One Man Band by Miles Kane: Fifth album by the English musician; comes after 2022’s Change the Show; preceded by the singles ‘Troubled Son’, ‘Baggio’, and ‘The Wonder’....
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Albums
* One Man Band by Miles Kane: Fifth album by the English musician; comes after 2022’s Change the Show; preceded by the singles ‘Troubled Son’, ‘Baggio’, and ‘The Wonder’.
Movies
* Meg 2: The Trench (starring Jason Statham, Wu Jing, Sophia Cai, Page Kennedy) – action horror, sequel to The Meg (2018); diver Jonas Taylor (Statham) must stop terrifying prehistoric predators from wreaking havoc on the surface world.
* Dreamin’ Wild (starring Casey Affleck, Walton Goggins, Zooey Deschanel, Noah Jupe, Jack Dylan Grazer) – biographical drama; three decades after musician brothers Donnie (Affleck) and Joe Emerson (Goggins) make an album as teens to no commercial success, the record is rediscovered and hailed by critics as a masterpiece.
* Corner Office (starring Jon Hamm, Danny Pudi, Sarah Gadon, Christopher Heyerdahl) – black comedy; a misfit corporate employee (Hamm) discovers a room he’s told doesn’t exist.
Greta Celeste Gerwig
* Born on 4th August 1983 in Sacramento, California, U.S.
* Has an older brother and a sister.
* Graduated from Barnard College with a degree in English and philosophy.
* Hoped to become a playwright but turned to acting after she was not admitted to playwriting MFA programs.
* Appeared in, co-wrote, and co-directed mumblecore films – several with Joe Swanberg – before earning recognition for her performances in Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg (2010), Frances Ha (2012), and Mistress America (2015).
* Earned critical acclaim for writing and directing Lady Bird (2017) and Little Women (2019).
* Her latest film, Barbie (2023), became the biggest debut in history for a film directed by a woman.
* Will next write and direct film adaptations of C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia book series for Netflix.
* Has been in a relationship with filmmaker Noah Baumbach since 2011 They have two children together.
Cast: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, and Will Ferrell
Director: Greta Gerwig
Tagline: She’s everything. He’s just Ken.
* Fantasy comedy; an existential crisis leads Barbie (Robbie) to question her world.
* Based on the Barbie fashion dolls by Mattel.
* Is the first live-action Barbie film.
* Had been in development for over a decade. Multiple writers and directors were, at one point or the other, attached to the project, and Amy Schumer and later Anne Hathaway were cast in the titular role before the part eventually went to Margot Robbie.
* Had an estimated production budget of $145 million; grossed around $500 million in a week.
* Was released on the same date as the biographical drama Oppenheimer, an instance of counterprogramming that gave rise to the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon.
* Has received generally favourable reviews from critics who praised the acting and direction although some found its politics scattershot.
* Score composed by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt. Soundtrack includes songs by artists including Lizzo, Dua Lipa, Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice, Charlie XCX, and Billie Eilish.
