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My earliest reading memoryWhen I was around nine, my dad said I was old enough to take on the responsibility of reading bedtime stories to my younger brother. And so, one night at a time, I read him all of The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary and then Bunnicula, by James and Deborah Howe, a book about a vegetarian vampire rabbit that we both loved. I was so incredibly proud to be the one telling him the story. I felt so grown up.My favourite book growing upLove, Lucy by Lucille Ball. I picked it up when I was…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe shirt worn by Colin Firth when he strode across fields dripping wet after a swim in the lake during the TV series adaptation of the classic novel Pride and Prejudice has sold for £25,000 at a charity auction.Oscar-winner Firth played Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, opposite Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet – who is surprised when she visits his…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBridget Jones is set to return to the big screen with filming beginning this spring.The fourth instalment will begin filming in May, 23 years after the release of the first movie in the rom-com series.Double Oscar-winning Renee Zellweger will return in the lead role based on the best-selling series by Helen Fielding.Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, who played love rivals Mark Darcy and…

Image: Marvel StudiosIn just 24 hours the Deadpool & Wolverine movie trailer became the most viewed piece of promotional content from Disney with a line about pegging. Bless the Merc with the Mouth played by Ryan Reynolds, whose return to the big screen with the promise of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine rocked the Super Bowl teasers on every available platform by scoring 365 million views in just a day.Being spread out (just like Deadpool likes it) between star Ryan Reynolds and Marvel Studios Youtube channel as well as on…

Brian d’Arcy James, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a distinguished stage and screen actor and singer who is currently nominated for the best actor in a musical Tony for the 2022-2023 Broadway revival of the musical Into the Woods and starring opposite Tony winner Kelli O’Hara Off Broadway in the original musical Days of Wine and Roses. James is best known for his work on the stage. Over the last 30 years, he has appeared in 15 Broadway productions,…

“What might she have written next?” asked Margaret Atwood in her tribute to Hilary Mantel, after the Booker prize-winning novelist’s sudden death in September last year. “I don’t know, but I will miss it.” In this, she spoke for readers around the world, eagerly awaiting a new book from the author of the Wolf Hall trilogy. Aside from her Cromwell novels, Mantel had a habit of confounding expectations, with each new work so different from its predecessor.We now know the answer to Atwood’s question: Mantel was working on a…

Image: Marvel StudiosThor: Love and Thunder ends with arguably its biggest surprise. After Gorr uses his one wish from Eternity to bring back his daughter, he asks Thor to take care of her after he dies. And he does. Thor basically adopts the child and, according to Korg’s voiceover, they travel across the galaxy together being called “Love and Thunder.” Adorable.But, does this mean Thor now has a permanent kiddie sidekick? It sure seems like that. The comics have various different iterations of Thor where he has…