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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 freeThe daughter of the late Diana Rigg has shared heartbreaking details about the end of the actor’s life.Rigg, known for her roles in The Avengers, James Bond and Game of Thrones, died of cancer in September 2020 at the age of 82. Her daughter, the actor Rachael Stirling, wrote about her mother’s death and her passionate advocacy of assisted dying in a new piece for The…

LAS VEGAS —  Austin Reaves had one last special moment to deliver, one last play to provide the Lakers, one last ounce of energy to give on a night when he was not feeling his best.So, when Reaves drove hard into the lane late in the fourth quarter Saturday, finding a burst of energy yet again that allowed him to score while being fouled by Indiana’s 6-foot-9 Obi Toppin, he was able to breathe again because the Lakers were on their way to winning the NBA’s inaugural in-season tournament championship over the Pacers at…

A free-spirited young beauty in late 19th-century rural Poland falls foul of the repressive patriarchy, the petty-minded jealousies simmering in her village and her own extremely poor judgment in this lavish rotoscoped and oil-painted animation. Directors DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman, the team behind the Oscar-nominated Loving Vincent, employ the same painstaking and striking animation technique as they used to explore the final days in the life of Vincent van Gogh.This time, the source material is The Peasants, the 1924…

My revelation came in the spring, after a typical day in 11th-grade AP English. The topic was gender and how the experiences of the authors we were studying related to our world today. Unfortunately, I didn’t hear anything I hadn’t heard many times before.Class discussions tend to go like that. We’ve been inculcated with approved positions on issues such as gender identity, patriarchy, cultural appropriation and microaggressions. Any perceived misstep can ruin a reputation in a flash.But then something unusual happened.…

More than 20 years have passed since the claymation magicians at Aardman Animations had the brainwave of relocating The Great Escape to a north of England chicken farm. The original Chicken Run remains a classic of family entertainment, unbeatable in its inventiveness, distinctive aesthetic and deliciously absurd humour. Disappointingly but perhaps not surprisingly, this sequel fails to match the original on any level whatsoever. It’s not bad exactly, although there’s a synthetic look to the colour palette that feels very…

A few days ago, Game of Thrones fame Sophie Turner confirmed she is dating Peregrine ‘Perry’ John Dickinson Pearson after pictures of the two making out in London appeared. Now, as per a new report by Us Weekly, a source has confirmed that 'she’s really happy' with Perry, after her divorce from singer Joe Jonas a couple of months ago. (Also read: GoT Star Sophie Turner confirms new love with this British aristocrat Peregrine Pearson amid divorce from Joe Jonas) British actor Sophie Turner and Peregrine Pearson…

Actor Stephen Fry injured his leg, pelvis and several ribs after falling off the stage in London. The 66-year-old actor was a speaker at CogX Festival in September when he took a fall as he left the stage and suffered horrific injuries. "I was doing an event at the O2 arena. I did my hour after delivering this lecture, turned to go off stage and didn`t notice I was walking off a part stage where there was nothing but a six-foot drop onto concrete," he said to Claudia Winkleman on BBC Radio Two, reports aceshowbiz.com.…

Jonathan Glazer grew up in Hadley Wood, close to Barnet on the northern outskirts of London, where his family were part of a thriving Jewish community. “There were all these fantastic characters, who were in and out of my house when I was a little boy,” he says. “Many of them were East End Jews who had moved to the suburbs for a better quality of life, not super-intellectual people, but incredible entertainers – vaudeville musicians, writers and the like. As a child, I loved and absorbed the richness of that culture.”The…

The director Paul King, the magician behind the two Paddington movies and now Wonka, has a formula. Sweet-natured, sweet-toothed dreamers arrive in a strange land where they are forced to overcome adversity by employing, among other things, their passion and skill for creating sugar-based foodstuffs. King’s trademark box-of-delights storytelling approach combines showy, gymnastically agile editing and a disarmingly handmade, artisanal quality to the production design. At times, his films can venture a little too far…

Leave the World Behind movie review: "I f***ing hate people," Julia Roberts' Amanda Sanford proclaims at the very beginning of Leave the World Behind, the new Netflix release this week, directed by Sam Esmail, the writer and director of Mr Robot. Amanda has planned an impromptu getaway for her family, which includes her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke) and their two children- Archie (Charlie Evans) and Rose (Farrah Mackenzie). Yet, the world around her slowly begins to disintegrate – and the ambiguities pile up one after the…