Coming Soon
Out this week
*Albums
* Love Sux by Avril Lavigne: Seventh album the Canadian singer; follows 2019’s Head Above Water; includes the singles ‘Bois Lie’ (featuring Machine Gun Kelly), ‘Love It When You Hate Me’ (featuring Blackbear), and ‘All I Wanted’ (featuring Mark Hoppus).
*Movies
* Studio 666 (starring Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear) – supernatural comedy starring the Foo Fighters; Dave Grohl must battle supernatural forces in a mansion while the band struggle to record their album in the house.
* A Madea Homecoming (starring Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis, David Mann, Tamela Mann) – comedy, twelfth film in the Madea series; family secrets threaten to ruin Madea’s (Perry) celebratory dinner for her great-grandson’s graduation.
* No Exit (starring Havana Rose Liu, Danny Ramirez, Dennis Haysbert) – thriller, based on the 2017 novel by Taylor Adams; stuck at a mountain rest stop during a blizzard, a group of people try to figure out which one of them kidnapped a child they discover hidden in a car.
* Gasoline Alley (starring Bruce Willis, Luke Wilson, Devon Sawa) – thriller; a man implicated in a triple homicide enlists the two detectives on his tail in order to expose a conspiracy.
STAR
Jameela Alia Jamil
* Born on 25th February 1986 in London, England
* Has a Pakistani father and a Pakistani-British mother.
* Worked as a model scout and a model before becoming a co-host on the British morning show Freshly Squeezed (2009 – 2012).
* Hosted The Official Chart on BBC Radio 1 from 2013 to 2015.
* Moved to Los Angeles in 2016 hoping to work as a screenwriter but ended up pursuing acting after being cast in the comedy series The Good Place (2016 – 2020).
* Currently hosts the game show The Misery Index (2019 – present) and is a judge on the voguing reality competition show Legendary (2020 – present).
* Will portray Marvel supervillain Titania in the Disney+ streaming series She-Hulk (2022).
* Has been in a relationship with musician James Blake since 2015.
SPOTLIGHT
Spotlight
Death on the Nile
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders, Letitia Wright
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Tagline: Murder was just the beginning.
* Mystery drama; Hercule Poirot (Branagh) investigates the murder of a young heiress while vacationing on the Nile.
* Is based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. Is the third screen adaptation of the novel, following the 1978 film and a 2004 episode of the television series Agatha Christie’s Poirot.
* Is a sequel to Murder on the Orient Express (2017).
* Release suffered several delays due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
* Has grossed $75 million against a production budget of $90 million.
* Has received mixed reviews from critics who found it old-fashioned and lacklustre.
* Could potentially be followed by more films, with the possibility of creating an Agatha Christie shared universe