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Kieran Culkin stopped to chat at The Hollywood Reporter‘s studio during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday with his A Real Pain co-stars Jesse Eisenberg (who also wrote and directed the film), Jennifer Grey and Will Sharpe.  The Succession alum has kept busy for the past few years, winning a slew of awards for his role in the HBO show, including an Emmy for best actor in a drama series. Now that the series has ended, Culkin is looking forward to focusing on fatherhood.  “I’m really looking…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeChristopher Eccleston has revealed he turned down a role in Billy Elliot as he found its depiction of a working-class family “offensive”.The Manchester-born actor, who grew up in Salford, criticised the film, which tells the story of an aspiring ballet, while discussing his decision to reject acting opportunities he feels patronise working-class people.For Eccleston, it was the…

Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie’s Family Attend The Same Exhibition In Beverly Hills! (Picture Credit: Flickr, Facebook & IMDB) Brad Pitt allegedly ended his marriage with Jennifer Aniston to continue his romantic saga with Angelina Jolie. The duo met on the sets of Mr & Mrs Smith (2005), and there were instant sparks. After being together for 12 years, the couple called it quits in 2016. The superstar ran into her father, Jon Voight, and brother, James Haven, recently. Below are details of their meet &…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLindsay Lohan’s father, Michael Lohan, has reportedly said he’s “pissed” at the filmmakers of the new Mean Girls remake for making a “disgusting” joke at the expense of his daughter.The newly released adaptation of Tina Fey’s Broadway musical, which was based on her original 2004 comedy classic, sees up-and-coming Australian actor Angourie Rice take over for Lohan as new student Cady…

Stories where companies take advantage of customers never get old. Especially when the customers get sweet, sweet revenge. Who doesn’t like a nice case of “sticking it to the Man?” So, following this tradition, here’s another story of how a savvy customer dealt with an entitled company.The Redditor predtech posted his tale of retribution on the r/ProRevenge subreddit. It all started quite innocently – with ordering a Christmas gift for his son. When the gift arrived, however, the parents saw some extra customs charges…

It’s a shame Arkane Studios’ Ravenholm was cancelled. That would have definitely filled the large Half-Life hole us fans have felt for some time. However, a modding team has been on the case with a custom story that lets us experience the creepy mining town some more. From the people that brought us the Raising the Bar project – an overhaul of Half-Life 2 that breathes new life into the iconic FPS – comes Raising the Bar: Salvation. In this mod, we fill the shoes of Father Grigori, the pastor of Ravenholm who…

Former world champion Julio César Chávez Jr. was arrested on suspicion of illegal possession of an assault rifle last weekend in Los Angeles, as initially reported by the TMZ website and later confirmed by the boxer’s father via social networks. According to TMZ, police responded to a call from a concerned fan who believed the boxer could be a danger to himself or others. The fan has not been identified.TMZ Sports reported that Chávez Jr. was detained by Los Angeles police after the boxer allowed officers into his home,…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBarry Keoghan has said that becoming a father for the first time while in the middle of shooting Saltburn was the “best time” of his life.Keoghan, 31, who stars as the middle-class interloper Oliver Quick in the Emerald Fennell film Saltburn, welcomed his baby son in the summer of 2022 while the cast was filming at Drayton House in Northamptonshire.In an interview with GQ, Keoghan…

By the time he died in 2015 at the age of 106, Nicholas Winton was the nearest British equivalent to a secular saint.His basic story has been told many times. In late 1938, everyone in Prague was braced for an imminent German invasion. When a friend asked Winton to come and witness the developing humanitarian crisis for himself, he set about organising a series of eight Kindertransports, which eventually brought 669 Czech Jewish children to safety in Britain.Though he said little about the rescue for almost half a…

Nearly 40 years following Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple became an 11-time Academy Award-nominated film, Hollywood is revisiting the Pulitzer Prize-winning story once again with the new 2023 reimagining. Ahead of the story moving audiences in movie theaters, one of The Color Purple’s stars, Corey Hawkins, opened up about how experiencing the film alongside his father was a powerful moment for him. When The Color Purple cast came together a day after the premiere for a press conference, which CinemaBlend was in…