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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 freeBarbie is one of the most inventive, immaculately crafted and surprising mainstream films in recent memory – a testament to what can be achieved within even the deepest bowels of capitalism. It’s timely, too, arriving a week after the creative forces behind these stories began striking for their right to a living wage and the ability to work without the threat of being replaced by an…

Christopher Nolan’s epic drama Oppenheimer has received a string of positive notices after a Paris premiere.The film, with a budget of $100m and an estimated marketing budget to match, stars Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer, seen as the “father of the atomic bomb”. The cast also includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh and Robert Downey Jr.Vulture critic Bilge Ebiri has called the film “incredible”, tweeting that it’s a “relentlessly paced, insanely detailed, intricate historical…

‘Star Wars’ Actor Ewan McGregor Introduces New Film ‘You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder’ With Daughter Clara (Photo Credit –wikimedia) ‘Star Wars’ actor Ewan McGregor received much love and adulation as he was feted with the President’s Award for lifetime achievement at the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The Scottish actor, director and producer accepted the honour in an overflowing ceremony in the festival’s Grand Hall in the Czech spa town. He was joined by his daughter Clara McGregor, his mother, and…

A previously unobtainable Achievement in farming game Homestead Arcana has been removed. The Achievement, "You Can't Be Too Prepared," was seemingly deleted by Microsoft after it was found to be unobtainable.This, as discovered by Achievement website TrueAchievements, is a rare occurrence, as Microsoft seldomly ever deletes Achievements outright. The "You Can't Be Too Prepared" Achievement required players to craft every item in the game, but the Green Ankle Boots weren't tracking, locking players out of…

Last Updated: May 30, 2023, 11:43 ISTBhopal Metro - Representative Image (Photo: Railway Technology)The Bhopal Metro project represents the city's progressive mindset, its eagerness to embrace modernity, and its commitment to sustainable urban planningIn a remarkable achievement, the city of Bhopal witnessed a significant milestone as 500 meters of metro track were successfully laid down. With just 3.5 kilometers remaining, the completion of this ambitious project is now within touching distance.The ongoing metro…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJennifer Lopez’s new film The Mother has already achieved an impressive feat on Netflix.The Mother debuted on the streaming platform during Mother’s Day weekend in the US on 12 May.The film stars Lopez, 53, as an assassin who comes out of hiding to protect her daughter (played by Lucy Paez) who she left earlier in life.Omari Hardwick and The Handmaid’s Tale star Joseph Fiennes also…

Image via Lucasfilm There’s been a lot of craziness in 2023 so far, but showering praise over The Rise of Skywalker, undoubtedly one of the worst Star Wars movies next to the Holiday Special, has to be one of the craziest things we’ve seen yet. With notoriously bad lines such as “somehow Palpatine returned” and the nonsensical plot coupled with the general lack of effort that went into its making, most would agree that the final film of the sequel trilogy was a major letdown. Presumably, those that did enjoy it…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said the actualisation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021 is the second biggest achievement in the country’s energy sector. The president disclosed this while declaring the Nigeria International Energy Summit, (NIES) 2023, open at the presidential banquet hall in Abuja on Monday. Mr Buhari, represented by Boss Mustapha, the secretary to the government of the federation, explained that for decades, Nigerians were told that it would be near impossible to pass the bil…

In American writer Mark Twain's autobiography, he quotes - or perhaps misquotes - former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as saying: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." In a marvellous leap forward, artificial intelligence combines all three in a tidy little package. ChatGPT, and other generative AI chatbots like it, are trained on vast datasets from across the internet to produce the statistically most likely response to a prompt. Its answers are not based on any understanding of…

In American writer Mark Twain's autobiography, he quotes — or perhaps misquotes — former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as saying: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”In a marvellous leap forward, artificial intelligence combines all three in a tidy little package. ChatGPT, and other generative AI chatbots like it, are trained on vast datasets from across the internet to produce the statistically most likely response to a prompt. Its answers are not based on any understanding of…