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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 freeConor McGregor has admitted that Meryl Streep’s negative take on mixed martial arts motivated him to give his best performance in Prime Video’s forthcoming movie, Road House.In 2017, while accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes, the Devil Wears Prada actor, then 67, declared: “Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if we kick them all out, you’ll…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Recent research on China's factional competition uncovers how local bureaucrats, who are connected to influential national leaders, strategically use the media to criticize members of rival factions, thus harming their promotion prospects and weakening their factions. The work is published in the journal Political Science…

In the worlds of both the best ‘90s movies and the upcoming 2024 movies heading to theaters, The Crow looms large. As the release of the Bill Skarsgård-led remake is now on the board for the same summer that celebrates 30 years of the original movie, director Alex Proyas hasn’t held back his thoughts on the long in-development reboot. In a new social media post, Proyas has elaborated on why he’s not a huge fan of director Rupert Sanders’ fresh take even existing. Through sharing photos from Lionsgate’s The Crow revamp,…

Bob Marley: One Love has been a hit with audiences since arriving in theaters this past February. A lot of those positive feelings don't track with a number of film critics, though, who've seemingly been a bit tougher on the musical biopic. (Of course, critic and audience division isn’t unusual when it comes to a movie or TV show, as the group's tastes can differ.) Up until this point, the Marley family has remained silent on the discourse. Now, the late reggae legend’s eldest son, Ziggy Marley, has finally weighed in on…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Don't worry if an employee reacts poorly to negative feedback. It doesn't necessarily mean they will perform poorly on subsequent work, according to research from Virginia Commonwealth University. Lindsay M. Andiola, Ph.D., an associate professor of accounting in the VCU School of Business, studied the feedback orientations of employees…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research in Marketing Science has found that companies and brands that have aligned themselves with Black Lives Matter (BLM) suffered a negative impact at the hands of consumers. The study, "How Support for Black Lives Matter Impacts Consumer Responses on Social Media," found that the negative impact tied to BLM…

Dakota Johnson has opened up about the commercial and critical failure of the superhero movie Madame Web, saying that she will probably “never do something like it again”.The actor played the lead in Sony’s latest attempt to open up the Spider-Man universe which was met with negative reviews and disappointing box office. The film has a 12% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has made just $91m worldwide on an estimated production budget of $80m.In an interview with Bustle, the actor was asked if she was bothered when people…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Seattle is routinely listed as one of the most walkable and bike-friendly cities in the nation. The city government has committed to Vision Zero, which aims to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries completely by 2030 and embarked on a slew of infrastructure projects: expanding the city's bike network, redesigning high-crash intersections, and enhancing crosswalks to protect pedestrians.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain According to new research from Rice University and the University of Nebraska at Omaha, conservative-leaning job applicants indicate being less likely to pursue positions that require personal statements on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and those negative reactions are not independent of anti-Black racism. …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Young men are more likely than older men to think that feminism has done more harm than good, according to a new survey, suggesting a backward step in attitudes to gender equality. Young women aged 16-29 are also slightly more likely than women aged 30–59 to say that feminism has done more harm than good. The survey,…