COMIMG SOON
Out this week
Albums
* Clancy by Twenty One Pilots: Seventh album by the American duo; follows 2021’s Scaled and Icy; includes the singles ‘Overcompensate’, ‘Next Semester’, and ‘Backslide’.
Movies
* Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke) – action adventure, prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); after being snatched, young warrior Furiosa (Taylor-Joy) must survive many trials and find her way home.
* Atlas (starring Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, Mark Strong) – action thriller; a data analyst (Lopez) who distrusts artificial intelligence joins a mission to capture a renegade robot.
* Hit Man (starring Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta) – romantic action comedy; a professor (Powell), who poses as a hitman to help the police department arrest those who hire him, falls for a woman who enlists his services.
* The Garfield Movie (with the voices of Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Nicholas Hoult) – animated adventure, based on the Jim Davis comic strip; after an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father – street cat Vic (Jackson) – Garfield (Pratt) is forced into joining him on a high-stakes adventure.
STAR
Brianne Nicole Howey
* Born on 24 May 1989 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.
* Is the oldest of five siblings.
* Was raised by her young and single mother.
* Joined the improv team at her high school.
* Studied theatre at acting and arts schools.
* Made her television debut with an appearance in an episode of 90210 (2010).
* Gained recognition for starring in the series I Live with Models (2015 – 2017), The Exorcist (2016 – 2017), The Passage (2019), and Ginny & Georgia (2021 – present).
* Has been married to Matt Ziering since 2021. They have one child together.
SPOTLIGHT
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Cast: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon, and William H. Macy
Director: Wes Ball
Tagline: No one can stop the reign.
* Action adventure; a young chimpanzee (Teague) teams up with a human woman (Allan) on a journey to determine the future for apes and humans alike.
* Is the fourth instalment in the Planet of the Apes reboot franchise and the tenth film overall.
* Is a stand-alone sequel to War for the Planet of the Apes (2017). Is set about 300 years after the events of the previous film.
* Has grossed around US$238 million on a $160 million budget.
* Has received positive reviews from critics, earning praise for its visuals and action.
* Score composed by John Paesano.