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On the opening night of Bob Dylan‘s 2024 tour, a fan reportedly got under his skin by screaming out, “Play something we know.” The fact that he followed the heckle up with a brand new arrangement of “When I Paint My Masterpiece” that echoed Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ On The Ritz” (or possibly “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” by the Four Lads) is surely coincidence since such things are worked out in advance, but later in the night he did pull out a surprise by covering the 1956 Jimmy Rogers song “Walking By Myself” for…

Why would you scrap a movie that is all but finished before anyone except studio suits have had a chance to see it? The answer, for Hollywood bigwigs, is a tax write-off. In the last 18 months, Warner Bros has deleted a live-action Looney Tunes riff, Coyote vs Acme; the animated adventure Scoob! Holiday Haunt; and, most infamously, the $90m DC Extended Universe flick Batgirl. Now Netflix seems to be getting in on the act with news this week that the Halle Berry-led sci-fi tale The Mothership is also being axed before…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAn online film enthusiast has pointed out a surprising link between two history-making Best Actress Oscar-winners.Michelle Yeoh won her first Academy Award at Sunday night’s ceremony (12 March) for her performance in Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once – the evening’s top-scoring film.In a historic moment, Yeoh’s success made her the first-ever Asian Best Actress winner. You can…

If there’s one thing you absolutely shouldn’t do on the internet, it’s berate Keanu Reeves’ entire discography. And if there’s a second thing you definitely shouldn’t do on the internet, it’s make the same mistake by now ridiculing Halle Berry. Apparently, the internet has yet to learn from their mistakes and keeps repeating the same formula of attacking actors’ careers by insisting that only a few movies have carried them. Over on Twitter, a cheeky user decided to test the internet’s brainpower by asking fellow users…