Imploded

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeHalfway through Marvel’s Iron Man from 2008, Robert Downey Jr’s tin-plated superhero rockets towards the stratosphere for the first time. But his enthusiasm gets the better of him, his suit malfunctions and he plummets earthward. That is the trajectory Marvel has itself followed in recent months. Soaring too high, its circuits have fried. Now, after a string of critical and commercial…

For many who trade cryptocurrencies for a living, the events of a year ago are forever etched in memory.  “The worst day of my career, and one of the worst days of my life — the day FTX froze withdrawals,” is how Travis Kling, who runs Ikigai Asset Management, described it in a series of tweets on Nov. 7. Four days later, Sam Bankman-Fried's exchange filed for bankruptcy, ushering in arguably the darkest days in crypto's history. “The first weeks were incredibly brutal. I didn't sleep much at all. Feelings of terror,…

The company that owned a submersible that fatally imploded on its way to explore the wreck of the Titanic said Thursday it has suspended operations.OceanGate, a company based in Everett, Wash., owned the Titan submersible that is believed to have imploded as it made its descent on June 18 in the North Atlantic, about 700 kilometres off the coast of Newfoundland.Investigators believe the Titan imploded as it made its descent into deep North Atlantic waters on June 18. Among those killed was Stockton Rush, the submersible's…

During a descent to visit the wreckage of the famed Titanic ocean liner, a submersible craft called the Titan went missing with five people onboard. The vehicle lost communications on Sunday in the North Atlantic Ocean, several hundred miles off Newfoundland. On the following Thursday, after days of searches from the air and with remotely operated vehicles on the seafloor, the U.S. Coast Guard announced the discovery of debris from the sub that is consistent with a catastrophic implosion. All five crew members are…

via 20th Century Fox While recent smash hits like the Detective Pikachu, the Sonic the Hedgehog duology, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie have done a sterling job of trying to wash off the stigma, it’s blockbusters like Assassin’s Creed that underline why the video game adaptation has spent 30 years trying to dispel the notion that it’s a cursed genre. Looking at the various creative pieces involved, there was every reason to believe the $125 million spin on Ubisoft’s all-conquering franchise would live up to…

There was widespread (and entirely justified) skepticism when it was first announced that Disney and Pixar would risk tainting the near-perfect ending of Toy Story 3 by churning out a fourth installment, but the decision ended up being a wise one from a critical and commercial point of view. Lightyear, on the other hand, was nowhere near as lucky. Right from the off, there weren’t a great deal of people convinced that a spinoff set in a world where Buzz Lightyear is a real Space Ranger needed to exist, especially when…

When it was founded in the months after the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke in 2017, Time’s Up was supposed to put Hollywood’s considerable power and money — and its sudden outrage — to work fighting sexual harassment. Instead, today Time’s Up is a ghost organization, technically still operating, but with no CEO or programming offered in nearly a year, and with a skeletal board. For many victims who had hoped the nonprofit would become a vital advocate for their rights, the devolution of Time’s Up from…