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By Sameen Amer
Fri, 02, 22

Currently hosts the game show The Misery Index (2019 – present) and is a judge on the voguing reality competition show Legendary (2020 – present)....

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*Albums

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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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