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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 freeMichelle Yeoh has taken to social media to explain her awkward interaction with Emma Stone while presenting the Oscar for Best Actress last night.Yeoh, 61, won the award last year for her role in multiverse comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once.This year she presented the award to Stone for her performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, but there was a moment of confusion as Yeoh…

On Saturday night, in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, Covid conspiracist filmmaker Mikki Willis debuted the fourth film in his Plandemic series to an audience of about 150 fans and fellow travelers. Then, before he and his cast and crew could get into a planned Q&A session, the audience was told it had about five minutes to clear out of the ballroom venue. “I did not know that,” Willis said after confirming with event workers the screening space had to be empty by 8 p.m. Unlike the first three…

A physical encounter between two humpback whales has been immortalized on film for the first time.As two photographers snapped pictures off the coast of Maui, they were approached by a pair of humpbacks (Megaptera novaeangliae); one of whom was proceeding to engage in repeated sexual behavior with his companion.But there were some surprises about the encounter – not least of which was that both whales were adult males.Pacific Whale Foundation biologist Stephanie Stack is the senior author of a paper describing the…

Andrew Scott was bombarded by inappropriate questions from a BBC reporter on the Baftas red carpet.The actor, 47, appeared uncomfortable as he was asked questions about Saltburn and fellow Irish actor Barry Keoghan.“Do you know Barry well?” the reporter asked, before then enquiring about his reaction to the “naked dance scene at the end of Saltburn”.Trying to dodge the awkward question, Scott suggested he didn’t want to “spoil it for anybody” but the reporter continued with his line of questioning.“There is a lot of talk…

Joe Maring / Digital Trends OnePlus has made a pretty major flub regarding the storage hardware of the OnePlus 12R. The 12R is already one of 2024’s best smartphones, but it is now receiving quite some heated flak for something OnePlus got wrong. The company advertised that the OnePlus 12R came equipped with a UFS 4.0 storage module when, in reality, it relies on the older and slower UFS 3.1 standard. “The OnePlus 12R also still features all the new Trinity Engine features we announced at launch, like launching apps…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDakota Johnson has been praised for her stoic responses in an interview for her forthcoming film, Madame Web.The actor will soon star in Marvel’s newest superhero caper as a woman named Cassandra Webb who acquires special powers after an accident.While promoting the film, Johnson, 34, spoke to HuffPost UK in an on-camera interview, during which she was asked about her response to a…

The 66th Grammy Awards took place on Sunday (February 4), and just like most major award shows, it was also packed with memorable moments, some a little weirder than others.The event, which honored the best recordings, compositions, and artists from October 1, 2022, to September 15, saw Taylor Swift making history as the first solo artist to win Album of the Year four times, but she also became the butt of host Trevor Noah’s jokes, except this time she loved it.Meanwhile, Miley Cyrus graced the red carpet with a…

Such a seemingly harmless formality as “speak now or forever hold your peace” can go either way. Sometimes all it is is a silent pause when everyone holds their breath, while other times it stirs up so much drama that it’s impossible to continue the ceremony.Wedding officiants are the ones who witness the aftermath of this question more than anyone else. So when netizens on Reddit asked them to share what happened after the pitiful phrase had been spoken, they didn’t hold back. Scroll down to find the most popular and…

Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super MSRP $800.00 “The RTX 4070 Ti Super still lands in an awkward spot in Nvidia's lineup.” Pros DLSS 3.5 Solid improvement over RTX 4070 Ti Excellent ray tracing performance Fantastic power effciency Cons Still too expensive Occasionally…

The cultural behemoth that was "Brangelina" faced a fiery downfall when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced they were getting a divorce back in 2016. It was a messy, much-publicized split, one rife with domestic abuse allegations, a lengthy, complicated custody battle and even testimonies from the former couple's children. (Currently, Jolie has sole custody of their six children, which includes Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne, while Pitt has visitation rights.)Given how acrimonious the divorce was, it's…