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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 freeJake Gyllenhaal has expressed enthusiasm at the prospect of being cast as the next Batman.Gyllenhaal said “it would be an honour” to play Gotham’s Dark Knight in an interview on Monday (18 March).In January 2023, James Gunn, the co-chief executive of DC Studios, announced 10 new projects that will serve as a reboot of the cinematic DC Universe franchise.One of the planned releases is a…

Los Angeles, Jake Gyllenhaal, who lost out the role of Batman to Christian Bale in Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy, says it would be an honour for him to play the popular superhero from DC Comics. HT Image The actor, currently promoting the Prime Video action movie "Road House", was asked if he was still interested in playing Batman. Hindustan Times - your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. In his response, Gyllenhaal said, "Oh, man. That's a classic . It's an honour." Calling the…

Received wisdom holds that haughty music critics, grinding our axes on fans’ beloved pop stars, are nothing more than failed musicians. This has always struck me as slander – not of critics, who certainly can be bitter and mean, but of supposedly failed musicians. How, after all, does one fail at music? To suggest success rides on certain technicalities, like talent or a career, gravely underestimates music’s draw, and nowhere is the lie more spectacularly exposed than in karaoke.Here is an arena of musical greatness in…

Quirks and Quarks17:24How documenting the disappearance of the great auk led to the discovery of extinctionWhen species cease to exist, we often say they went "the way of the dodo." But it might be more fitting to say they went "the way of the great auk" because it was the Icelandic bird's disappearance that led to the discovery that humans activities could make a species go extinct.In his book The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction, Gísli Pálsson retraces a 1858 trip two…

Matthew Perry`s close friends actress Jennifer Aniston and George Clooney have disagreed over the best way to honour the late actor. Matthew died at his home on October 28 after being found unresponsive in his hot tub at the newly renovated property, reports Mirror.co.uk. He was just 54 years old at the time of his death, and now, reportedly, Jennifer and George have been trying to figure out the best way to honor the late `Friends` star. As per Mirror.co.uk, Matthew`s death was ruled as accidental, with the "acute…

It's not every day that a video of a cat goes viral.OK, it's not every day that a video of a cat goes viral and marks a historical milestone for space exploration. But that's what happened when NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment beamed an ultra-high definition streaming video back to Earth on Dec. 11 from 31 million kilometers away, or about 80 times the Earth-Moon distance.The 15-second test video is part of a NASA technology demonstration aimed at streaming very high-bandwidth video and other data from…

Baldur’s Gate 3 received its Patch 5 update this week, adding a host of new features including the grueling endurance run called Honour Mode. Today, Larian Studios shared how many have cleared the challenge thus far, and it’s quite humbling. In a series of stat infographics, Larian shows that 464 parties have finished Baldur’s Gate 3 Honour Mode. A number in the hundreds might seem large, but that’s out of roughly 158,000 Honour Mode playthroughs that have kicked off thus far. And just as importantly, over 34,000 of…

Three New Brunswickers are enjoying an astronomical surprise: an asteroid has been named after them.It's called Mipach — using the first two letters from the names of Saint Johners Mike Powell, Paul Owen and Chris Curwin."I saw the email and the other two guys hadn't seen it yet. So I was frantically on the phone and messaging them back and forth, getting them to take a look. So it was just overwhelming," Curwin said.The asteroid is 6.37 kilometres in diameter and resides in the main belt, between the orbit of Mars and…

Actor Stephen Graham, who made his mark on the popular crime-thriller show ‘Boardwalk Empire’ as Al Capone, will be receiving the top award at the British Independent Film Awards called `The Richard Harris Award`. The award named after the late star, recognises an outstanding contribution by an actor to British film and sees Graham join a list of fellow honorees that includes the likes of Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave and Riz Ahmed, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The…

Singer-actress Olivia Rodrigo is still unable to get over the massive love she has received in Grammys as she received over six nominations. Reeling in disbelief, Rodrigo has called the nods a "massive honour". Speaking to `People` at the ‘Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ premiere in Los Angeles, the songstress said: “Yeah. So insane. It`s just such an honor and such a pleasure to be recognised by the music community in such an incredible way.” She also jokingly added that…