Alive

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFew characters in HBO’s luxurious drama series The White Lotus could be described as heroic. The titular holiday resort – think a swanky Butlins for the absolute worst people you’ve ever met – seems to exclusively house sociopaths and sex fiends, dopes and delinquents. But then there were Lucia and Mia, season two’s sneaky, scheming besties and the most aspirational sex workers in…

Faring past the waves of iconic nostalgia, Popeye is sailing back for more. The brawny spinach-gulper who raised multiple generations of children, becoming one of the very few cartoon characters to inspire them to do what their parents couldn't achieve despite persistent chiding sessions – eating green food, is ready to take on a larger-than-cartoon-life soon. Popeye the Sailor first appeared in the King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre. Instituting a trailblazing life, the unforgettable fictional…

Damsel Movie ft Millie Bobby Brown. (Photo Credit – IMDb) The Netflix film Damsel was released on March 8. The fantasy period drama stars Millie Bobby Brown as Elodie, Angela Bassett as Lady Bayford, Nick Robinson as Prince Henry, Ray Winstone as Lord Bayford, Robin Wright as Queen Isabelle and Brooke Carter as Queen Isabelle. Dan Mazeau wrote the story, and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directed the film. In Damsel, after marrying Prince Henry, Elodie is thrown into a cave as a ruthless ancestral royal tradition. A…

Moon-ho Kim lounged on a bed in his acupuncture stall with his arms folded behind his head, watching the Korean news on TV.He had worked for years as a construction worker, then an electrician to scrape together the money to open the five-bed stall.But in two hours on this Wednesday afternoon, no customers had arrived. He and other vendors at Slauson Super Mall in South L.A. were keeping a mostly fruitless vigil.Like Kim, many are Korean immigrants who spend seven days a week peddling their wares to a mostly Black…

It’s set break for the Futurebirds during the first of the band’s two sold-out hometown gigs at the Georgia Theatre in the college town of Athens, Georgia, and guitarist Daniel Womack is backstage ruminating on the camaraderie that defines the band. “To find a crew that you can trust and stick with you to go through the wringer with,” Womack tells Rolling Stone, “it’s almost impossible in this life.” Together for nearly 15 years, Futurebirds are finally becoming a household name, at least to loyal fans of…

Bradley Cooper has opened up about how becoming a father has changed his life.The actor, 49, welcomed his daughter Lea in 2017 with model Irina Shayk, whom he dated from 2015 to 2019.“Honestly I’m not sure I’d be alive if I wasn’t a dad. I don’t know what would have happened,” Cooper admitted during an appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast.The Oscar-nominated star also revealed that it took him several months to develop a strong bond with his daughter, who is now six-years-old. Bradley Cooper has opened…

Bradley Cooper is opening up about how becoming a father has helped ground him in life. During an appearance on Monday’s episode of the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast, the Maestro actor-director-producer revealed, “I’m not sure I’d be alive if I wasn’t a dad.” Cooper and Irina Shayk, who dated from 2015 to 2019, welcomed their daughter, Lea, in 2017. “I just needed someone to say, like, ‘We’re gonna drop this massive anchor,’” the Oscar-nominated actor told Shepard. “I’m like,…

As any history student knows, the present is just the past playing out in real time. There’s a sense of time looping in Alynda Segarra’s ninth album, in which the New Orleans-based singer-songwriter revisits their saturated backstory to remember loved ones, honour fellow travellers and “watch the world burn” with a tear in their eye.Segarra’s father died shortly before recording; his voicemails provide the outro of this thoughtful, deceptively easygoing record. Another time shift: after a couple of recent more electric…

Image Source : ISRO ISRO The moon lander named Odysseus is reportedly 'alive and well' a day after its white-knuckle touchdown as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar surface, and the first from the United States since 1972, the company behind the vehicle, Intuitive Machines said. Flight controllers at the company's mission operations centre in…

I have done battle with the Libertines three times over the past 19 years. Only I haven’t, not really. Two of the interviews were with Pete Doherty for projects away from the band that made him famous: Babyshambles and the Puta Madres. The first was in a mangy London hotel bedroom in 2005 – he was sitting on a motorbike, revving it up, when he was awake. Much of the time he was asleep. He was 26, surrounded by drugs paraphernalia, and had daubed “ROUGH TRADE” on the wall in his own blood. Last time we met, four years ago,…