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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 freeWhat does Mae Muller think about her performance at Eurovision last year? “I don’t!” the 26-year-old hoots. “And I don’t have to watch it again – thank you!” With her track “I Wrote a Song”, Muller represented the UK on home soil, carrying a nation’s mighty expectations on her shoulders – only to end up placing 25th out of 26 entrants. She can laugh at it now but admits that it was…

2023 was a big year for Margot Robbie… you know, because of her appearance in Asteroid City and for producing Saltburn. I’m kidding, while those movies certainly received a decent amount of attention, they paled in comparison to Barbie, which was met with critical acclaim, became 2023’s highest-grossing movie and has now earned eight nominations at the 96th Academy Awards (although many felt Robbie was snubbed from the Best Actress category). Fresh off this latest round of accolades, word’s come in that Robbie will star…

We all have movies that had a profound impact on us, stories that inspire us or emotionally impact us. Wedding Crashers is probably not that movie. Wedding Crashers has hilarious lines and it makes us laugh until we hurt, but it probably didn't change many lives. But it was a career-defining movie for Bradley Cooper. While the movie was Cooper’s biggest film to date, he says watching Vince Vaughn be willing to fail changed his perspective on acting.If you weren’t a fan of TV’s Alias there’s a good chance you didn’t know…

Get in loser, because the Mean Girls directors have announced an Los Angeles-based acting camp for teens. Co-directors of the new film reboot, Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne, announced Wednesday a two-week acting course that caters to teens ages 14 to 17 in underserved communities. The boot camp hopes to build confidence while providing acting tools for the young performers. “Like Janis says in the opening of our movie, it’s not easy making a movie, but we also know that it’s not easy getting the…

Canada's forestry sector is responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions than show up in official tallies, potentially leading to policies that aren't in line with the country's climate goals, a new study suggests.The peer-reviewed study, published in the academic journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, found that annual greenhouse gas emissions attributable to forestry between 2005 and 2021 were, on average, nearly 91 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent — which would put the sector on par with…

Kieran Culkin looks as though someone’s stolen a piece of his soul. We’re seated across from one another in the bustling lobby of the Pendry, a tony hotel in Park City, Utah, and the Succession star has just clocked a middle-aged man not-so-surreptitiously snapping several photos of him from across the room. He shifts uncomfortably in his seat and takes a sip of his pilsner before leaning over to me. “I’m feeling very… exposed,” he says, his voice a hair above a whisper. “And if you ask them, ‘Hey, did you just…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeGael Garcia Bernal has praised the art of acting for allowing performers to “explore the transgender we all have inside”.The 45-year-old Mexican actor recently starred in the Amazon Prime film Cassandro, a biographical film about the life of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler who became an international sensation.In a new conversation with US entertainment publication Deadline,…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFrom famous footballer to aspiring film star: it’s a path that’s surprisingly well trodden. The latest former player to delve into the world of acting is ex-Arsenal star, Match of the Day pundit and all-round national treasure Ian Wright, who appears in Daniel Kaluuya’s directorial debut The Kitchen.In the dystopian drama, which arrives on Netflix on Friday, Wright plays the host of a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePicture the scene. It’s a bright Friday morning, and Natalie Portman has a small gap in her hectic schedule so she can do the school run. When you’re a Hollywood star, it’s so important that the everyday routines that punctuate your kids’ lives don’t just pass you by. So: uniforms on, lunchboxes in hand, everyone, go go go! Except… when Portman arrives at the school gates, all the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMargot Robbie has explained why she might be taking a break from acting and stepping behind the camera more regularly instead.Robbie, who produced the blockbuster film Barbie and played the film’s titular character, has said in a new interview with Deadline that she might “disappear” from screens for a while because “everybody is probably sick of the sight of me” after the success of…