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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 freeAmazon Prime Video has released the trailer for its new romcom The Idea of You, based on Robinne Lee’s 2017 Harry Styles-inspired novel of the same name.The movie stars Anne Hathaway as Solène a 40-year-old single mother who begins a love affair with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Red, White & Royal Blue’s Nicholas Galitzine) – the lead vocalist of the world’s hottest boy band – after…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAmazon Prime Video has released the trailer for its new rom-com The Idea of You, based on Robinne Lee’s 2017 Harry Styles-inspired novel of the same name.The movie stars Anne Hathaway as Solène a 40-year-old single mother who begins a love affair with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Red, White & Royal Blue’s Nicholas Galitzine) – the lead vocalist of the world’s hottest boy band –…

A 721-page biography about the father of the atomic bomb, a send-up of the publishing industry’s simplification of black lives and a Glaswegian tale of an adult woman with an infant’s brain: the books that inspired this year’s best picture Oscar nominees are as varied as the films they spawned. Leading us to ask: if there was a golden statuette for “best book that inspired a best picture nominee”, what would the contenders be?Killers of the Flower Moon by David GrannJournalist David Grann’s 2017 investigation into the…

David Walters has announced on Twitter that his “new helicopter game from 1992,” Thunder Helix, is launching on Steam Early Access on March 21. I’ve been keeping an eye on Thunder Helix for a while now. It’s a helicopter combat game made in the style of early PC flight sims. The style emulates the fractal landscapes used in pre-polygonal flight games, and goes as far as using a 256 color completely with pixel stippling. Although, the store blurb says it can also run at 16-bit color. I didn’t play very many of those…

Motorola is reportedly gearing up to unveil its highly anticipated X50 series, with the spotlight on its first-ever "Ultra" variant featuring innovative AI…

Rising UK hardcore/art-punk band Static Dress are set to release a GameBoy Color game later this year. Rouge Carpet Disaster: The Video Game builds on the world established in Static Dress’ debut album ‘Rouge Carpet Disaster’, which was originally released in 2022. Since then, they’ve released a reworked ‘Redux’ version of the record ahead of an UK arena tour supporting Bring Me The Horizon, but now have confirmed the launch of their first “multi-level video game”. Set for release March 7, Rouge Carpet Disaster: The…

SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for Drive-Away Dolls. If you have not yet seen the film, proceed at your own risk!Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s Drive-Away Dolls is primarily a road trip comedy about two lesbian pals growing closer on a trip to Tallahassee, but at the heart of the plot is a mystery. The car they are driving around in has a mysterious briefcase and hatbox locked in the trunk, and though the audience isn’t informed about the contents, it’s made clear that a criminal element…

Brazilian pianist Amaro Freitas approaches the 88 keys of his piano as if they were drums. Across three albums since his 2016 debut Sangue Negro, Freitas has honed a style of muscular, complex rhythm within jazz improvisation. Often playing different metres in each hand, he encompasses everything from folk maracatu polyrhythms on 2018’s Afrocatu to staccato, mechanical repetitions on 2021’s Sankofa.The artwork for Y’YHis latest album, Y’Y, puts this rhythmic playfulness in service to a spiritual theme. Dedicated to the…

As successful and critically acclaimed as XCOM 2 may be, it might not have done much for you if you’re a fan of the original X-COM games. Instead, 2014’s Xenonauts was a more true-to-form re-envisioning, and its Early Access sequel just got a big new update. Xenonauts 2 released via Steam Early Access in July 2023, almost a full decade after its predecessor first came out, and it’s been trucking along ever since. Its latest update, Milestone 3 (version 3.0.8) is substantial indeed, introducing an all-new Cruiser UFO…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWim Wenders’s new film Perfect Days is perhaps the only Oscar nominee in history to be based on a series of Japanese public toilets. Just when you thought we’d exhausted every conceivable type of intellectual property, here comes the German auteur to offer a whole new definition of IP. In 2022, Wenders was approached by the Tokyo Toilet art project, which had commissioned leading…