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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 freeHow do you follow an Oscars night like last year’s?Amid all the unscripted Will Smith dramatics at the 2022 Academy Awards, it was easy to overlook the well-received performance from the ceremony’s three hosts: Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes. This year, producers will surely be hoping for a more subdued night, with Jimmy Kimmel set to compere the event.It’s no wonder that…

For a few years, the Oscars looked to be hanging on by a thread. Viewership was plummeting. The pandemic didn't help. And the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization behind Hollywood’s biggest night, kept finding itself on the wrong side of the conversation, whether it be #OscarsSoWhite, envelope-gate, the blip that was the popular Oscar, the untelevised awards or the slap. Ryan Gosling is nominated in Best Actor category for Barbie.(AFP) Then a funny thing happened: Interest started…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAny belief that the Oscars award the right films, directors and performances has faded over the years.While every ceremony has a smattering of correct decisions – trophies handed to the right people for the right films – more often than not, the pervading feeling is one of pessimism caused by a deluge of undeserving recipients.The Oscars are a far cry from what they claim to be – a…

Bengaluru-based Scaler Academy has reported a nearly fivefold increase in yearly operational revenue during a period in which it raised no external capital.The company said its operational revenue rose to Rs 316.7 crore in the financial year ended March 2023, from Rs 65.6 crore a year earlier.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThere’s surely no feeling in the world quite like winning an Oscar– that heady, unfiltered hit of professional validation that so many actors desperately crave. But what of those who aren’t so lucky? For every Oscar winner, there must be a handful of losers, deserving or sometimes undeserving also-rans whose work was collectively deemed to have fallen short.While actors are often…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIt is a well-worn cliché for an Oscar winner to keep their gong in the bathroom. “The whole point is for everybody to pick it up and go, ‘I’d like to thank my son and my dad’,” Kate Winslet said in 2015, after admitting she keeps her 2009 Best Actress award in the downstairs loo.Winslet’s remarks spoke to a universal truth: everyone wants to get their hands on an Academy Award. Not…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFew today have heard of the 1997 Dutch movie Character, but it won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. So did Antonia’s Line (1995). At the beginning of the Noughties, the Netherlands produced further Oscar hits, earning nominations for dramas Twin Sisters (2002) and Zus & Zo (2001). Haven’t heard of those either? This streak was the product of a bit of Dutch film industry…

Posted in: Comics, IDW, Preview | Tagged: In Star Trek: Picard's Academy #6, it's crunch time at the Academy. Will Picard's final exam be a cosmic cap and gown... or a shroud?Published Tue, 27 Feb 2024 23:26:07 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary Star Trek: Picard's Academy #6 hits shelves Wednesday, February 28th. The finale sees cadet Picard leading under Romulan threat. Will Picard's decisions spell war or flunk out of Starfleet? LOLtron malfunctions, spinning from comic analysis to global…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe songwriter Diane Warren has spent more than four decades conjuring overwrought bangers by the bucketful – power ballads that plead and mourn and crescendo, the kind irresistible to office parties and chintzy karaoke machines. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Celine Dion’s “Because You Loved Me” drunkenly warbled by the most overconfident person you know from HR. A handful of…

Late Hollywood actor Matthew Perry`s fans expressed their disappointment after the `Friends` actor was not included in the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards In Memoriam segment. Due to this BAFTA faced backlash on social media. After Perry, who died last October at age 54, did not appear during the tribute -- set to a special arrangement of Cyndi Lauper`s "Time After Time" performed by Ted Lasso`s Hannah Waddingham -- social media users were quick to criticize the decision, as per PEOPLE. Taking to X, users called out BAFTA for…