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The first reactions to Timothée Chalamet’s highly anticipated Wonka are here! If these reactions from critics and entertainment journalists are taken into consideration, Wonka is a 'delicious' and 'heartfelt' musical with a 'pitch-perfect' lead act from Timothée. (Also read: Taika Waititi says he had no interest in directing Thor Ragnarok, reveals why he did it: I was poor, had a second child) Timothée Chalamet in a still from Wonka. Wonka gets a thumbs upFilm Critic Perri Nemiroff of Collider wrote, "#Wonka is…

At the end of last month, a series of cryptic messages appeared on electronic billboards in east London. “With da Burna. Boy you know I’m masculine,” read one. “I made a comeback as a villain & made a movie so sit back & get the Popcaan my killy,” read another. These turned out to be advance publicity for Beautiful and Brutal Yard (BABY), their announcement of the album’s guest features forming part of a lengthy, mysterious promotional campaign.Everyone they were aimed at seemed to know straight away who they…

From Maha’s 80s Egyptian orchestral pop to Fadoul’s 70s Moroccan psych-funk, independent label Habibi Funk has spent the best part of the last decade platforming fascinating, cross-cultural music from the Arab world. Their latest niche is Libyan reggae, a popular genre in the country since Bob Marley’s music arrived in the 70s and local acts honed their own takes on the sound. The label previously released 2021’s dub-laden single Tendme by Tripoli-born Ibrahim Hesnawi; their latest record, singer Ahmed Ben Ali’s Subhana,…

Krzysztof Kieślowski’s vast meditation on love, fate and the unheard harmonies of the universe begins its 30th-anniversary rerelease tomorrow. This is the first in his film trilogy with its tricolour motif (to be followed by White and Red); the whole is a triptych with overlapping images and character-glimpses, all destined to be tied up in a chaotic conclusion.Here, Juliette Binoche plays Julie, the wife of a famous composer working on a huge commission from the European Council: a symphony to be played by no fewer than…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe romcom has lapsed into such an anaemic state that Rye Lane feels like a miracle. Here’s an entry into the genre that doesn’t surrender to thinkpiece-ready neuroticism. And doesn’t demand two A-listers shoulder the entire job of summoning chemistry from a dead-eyed script. And, most refreshingly, doesn’t subsist purely on nostalgia for romcoms of old.Raine Allen-Miller’s breezy,…

The name of this (currently) seven-piece Scottish folk band was never meant to be permanent. In 1990 they were busking in Madrid when a bar owner offered them a gig; they just needed a name for the poster. The guitarist came up with Shooglenifty – a placeholder until something better came along.Anyway, that’s how the story goes. It’s remembered in this documentary made after the death in 2016 of the group’s frontman and fiddler Angus G Grant from throat cancer at just 49. In photos and footage from the early days, he had…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The perception and negotiation abilities of more charismatic CEOs result in higher IPO prices and smaller offer price ranges for their firms, according to new research published in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. The study found that humility among CEOs, on the other hand—while celebrated in the media—actually goes against the implicit leadership theory, which suggests that people expect…

Here is an invigorating portrait of one of Europe’s most distinguished scientists, caught at the very point of morphing into a public intellectual and vehement campaigner. In 2017, Swiss biophysicist Jacques Dubochet won the Nobel prize in chemistry – jointly with Richard Henderson of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and Joachim Frank of Columbia in New York – for his work on cryo-electron microscopy, freezing biomolecules in mid-movement and so rendering them visible for the first time; this was a…

David Warner was a distinguished English Shakespearean actor, in fact one of the great stage Hamlets of his generation but, in movie terms, and especially as he got older, his strong, intelligent face and equine handsomeness almost made him the English Max von Sydow, eminently castable in supporting character roles as troubled or darkly villainous people in scary films.It was Warner’s destiny to have one of the most macabre and shocking death scenes in movie history in the classic 1976 chiller The Omen, a…