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Whatever we believe in, it is our choice. However, while it is completely fine to talk about those things, pushing them too much can quickly get annoying. As one Redditor shared, the workplace is precisely where personal beliefs should be kept to yourself. When one atheist woman asked an IT worker a simple question and received an answer starting with prayers and blessings, she was quick to tell them she didn’t want that. Still, that made her wonder if that was the right thing to do. Scroll down to read the full…

Apparently making super creepy mystery movies for major movie studios just runs in the Shyamalan family. M. Night Shyamalan, of course, is well-known for movies like The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs. He’s been freaking us out and making us guess for decades. But now, his daughter Ishana Night Shyamalan is getting in on the family tradition with a summer release from Warner Bros. called The Watchers.Rainn Wilson’s First Fandoms: Star Trek And D&DProduced by M. Night Shyamalan, but written and directed by Ishana…

Hidetaka Miyazaki has said there is a “high possibility” he won’t be involved in future “Souls-ish” FromSoftware games. Between Elden Ring and Dark Souls, FromSoftware has become the go-to studio for “Souls-ish” games, with regular director Miyazaki defining the soulslike genre as “those dark fantasy third-person action games with a higher focus on melee combat and sense of accomplishment.” And he knows what he’s talking about, having directed almost every Elden Ring and Dark Souls title. The exception to the rule is…

The Uncut Gems co-director will helm the Sandman's first comedy project since 2018's 100% Fresh Adam Sandler will reunite with Uncut Gems co-director Josh Safdie for a new comedy special set to air on Netflix.  Unfortunately, at this time, there are no more details — such as a title, production timeline, or even premiere date — beyond everything contained in the aforementioned sentence. As such, we’ll all just have to sit here, stewing like Kevin Garnett after gazing upon the mysterious black…

Greta Gerwig is one of the most exciting — and distinct — directors to emerge in the 21st century, as well as a key figure in the rising number of female directors and storytellers emerging in the film industry in recent years. Beginning her career as an actor in the early 2000s, Gerwig was a pioneer of the “mumblecore” style of indie filmmaking — low-budget, independent films with dialogue as the central focus. Gerwig began her career co-writing independent films with Joe Swanberg, before collaborating as a writer with…

It's interesting to think about Ben Affleck's career in Hollywood. From being the youngest person to ever win an Academy Award for Best Screenplay (with his good pal, Matt Damon), to playing Daredevil AND Batman, to also directing movies...I mean come on now. What hasn't this man accomplished? We've already ranked Ben Affleck's best movies, but this time, we want to focus solely on his directorial efforts.    With Ben Affleck’s 2023 movie, Air, which we called “solid, but very traditional” in our review, he has now made…

The rapper's debut album, Montero, arrived in 2021 Fans may not have much longer to wait for new music from Lil Nas X. The rapper, whose debut LP Montero dropped in 2021, confirmed that there is, at the very least, a single on the way. “Wrote and directed my own music video for the first time,” Nas wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Excited for y’all to see. It’s the best one yet!” He added three emojis: a church, a white heart, and a peace dove. wrote AND directed my own music video for the…

Few directors manage to define their own generation, let alone those that follow. Steven Spielberg has been at the top of his game for most of his career. The filmmaker is credited with ushering in the “New Era of Hollywood,” is one of the most commercially successful directors in history, and will go down as one of the best directors of all time.    The beloved director has made nearly 50 films since he released his first short, Amblin’ (which shares the name with his co-created studio, Amblin Entertainment), and has…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBradley Cooper has said he directed his new Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro in the late conductor’s voice, after being inspired by Christian Bale’s method in 2013’s American Hustle.Speaking to fellow director Spike Lee, Cooper, 48, recalled being impressed by Bale’s dedication to staying in character. “American Hustle was the first time I saw an actor stay in the voice of a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeTaika Waititi has revealed that he decided to direct 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok because: “I was poor and I’d just had a second child”.The filmmaker, speaking on the SmartLess podcast to hosts Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes, added that although he initially “had no interest in doing one of those films” he came to the conclusion that making the Marvel Cinematic Universe…