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Usually a director’s cut makes the film longer. Not this time. When Warwick Thornton’s new movie premiered at Cannes last year it ran at 116 minutes. Now, in time for its UK release, Thornton has reduced it to just over an hour and a half, removing a substantial 20 minutes. The effect is to sharpen focus and tighten up the final act – which is where I felt it sagged the first time around – and create a greater emphasis on the narrative give-and-take between Cate Blanchett’s antiheroine and the Indigenous Australian boy…

The new boy (Aswan Reid, electric) is delivered to the Christian mission at night, tied in a hessian sack like a wild animal. And that’s how the white world of 1940s Australia views Indigenous Australian kids like him – as feral, unpredictable creatures in need of civilisation.Through the lens of her fervent faith, Sister Eileen (Cate Blanchett) can see that there is something special about the child – he picks up snakes the way other children collect pebbles; he can soothe a fever with just his hands. And he can create a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCate Blanchett has expressed her distaste for “trigger warnings” before films or theatre performances, suggesting it implies there is “a lack of mutual respect” between the creators and their audience.The Oscar-winning Australian actor, 54, missed out on a second Best Actress win at last year’s Academy Awards for her controversial film Tár, in which she stars as a revered conductor met…

It is the latest sequel in the long-running saga over the luxury ecohome Cate Blanchett is building in a picturesque seaside town in Cornwall once dubbed “Hollywood-on-Sea”.Neighbours have accused the actor of destroying family holidays with the building noise from the property in Mawgan Porth, it has been reported.Blanchett and her husband, the playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton, bought the cottage in 2020. The original structure has since been demolished to create a five-bedroom ecohome after Cornwall council…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCate Blanchett has been accused of ‘total disregard’ during construction of her eco-home in Cornwall - which has ‘destroyed holidays’ and cost a neighbour £60k.The Lord of the Rings star, 54, and her playwright husband Andrew Upton, 57, bought the £1.6 million cottage in Mawgan Porth four years ago and has since demolished the original structure to replace it with a five-bedroom…

Based on the best-selling video game of the same name, Borderlands is an upcoming sci-fi action comedy from director Eli Roth.Channelling the Guardians of the Galaxy in this colourful space western treasure hunt are Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu and Jamie Lee Curtis.Check out the official synopsis, poster and UK release date for the upcoming Lionsgate blockbuster below.The official synopsis reads: “Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past,…

Cate Blanchett is one of our greatest living acting treasures. Truly, what can’t she do? Well, in the new trailer for Borderlands she’s battling space aliens, searching for buried treasure and a missing girl, and getting drenched in the questionable waters of “Piss-Wash Gully.”  Blanchett leads an all-star ensemble cast in the movie adaptation of the video game series, playing Lilith, an outlaw who reluctantly returns to her home planet to find the missing daughter of a powerful weapons manufacturer. Though that…

Image: LionsgateLionsgate has been trying to get a Borderlands movie off the ground since 2015, with Eli Roth becoming attached to the project in 2020. After a longer-than-expected wait and a series of reshoots with Tim Miller at the helm, the movie is a real thing, and it’s coming in August. The first trailer, however, is here now:Borderlands (2024) Official Trailer - Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack BlackThe Borderlands games concern a rotating quartet of Vault Hunters who show up on the planet Pandora looking to find a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLionsgate has released the first look at Borderlands, its upcoming movie adaptation of the popular video game series.The star-studded adaptation will be led by two-time Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett as Lillith, an infamous outlaw who returns to her home planet and forms an unlikely alliance with a team of heroes. Together, they face a dangerous journey battling alien monsters and…

If it feels like you’ve been hearing about the Borderlands movie for an awfully long time, well—our first glimpse of Cate Blanchett as red-headed bounty hunter Lilith came in June 2021. Now we have a much better look at her character beyond that enigmatic silhouette, and she looks great. The movie itself, well... TBD.Here’s the image, first shared by People and later released by Lionsgate; the studio also revealed a trailer is coming tomorrow, February 21:Image: LionsgateFans of the smash hit space Western video game…