Dying

A dying thief who confessed to stealing a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz because he wanted to pull off “one last score” was given no prison time at his sentencing hearing Monday.Terry Jon Martin, 76, stole the slippers in 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum in the late actor’s home town of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. He gave into temptation after an old mob associate told him the shoes had to be adorned with real jewels to justify their $1m insured value, his attorney revealed in a memo to the…

People with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD for short, are 82 percent more likely to die earlier – from natural or unnatural causes – than people without the condition, a new study reveals.Previous studies have found excess deaths in people with OCD, but the specific causes of death had been poorly researched – maybe with the exception of suicide. Notably, people with OCD have similar suicide rates to people with other mental health disorders.OCD affects about 2 percent of the population. People with the condition…

We've been hearing news about Jennifer Lopez's planned narrative film This Is Me...Now: The Film — a visual companion to her upcoming ninth studio album This Is Me...Now — for a while now. However, this week fans finally got their first peek at the musical film on the 2024 movie schedule when the trailer dropped on Wednesday, January 17. And the general reaction is, for lack of a better word, dumbfounded. Unlike more straightforward concert films like those that followed Beyoncé's and Taylor Swift's recent tours, This Is…

A Walk to Remember, the schmaltzy Nicholas Sparks adaptation starring Mandy Moore and her IRL crush Shane West as star-crossed high-school lovers, is one of the most beloved movies from the 2000s. Given the resurgence of early-aughts culture, the movie has been experiencing a bit of a social-media renaissance. (For the record, should a modern-day remake ever be made, Moore wants fellow pop icon Olivia Rodrigo cast.)  One Instagram user, comedian Rob Anderson, is delighting his followers with his hilarious reaction video…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeKevin Hart has opened up about a frightening experience on a flight that made him fear for his life.The comedian and actor stars in the recently released Netflix action-comedy film, Lift, which includes several high-pressure scenes on an aeroplane.Speaking on Friday night’s edition (12 January) of The Graham Norton Show, Hart reflected on his own tense experience while on a flight,…

M3GAN was one of the biggest box office surprises of 2023. The satirical horror movie launched a successful Internet marketing campaign, which featured plenty of memorable moments from the film. This approach essentially made it a must-see moviegoing experience. After the film’s immense success, a sequel titled M3GAN 2.0 was announced to be in development at Blumhouse. Now, a star of the first film, Violet McGraw, has confirmed that she'll be returning for the sequel, and she's as excited about it as horror fans…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAvengers star Jeremy Renner has reflected on the serious snowplough accident that nearly claimed his life a year ago.On 1 January 2023, Renner was crushed by the seven-tonne vehicle outside his home in rural Nevada. He broke over 30 bones, and required multiple surgeries after being rushed to hospital.Renner, who is best known for playing Clint “Hawkeye” Barton in the popular Marvel…

On a warm, blustery December afternoon outside the De Laurentis olive oil-producing co-op in the white hilltop town of Ostuni, Puglia, Luigi D'Amico holds out his palm, revealing an olive picked earlier in the day.Instead of resembling the plump, gleaming green and black fruit overflowing in bins around him, this one is half-consumed, dry and shrunken."That's what the olive fly does," he explained. "It lays its larvae, which then devours the olive."D'Amico lists off other pests and fungi — olive leprosy, peacock's eye…

Like Harvey Dent, the DCEU is a franchise with two faces. On the one side, it brought us Wonder Woman, The Suicide Squad (and Peacemaker), Birds of Prey… On the other, it also gave us the Martha moment, Jared Leto’s Joker, and Henry Cavill’s Justice League lips. 2023 has been a terrible year for superhero movies all round, but while Marvel Studios has many more years ahead to wash the stain off its cinematic universe, this is it for the DCEU, soon to be rebooted with James Gunn’s shiny new DCU. So it really was all up…

It’s really hard not to have some degree of reverence for E3. For those who grew up with games being streamed and broadcast, it was the big show. It was the place where the biggest reveals of the year happened. And now, it is dead. That’s dramatic, I know. But in all seriousness, the ESA has officially declared E3 done. After more than two decades, the show will cease to exist, following several canceled or online-only years, and a broken partnership with PAX organizer ReedPop. (Disclosure: I used to work under ReedPop,…