Coming Soon Out this week: * Albums Wilder Mind by Mumford & Sons: Third album by the folk rock band, the follow-up to 2012’s Babel; led by the singles ‘Believe’, ‘The Wolf’, and ‘Snake Eyes’.
Coming Soon
Out this week:
* Albums
Wilder Mind by Mumford & Sons: Third album by the folk rock band, the follow-up to 2012’s Babel; led by the singles ‘Believe’, ‘The Wolf’, and ‘Snake Eyes’.
* Movies
Avengers: Age of Ultron (starring Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, James Spader) - action, sequel to 2012’s The Avengers; the superhero team tries to stop an artificial intelligence (Spader) that wants to eradicate humans from Earth.
Far from the Madding Crowd (starring Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Tom Sturridge, Michael Sheen) - romance, adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel; a farm owner (Carey Mulligan) attracts three very different suitors: a sheep farmer (Schoenaerts), a reckless sergeant (Sturridge), and a prosperous bachelor (Sheen).
Welcome to Me (starring Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini, Joan Cusack) - comedy; after winning a lottery, a woman with borderline personality disorder (Wiig) buys her own talk show.
Celeb Tweets
Haroon Rashid (@TheRealHaroon): It is easier to invent the future than to predict it.
Ali Zafar (@AliZafarsays): In life you will come across all sorts of people. Some will give and some take from you. But that’s life. Some are givers and some takers.
Fakhr-e-Alam (@falamb3): I expect a suspect to be unsuspected when he is expected to be suspected but only when he has accepted except when only suspected. Decode?
The Bookshelf
Which book has actor Faysal Quraishi read the most recently?
“I have read The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Safak and I like the connection between characters in it, as well as the depiction of Sufism. I really enjoyed it and I would definitely recommend it for reading.”
Star
James Dornan
Born on the 1st of May 1982 in Holywood, Northern Ireland.
Has two older sisters.
Played rugby while attending Methodist College Belfast.
Started modelling before transitioning into acting, making his screen debut in the film Marie Antoinette (2006). Has since starred in the series Once Upon a Time (2011 - 2013) and The Fall (2013 - present), as well as films including Fifty Shades of Grey (2015).
Upcoming projects include the films Adam Jones (2015), The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2015), Anthropoid (2015), and Fifty Shades Darker (2017).
Was a member of the folk band Sons of Jim; they disbanded in 2008.
Has been married to actress Amelia Warner since April 2013; they have a daughter, Dulcie (born in November 2013).
Also born today: Emilia Clarke, James Badge Dale, Julie Benz, Wes Anderson, Tim McGraw, Joanna Lumley
Spotlight
Home
Voice cast: Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, Steve Martin
Director: Tim Johnson
Tagline: Worlds collide.
Comedy; a girl (Rihanna) befriends an alien (Parsons) who has been banished by his Earth-invading race.
Based on Adam Rex’s book The True Meaning of Smekday (2007).
Was preceded by the prequel short film, Almost Home (2014).
Had a budget of $135 million; has made $272 million in the first month of its release.
Has received mixed to negative reviews from critics; lacks tension and freshness, and has been deemed inferior to other animated movies.
Score composed by Lorne Balfe; soundtrack includes songs by Rihanna, Kiesza, Charli XCX, and Jennifer Lopez.
