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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 freeAt Cannes this spring, How to Have Sex was the film on everyone’s lips. The sweaty, sad, sun-drenched British indie flick, about three 16-year-old girls on a rites-of-passage party holiday in Malia, Greece, won the French film festival’s Un Certain Regard prize. John C Reilly, jury president of the arthouse award, said the drama “brings us closer to understanding the human condition”.…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMargot Robbie has said she was able to “completely” pay off her mother’s mortgage once she made “enough money” following her breakout role. In 2013, the Australian actor, 33, starred in Martin Scorsese’s crime drama The Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. It was Robbie’s portrayal of Naomi Lapaglia, the wife of real-life stock market scammer and manipulator Jordan Belfort,…

I have never been a huge fan of Charlotte York Goldenblatt, the Upper East Side princess played by Kristin Davis in Sex and the City. As a New York Jew, I didn’t relate to her WASP-y country club optimism, nor was I particularly charmed by her wide-eyed pearl-clutching at her friends’ sexual exploits. (Dude, you copped to rimming your first husband over eggs Benedict. We didn’t forget!) I found her grating and prissy and the most unforgivably callous of the four; in the final season, when she exploded at poor Harry by…

The independent, low-polygon ode to ‘Battlefield’ crushes the competition in a week dominated by military shootersIf there is one genre that may never go out of style, it’s the military shooter, wherein players put on their virtual combat gear and wage war. Four out of the six paid titles on this week’s top 10 Steam sellers fall into this category. “BattleBit Remastered,” an indie multiplayer shooter that prides itself on a low-polygon aesthetic reminiscent of “Roblox” or “Minecraft,” was the top paid game of the week…

After 11 years together, Little Mix went on hiatus in 2022 to pursue solo projects and take a break from the group that transformed them into global superstars.Originally formed on ‘The X-Factor’ in 2011, Little Mix – Perrie Edwards, Jade Thirlwall, Jesy Nelson and Leigh-Anne Pinnock – went on to become the first group to win the show. In the 11 years they were together, Little Mix sold more than 60 million records and released six Top 10 albums. The band became a trio in December 2020 when Jesy departed to focus on her…

Image via Sony Pictures Entertainment Spider-Man fans hope the success of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will mark the dawn of a new era that will see Sony Pictures develop live-action adaptations of other spin-off franchises. A die-hard webhead took to Twitter to criticize the film studio for missing the opportunity to explore Spider-Man 2099. It's kinda wild how Sony have been reaching down the back of the sofa for B-tier Spider-Man villains to make movies about, when Spider-Man 2099 is right there.…

At the start of 2020, things were coming up Jess Williamson. The Texan songwriter was about to release her fourth album, Sorceress. Its restrained country opulence was turning more heads than her earlier records had. She was happily in a four-year relationship with another musician. But by the time the album was released in May, the pandemic had killed any chance of touring, limiting its potential. And her boyfriend had left.“I was really afraid and sad, and really alone,” says Williamson, 35, speaking from her “hobbit…

Image via Marvel Studios Warning: Minor spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 to follow. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 truly has it all; heart-wrenching character moments, a healthy dose of the humor we’ve all grown so fond of, an ending that both bids our heroes a fitting farewell and promises an exciting new era, and of course, a brand new, adorable little critter character with the exact same energy as Grogu. Indeed, Vol. 3 introduced us to Blurp, the furry alien pet of an unnamed Ravager that Adam…

Photo via John Shearer / WireImage Zach Cregger, the writer/director of last year’s horror hit Barbarian, has snagged another win, this time landing the internet’s daddy, Pedro Pascal, as the star of his next film. Per Deadline, Pascal will lead New Line Cinema’s Weapons, which Cregger will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Vertigo’s Roy Lee and BoulderLight Pictures’ J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules. Miri Yoon of Vertigo will also produce. In addition to being a rare horror movie that’s…

Even though Respawn's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is still a few days away, the game already has a breakout star. And it's someone you'd never guess.It was recently revealed that throughout your adventures in Jedi: Survivor, Cal runs into a frog-like alien named Turgle. They walk on two feet and look like a man if you stare at them long enough. It didn't take long for the Star Wars community to discover this hidden gem, and Lucy James took to Twitter to note how much of a star Turgle is.…