COMING SOON
Out this week
* Albums
- Hate for Sale by The Pretenders: The English-American rock band’s eleventh album; features the return of original member Martin Chambers; led by the single ‘The Buzz’.
- Gaslighter by The Chicks: Eighth album by the American country music group formerly known as the Dixie Chicks; their first album in 14 years; follows 2016’s Taking the Long Way; includes the singles ‘Julianna Calm Down’, ‘March March’, and ‘Sleep at Night’.
- The Kingdom by Bush: Eighth album by the English rock band; comes after 2017’s Black and White Rainbows; includes the songs ‘Bullet Holes’ and ‘Flowers on a Grave’.
Movies
- Cut Throat City (starring Shameik Moore, Wesley Snipes, Terrence Howard, T.I.) - action; four childhood friends reluctantly agree to pull off a dangerous heist.
- The Silencing (starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Annabelle Wallis, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin) - thriller; a hunter (Coster-Waldau) and a sheriff (Wallis) track down a murderer who may have kidnapped the former’s daughter years ago.
Celeb Tweets
Conan O’Brien (@ConanOBrien): When I was younger I used to learn a new word and then find ways to awkwardly shoehorn it into conversation. Talk about a classic bildungsroman.
Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson): When contemplating the cosmos, we don’t always know all that we don’t know. So for me, I yearn for the questions I don’t yet know to ask.
Star
Billie Catherine Lourd
- Born on 17th July 1992 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Is the only child of actress Carrie Fisher and talent agent Bryan Lourd.
- Is also the only grandchild of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher.
- Is the goddaughter of actress Meryl Streep and writer Bruce Wagner.
- Studied psychology at university, graduating in 2014.
- Made her big screen debut playing the role of Lieutenant Connix in the Star Wars sequel The Force Awakens (2015); also portrayed the character in the following installments, The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
- Has also starred in horror-comedy television series Scream Queens (2015 - 2016) and several seasons of American Horror Story (2017 - present).
- Is set to return to AHS for its tenth season.
- Is engaged to actor Austen Rydell.
Spotlight
Desperados
Cast: Nasim Pedrad, Anna Camp, Lamorne Morris, Sarah Burns, Robbie Amell, Heather Graham
Director: LP
- Comedy; a woman (Pedrad) and her best friends (Camp, Burns) travel to Mexico in an effort to delete an insulting email they sent to her boyfriend.
- Was originally in development in 2009 and set to star Isla Fisher.
- Has received negative reviews, with critics calling the film predictable and unfunny.
- Actor Jason Mitchell, who was meant to star as one of the protagonist’s love interests, was fired following misconduct allegations and replaced by Lamorne Morris.
- Score composed by Mateo Messina.
