THE GREEN ROOM

COMING SOON

Out this week

Albums

* Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat by Charli XCX: Remix album by the English musician; contains remixes of tracks from her sixth studio album, Brat (2024); features guest appearances by artists including Robyn, Ariana Grande, the 1975, Troye Sivan, Lorde, Julian Casablancas, Bon Iver, and Billie Eilish.

Movies

* Piece by Piece (with the voices of Pharrell Williams, Morgan Neville, Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland) – animated biographical musical comedy, the fifth theatrical Lego-based film; follows the life and career of American singer Pharrell Williams.

* The Apprentice (starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova) – biographical drama; explores the early years of Donald Trump’s (Stan) business career, and how he started his real-estate business with the help of infamous lawyer Roy Cohn (Strong).

* Brothers (starring Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Brendan Fraser) – action comedy; two criminal twin brothers (Brolin and Dinklage) – one of whom is trying to reform – embark on a dangerous heist road trip while trying to reconcile their differences.

* Lonely Planet (starring Laura Dern, Liam Hemsworth, Diana Silvers, Younès Boucif) – romance; a woman (Dern) gets acquainted with a young man (Hemsworth) she meets at a retreat.

AWARDS

Belcalis Marlenis Cephus

• Born on 11 October 1992 in New York City, U.S.
• Father is Dominican and mother is Trinidadian.
• Has a younger sister, Hennessy Carolina.
• Was in a gang in her teens.
• Started gaining popularity on social media in 2013.
• Appeared on the reality television series Love & Hip Hop: New York from 2015 to 2017.
• Released her debut album, Invasion of Privacy, in 2018, which propelled her to global fame.
• Is working on her second album.
• Has also had roles in films including Hustlers (2019) and F9 (2021).
• Married rapper Offset in 2017. They split in 2023 and are currently in the process of divorcing. They have three children together.

SPOTLIGHT

Wolfs

Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, and Poorna Jagannathan

Director: Jon Watts

Tagline: They’re not partners. They’re not friends. They’re Wolfs.

• Action comedy; two rival fixers (Clooney and Pitt) are forced to team up for a job despite being lone wolves.
• Marks the sixth time George Clooney and Brad Pitt are starring in a film together, after the Ocean’s trilogy (2001 – 2007), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), and Burn After Reading (2008).
• Jon Watts was set to direct The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) but left the project to work on this film.
• Had a budget of over US$85 million; Clooney and Pitt were reportedly paid $35 million each, and Watts earned $15 million.
• Has received mixed reviews, with critics finding its stars as the main draw of an otherwise derivative, repetitive movie.
• Score composed by Theodore Shapiro.
• A sequel is in the works.