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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 freeMichael Caine has lashed out at the claim one of his films might inspire possible terrorists.The actor questioned the 1964 film Zulu’s recent labelling as a “key text” for “white nationalists and supremacists”.Zulu depicts the Battle of Rorke’s Drift, which occurred during the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879. According to William Shawcross’ research into the counter-terrorisim programme…

Image: LucasfilmChristophe Gans says he’s returning to Silent Hill soon. Filming has wrapped on Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Ash’s final Pokémon journey continues with a Pikachu and Meowth team-up. Plus, new posters for John Wick Chapter 4. Spoilers get!Return to Silent HillDeadline reports filming on Christophe Gans’ long-awaited sequel to his 2006 film adaptation of Silent Hill is “due to get underway soon.”The Pope’s ExorcistAccording to Bloody-Disgusting, The Pope’s Exorcist has been rated “R” for “violent…

Image: FXIn some genuinely disappointing news, FX has canceled Kindred, the television adaptation of Octavia Butler’s seminal novel about a young woman who travels back and forth in time between her ancestor’s slave-holding estate in Baltimore and her life in present-day California. While I found the show a little slow at first it ended on an extremely strong note, and I was looking forward to the second season delivering on the season one setup. Alas, for the awful spoilers.Five Nights at Freddy’sVariety reports Mary…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThere are Christmas movies, then there’s The Muppet Christmas Carol. In the years since its arrival in 1992, this surprisingly dedicated adaptation of Charles Dickens’ defining redemption story has emerged as a modern classic, dripping with nostalgia and indelibly linked to the childhood of a generation thanks to countless festive repeats. Full of memorable moments, beloved songs and…

There may be some people who can watch Kermit the Frog’s nephew Robin give his heart-wrenching performance as Tiny Tim in The Muppet Christmas Carol without choking up. I am not among them.When Dickens was writing A Christmas Carol in 1843, he was said to have taken long night walks through London in a state of passionate euphoria, covering 10 or 15 miles at a time, dreaming his masterpiece into existence. I like to think if in the course of these walks some spirit could have taken him into the future to show him the…

Kenyan writer Idza Luhumyo has won the 2022 AKO Caine prize for African writing, with a short story judges described as “incandescent”.Five Years Next Sunday, first published in the book Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa, is about a young woman with the unique power to call the rain in her hair. Feared by her family and community, a chance encounter with a foreigner changes her fortunes, but there are duplicitous designs upon her most prized and vulnerable possession.The prize, which had 267 entries this year, is…

Inception was released 12 years ago today (14 July) – and fans are still in disagreement over the ending.However, Michael Caine once cleared up the ambiguity surrounding the film’s final scene.In a clip from 2018, which recently resurfaced on Reddit, the British actor is seen introducing a Film 4 screening of the acclaimed Christopher Nolan film. According to Caine, the filmmaker explicitly told him which scenes were real and which were a dream.“When I got the script of Inception, I was a bit puzzled by it and I said to…

Even after 50 years, do we properly get Carter? And understand that his awful destiny is bound up with British shame, envy and the class system? Mike Hodges created a Brit-crime magnum opus with this unforgettably sleazy, slimy, nasty film from 1971 – now on re-release, linked to the director’s retrospective at London’s BFI Southbank. It is a violent kitchen-sink pulp with the observational brilliance and dour working-class realism of something by Ken Loach, adapted by Hodges from the novel Jack’s Return Home by the…