Nonetheless by Pet Shop Boys: Fifteenth album by the English synth pop duo; comes after 2020’s Hotspot; includes the singles ‘Loneliness’ and ‘Dancing Star’....
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Albums
* Nonetheless by Pet Shop Boys: Fifteenth album by the English synth pop duo; comes after 2020’s Hotspot; includes the singles ‘Loneliness’ and ‘Dancing Star’.
Movies
* Boy Kills World (starring Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Famke Janssen) – action thriller; a martial arts expert (Skarsgård) exacts revenge on those who rendered him deaf-mute in an attack that killed his entire family.
* Breathe (starring Jennifer Hudson, Milla Jovovich, Quvenzhané Wallis, Common, Sam Worthington) – sci-fi thriller; in a world where the Earth is left uninhabitable due to a lack of oxygen, a mother (Hudson) and daughter (Wallis) must fight for survival after visitors intrude their bunker.
* Challengers (starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, Mike Faist) – romantic sports drama; a tennis champion on a losing streak plots a comeback with the help of his former-tennis-prodigy wife (Zendaya), and goes up against his former best friend and his wife’s former lover.
* Cash Out (starring John Travolta, Kristin Davis, Lukas Haas, Quavo, Sean Astin) – action; a thief (Travolta) attempts a bank heist with his brother (Haas), but things go wrong.
* Downtown Owl (starring Lily Rabe, Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, August Blanco Rosenstein) – comedy drama, based on the 2008 novel by Chuck Klosterman; the lives of the residents of a town are upended by a whiteout blizzard.
STAR
Channing Matthew Tatum
* Born on 26 April 1980 in Cullman, Alabama, U.S.
* Has a sister, Paige.
* Dealt with attention deficit disorder and dyslexia while growing up.
* Played football, soccer, track, and baseball in his youth.
* Was cast as a dancer in Ricky Martin’s ‘She Bangs’ music video in 2000.
* Worked as a model before making his film debut in Coach Carter (2005) and then getting his breakthrough in Step Up (2006).
* Has since appeared in movies including She’s the Man (2006), Magic Mike (2012) and its sequels Magic Mike XXL (2015) and Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023), 21 Jump Street (2012) and its sequel 22 Jump Street (2014), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and its sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), White House Down (2013), Foxcatcher (2014), The Hateful Eight (2015), Hail, Caesar! (2016), Logan Lucky (2017), The Lost City (2022), and Dog (2022).
* Upcoming films include the romcom Fly Me to the Moon (2024) and the thriller Blink Twice (2024).
* Was married to actress Jenna Dewan from 2009 till their divorce in 2019; they have a daughter (born in 2013) together. Has been engaged to actress Zoë Kravitz since 2023.
SPOTLIGHT
Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp
Cast: Eric Bauza, Kevin Michael Richardson, Tom Kenny, Mary-Louise Parker, Josh Lawson
Director: Jon Rosenbaum
* Live-action/animated comedy; after being kicked out of the forest, Woody Woodpecker (Bauza) finds a new home at a camp that an inspector wants to shut down.
* Based on the cartoon character of the same name.
* Serves as a sequel to the 2017 film Woody Woodpecker.
* Has received negative reviews from critics who found the film simple and predictable.
* Score composed by Michael Lira.
