Desperate

On March 6th, a recap video of a beautiful pup’s recovery story was shared on Instagram. The video featured bully Yoda, who was found in an awful and painful condition, yet after long-term treatment, he finally could open his beautiful eyes and embrace his new life.As the current owner of Yoda shared, his journey started back in 2023: “He was rescued by Instituto Caramelo, which I follow on Instagram and saw the post on December 21st. I don’t know the location of the rescue, just that it was on the street.”Now, Yoda…

In a sea of bright pink feathers, soft trills emerge. A male flamingo rubs its beak against the grey-tufted head of its newly hatched offspring. But the clock is ticking, and the chick and its father must listen closely and learn each other's voices quickly. Within 10 days of a flamingo chick hatching, its parents will fly off to find food, while the chick stays behind with the other juveniles under the supervision of a few adults. When the parents return, babies and parents must find each other among their flock.…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMadame Web is an $80m (£63m) film with the quality of an unlicensed superhero painted on the side of a carnival ride. It’s desperate and seems embarrassed of itself, the pained shrug of a creative team ordered by Sony executives to keep the wheels turning in their Spider-Man-adjacent universe, all while the actual Spider-Man is out on loan to Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe.Although…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeYou might have assumed it would be a bigger whoop. When Disney announced, on Wednesday, that the hit children’s animation Moana will be getting a theatrically released sequel, it felt less like a victory lap than an act of desperation. The original film, a musical seafaring adventure starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a puckish demigod, was an unmitigated hit with audiences and…

The glut of streaming services that have popped up over the last several years has produced a decidedly crowded marketplace. These days, consumers can subscribe to Netflix, Max, Hulu, Disney+, Paramount+, Amazon Prime, Peacock, Apple TV+, and many more. But with the recent consolidation of Discovery and Warner Bros., and now rumored discussions of a potential merger between Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and Paramount Global, it looks as if the industry is quickly reversing course.The rumored merger talks between WBD and…

"Saga" is one comic you'll likely never see on the big or small screen. Brian K. Vaughan, whose other works "Paper Girls" and "Y: The Last Man" have been adapted, has outright stated that he and Fiona Staples are guarded about their rights to the creator-owned Image Comics series and don't foresee a live-action version of "Saga:"  "I wanted to do something that was way too expensive to be TV and too dirty and grown-up to be a four-quadrant blockbuster," Vaughan told the Hollywood Reporter back in 2012. He…

Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels New research has exposed how food charity in schools is becoming mainstreamed across England amidst the cost-of-living crisis, welfare cutbacks, and entrenched poverty. The findings, led by the University of Bristol and published in the British Educational Research Journal, show an expanding…

The Thanksgiving holiday weekend is always a big one for the U.S. box office, and this year proved to be no exception, particularly when it came to such mega-releases as The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Ridley Scott’s Napoleon and Disney’s latest animated heartwarmer Wish. But those certainly weren’t the only films with something to celebrate, as the video game adaptation Five Nights at Freddy’s managed to hit a huge milestone for not just the film, but the studio that brought it to life. So…

What happens when you mix the heist of Ocean’s Eleven with the philosophy of Robin Hood and sprinkle some magic in? You get the super fun 2013 ensemble heist flick Now You See Me. Now, it’s been ten years since its release, and talk of Now You See Me 3 has started to swirl around again after being stalled in the development void for 7 years. With that in mind, the film’s star Jesse Eisenberg opened up about potentially playing J. Daniel Atlas again, and he gave a surprisingly deep reason as to why he’s “desperate” to…

Hollywood continues to hobble along without its actors, but in the meantime we still have movies that need promoting, so how else can a studio advertise its film without the stars? By resurrecting ancient memes, of course. With the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in full swing, Paramount has turned to a pretty unique – if not slightly desperate – method to promote its upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. A video shared by IGN on Twitter shows a man who has supposedly just come out of a screening, and for…