COMING SOON
Out this week
* Albums
- How I’m Feeling by Lauv: Debut album by the American singer; includes the singles ‘Lonely’ (featuring Anne-Marie), ‘Canada’ (featuring Alessia Cara), ‘Mean It’ (with LANY), ‘Who’ (featuring BTS), ‘I’m So Tired...’ (with Troye Sivan), and ‘El Tejano’ (featuring Sofia Reyes).
- Also out this week: R&B artist Jhené Aiko’s third album, Chilombo; Silver Landings, the seventh album by singer Mandy Moore; and A Beautiful Place to Drown, the tenth album by rock band Silverstein.
* Movies
- Onward (with the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus) – animation, fantasy; two elf brothers (Holland and Pratt) go on a magical quest in hopes of resurrecting their deceased father for a day.
- The Way Back (starring Ben Affleck, Al Madrigal, Michaela Watkins) – sports drama; a former basketball player (Affleck) who is now struggling with alcoholism gets a coaching job at his alma mater.
- Spenser Confidential (starring Mark Wahlberg, Winston Duke, Alan Arkin) – comedy thriller, loosely based on the novel Wonderland by Ace Atkins; after two cops are murdered, an ex-cop (Wahlberg) teams up with his roommate (Duke) to take down criminals.
- The Banker (starring Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie, Nicholas Hoult) – drama; in the 1960s, two African-American businessmen (Mackie and Jackson) hire a white man (Hoult) to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.
Star
Constance Elaine Britton
- Born on 6th March 1967 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Has a fraternal twin sister, Cynthia.
- Performed in plays in her high school theatre.
- Made her film debut in The Brothers McMullen (1995).
- Earned some recognition for her role in the sitcom Spin City (1996 - 2000).
- Has since starred in films including Friday Night Lights (2004), This Is Where I Leave You (2014), Beatriz at Dinner (2017), and Bombshell (2019) as well as television series including Friday Night Lights (2006 - 2011), American Horror Story (2011 and 2018), and Nashville (2012 - 2018).
- Upcoming projects include the films Promising Young Woman (2020) and Good Joe Bell (2020).
- Was married to investment banker John Britton from 1991 till their divorce in 1995.
- Adopted a son, Eyob, from Ethiopia in 2011.
Spotlight
Sonic the Hedgehog
Cast: Ben Schwartz, Jim Carrey, James Marsden, Tika Sumpter
Director: Jeff Fowler
Tagline: Try to keep up.
- Action comedy; Sonic (Schwartz) teams up with a local town sheriff (Marsden) to find his lost rings and escape a mad scientist (Carrey) who wants to do experiments on him.
- Based on the video game franchise by Sega.
- After Sonic’s initial design received heavy criticism, the character was redesigned and the film delayed by several months.
- Had a budget over $80 million; has made around $265 million in nearly three weeks.
- Has received mixed reviews; Carrey’s performance was praised, but critics found the film derivative.
- Score composed by Tom Holkenborg.
- Might be followed by a sequel.
