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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 freeGillian Anderson has said it was “scary” to play former BBC journalist Emily Maitlis in a new film about Prince Andrew’s car-crash Newsnight interview.In a new interview, Anderson, 55, said she was so daunted to play Maitlis, 53, that she initially turned down the role in the new Netflix drama called Scoop.“It was just too scary to play Emily Maitlis, because she’s still living,…

The late songwriter will join "Swingin'" singer John Anderson and guitarist James Burton in the class of 2024 inductees Toby Keith is one of the 2024 inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The songwriter died Feb. 5 after a long battle with stomach cancer — one day before the names of the final inductees were to be delivered to the Hall of Fame staff. Sarah Trahern, CMA Chief Executive Officer, announced Keith as one of this year’s inductees and walked through the nomination process…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAfter being nominated eight times over the past 22 years, Wes Anderson finally won his first ever Academy Award at the Oscars on Sunday Night – but he wasn’t there to collect it.His short film The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, a 39-minute adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1977 story of the same name, won Best Live Action Short Film. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Sir…

There’s a 2013 Black Mirror episode in which a young widow played by Hayley Atwell signs up to an online service that scrapes a person’s entire digital footprint to create a virtual simulation. She soon starts chatting online with her late husband (Domhnall Gleeson), before things inevitably get Black Mirror-y.Laurie Anderson, the American avant garde artist, musician and thinker, hasn’t seen the episode but, in the last few years, has lived a version of it: growing hopelessly hooked on an AI text generator that emulates…

Highlights from 2024’s Bafta ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank Main image: Emma Stone, who won best actress for Poor…

“I am very fond of Anderson. In particular, I'm fonder of ‘late Anderson’, which is perhaps a rarer opinion,” Darren went on to share. “I really like Rushmore, but my favorite films of his are all from Fantastic Mr. Fox onwards. I think I prefer his style when it is completely disconnected from anything approaching reality or naturalism.”“It's a lot easier to buy his characters and his style, for me, when these films take place in a realm completely separate from the mundane world,” the cinephile explained. “So my…

Ice Cube said he never expected to be onstage accepting a gilded gramophone with his fellow N.W.A members, but that’s what happened Saturday when he, MC-Ren, DJ Yella and the mother and son of late rapper Eazy-E received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy at the Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards. “My man, Dr. Dre, is not here. He wanted to make sure I let you know he’s not hating. He a billionaire. He got shit to do,” Cube said to laughter and applause. He thanked Dre for his “brilliance, talent and leadership”…

Anthony Anderson has put in great performances and, in the process, he's repeatedly proven that he's a versatile actor. He's a performer who can do laugh-out-loud comedies or hard-hitting dramas. He hopped aboard the action thriller G20 earlier this year after replacing Jamie Foxx on the Fox game show We Are Family. The actor has really committed to his new action star status and, in doing so, he ultimately sustained an on-set injury. Following some time away from the set, Anderson jumped back into filming after hurting…

Though there are countless directions life flows in, we’re constantly fed narratives on what choices lead you down the supposed good path. It’s wise to take advice, especially from the experienced, but what happens when our internal desires clash with the stories society outlined for us? In Alan Wake 2, Saga finds herself confronting this many-faced problem. However, in typical Remedy fashion, things are presented through metanarratives that defy convention. Through Saga, we discover the power these tales have in our…

The artist, musician and film director Laurie Anderson has withdrawn from a guest professorship at a university in Germany after officials took issue with her support for a 2021 statement by Palestinian artists titled Letter Against Apartheid.The decision, announced days before Anderson is due to receive a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Grammys, adds to the wave of cultural events that have been scrapped in Germany after artists expressed views deemed by officials to be anti-Israel.Late last week the Folkwang…