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The 2024 Golden Globe nominees are here, and this year everybody is still living in a Barbie world. Pipping its biggest rival at the ceremony this year, Oppenheimer, to take most nominations, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, and Ryan Gosling are the vanguard when it comes to all things genre.Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI UnlockedBarbie secured nine nominations to Oppenheimer’s eight across the board at the 81st Golden Globes to become the most-represented project, with nods for Greta Gerwig in Best…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeChristina Ricci has said that she was once threatened with legal action for refusing to film a sex scene “in a certain way”.The former child star made her screen debut aged eight, before rising to fame as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family when she was 10. When she was older, Ricci went on to appear in films such as Casper, Buffalo ‘66 and Black Snake Moan.On Thursday (16 March),…

Since the 2023 Oscar nominations were announced, a complex debate has broken out over the best actress nomination of Andrea Riseborough for her performance in the indie drama To Leslie. After the actress was nominated, to the audible shock of many in attendance at the event, the Academy announced a “review” of the campaign procedures around this year’s nominees. An Academy decision that Yellowjackets cast member Christina Ricci has taken a shot at with a brutally honest condemnation. The Academy said they would review…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAndrea Riseborough’s nomination at the Oscars is being reviewed by the Academy, it has been revealed.Days after this year’s nominations were announced, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences shared a statement saying it is “conducting a review of the campaign procedures around this year’s nominees”.While the statement did not specifically refer to Riseborough’s nomination, it…

Johnny Depp explained what homosexuality was ‘in the simplest terms’ to Christina Ricci, when she was only nine. The actor recalled the incident in a new interview, saying it occurred on the set of her 1990 film Mermaids. Actor Christina Ricci said in a new interview that she first learnt about homosexuality from Johnny Depp. She said the actor explained it to her ‘in the simplest terms’, when she was only nine-years-old. The actor said the talk between her and Johnny occurred after an incident on the set of the 1990…

Christina Ricci has opened up about a childhood memory, which involved Johnny Depp explaining to her “what homosexuality was”.The Yellowjackets actor was nine when she co-starred alongside Depp’s then-girlfriend Winona Ryder in 1990 romance drama Mermaids.“There was something going on on set and someone was not being nice to someone else. And they were like, ‘Oh, well, he might be homophobic,’” Ricci explained to Andy Cohen during a recent appearance on his SiriusXM radio show. “And then I was like, ‘Well, I don’t…

Screenshot: ShowtimeFate has course corrected to give Christina Ricci the role of Harley Quinn, a casting that makes perfect sense for Spotify and DC Comics’ upcoming podcast Harley Quinn & The Joker. The Addams Family and Yellowjackets icon will bring her sweetly creepy and chaotic energy to Harls in a new story that will refocus the narrative around her tumultuous relationship with the Joker, played by Made for Love lead (and made for this) Billy Magnussen. Turn Yourself Into an Action Figure!The podcast is…

Christina Ricci has played a wide variety of roles throughout her career. She played death-obsessed Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family movies, brought the enthusiastic Trixie to life in Speed Racer, and took a whack at Lizzie Borden in The Lizzie Borden Chronicles. Another notable role of hers is her turn in the 2006 film Black Snake Moan, which required a significant amount of nudity on her part. While that can be daunting for some, Ricci actually stayed naked on set and has explained why she did that -- and how it…

Christina Ricci has opened up about her experiences with on-set nudity while shooting films.The Yellowjackets star recalled a film shoot that required a lot of nudity, revealing that she had stayed naked in between scenes to normalise it for the crew.Speaking to Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney for one of Variety’s Actors on Actors interviews, Ricci said: “Once I had to do a movie where I was naked pretty much the entire time. The thing that made me more uncomfortable was other people being uncomfortable with me being naked.…

Future fusion reactions inside tokamaks could produce much more energy than previously thought, thanks to groundbreaking new research that found a foundational law for such reactors was wrong.  The research, led by physicists from the Swiss Plasma Center at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL), has determined that the maximum hydrogen fuel density is about twice the "Greenwald Limit" – an estimate derived from experiments more than 30 years ago.The discovery that fusion reactors can actually work with hydrogen…