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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 freeBack in 2000, late night talk show host Conan O’Brien and Harrison Ford ridiculed the idea of an 80-year-old Indiana Jones.Ford, of course, reprised his role aged 80 for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which hit cinemas last week.The 23-year-old clip from Late Night with Conan O’Brien has resurfaced following the new film’s release as fans point out the irony of O’Brien’s…

Days after Musk announced that Twitter will be limiting the number of tweets non-Twitter Blue subscribers can read in a day to 600, Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has tweeted that she supports Musk's idea and bold steps like these are necessary for Twitter's mission…

As expected, the purists were up in arms when No Time to Die first revealed that Lashana Lynch’s debuting Nomi would be inheriting the mantle of 007 in the absence of Daniel Craig’s retired and exiled James Bond, and the backlash was every bit as fierce and hate-fueled as you’d imagine. Just like that, an unsavory subset of the legendary franchise’s sprawling fandom cried that the globetrotting spy saga had officially gone “woke,” even though it was quite literally a plot point used for not much more than some…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBarbie director Greta Gerwig has said she shut down early conversations that would have given her actors computer-generated feet. Since the trailer for Gerwig’s highly anticipated comedy romance movie about the popular Mattel doll was released in April, its clip of Margot Robbie’s character Barbie standing on her tiptoes with perfectly arched heels has wowed the internet.The…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBarbie director Greta Gerwig said she shut down early conversations that would’ve had her actors featured with computer-generated feet. Since the trailer for Gerwig’s highly anticipated comedy romance movie about the popular Mattel doll was released in April, its clip of Margot Robbie’s eponymous Barbie standing on her tiptoes with perfectly arched heels has wowed the internet.The…

A new study argues against granting rights to robots, instead suggesting Confucianism-inspired role obligations as a more harmonious approach. It posits that treating robots as participants in social rites—rather than as rights bearers—avoids potential human-robot conflict and fosters teamwork, further adding that respect towards robots, made in our image, reflects our own self-respect.Notable philosophers and legal experts have delved into the moral and legal implications of robots, with a few advocating for giving…

When, in 2010, artist Marina Abramović sat in a chair for 716 hours over a span of three months, she locked eyes with 1,545 visitors, one at a time, across a small table. During the first few weeks of The Artist Is Present, performed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Abramović wore a blue dress to calm her mind, because her “brain was moving 360,000 miles per hour”. Meanwhile, many people who’d waited in winding lines to stare into her eyes, once seated before her, cried. One visitor described the experience…

Screengrab via Marvel Studios As ambitious as it is, the Multiverse Saga is already in danger of being renowned as the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s biggest missteps, with critical and commercial returns having been on a downward trajectory ever since Avengers: Endgame drew the first decade of interconnected storytelling to a close. While there have obviously been major successes along the way, the fandom has been growing increasingly disgruntled with the drop-off in quality, something Kevin Feige and his team…

Google just unveiled the Pixel Fold, its first-ever foldable smartphone that should give Samsung a run for the money, at least in the markets where the Pixel handset is available. However, the first round of reviews also brought forward an unexpected problem that made me lose interest in the Pixel Fold. It turns out the display might break much easier than one would hope, and that’s the nightmare scenario for anyone looking to buy a foldable. That foldable glass screen is the phone’s most exciting component and…

Will Smith reportedly turned down a chance to portray up-and-coming drag queen RuPaul in a cameo on his breakout series, The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. The executive producer of the show, David Steven Simon, had recently disclosed that Wil Smith was strongly against the idea of a drag queen appearing on his programme. In the book by journalist Thea Glassman, David describes how Smith was resistant to the notion for only one reason—his “image.”  What happened on the set of the show is described in the new book by…