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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 freeFlorence Pugh said her transition into the Marvel Cinematic Universe was not well-received by those in the indie film world. The 27-year-old, whose claim to fame came from her lead roles in popular indie films such as Lady Macbeth (2016), Midsommar (2019) and The Wonder (2022), made her MCU debut as Russian assassin and spy Yelena Belova in Black Widow (2021).She later reprised the…

Image: Warner Bros.It’s May, meaning the summer movie season is about to kick into high gear, but sci-fi fans have their sights on something else. Something distant. The month of November. Because that’s when Denis Villeneuve will finally unleash the sequel fans have been eagerly anticipating—Dune: Part Two—on the world.Warner Bros. got the marketing off on the right foot this week, releasing a nice, juicy, unusually early trailer that included all sorts of goodies, from Timothée Chalamet riding a sandworm, to a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeHaley Lu Richardson revealed that she was originally approached to star in the “disturbing” movie that eventually became one of Florence Pugh’s most iconic roles.The White Lotus star had just finished M Night Shyamalan’s 2016 Split when she said she was given the script for Ari Aster’s Nordic thriller Midsommar. “I remember reading it; it was such a well-written, creepy script,”…

The good folks at DC Comics publicity recently set up a Zoom call for me to speak with writer Kyle Starks and artist Steve Pugh, part of the creative team of the new comic Peacemaker Tries Hard #1. Unfortunately, technical difficulties arose, and while we tried hard, we couldn’t get Steve on the line (my interview with Kyle, however, posted last month).  Fortunately though, Steve was nice enough to take some time to answer questions about the book — the first issue of which is out today! — via email. We talked…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFlorence Pugh revealed the dark depths she went to in order to play a traumatised psychology student in Ari Aster’s 2019 horror, Midsommar.The A24 film follows Pugh’s character Dani on a trip to Sweden to attend a midsummer festival with her increasingly distant boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor) and his friends.At the end of the movie, Dani is crowned the May Queen and chooses to…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThere is, it’s fair to say, nothing more important to the movies than actors.The right performance can tip a film into the realm of greatness; a bad one can doom an otherwise promising project to mediocrity or ridicule.What would There Will Be Blood be without Daniel Day-Lewis at its centre? Would The Godfather still sparkle without Al Pacino and Marlon Brando? These are not questions…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFlorence Pugh revealed the dark depths she went to in order to play a traumatised psychology student in Ari Aster’s 2019 horror, Midsommar.The A24 film follows Pugh’s character Dani on a trip to Sweden to attend a midsummer festival with her increasingly distant boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor) and his friends.At the end of the movie, Dani is crowned the May Queen and chooses to…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFlorence Pugh has addressed trolls who accuse her of putting on an English accent.In the latest episode of Ed Gamble and James Acaster’s Off Menu podcast, the 27-year-old actor spoke about how so many people think she’s American.“You do a lot of good accents in films,” Acaster told Pugh to which she replied: “Well, I can do northern quite easily, my gran is from Grimsby. So I grew up…

Having redeemed the rather silly Don’t Worry Darling through sheer charisma, Florence Pugh is once again called upon to bring her magic to otherwise indifferent material. In Zach Braff’s strident addiction melodrama A Good Person, she plays Allison, a young woman whose life shatters following her involvement in a fatal car accident. Allison has everything going for her: she’s beautiful, musically gifted and adored, in an icky, full-throttle way, by her fiance, Nathan (Chinaza Uche). The only fly in the ointment is…

Florence Pugh has released her first performances as a singer-songwriter, which are included on the soundtrack to her new film A Good Person.The British actor has written and performed two songs: the slow ambient ballad The Best Part, and the self-lacerating piano-driven number I Hate Myself. Each are presented in the film as being sung by her character, Allison, a promising musician whose career is set back by personal tragedy.“I wrote these songs for my character Allison in the movie to perform, but also as a way to…