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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEmma Stone has recalled the “total garbage” advice she received from a studio executive early on in her career. The 35-year-old Poor Things star was honoured with the 2024 Palm Springs International Film Awards’ Desert Palm Achievement Award on Thursday (4 January) for her performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ sci-fi fantasy. During her acceptance speech, Stone remembered the words of an…

Florence Pugh knows how to bring in the New Year and celebrate her birthday in fashion. She’s made a name for herself over the last couple of years with her stunning sheer looks, like the bright pink Valentino number. However, she's celebrating 2024 and 28 years of life by rocking a sparkly mini dress and spiky hairdo that’s giving all the early 2000s glam realness, and I’m so here for it. After having a fantastic 2023 with the releases of Oppenheimer, The Boy and the Heron and A Good Person as well as oh so many major…

A funny — but true — joke at TechCrunch is that the security desk might as well be called the Department of Bad News, since, well, have you seen what we’ve covered of late? There is a never-ending supply of devastating breaches, pervasive surveillance and dodgy startups flogging the downright dangerous. Sometimes though — albeit rarely — there are glimmers of hope that we want to share. Not least because doing the right thing, even (and especially) in the face of adversity, helps make the cyber-realm that little bit…

Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s ex-fixer and personal lawyer, said in newly unsealed court filings that he accidentally gave his lawyer fake legal citations concocted by the artificial intelligence program Google Bard. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman called three case citations into question earlier this month after they were used in a motion to end Cohen’s supervised release early. Cohen pleaded guilty to charges including tax evasion and campaign finance violations in 2018 and served some time in…

Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, accidentally gave his lawyer phony legal citations — which were then used in a motion given to a federal judge — conjured by Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Google Bard. Per The New York Times, Cohen pulled the citations when trying to aid his lawyer with a motion related to his 2018 guilty plea for campaign finance violations. Cohen spent just over a year in prison (he was released early in 2020 due to Covid-19) but remained under court supervision.…

Holidays can be exhausting, depressing and frankly, it can make you want to give up on humanity, seeing people throwing tantrums for receiving an expensive gift in the wrong color. Luckily, there are many wholesome stories floating around to reinstill the magic of Christmas – just like the one about an eight-year-old boy who gave his mom the best gift. Prepare some tissues, because this one is a tear jerker.More info: TikTokThis mom just got the most amazing Christmas gift ever from her 8-year-old sonShare iconImage…

It’s been 25 years since Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan last graced us with their presences in a romantic comedy, and yet, I find myself thinking about You’ve Got Mail daily. Since then, both have gone on to have prolific lives, professionally and personally, winning awards, raising incredibly talented kids who followed in their footsteps, and being amazing people in general. After an eight-year hiatus, Ryan returned to Hollywood to direct, write, and star in the 2023 movie release What Happens Later. After watching the movie,…

It might seem silly to ask Victoria Mary Clarke how she’s doing. When we speak it’s barely two weeks since her husband, the Pogues frontman and musical icon Shane MacGowan, died at the age of 65. They’d known each other for more than 40 years, and been together for most of that time. But, as it turns out, my question is not so daft.“I’ve actually been doing fine, because I feel like he’s still here,” she says. “Especially when I’m sitting in his chair or looking at his picture, I feel that he’s communicating with me. I…

A thriving surf scene and a drought in Southern California set the stage for the rise of professional skateboarding in the 1970s.This was not a coincidence but the result of complex relationships between people and climate, a new study says, and it couldn't have happened anywhere but California.The annual construction of around 20,000 new curved wall pools, mandated water conservation, and advances in technology like digital photography and industrial polyurethane all contributed to skateboarding's boom in…

In Oppenheimer, we know Robert Downey Jr. gives a performance totally different from anything we’ve ever seen from him. It’s masterful, and the decision to cast him as Lewis Strauss in the Oppenheimer cast was inspired, albeit a bit shocking considering the actor’s filmography. So, with all that in mind, it was fascinating to hear the humorously honest advice Emily Blunt gave RDJ about working with the man who cast him and the film's director Christopher Nolan. It sounds like Christopher Nolan runs a tight ship on set,…