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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 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…

Remember when Apple announced it would no longer use leather in accessories and introduced FineWoven as a replacement? Remember how the internet basically exploded, screaming that FineWoven was hot garbage and that it wouldn’t hold up?I remember. I remember seeing photos of people basically keying up walls of FineWoven cases in Apple Stores like a block of cars in your neighborhood. The majority of the internet was very clear — everyone hates FineWoven, and Apple should go back to leather, the environment be…

The Oppenheimer actor won his first Oscar for his portrayal of antagonist Lewis Strauss Robert Downey Jr. took home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on Sunday — marking his first-ever Oscar win. But the Oppenheimer star couldn’t accept his award on Hollywood’s biggest night without making a round of thanks and, of course, a few signature jokes. “I’d like to thank my terrible childhood and the Academy, in that order,” Downey joked onstage, after accepting the award from past winners…

Here is a dreamy, drifting film, directed by Lucy Cohen, set on the Cornish coast in the long distant pre-smartphone summer of 1991. It’s unevenly presented sometimes and not everything here works, yet it is interesting for its atmospheric use of location and images, its tonal shifts and a disconnect between the ostensible reality of what’s happening and the feeling that certain parts are a hallucination, a psychopathological symptom of trauma, or a remembered dream.The scene is a wild and rocky coastline where Yvonne…

This week, PlayStation and EA announced devastating cuts to their workforce. PlayStation laid off 900 people and closed its London Studio. EA announced a workforce reduction of almost 700, and revealed that the upcoming Respawn Star Wars FPS game had been cancelled. Ridgeline games, the studio that was working on a new Battlefield title, has also been shut down. And this is merely the latest in a terrible 6 months for the industry that has seen thousands of developers lose their jobs.And yet, there are…

Why exactly are we so fascinated with bad movies? Perhaps it is simple schadenfreude, the delicious mental backwards engineering required to work out just exactly how somebody somewhere decided that the John Travolta-led, Scientology-infused Battlefield Earth, or Ed Wood’s frightful Glen or Glenda were anything approaching a good idea. It cannot be that we actually want to watch these things, for where is the thrill in experiencing completely inept film-making unless it really is about taking pleasure in other people’s…

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) or the more recent iteration, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), are movies that got stitched in the memories of many children of our world.For that precise reason, when a real-life “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” event in Glasgow, Scotland, surfaced on the internet, many people didn’t think twice before buying a ticket for it, especially for their kids. But when they showed up for what was advertised as a “journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting…

I’m now on my fourth day of MWC, and I’ve heard the term ‘AI’ so much that I’ll be muttering it in my sleep. One thing is clear though: developers are hell-bent on making this technology a part of our future.   Deutsche Telekom was one of the brands that went hard this year, showcasing a concept phone that ran solely on generative AI, without any apps. This model was developed in partnership with Qualcomm and Brain.ai. Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges is firmly behind the idea, claiming “I can tell you that in…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSelma Blair has apologised for posting an anti-Islam comment on social media last week.The US actor, known for her roles in Cruel Intentions and Legally Blonde, made the remark in response to a post from immigration reform advocate Abraham Hamra.Hamra had criticised represenatitives Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush for voting against legislation that would ban any of the perpetrators of the…

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