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SilenceMy father used to say“Superior people never make long visits,have to be shown Longfellow’s gravenor the glass flowers at Harvard.Self-reliant like the cat –that takes its prey to privacy,the mouse’s limp tail hanging like a shoelace from its mouth –they sometimes enjoy solitudeand can be robbed of speechby speech which has delighted them.The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;not in silence, but restraint.”Nor was he insincere in saying, “‘Make my house your inn.’’’Inns are not residences.Silence, by…

Popular food retail chain Domino's Pizza has introduced a new feature on its app. The feature, named Domino's Pinpoint Delivery, is set to make deliveries more convenient for users. This new technology will allow customers to receive a delivery nearly anywhere, including public places like parks, baseball fields and beaches.Domino's Pinpoint Delivery: AvailabilityThe latest feature will be available only for users in the US. The company didn't confirm if it's planning to expand this feature in other markets as…

Lorrie Moore is the poet laureate of hospitals: the disinfectant smells in hallways, the fluorescent lights on top of beds, but most of all the evasive humour that afflicts patient, doctor and visitor alike. In People Like That Are the Only People Here, arguably Moore’s best-known story, a mother can’t help spiralling in the wake of her infant’s scary diagnosis: “When a baby gets cancer, it seems stupid ever to have given up smoking. When a baby gets cancer, you think, Whom are we kidding?” In Face Time, a middle-aged…

It has been more than a decade since the American writer Lorrie Moore published her last novel, the Women’s prize-shortlisted A Gate at the Stairs, although there has been a collection of stories and an anthology of essays in between. Like Donna Tartt, the rarity with which Moore publishes adds to the cachet of a writer often hailed as the best of her generation; most celebrated for her wisecracking, often heartbreaking short stories, she has been called “the nearest thing we have to Chekhov”. In 2020 her stories were…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeShameik Moore has responded to the “haters” who don’t think he should play the live-action Miles Morales.Moore voices the superhero character in Sony’s animated Spider-Verse films, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and the sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.Following rumours of a live-action version of the character makng his debut, Moore was asked in a new interview who he’d…

Image via Sony Pictures The release of Across the Spider-Verse is once again bringing Shameik Moore to the forefront of conversations, as audiences celebrate the burgeoning actor’s stellar track record. All on its own, Into the Spider-Verse won a slew of awards back in 2018 and is still considered one of the best films of the decade. Audiences are hoping for more of the same with Across the Spider-Verse, which arrived in theaters on June 2, and reviews already promise another record-breaking box-office…

As the credits rolled on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, it felt like waking up from a dream. In this dream, something impossible happened. A team of talented filmmakers made a sequel to one of the, if not the, best superhero films of all-time that was not just worthy of that original film, it actually made the original better. Truly, this couldn’t be real. How could it actually be possible that a sequel to a basically perfect movie could, itself, be so incredible?And yet, it wasn’t a dream. Spider-Man: Across the…

Time to travel into the Further, one more time.Image: SonyHe did it with Saw, he did it with The Conjuring, and now producer James Wan is expanding Insidious too. Even though the franchise’s fifth film, Insidious: The Red Door, is hitting theaters this summer, the next installment of the Insidious series is already gearing up. It’s called Thread: An Insidious Tale and it’ll star Mandy Moore and Kumail Nanjiani.Spoilers of the Week | June 3rdJeremy Slater, a producer and writer of Marvel’s Moon Knight and The Exorcist TV…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWhat on earth would make a woman in her mid-thirties have an affair with a teenage boy? This is the question asked in Todd Haynes’s May December (which received its world premiere in competition in Cannes on Saturday 20 May). The new feature is another of the US director’s probing and torrid melodramas. It has a plot that could come straight from a prurient TV soap opera but the US…

“Insecure people are dangerous,” says Julianne Moore’s character in this movie. She should know. Todd Haynes has come to Cannes with this amusing and elegant drama, Highsmithian in its intimacy and malice; a darker shade of Haynes’s Carol, maybe? It’s an unacknowledged duel between two women, played by Moore and Natalie Portman, who have found a potent frenmity at an important stage in each of their lives. Periodically Haynes will present us their faces side-by-side in closeup as they gaze at themselves and each other in…