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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 freeSydney Sweeney has admitted that featuring in Sony’s critically panned superhero blockbuster, Madame Web, was more of a “strategic business decision”.The recently released movie, which was branded an “embarrassing mess” in early reviews, stars Dakota Johnson as clairvoyant superhero Cassandra Web, alongside Sweeney, who portrays Julia Carpenter, the character who eventually becomes…

Comedy Spy thriller Argylle has finally started to receive reviews and it appears to be less comedy, and more thrillingly bad. Starring Dua Lipa, Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Sam Rockwell, Argylle has managed to pick up some hype due to its mysterious meta-story. The author of the book it is based on is entirely unknown and is also a character in the movie itself. It's a pretty meta situation that has led fans to speculate the mysterious author is actually an alias for someone famous. The reviews give us far…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEarly reviews for Argylle have started rolling in, and they appear to largely be panning director Matthew Vaughn’s movie.The action-thriller, based on the recently released novel of the same name – which some online theorists firmly believe was written by Taylor Swift – boasts an A-list cast of Dua Lipa, Henry Cavill, John Cena, Bryan Cranston and Catherine O’Hara.Its plot follows the…

Ahead of Apple Vision Pro’s launch on February 2, the very first wave of hands-on reviews and impressions of Apple’s spatial computing headset is here, and one of Apple’s riskiest features has not come off well. Apple Vision Pro reviews that went live this week cover a range of different aspects of Apple’s revolutionary new product, such as the comfort of the device, the setup process, and the levels of immersion provided by environments and passthrough viewing. While most of the impressions of the headset have been…

Golden Globes 2024: Stars walk red carpetGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe Golden Globes are back with a blowout, televised ceremony.The annual, Beverly Hills-based awards show has been obscured in recent years after a 2021 Los Angeles Times investigation revealed that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (the awards’ voting body) did not have a single Black member.However, this year, the Globes are back in…

The feature-length directorial debut of Ralphie from A Christmas Story doesn’t exactly come across as a harbinger of cinematic excellence, but even at that, Peter Billingsley’s Couples Retreat was a great deal more woeful than anyone could have imagined. Reading from the Adam Sandler/Happy Madison playbook of “unnecessarily expensive star-studded comedy set in a glamorous sun-kissed location for reasons,” the $60 million romp was admittedly a sizeable hit at the box office after somehow conspiring to earn $172 million…

Image via IFC Midnight Looking back, nobody in a million years would have been able to predict where James Gunn would end up just a dozen years after he made his first foray into the superhero genre with the aptly-titled Super. After all, the brutal R-rated black comedy didn’t fare particularly well with either critics or audiences – as evidenced by decidedly lukewarm Rotten Tomatoes scores of just 49 and 56 percent – whit it even managed to crater at the box office in spite of its modest budget after earning a…

via Apple TV Whether entirely fairly or not, Tom Holland cultivated a reputation for accidentally revealing Marvel Cinematic Universe spoilers way ahead of time, with Joe and Anthony Russo hilariously revealing they paired him up with Benedict Cumberbatch on the Avengers: Infinity War press tour so that the veteran could keep an eye on his young charge. Of course, having spent so many years as part of the biggest franchise in the business, the erstwhile Spider-Man will have learned his lesson long ago, as proven…

via Lionsgate Back in the olden days – as in pre-2008 – franchises were largely built, sold, and marketed off the back of their stars, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe arguably changed that forever. These days, the property is the main attraction as opposed to the people who appear onscreen, leading many to question whether the comic book company’s biggest draws have what it takes to sell a project to the masses outside of their comfort zones. Chris Hemsworth has built an unwanted reputation for headlining a…

via Apple TV After months of radio silence, the Spider-Man 4 rumor mill lurched back into motion this week after Tom Holland offered several minor updates on the in-development Marvel Cinematic Universe sequel. The longtime Peter Parker confirmed that while work was ongoing, it had been halted as a result of the writers’ strike, before he once more underlined his commitment to carrying on wielding the web-shooters for the foreseeable future. The biggest problem with the actor talking all things Spidey is that…