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From British royalty to the mighty Meryl Streep, our updated list of the female performers who've nabbed Academy Awards in the 21st century What’s both gratifying and infuriating about the Oscars is encapsulated in who’s received Best Actress statuettes over the last two decades. On the one hand, this category has honored plenty of Hollywood’s current acting royalty, including Helen Mirren, Cate Blanchett, Olivia Colman, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard — and even a few Americans…

From French comics to Method-acting chameleons, our updated list on the gentlemen who have taken home the 21st-century gold On March 10th, five men will square off at the Academy Awards for Best Actor — only one of them is walking away with the gold. The past two decades have seen a wide variety of performers claim this particular prize, everyone from French comic actors to veteran American stars, newcomers to established Hollywood names resurrecting their careers. Some of those…

Like with everything else in life, when it comes to hotels and Airbnb, what you pay for is what you get. But every once in a while, travelers come across places to stay that exceed expectations in all the wrong ways.So we’ve gathered some of the worst hotel and Airbnb experiences and failures that netizens simply had to shame online. We also got in touch with veteran traveler Monica Stott to learn a bit more. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the worst fails, and be sure to share your own ideas and…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDelivering a great Oscar acceptance speech requires a bit of magic, with the winner having to strike just the right balance of charm and humility.However, often the speeches most remembered are those that end in disaster. Over the years, many actors have been booed, pitied or laughed at for their podium faux pas. Some speeches are too saccharine, others too long. The worst are when an…

Now is the worst time to buy an iPad, and it’s all because of what’s expected to launch imminently.Even though there are some excellent devices available already in the iPad line-up, we are anticipating a whole new range to launch in the next few weeks. Both iPad Air 6 and new M3-packing OLED iPad Pro models are expected, and this has been corroborated by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who said: “I’m told these machines are likely to come out around the end of March.” If these devices slip past March, it still won't be long…

I love it, you love it, we all love it – let's talk about the best and worst things about every film from the Disney Renaissance. That's right – those ten sacred films from the long-lasting Disney catalog that never seemed to do any harm to anyone. While I love those movies with all my heart, I can even say that there are some flaws with these otherwise fantastic films.Let's start with the first – and probably one of the most known. (Image credit: Disney)The Little Mermaid (1989)Best Thing: It's Vibrant Colors And Music…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMea Culpa, the latest film from US comedy magnate Tyler Perry has received a lashing from viewers.The film, a legal thriller, follows a criminal defense attorney (Kelly Rowland) who agrees to represent an artist (Trevante Rhodes) accused of murdering his girlfriend.Perry wrote, directed and produced the film, which started streaming on Netflix earlier this week. Alongside Rowland and…

Actor Dominic Coleman was about to board a flight back from Australia when he received a text from Mark Gatiss about a film they had starred in together. It was a quote from the Sunday Times: “Is this the worst British film ever made?”By the time Coleman was changing planes in Hong Kong, disgust at the film had spread to the front pages of the British newspapers on sale at the airport. It was, he remembers, “like the end of the world. It felt like people were pointing at me on the plane: that’s the guy, it’s him. It was a…

It’s Presidents’ Day, and to honor the nation’s top bosses, I figured an economic scorecard would be helpful. Now, the commander-in-chief probably gets too much blame – or too much credit – for what’s going on in the nation’s business climate. Still, the buck stops at the Oval Office for anything in America. With the cost of living a hot topic, my trusty spreadsheet reviewed how presidential terms fared with the Consumer Price Index dating back to the end of World War II. Now, one challenge in gauging presidential…

There’s a complex relationship that exists between Hollywood A-listers and the paparazzi. Some stars relish the attention and initiate what are known as setups. (And if you’re Kanye West, you even direct photogs on how to film you.) Of course, in most cases though, it would seem that celebrities prefer to avoid the attention that they receive from camera people. Timothée Chalamet is apparently one such person who would prefer not to be photographed in certain instances. With that, he recently recalled a moment in which…