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In a time when every other movie is almost guaranteed to be part of a bigger cinematic universe, the idea of leaving the theater without waiting for a potential post-credits scene is a bit alien, and as such, Dune fans are wondering whether they should be a little more patient with Part Two‘s closing segment. But should you anchor your posterior in the cinema seat, hoping for a glimpse of things to come? As you’ll know, Denis Villeneuve’s cinematic spin on Frank Herbert’s fictional universe has only set out to cover the…

The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought from an online merchant working out of Singapore’s onetime hotbed of ’90s computer piracy. I’m briefly startled by the drive’s low mechanical whirring — a warm, ambient background score that instantly transports me back to my childhood. Some of my first painfully preteen journals were hidden poorly on nondescript floppies just like this one. I click on the disk’s sole file, an MP3 titled “Inability to…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe BBC has defended its reporter who gave an “uncomfortable” interview with Andrew Scott at the Baftas last weekend.The red carpet interview in question quickly went viral as viewers criticised the BBC’s Colin Paterson for repeatedly asking Scott about Barry Keoghan’s nude scene in Emerald Fennell’s film, Saltburn.Scott, 47, who was snubbed for his lauded turn in Andrew Haigh’s drama…

Actor Barry Keoghan has had a thriving career for years now, including roles in major projects like Dunkirk and Eternals. But currently he's most closely associated with his role in Emerald Fennell's Saltburn, which is available to stream with an Amazon Prime subscription. The movie went viral for a number of scenes, including Keoghan's naked dance scene at the end to "Murder on the Dancefloor." Now the 31 year-old actor has once again dropped trou for a new cover, and fans have so many funny takes.There's been at on of…

Hannah Waddingham has been publicly effusive with her praise of Tom Cruise before. She previously called her Mission: Impossible 8 co-star one of the "loveliest and encouraging" people she'd ever met, an adulation that seemingly ruffled some feathers. However, it's looking like a little backlash isn't stopping the Ted Lasso actress from backing the movie star. Waddingham joins Tom Cruise in the upcoming eighth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series, but though the Brit has remained tight-lipped on both the…

Bemused officers of the San Diego Police Department have issued a warning to potential Apple Vision Pro-wearing pedestrians after a local resident was filmed wandering past an arrest scene engrossed in spatial wonderment. Vlad Kislov was recorded walking down a San Diego street in a now-viral video posted to the SDPD’s Instagram page. “A video making its rounds online shows our patrol team in Central Division ‘face-to-face’ with the future - a pedestrian donning the latest Apple Vision Pro headset while walking in the…

After months of rumors, has . It will formally debut the OnePlus Watch 2 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month. The company is notorious for drip feeding details about its products and while it has yet to reveal some key information about the wearable, OnePlus has offered up a few juicy morsels.For one thing, the company has made the lofty claim that the OnePlus Watch 2 will run for up to 100 hours on a single charge. That’s with “full Smart Mode” enabled rather than a battery saver mode, according to…

At Lankum’s sold-out concert at Cork Opera House last summer, their sharp-suited support act had the crowd in the palm of his bouzouki-strumming hand. It was Kurdish Syrian singer and musician Mohammad Syfkhan, whose debut album I Am Kurdish has become part of a thriving, collaborative music scene in one of Ireland’s smallest counties.A 57-year-old father of five whose music is a thrilling mix of electrified Kurdish, Arabic and Turkish traditional songs, covers and originals, Syfkhan arrived in Ireland as part of a…

Let’s have a small talk about visualizing images with interactive graphical representation!Scene graph generation is the process of generating scene graphs and a scene graph contains the visual understanding of an image in the form of a graph. It has nodes and edges representing the objects and their relationships, respectively. Contextual information about the scenes can help in semantic scene understanding. Although there are certain challenges such as uncertainty of real-world scenarios or unavailability of a standard…

What is the one thing that we confidently expect to see in every single superhero movie? An A-list actor doing the minimum to cash their hefty paycheck? Lackluster CGI created by VFX heroes suffering from awful working conditions? Well, yes, those too, but mostly it’s a post-credits scene. Ever since Samuel L. Jackson told Robert Downey Jr. he was part of a bigger universe in 2008’s Iron Man, the sequel-teasing tag sequence has become synonymous with the comic book film genre. It takes a real maverick to ditch the…