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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 freeJacob Elordi has reflected on his starring role in The Kissing Booth trilogy, calling the rom-com movies “ridiculous”.The 26-year-old Australian actor co-led the film series, which debuted in 2018, opposite Joey King (The Act). They are based on Beth Reekles’s young adult novels of the same name.He returned for the second and third Kissing Booth films in 2020 and 2021 after shooting to…

2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger Limited It looks like Ram has taken a page from Toyota’s playbook on how to spin a hybrid into a “class-shattering battery electric vehicle” that gets “unlimited range”: just make stuff up. Ram, owned by Stellantis, insists that we not call its new Ramcharger 1500 pickup a hybrid when it in fact houses a 27-gallon gas tank between the battery and the rear axle. So yeah, it’s clearly a hybrid. Since making its commitment to go all-electric by 2035, Stellantis…

As proven by the success of last year’s Beast, action thrillers with one-word titles that focus on a big-name movie star being plunged into a life-or-death battle against a feline feral carnivore are always going to be able to find an audience, so it was only a matter of time before Primal circled back around. Instead of Idris Elba battling against a lion, director Nick Powell has Nicolas Cage wearing a concerningly large hat going up against a white jaguar. Having captured one of nature’s most elusive prizes, the…

Photo: Alex Gukalov (Shutterstock)A couple in Morrison, Colorado recently used ChatGPT to officiate their wedding and craft numerous speeches. The couple, who were reportedly in a rush to complete the ceremony before Deyton Truitt, the husband, deployed for the Army. ChatGPT was reportedly used to plan just about every part of the wedding, from the welcoming to the closing remarks. The couple did opt to write their own vows and had to have one of their parents sign the wedding license since AI systems aren’t recognized as…

Some video game experiences are simply timeless, whether that’s matching up blocks in Tetris or blowing away fish with a shotgun. Good news for fans of the latter: Ridiculous Fishing, a mobile classic, is back in an updated form on Apple Arcade. And it’s just as obscenely engrossing and silly as the original.The new version is called Ridiculous Fishing EX, and for the most part, it plays the same as the one that launched way back in 2013 and inspired an army of clones. If you haven’t played before, the game is basically…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeViewers are scratching their heads over Joaquin Phoenix’s accent in the trailer for Ridley Scott’s forthcoming Napoleon Bonaparte biopic.The trailer for Napoleon was released on Monday (10 July), giving fans a glimpse of Phoenix as the French military leader, who lived from 1769 to 1821 and led France to victory during the Revolutionary Wars.The film, directed by Gladiator filmmaker…

Albert Einstein died in 1955, but the physicist is still a prolific conversationalist. As a chatbot on Character.AI, Einstein has responded to 1.6 million messages, expounding on everything from theories of relativity to pet recommendations: “A cat would be a great choice!”Silicon Valley is in the throes of a chatbot craze, with companies like OpenAI notching valuations in the billions for devising computer programs that can effectively imitate humans. But none are quite so strange as Character.AI. The artificial…

Apple has revealed the games that are coming to in July and the company has a stacked lineup in store for subscribers. A trifecta of classic indies are on the way to the service very soon in the form of ,  and The latter is particularly intriguing, as Apple says it's "a full and expanded remaster" of the original game, which was an Apple Design Award winner. Ridiculous Fishing EX, to give the new version its full name, is now in 3D. You'll use unusual fishing gear such as chainsaws and toasters to try and land fish in…

A scientist at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) who has recently faced media allegations that he was the first person with COVID-19 and his research on coronaviruses sparked the pandemic strongly denies that he was ill in late 2019 or that his work had any link to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. “The recent news about so-called ‘patient zero’ in WIV are absolutely rumors and ridiculous,” Ben Hu emailed Science in his first public response to the charges,…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEagled-eyed Netflix viewers have spotted a hilarious blunder in the new action thriller Extraction 2.The film, a sequel to the 2020 Chris Hemsworth film Extraction, was released on the streaming service last Friday (16 June).In Extraction 2, Hemsworth reprises his role of skilled mercenary Tyler Rakes, who is tasked with rescuing a woman and two children from a state-of-the-art prison…