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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 freeAustin Butler has revealed that it took the help of a dialect coach for him to stop sounding like Elvis Presley.Before the 32-year-old landed his leading role as Major Gale in Apple TV+’s newest World War II minidrama Masters of the Air, he starred as Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 Oscar-nominated musical biopic, Elvis. During a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,…

In one episode of the new World War II epic Masters of the Air, a character collapses from exhaustion and sleeps through the events of D-Day, which were so memorably dramatized in Saving Private Ryan. In another, we realize that several characters are being held in the same POW camp that was the subject of the classic Sixties film The Great Escape, and that our heroes had no idea the escape was happening until well after the fact. That iconic parts of two famous WWII movies happen between scenes of Masters of the…

Getting the chance to play in the Marvel sandbox is a dream come true for many actors out there, but it’s not up everyone’s street. Just ask Emily Blunt or Jeremy Allen White. And maybe we can add another name to that niche list too. Austin Abrams perhaps isn’t a household name, but if you’ve ever watched a TV screen you’re bound to have seen his face. The 1996-born actor has appeared in the likes of The Walking Dead and Euphoria, as well as in movies such as Paper Towns and Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark. A rare…

Over the last few years, employees of Apple have been working out of an office in San Diego to improve Siri’s AI by evaluating responses. Now, they have mere weeks to decide if they are moving state or their role at the company will be terminated. As originally reported by Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, the 121-person ‘Data Operations Annotations’ team will be shuttered and merged with the team of the same name in Austin, Texas. Employees in the San Diego branch have until the end of February to agree to relocate, or they…

On May 12, 1976, Bob Dylan‘s Rolling Thunder Revue played a gig at the Municipal Auditorium in Austin, Texas, that left little historical mark. Newspaper clippings from the week reveal that furious fans protested with signs outside the hall (“Boycott Rolling Thunder Ripoff”) when they learned plans for separate early and late shows were scuttled at the last minute, creating a general admission melee where seat assignments were suddenly meaningless. But it’s one of the few shows from the 57-date Rolling Thunder Revue…

Apple has announced it is welcoming the president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, Dr. Wanda Austion, to its board of directors. Meanwhile, Al Gore and James Bell are both set to retire at the age of 75. Apple announced the move by way of a press release Thursday, stating, “Apple today announced Dr. Wanda Austin, former president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, has been nominated for election to Apple’s board of directors. Dr. Austin brings decades of science and technology experience to her role, and she has…

Childers plays a raucous "Yes I Guess They Oughta Name a Drink After You" and joins the all-star cast in a rendition of Prine's "Paradise" John Prine made eight separate appearances on Austin City Limits over the course of his career. On Saturday, new episodes of the long-running live-music series return with a show devoted to Prine’s posthumous induction into the ACL Hall of Fame. Ethan Hawke inducts Prine in a hat-tipping speech but it’s the performances from artists like Tyler Childers,…

Elon Musk says prototypes are easy, production is hell. And when it comes to the long-awaited Cybertruck, Tesla's hell is its pioneering 4680 battery.Tesla delivered the first of its futuristic stainless steel-plated electric pickups last month and CEO Musk said in October that it would probably hit an annual production rate of a quarter of a million vehicles at some point during 2025.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science…

Angel Di Bilio | iStock Editorial | Getty ImagesDelta Air Lines is adding more flights next year at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, in a bid to gain market share in one of the country's fastest-growing airports.The carrier plans to add 11 nonstop flights from Austin in April, giving it almost 50 peak-day flights, the airline said Friday.Flight additions include Midland-Odessa and McAllen in Texas, as well as Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina, Nashville and Cincinnati.It will also route connecting passengers through…

Look out Ivy League, Elon Musk is coming for you.The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of several other companies (including, um, X), has plans to launch a new university in Austin, Texas.As the Texas Tribune reported, tax filings for The Foundation, one of the charities owned by the world’s richest man, show plans to use a $100 million gift from Musk to fund the school. Initial plans call for a primary and secondary school, which will focus on a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curriculum. Once that’s up…