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Image via Marvel Studios Black Panther was a massive hit for Marvel when it came out in 2018, making many rethink their stances on superhero movies due to its surprisingly strong themes and dissection of colonization, monarchism and revolution. But if you’re completely media illiterate, you may struggle to identify any of this. There’s always been a rich vein of hot takes surrounding Black Panther for whatever reason. Perhaps a bit of people wanting to be contrarian over a critically acclaimed film, and maybe a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNetflix’s latest No 1 film, the culture-clash comedy You People, has been torn apart by critics. In a two-star review for The Independent, Clarisse Loughrey described the film as “culture-clash romcom wholeheartedly convinced it’s a satire”, and argued that it “wastes” the talents of Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.However, the movie, which also stars Jonah Hill, Lauren London,…

With 2015’s critically acclaimed Black, a modern-day Romeo & Juliet romance set in the underworld of Brussels, and the international smash hit Bad Boys for Life in 2020, the Belgian-Moroccan film-making duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have proved their knack for blending social commentary with genre excitement. (We’ll never see what they managed with the cancelled Batgirl film.) Informed by the wave of jihadist radicalisation that has led young Arab men in Belgium to join Islamic State, Rebel is the pair’s most…

The list of horror movies to have split opinion is so long that it’s virtually endless, but few in recent memory have proven to be as oxymoronic on multiple levels as director Jessica M. Thompson’s The Invitation. It wasn’t a bomb, with the bloodsucking chamber piece recouping its $10 million budget three times over and then some at the box office, while it even topped the domestic charts in its opening weekend. However, that number one opening ranked as the worst for well over a year, and it came during an all-round…

via STXFilms Everyone is well within their rights to enjoy movies that don’t hold the strongest of reputations in the eyes of either critics or the general public, but attempting to elevate something as terrible as 2018’s revenge-fueled actioner Peppermint onto the same pedestal as the classics is nothing short of madness. Sure enough, a Reddit thread boldly proclaiming that Jennifer Garner’s Riley North deserved to be spoken about in the same revered tones as Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley and Linda…

via Marvel Comics After spending the better part of a decade as a strictly supporting player, Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff stepped out of the shadows to become one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most beloved characters thanks entirely to the success and popularity of WandaVision. As well as earning the star nominations at both the Golden Globes and Primetime Emmys for a heart-wrenching and stunning performance, the Scarlet Witch also assumed big bad duties in big screen sequel Doctor Strange in the…

Thousands of small factories and workshops that supply brands such as Gucci and H&M have watched their business models unravel amid the surge in natural-gas and electricity prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its decision to reduce the flow of gas to the continent. Energy costs for many textile makers have risen from about 5% of production costs to around 25%, slashing their profit margins, according to data from European textiles and apparel trade group Euratex.…

It was scheduled as a day filled with opulent optimism, the Lakers supposedly beginning training camp by regaling reporters with a new coach, new focus, new energy.It was, instead, another day in Russell Westbrook Hell.He’s still a Laker. He’s still combative. He’s still Russ.“Whether they want me here or not doesn’t really matter, honestly,” he said.The Lakers are still hassled. They’re still hopeful. They’re still torn.“For any player on our team, you have to always be evaluating the roster … if we have to continue to…

From twenty miles away stabbed the "atom-filtering" rays to Allen Baker in his cell in the death house. THE shrill voice of a woman stabbed the steady hum of the many machines in the great, semi-darkened laboratory. It was the onslaught of weak femininity against the ebony shadow of Jared, the silent negro servant of Professor Ramsey Burr. Not many people were able to get to the famous man against his wishes; Jared obeyed orders implicitly and was generally an efficient barrier. "I will see him, I will," screamed the…

Image: Marvel Studios D23 finally saw confirmation for the next superhero team in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the form of the Thunderbolts, but fans are now wondering if one character’s inclusion even makes sense. Zemo saw his cinematic debut in Captain America: Civil War, which saw him mastermind a scheme to split the Avengers apart after they played a role in killing his family, and has become a fan favorite since. Popping up next in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, he caused a bit more chaos as he rid…