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THE GREEN ROOM

By Sameen Amer
27 October, 2023

Seventh album by the English singer; comes after 2019’s Once Upon a Mind; led by the single ‘Beside You’....

COMING SOON

Out this week

Albums

* Who We Used To Be by James Blunt: Seventh album by the English singer; comes after 2019’s Once Upon a Mind; led by the single ‘Beside You’.

* Danse Macabre by Duran Duran: Halloween themed album by the British band, their sixteenth release overall; includes new tracks by the group as well as covers of songs by artists including Billie Eilish, the Rolling Stones, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Rick James, and Talking Heads.

Movies

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* The Killer (starring Michael Fassbender, Arliss Howard, Charles Parnell, Kerry O’Malley, Sala Baker, Sophie Charlotte, Tilda Swinton) – action thriller, based on a French graphic novel series; an assassin (Fassbender) battles his employers on an international manhunt while slowly losing his mind.

* Under the Boardwalk (with the voices of Keke Palmer, Michael Cera, Bobby Cannavale) – animated musical comedy; a land crab (Cera) falls in love with a sea crab (Palmer), leading to tensions between their families and friends.

* Freelance (starring John Cena, Alison Brie, Juan Pablo Raba) – action comedy; an ex-special forces operative (Cena) takes a job to provide security for a journalist (Brie) as she interviews a dictator (Raba) just as a military coup breaks out.

* Five Nights at Freddy’s (starring Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Matthew Lillard) – horror; a security guard (Hutcherson) realizes that the four animatronic mascots at an abandoned family entertainment centre move and kill anyone that is still there after midnight.

STAR

Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne

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* Born on 27 October 1984 in Westminster, London, England.

* Is the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, and the maternal granddaughter of music manager Don Arden.

* Has an elder sister, Aimee, and a younger brother, Jack.

* Gained recognition for appearing in her family’s reality show The Osbournes (2002 – 2005).

* Pursued a music career in her youth, releasing two albums: Shut Up (2002) and Sleeping in the Nothing (2005).

* Made her acting debut in the teen drama Life as We Know It (2004).

* Has gone on to work as a presenter on shows like Project Catwalk (2007 – 2008) and Fashion Police (2010 – 2015) and a judge on series including Project Runway Junior (2015 – 2017) and Australia’s Got Talent (2016).

* Has a son (born in 2022) with her partner, musician Sid Wilson

SPOTLIGHT

Killers of the Flower Moon

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Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, and Brendan Fraser

Director: Martin Scorsese

* Crime drama; members of the Osage Nation in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s after oil is discovered on tribal land.

* Based on the 2017 non-fiction book of the same name by David Grann.

* Had a $200 million budget.

* Has received critical acclaim, earning praise for the performances, direction, screenplay, and production elements.

* Is the tenth film collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, and the sixth between Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.

* Score composed by Robbie Robertson.