Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Italian actor Isabella Rossellini has responded to Roger Ebert’s infamous 1986 review of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. In the noir-horror, Rossellini plays a lounge singerContinue Reading
It was Humphries who ruined Littler’s fairytale finish at Ally Pally in January, but he’s lost to his rival on four consecutive occasions since. And yet at the conclusion of their latest epic, ‘Cool Hand Luke’ showed real class as he embraced the youngster, then appeared to whisper words ofContinue Reading
“That’s what I focus on. I focus on the performance, I’m happy, and when I go home I don’t think about any other thing because it’s pretty fixed where I am. And that’s also where I want to be.” Verstappen will be less impressed with the performance of his carContinue Reading
Bella Baxter's brain transplant in Poor Things. Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo The neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero announced in 2015 that he could soon be capable of performing the world’s first human head transplant procedure. This would mean that it would be possible to remove someone’s head, and graftContinue Reading
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on 26 March was a shocking and tragic event. Six people remain unaccounted for in the disaster, which saw the world’s third largest continuous truss bridge fall into the Patapsco river. The cause was Singapore-flagged container ship, the Dali, whichContinue Reading
“There are good artists that have children,” Tracey Emin once said. “They are called men.” But while motherhood is underrepresented in art, a new exhibition aims to break this taboo. The realities of motherhood, the “years of broken nights, ridiculous laughter, reading practice, nosebleeds, scraped knees, teenage arguments and brokenContinue Reading
Mercedes technical director James Allison says the Silver Arrows are still trying to figure out what caused Lewis Hamilton’s power unit to fail during the Australian Grand Prix. The 39-year-old ground to a halt on the edge of the track after just 17 laps, capping off a miserable weekend inContinue Reading
Shelagh Delaney’s unflinching debut – which she wrote when she was still in her teens – was a “real jolt to the system” when it premiered at The Theatre Royal, Stratford, in 1958, said Chris Bartlett in The Stage. It tells the story of Jo, a white teenager from SalfordContinue Reading
Murray’s future is uncertain following his latest injury setback. The 36-year-old pulled up on his ankle during his match against Tomas Machac but played on without getting it taped up. He went on to lose and, a day later, revealed that he suffered a full rupture of his ATFL andContinue Reading
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it will be increasing its investment in Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup based in San Francisco, by an additional $2.75 billion. This brings Amazon’s total investment in Anthropic to $4 billion, while the tech giant will maintain a minority stake in the company. Anthropic isContinue Reading
