurring the lines between entertainment and political campaigning in India’s largest film industry.Almost a dozen new films promoting the prime minister and his government’s Hindu nationalist…

By Jake Coyle | Associated Press Forty years after “Ghostbusters” and following a string of sequels that never measured up to the 1984 original — beginning all the way back with 1989’s “Ghostbusters II” — it’s fair to wonder, well, who else ought we to call? It may be time to, if not give up the ghost entirely, at least give a flip through the ol’ rolodex. But as the lackluster 2021 installment, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” showed, the half life of most film franchises…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSharon Stone has taken a swipe at Johnny Depp in a new interview about her success in the art world.The Hollywood star, whose credits include Basic Instinct and Casino, has turned her back on acting to pursue her painting skills – and she cast aspersions on an art collection created by Depp that fetched millions in 2022.Stone reignited her passion for art during lockdown, and decided…