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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 freeAfter being nominated eight times over the past 22 years, Wes Anderson finally won his first ever Academy Award at the Oscars on Sunday Night – but he wasn’t there to collect it.His short film The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, a 39-minute adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1977 story of the same name, won Best Live Action Short Film. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Sir…

“Scary movies don’t create fear,” the American writer-director Wes Craven told me on more than one occasion. “They release fear.” This was a mantra for the horror maven, along with his equally forthright declaration that scary movies were a “bootcamp for the soul”, teaching psychological survival skills within the safety of the cinema.Over the course of his career, Craven, who died in 2015 aged 76, made some of the most memorably influential scary movies of the 20th century, from gruelling grindhouse classic The Last…

“I am very fond of Anderson. In particular, I'm fonder of ‘late Anderson’, which is perhaps a rarer opinion,” Darren went on to share. “I really like Rushmore, but my favorite films of his are all from Fantastic Mr. Fox onwards. I think I prefer his style when it is completely disconnected from anything approaching reality or naturalism.”“It's a lot easier to buy his characters and his style, for me, when these films take place in a realm completely separate from the mundane world,” the cinephile explained. “So my…

War for the Planet of the Apes could have easily ended the “reboot” era of the Apes franchise, with audiences being left to imagine what happened after the death of Andy Serkis’ Caesar. Instead, we’ll revisit this world next year in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, with the story picking up roughly 300 years after Caesar’s passing. One of Kingdom’s producers and its VFX supervisor have opened up about director Wes Ball’s vision for the 2024 movie release, and it involves a simple pitch he came up with: “Apocalypto with…

Hidden away in the garden of Gipsy House in Buckinghamshire was a cosy little shed where Roald Dahl penned some of his most phizz-whizzing stories. For Dahl, as for any writer, his daily workspace was a sacred place of creative incubation, a safe refuge from the external world that allowed him to be alone with his many internal ones. This consecrated writing shed and all the elements that were slaves to Dahl’s imagination are recreated to forensic perfection by Wes Anderson in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, the…

Jordan Peele has a solid track record thus far regarding horror, so if there's word he's circling a remake of a film made by one of the Masters Of Horror, people listen up. Not only that, but Peele is looking to do a remake of one of the most underrated Wes Craven horror films in his catalog, and I'm sold on the vision he may have for The People Under The Stairs. The news right now is that Doom Patrol writer Ezra Claytan Daniels has signed on to pen the remake of The People Under The Stairs. Deadline reported Monkey Paw…

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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 freeNext month sees the release of one of the most anticipated British independent films of the year, the moving father-daughter comedy-drama Scrapper.Harris Dickinson, following up a run of star-making performances in films including Triangle of Sadness and Where the Crawdads Sing, plays Jason, a well-intentioned ne’er-do-well who meets – for the first time – his estranged daughter…

Wes Streeting’s memoir, the cumbersomely titled One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up, pulls off the very rare trick of being both a little bit boring and unexpectedly fascinating. On the one hand, the Labour MP for Ilford North is refusing to fight as a combatant in the late Martin Amis’s war against cliche; in this book, cheeks tend to be rosy red, and working-class matriarchs are always “strong”. You know he must have written it in a great rush, against a harried background of TV appearances, leaflet drops and hospital…

No one goes to a Wes Anderson movie expecting heartfelt melodrama or realistic human emotions and interactions. They go for intricately crafted doll’s house dramas featuring boxes-within-boxes narratives and arch, satirical conundrums. At best, these range from the piercingly acute family portraits of The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) to the bittersweet comedy capers of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and the delightfully off-the-wall stop-motion animation of Isle of Dogs (2018). At worst, they put the “irk” into “quirky”, with…