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With the conflict in Gaza looming large over Sunday’s Oscars ceremony and sparking a pro-Palestinian protest outside the venue, director Jonathan Glazer gave the evening’s most politically charged speech on the subject when he took the stage to accept the international film award for his Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest.” Glazer, who is Jewish, directly linked his film’s chilling depiction of a Nazi commandant’s family blithely living just outside the walls of Auschwitz to the current crisis unfolding in Israel…

BYD unveiled an updated version of its cheapest electric car model, Seagull, and further slashed its starting price, deepening a price war amid rising competition in China, the world’s largest car market. BYD unveiled an updated version of its cheapest electric car model, Seagull, and further slashed its starting price, deepening a price war amid rising competition in China, the world’s largest car market. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an…

Maya Vitkova’s eloquent, ambitious, emotionally committed drama Viktoria premiered at Sundance 10 years ago and more than deserves its UK streaming release now. This excellent film would be a striking accomplishment from anyone – and this was actually Vitkova’s debut. It feels fierce and urgent: tremendously designed, acted and shot. Viktoria is an intergenerational women’s story from Bulgaria both before and after the 1989 revolutions, a film that maybe in its absurdism, scepticism and slow-burn passion shows the…

Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan in Dune: Part Two ( Photo Credit – Warner Bros. Pictures / YouTube ) Dune: Part Two is one of the biggest releases of 2024. Part 1 received a lot of praise from the audience and critics alike. The film stars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Fergusan, Josh Brolin, and Dave Bautista. Two promising Hollywood actors, Florence Pugh, and Austin Butler, have also joined the cast for the upcoming release. The Denis Villeneuve directorial promises to deliver another visual spectacle and an…

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 is facing strong criticism over his strict “no chairs on sets” policy, with several people calling out his directing methods for being “harsh”.The actor and director, 48, appeared on a recent episode of Variety’s “Directors on Directors”, where he spoke with Do the Right Things’ Spike Lee, and discussed his preferred directing environment.“There’s no chairs on sets; I’ve…

As Taylor Swift’s romance with Travis Kelce appears to grow ever more serious, her longtime publicist Tree Paine made what’s been called an unusual move Thursday to fiercely denounce one of the many online rumors that tend to percolate about the singer — this one alleging that she had a secret “marriage”-like ceremony with her last serious boyfriend, Joe Alwyn, before their shock split earlier this year. The secret ceremony claim was made by a writer on the infamous gossip account Deuxmoi, and it was vehemently slammed by…

Furiosa Trailer: 'Whatever you have to do, however long it takes, promise me you will find your way back home, Furiosa.' The new movie Furiosa, a prequel to George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road, is coming to theaters in 2024. Fury Road, directed by George Miller, who brought Mad Max's post-apocalyptic world to life, left us reeling for more in 2015. He is currently making strides in discovering the roots of the story of Furiosa, offering an intriguing and entertaining perspective. On December 1st, Warner Bros. UK &…

It’s been a year of glossy profiles, breathless accolades, and funding billions for OpenAI, but the ChatGPT-maker is far more vulnerable than the popular narrative suggests. Amid a seemingly unstoppable ascent, it’s facing fierce competition, a rising open-source movement and pressure to deliver hits in an unpredictable discipline. Surprisingly, its perch atop the AI field is less than rock solid.  OpenAI’s weakness stems in part from its strength. It popularized generative AI by taking others’ innovations — like…

A badger-like mammal died while chomping into the ribs of a hapless horned plant-eating dinosaur struggling to escape more than 100 million years ago. The pair were perfectly preserved, still locked in combat, in "China's dinosaur Pompeii," researchers report.Dating to the Cretaceous Period, the dramatic fossil unearthed in northeastern China shows the four-legged mammal Repenomamus robustus — the size of a domestic cat — ferociously entangled with the beaked two-legged dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis, as big as a…

Scorching weather gripped three continents on Sunday, whipping up wildfires and threatening to topple temperature records as the dire consequences of global warming take shape.​Predictions of historic heat hung over swathes of Asia, Europe and the United States.In the Vatican, 15,000 people braved sweltering temperatures to hear Pope Francis lead prayer, using parasols and fans to keep cool.But in their black robes, priests like Francois Mbemba said they were "sweating like hell".The 29-year-old said it felt hotter in St…