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John Woo's 1997 hit Face/Off stands out as one of the quintessential action movies, embodying the best of the 90s cinema. In 2019, Paramount Pictures excited fans with news of a new Face/Off movie in the works, and by 2021, it was confirmed to be a sequel, not a remake. Fans of Nicolas Cage have been eagerly anticipating Castor Troy and Sean Archer's return to the silver screen, and now the film’s helmer has an update. Adam Wingard has been attached to write and direct and has recently explained the reasons behind the…

Get ready to fall in Love (again)! But, with a fresh idea. Based on a novel by Robinne Lee, The Idea of You, starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine, debuted at SXSW on Saturday. The film promises a heartwarming escape with its laugh-out-loud romantic comedy. Early reaction is electric, with audiences raving about the film's sizzling chemistry and tear-jerking moments. Slated to make its digital premiere on Amazon Prime Video, the story follows the love life of a woman in her forties who falls for a charming boy…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNicholas Galitzine has recounted having to convince Anne Hathaway to dance with him during an “intimidating” chemistry read for their new romcom, The Idea of You.The two co-lead Michael Showalter’s forthcoming movie, which is based on Robinne Lee’s 2017 Harry Styles-inspired novel of the same name.Hathaway plays Solène, a 40-year-old single mother who embarks on a love affair with…

Enthusiasts are invariably perceived to be an odd bunch, outliers who tend to congregate among the safety of one another. There they stand on station platforms and near airport runways, in cagoules, jotting down numbers of trains and watching jets take off. Those who contain their obsessions indoors might treasure stamps or mount butterflies on pins. It passes the time.The writer Nicholas Royle collects books. When he’s not reading them, he’s writing them (he’s the author of seven novels, two novellas and four short story…

The film, based on the novel by Robinne Lee, premieres on Prime Video on May 2 and its trailer arrives alongside the soundtrack's lead single "Dance Before We Walk" The great philosophers of One Direction once said: “I don’t care what people say when we’re together/You know I wanna be the one who’ll hold you when you sleep.” The deep cut, “Happily” from 2013’s Midnight Memories, would have fit perfectly into the first official trailer for The Idea of You. Adapted from Robinne Lee’s novel of the same…

Prime Video turning Red, White & Royal Blue into a film not only served to fuel the existing hype around the book that is yet to stop winning hearts, but also trained the spotlight on its lead stars, Nicholas Galitzine, and Taylor Zakhar Perez. After watching the film, it is almost impossible on a cosmic level to curb the urge to know more about the two actors, especially Galitzine who sends hearts swooning as Prince Henry and minds reeling as they try to deduce whether he is also gay in real life.  Well, yes, the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNicholas Hoult has debuted his striking new look as Superman villain Lex Luthor.On Instagram on Thursday (22 February), Superman: Legacy showrunner James Gunn shared the first cast photo of the forthcoming superhero movie.The film stars David Corenswet as the Man of Steel while The Marvellous Mrs Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan will play Lois Lane.In the group selfie shared by Gunn, English…

HitchhikerThumb out to the flow of traffic, and hoping notto get robbed, mugged, or murdered.But also a lift. I step into cars, vans, and trucks. I once rode a rocketfired down the M1 — a Ford Cosworth, stolen — like a sonic boom jetin the outside lane.I met Samaritans and chancers.One man will explain Islam, another will talk aboutfucking lorry drivers. A fashion designer, who picks me upfrom a garage forecourt, will give me a mintwhile her dog growls from the back seat.On a roundabout near Bedford,another hitcher waits.…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWhen he was invited to speak on a BBC consumer affairs show about his secret rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, Sir Nicholas Winton was told he couldn’t sit alongside his wife. Instead, he would be sat between two strangers. But as the That’s Life! presenter Esther Rantzen informed viewers of her guest’s remarkable heroism, an explanation for the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeA great actor shouldn’t only be judged on what they can do with a masterful script, but also on how they can take a lesser work and still let it soar. Anthony Hopkins has achieved this with grace in One Life, a somewhat thin, reductively sentimental retelling of the life of British humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton, which its star has empowered with raw, much-needed…