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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 freeRay Winstone has said that his experience on a Marvel film became so “soul-destroying” that he threatened to quit.The British star is the latest actor to share his candid views on the comic book movie studio, following in the footsteps of Christian Bale and Anthony Hopkins, who both spoke out against their experience after appearing in the Thor franchise.Winstone played the villain in…

In a scene from Lopez's new doc, singer was mentioned alongside a string of A-listers who supposedly declined a cameo request in This Is Me...Now Lizzo maybe would have made an appearance in Jennifer Lopez‘s new musical film — alongside Jane Fonda, Keke Palmer and Post Malone — if only she had actually seen the request. Lizzo took to TikTok after the release of Lopez’s new documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told, where the singer and actress details the process of making her new album…

An important quality that places a romance movie/romantic comedy as one of the best of all time is when the two leads have astounding chemistry. Flicks like The Notebook and Titanic would be my picks for having the strong sparks between two characters. Then there are love stories fans just aren’t buying due to the lack of on-screen chemistry portrayed. Movie fans have their own opinions on which romantic movies have leads with “zero chemistry," and I have to say that I'm in agreement with some of these picks.There’s…

Human history has a lot of fascinating highs and lows. It has had many great achievements that no other species on our planet has been able to accomplish. At the same time, there were way too many times when humanity came very close to self-destruction, usually due to someone's unreasonable actions. In fact, when someone asked online to provide examples of these "way too close" moments in history, the netizens did not hold back and provided an extensive list of them. Today, let's take a look at some of them. More info:…

Ben Affleck’s Dunkin’ commercial has expanded beyond being viral. The famous Super Bowl ad included pals Matt Damon and Tom Brady, and the premise surrounded the three stars starting a boy band around the coffee company. Affleck’s wife, Jennifer Lopez was in the ad too of course, hilarious shutting down her husband’s rapper dreams. The whole thing has been a phenomenon with Dunkin’ merch being created from the ad. Now, JLo is opening up about her feelings toward the commercial, and her husband's wildly successful…

The Apple salesman laughed. "The Quest?," he said. "This is nothing like the Quest. This is spatial computing."It's interesting how Apple embraces a terminology and all its employees are encouraged to repeat it. I wonder how many customers find it truly persuasive.Still, the salesman tested the prescription lenses on my glasses and prepared Zeiss inserts that would work with the Vision Pro. And work they did.Also: I bought custom lenses for my headset, but not every eyeglass wearer needs them. Do you?Soon, I was…

Last year gamers were spoiled for content on TV and in the cinema; at last, we got some good adaptations of our favorite titles, such as the Last of Us and Super Mario Bros., proving that it is possible to translate a game to the screen. In fact, we’ve had a pretty good run for five years or so with Pokémon and Sonic movies too, but can we safely say the video game to movie curse is broken? Well the next movie to put that to the test would be Borderlands, and let’s just say it’s received a lukewarm reception so far. I…

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about transportation in general, since it’s one of the biggest areas we need to clean up to address climate change: it accounts for something like a quarter of global emissions. And the vehicles that we use to shuttle around to work, school, and the grocery store in many parts of the world are a huge piece of the problem. Last week, MIT Technology Review hosted an event where my colleagues and I dug into a conversation about the future of batteries and the materials that go…

Director Emerald Fennell had great success with her movie Promising Young Woman, and her most recent release Saltburn went viral, especially once it was streaming with an Amazon Prime subscription. Perhaps the most talked about movie was Barry Keoghan's bathtub scene, where he drank the bath water of Jacob Elordi's character Felix after he'd masturbated in the tub. Fennell recently directed Keoghan for a cover shoot, where he made a funny clip when asked to one again shoot with a bath tub, albeit with a twist.Keoghan…

Everyone says that communication is key when it comes to relationships. But some folks just don’t know how that works in the first place. So, what do you do?Well, having them deal with the consequences of their actions and flat out kicking them out of the family potluck is definitely an option. A person recently wondered if they’re a jerk for doing just that after asking numerous times for their son-in-law to stop bringing prank potluck dishes—but he never stopped.No matter how much you tell someone to knock it off, it…