COMING SOON
Out this week
Albums
* F-1 Trillion by Post Malone: Sixth album by the American rapper and singer; is his debut country album; features collaborations with various country artists, including Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley, Hank Williams Jr., and Chris Stapleton; preceded by the singles ‘I Had Some Help’ (featuring Morgan Wallen), ‘Pour Me a Drink’ (featuring Blake Shelton), ‘Guy for That’ (featuring Luke Combs), and ‘Wrong Ones’ (featuring Tim McGraw).
Movies
* Alien: Romulus (starring Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced) – sci-fi horror, seventh instalment in the Alien franchise, set between the events of Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986); a group of young space colonists come across a terrifying life form while scavenging a derelict space station.
* The Union (starring Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry, Mike Colter, J. K. Simmons) – action comedy; a construction worker (Wahlberg) is recruited on an intelligence mission by his former high school girlfriend (Berry).
* The Deliverance (starring Andra Day, Glenn Close, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Mo’Nique) – horror thriller; demonic occurrences convince a community that a house is a portal to hell.
* Gunner (starring Luke Hemsworth, Morgan Freeman, Joseph Baena) – action; a father (Hemsworth) tries to save his sons from a drug gang.
K-pop streams in Pakistan on Spotify
Most-streamed K-pop artists in Pakistan
1- BTS
2- Jung Kook
3- V
4- TOMORROW X TOGETHER
5- BLACKPINK
Most-streamed K-pop songs in Pakistan
1- ‘Standing Next to You’ by Jung Kook
2- ‘Love Me Again’ by V
3- ‘- Seven’ by Jung Kook, Latto
4- ‘FRI(END)S’ by V
5- ‘Chasing That Feeling’ by TOMORROW X TOGETHER
Most-streamed K-pop playlists in Pakistan
1- This Is BTS
2- K-Pop ON! ( )
3- This Is BLACKPINK
4- Energy Booster: K-Pop
5- K-POP for PK
Trap
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, and Allison Pill
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Tagline: 30,000 fans. 300 cops. 1 serial killer. No escape.
* Psychological thriller; a serial killer (Hartnett) attends a pop concert with his teen daughter (Donoghue), only to realize it is a trap set by police to catch him.
* The idea for the movie sprouted from conversations between the director and his daughter, singer Saleka, about combining musical performance and cinema, and creating an album for a narrative, like Prince’s titular album for Purple Rain (1984).
* Premise was inspired by the 1985 sting operation, Operation Flagship.
* Has grossed US$28.6 million on a US$30 million budget.
* Has received mixed to negative reviews, with critics finding the movie divisive but praising Hartnett’s lead performance.
* Is one of two films released in 2024 that M. Night Shyamalan produced involving his children. His daughter Ishana Shyamalan made her directorial debut with The Watched (2024), and Saleka Shyamalan made her feature film acting debut in Trap.
* Score composed by Herdís Stefánsdóttir. The movie was also accompanied by a soundtrack album by Saleka, performing as Lady Raven, the popstar character she portrays in the film.