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The great Christmas film of 2023 arrives unseasonably late, deep into January, like a drunken carouser who has lost track of the time. The Holdovers is a scratchy human drama, set in a mothballed boys’ boarding school and circling a sad, lopsided Norwegian spruce. The message of festive good cheer, such as it is, comes delivered by Paul Giamatti in the role of a cantankerous classics teacher. “I find the world a bitter and complicated place,” he declares. “And it seems to feel the same way about me.”The film’s director,…

Olly Alexander will represent the UK at the 68th Eurovision Song Content in Malmö, Sweden in May 2024. The news was revealed by Alexander when he made a surprise appearance on the ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ final on BBC One on Saturday night. Best-known as the frontman for Years & Years, Alexander is now embarking on releasing music under his own name. With Years & Years evolving into a solo project and, in 2024, a brand new solo era, Alexander has enjoyed success in the Russell T Davies show ‘It’s A Sin’,…

If you haven’t read the books — you can check out our review right here — Apple says the adaption is “about a self-hacking security android who is horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable ‘clients.’” In the show, “Murderbot must hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe.” If you haven’t read the books — you can check out our review right here — Apple says the adaption is…

Nostalgia is everywhere in pop culture, forced or organic, jolting or comforting: the rewatch of Girls, the reunion of NSYNC, the resurgence of Kate Bush via 80s-baiting Stranger Things, the new Fatal Attraction, a refreshed Wednesday Addams, another Sex and the City. It can be a trap. It is, as Vulture’s Craig Jenkins put it in a review of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour movie, the flashiest and most lucrative nostalgia enterprise of the moment, a “retirement community, the place the mind goes when it’s tired of going places”.…

David Zaslav, James Gunn, and Peter Safran at the premiere of The Flash. This week, they’ll help select a new Superman. Photo: Phillip Faraone (Getty Images)By the end of the week, we may have a new Superman and Lois Lane. That’s what the Hollywood Reporter is saying in a detailed update on the casting for James Gunn’s 2025 film, Superman Legacy.Sean Gunn on Working With His BrotherAccording to the report, Gunn, the writer-director of Superman Legacy as well as the co-president of DC Films, spent the past weekend doing…

Cher and boyfriend Alexander Edwards have broken up.According to TMZ, the split occurred a few weeks ago, but it’s still unclear why they decided to part ways, or who was behind the breakup. A source tells the outlet that despite all signs suggesting the two were engaged, it was not true. Cher posted a photo of a diamond ring on Twitter Christmas Day, along with the caption, “THERE R NO WORDS, ALEXANDER, A.E.” The ring fueled speculation that they were engaged, and the two only fanned the flames the following month when…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIn late February 2022, the cast of Netflix’s roaring historical drama, The Last Kingdom, were in icy Budapest. They were filming the final scenes of the franchise’s movie spinoff, Seven Kings Must Die. It was also the month that Putin’s Russian army invaded Ukraine, around 700 miles east of Hungary’s capital. “There are no words for a situation like that,” says Alexander Dreymon, the…

The Brainstormerz is a a three-book middle-grade graphic novel series, by Kwame Alexander, Cassidy Dyce and Rashad Doucet. The Brainstormerz is a a three-book middle-grade graphic novel series, by Kwame Alexander, Cassidy Dyce and Rashad Doucet about three friends who put their heads together to think creatively and solve tricky problems, often with hilarious results. Margaret Raymo at Little, Brown has acquired world rights to the series and the first book in the series, Money Talks, will be published in the  summer of…

Sean Bothwell can understand why people think desalination is a silver bullet. When he was a kid living in California’s Orange County, the ocean was always close by. It didn’t make sense to him that all the water near him wasn’t usable.“I grew up thinking, like, why the heck aren’t we desalinating?” said Bothwell, who is now executive director of the California Coastkeeper Alliance. “Why are people always saying that we need to save water and conserve?”Now, a few decades later, California is in an even more dire…

DC Studios is gearing up to reboot the DC Universe with James Gunn’s Gods and Monsters slate, which includes titles like Superman: Legacy and The Brave and the Bold. While The Flash will reset the timeline of the old DC Extended Universe, the fate of Aquaman still hangs in the balance. The sequel to 2018’s Aquaman, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, starring Jason Momoa, will be released after the reset. So, there is still a question mark hanging over Jason Momoa’s place as Aquaman in the new DC Universe. A while back,…