THE GREEN ROOM

COMING SOON

Out this week

Albums

* Happenings by Kasabian: Eighth album by the British rock band; follows The Alchemist’s Euphoria (2022); includes the singles ‘Algorithms’, ‘Call’, ‘Coming Back to Me Good’, and ‘Darkest Lullaby’.

Movies

* Despicable Me 4 (starring Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Joey King, Miranda Cosgrove, Will Ferrell) – animated comedy, sequel to Despicable Me 3 (2017); after escaping from incarceration, supervillain Maxime Le Mal (Ferrell) seeks revenge on Gru (Carell) and his family.

* Mother, Couch (starring Ewan McGregor, Rhys Ifans, Taylor Russell, Ellen Burstyn) – comedy drama, based on the 2020 Swedish novel Mamma i soffa by Jerker Virdborg; three siblings are brought together when their elderly mother (Burstyn) refuses to move from a couch in a furniture store.

* Space Cadet (starring Emma Roberts, Gabrielle Union, Tom Hopper, Poppy Liu) – comedy; a fluke puts a party girl (Roberts) in a NASA training program with more qualified candidates.

TRIVIA

Best-selling music of all time

Artists

1. The Beatles – 294.8 million certified units

2. Michael Jackson – 289.5 million

3. Elvis Presley – 234.7 million

4. Elton John – 214.3 million

5. Madonna – 188.2 million

Albums

1. Thriller by Michael Jackson (1982)

– 51.2 million

certified copies

2. Back in Black

by AC/DC (1980)

– 30.1 million

3. The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album by Whitney Houston / various artists (1992) – 28.7 million

4. The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd (1973) – 24.8 million

5. Bad by Michael Jackson (1987) – 21.2 million

Songs

1. ‘White Christmas’ by Bing Crosby (1942)

– 50 million copies

2. ‘Something About the Way You Look Tonight’/’Candle in the Wind 1997’

by Elton John (1997) – 33 million

3. ‘Silent Night’ by Bing Crosby (1935)

– 30 million

4. ‘Petit Papa Noël’ by Tino Rossi (1946)

– 30 million

5. ‘Rock Around the Clock’ by Bill Haley

& His Comets (1954) – 25 million

SPOTLIGHT

Trigger Warning

Cast: Jessica Alba, Mark Webber, Tone Bell, Jake Weary, Gabriel Basso, and Anthony Michael Hall

Director: Mouly Surya

Tagline: Vengeance becomes her.

* Action thriller; after taking ownership of her late father’s bar, a special forces commando (Alba) finds herself at odds with a violent gang.

* Had been in development since 2016. Was filmed in fall 2021.

* Marks Indonesian director Mouly Surya’s English-language feature directorial debut.

* Has been panned by critics who found the film unremarkable and disposable.

* Score composed by Enis Rotthoff.