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Gwyneth Paltrow had a prolific acting career, but for many she will forever be remembered for the work she did within the MCU. Paltrow played Pepper Potts, love interest to Robert Downey Jr. 's Tony Stark for over ten years. The Se7en star retired from acting after Avengers: Endgame to put all her energy into her lifestyle brand, Goop, but that hasn’t stopped her from being supportive of her performing pals. She recently made her own prediction about the 2024 Oscar nominations, in particular about RDJ’s run, and I think…

The Zone of Interest, the Holocaust drama directed by Jonathan Glazer and adapted from the novel by Martin Amis, could pull off a shock upset in the best picture Oscar race and beat Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, as a series of interviews with anonymous Oscar voters appears to indicate a surge of support for the film.After the voting window for the Academy Awards closed on Tuesday, the intervening period before the results are announced on Sunday week is filled with fevered speculation. Much of the fuel is provided by…

Ever since he started making films, 60-odd years ago, Martin Scorsese has always wanted to make a western; instead, he may have killed the genre. And that’s no small thing for this most American of forms. Over the past century, westerns have cemented the founding myths of American identity; how white settlers subjugated and massacred the continent’s indigenous population and tamed the wild west, with God and guns (and cinema) on their side. So it takes guts to unpick that mythology with a true story of just how evil and…

THE VISITOR Trailer - 1979' Sci-Fi Movie HDThis batshit Italian import involving humans descended from an evil alien overlord, a telekinetic girl, professional basketball, and conspiratorial Satanists stars a cast of aging legends (John Huston, Shelley Winters, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Sam Peckinpah) who were hopefully well-compensated for their participation. You, too, will be well-compensated for your time, because the singularly bizarre The Visitor is truly out of this world. Watch on Peacock. THE VISITOR Trailer -…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeOne Oscars voter has confessed that a positive interaction with Robert Downey Jr at an awards season party influenced his decision to side with the Oppenheimer star.Downey Jr, 58, is currently in contention for Best Supporting Actor at the 2024 Oscars. He is up against American Fiction’s Sterling K Brown, Killers of the Flower Moon’s Robert De Niro, Barbie’s Ryan Gosling and Poor…

More than 90 years after the very first Oscars ceremony launched a time-honored tradition, the Academy Awards remain one of the biggest events of the year. The celebrated awards program has paid tribute to the vast array of talent scattered across the film landscape via 94, 95, and nearly 96 separate ceremonies. In each, fresh films, directors, actors, and cinematographers are recognized for their contributions to cinema, as adoring fans look on from a distance. The greatest films of the last 90-some years are…

“You did not see me working on myself to get HAPPINESS did you?”“What of the TONGUE-PLAY? Is that not happening?”“I MUST GO PUNCH THAT BABY!”Emma Stone’s delivery of the many outrageous laugh lines in Yorgos Lanthimos’s brilliant and scabrous Poor Things is cause enough to hand over the best picture Oscar right away.But there is also the deliciously offensive Frankensteinian high concept, the hallucinatory cinematography switching between colour and monochrome, the inspired production design and costumes, the insinuating…

American Fiction's Cliff Ellison—the flashy surgeon brother to Jeffrey Wright's Monk, who is letting his freak flag fly as a newly out gay man after divorcing his wife—ranks high among Sterling K. Brown's best performances, earning the actor his first Oscar nomination. But will it be the one to score the multihyphenate talent that coveted EGOT? Of course, that "EGOT" distinction is given to those illustrious few who have won all four of the major American performing arts awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. The most…

Image: ParamountLast year brought us lots of fantastic animated films and while Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem was the outlier in terms of Oscar nominations, it might be the first to get a sequel.Turtle Power with Melissa Navia | First FandomsParamount just announced a bunch of future release dates and among them was an October 9, 2026 date for the sequel to Mutant Mayhem. Director Jeff Rowe will return, as will the producers from Point Grey including Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. There’s no word yet on the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDelivering a great Oscar acceptance speech requires a bit of magic, with the winner having to strike just the right balance of charm and humility.However, often the speeches most remembered are those that end in disaster. Over the years, many actors have been booed, pitied or laughed at for their podium faux pas. Some speeches are too saccharine, others too long. The worst are when an…