Fifth album by the American artist; comes after 2022’s Twelve Carat Toothache; preceded by the singles ‘Chemical’, ‘Mourning’, and ‘Overdrive’....
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Albums
* Austin by Post Malone: Fifth album by the American artist; comes after 2022’s Twelve Carat Toothache; preceded by the singles ‘Chemical’, ‘Mourning’, and ‘Overdrive’.
* The Loveliest Time by Carly Rae Jepsen: Seventh album by the Canadian singer, the follow-up and companion piece to The Loneliest Time (2022); includes the songs ‘Anything to Be with You’, ‘Shy Boy’, ‘Psychedelic Switch’, and ‘Put It to Rest’.
Movies
* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (with the voices of Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Hannibal Buress, Rose Byrne, Nicolas Cantu, John Cena, Jackie Chan) – animated superhero adventure; the Turtles face an army of mutants as they go on a hunt for a mysterious crime syndicate.
* Haunted Mansion (starring LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson) – horror comedy; a single mom (Dawson) hires a tour guide (Stanfield), a psychic (Haddish), a priest (Wilson), and a historian (DeVito) to help her combat the spirits that are haunting her newly bought mansion.
* Sympathy for the Devil (starring Nicolas Cage, Joel Kinnaman) – psychological thriller; a man (Kinnaman) is forced to drive a mysterious passenger (Cage) at gunpoint.
Oppenheimer
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh
Director: Christopher Nolan
Tagline: The world forever changes.
* Biographical drama; theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Murphy) helps usher in the Atomic Age by playing a pivotal role in developing the first nuclear weapons.
* Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. (Sam Mendes had originally optioned the rights to the book but his iteration never materialized.)
* Had a US$100 million budget.
* Was released on the same date as the fantasy comedy Barbie, an instance of counterprogramming that gave rise to the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon and drove audiences to go see both films as a double feature.
* Has received critical acclaim, earning praise for its direction, screenplay, performances, and score.
* Is Christopher Nolan's second film related to World War II events following Dunkirk (2017).
* Is the sixth collaboration between Cillian Murphy and Christopher Nolan after Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Dunkirk (2017), although it is the first time Murphy plays the lead in one of Nolan’s films.
* Score composed by Ludwig Göransson.
