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via Marvel Studios It takes a special kind of person to withstand four years and counting of a ceaseless stream of pure dumb hate, but that person is Brie Larson, who is able to stare into the ugly face of Twitter everyday and respond by sharing, say, a cute croc-wearing selfie. It’s the Captain Marvel star’s latest revelation, though, that proves just how fearless she really is. Elsewhere, Marvel fans have a surprising reaction to the latest distressing update from Disney Plus. Brie Larson reveals she joined…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBilly Crystal has delighted When Harry Met Sally fans by recreating a scene from the hit Eighties film.The comedian starred opposite Meg Ryan in Nora Ephron’s 1989 romcom, which is widely considered to be one of the greatest of the genre.Marking his 75th birthday on Tuesday (14 March), Crystal thanked fans for their well-wishes, while treating them to a throwback from the film.In the…

"BlackBerry", a King Kong vs. Godzilla tale of the first smartphones, premiered to cheers at the Berlin film festival on Friday, exploring geek culture, toxic masculinity and the birth of gadget addiction. The rollicking two-hour movie by Canadian actor and filmmaker Matt Johnson tells the true story of the heady rise and calamitous fall of one of the great inventions on the cusp of the new millennium. Research In Motion (RIM), based in Waterloo, Ontario, developed the BlackBerry, the first successful mobile phone…

Can there be much material left in Italo Calvino’s desk drawers? Since the death of the puckish Italian polymath in 1985, no fewer than six collections of his nonfiction have appeared in English, gathered into the autobiographical (The Road to San Giovanni, Hermit in Paris) or the literary-critical (Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Why Read the Classics?).So with this seventh collection, The Written World and the Unwritten World, covering a scattering of Calvino’s literary writings from 1952 to 1985 and translated by…

Witnessing the Chicago DJ Honey Dijon behind the decks can be as close to a spiritual experience as you can get on the dancefloor. Trading in the four-to-the-floor kick drum that provides the aortic pulse to house music, Dijon’s mid-tempo sets conduct her crowds perfectly from tantalising buildups to scattered breakdowns and communal euphoria as her soaring melodies kick in. Her debut album, 2017’s Best of Both Worlds, played as a rousing microcosm of these multihour sets, and in the years since its release, Dijon has…

Amazon Great Indian Festival 2022 sale is currently live in the country with new Dussehra Delights deals. The festive season sale is offering huge discounts on a variety of smartphones and TVs. Amazon has also partnered with multiple financial institutions to offer an instant discount of up to Rs. 6,000 on purchases made using Citibank, One Card, RBL Bank, and RuPay cards. Besides this, the e-commerce giant is providing an instant bank discount of Rs. 2,250 on all bank prepaid transactions. Buyers can also avail of Amazon…

Tom Cruise has wowed the UK’s Royal Navy with a special appearance.The actor met with RAF pilots in Gloucestershire, England when he attended the Royal International Air Tattoo over the weekend. Hosted at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, the event is the world’s largest military airshow.A number of photos of Cruise together with RAF pilots have been shared since the event.In them, the Top Gun star is wearing a blue suit and aviator sunglasses. He is surrounded by uniformed officers as they pose in front of a helicopter.…

The title sounds like a metaphor, but there really is a theatre made of a whale’s ribcage in this sweeping historical epic. It stands on a grassy headland on the Dorset coast, draped in scenery, the creation of young Cristabel Seagrave, whose passion for amateur dramatics ropes in family and servants alike at the Chilcombe estate. Here we have the country set in all their jazz-age glory, with cocktails at breakfast, costumes at teatime and a general sense that the world is a peach ripe for plucking.Joanna Quinn, a…

Tired of being bummed about everything? Let the following batch of new movies – the sexy smart “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” the unconventional rom-com “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” the teambuilding Pixar gem “Lightyear” and the delightfully quirky “Brain and Charles” — work their considerable charms on you. Here’s our roundup. “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”: The scenario sounds contrived — a sexually uptight former teacher Nancy Stokes (the grand Emma Thompson) hires a hot escort (Daryl McCormack, steaming up every second of…