Vol. 25
No. 03
Pick Hits
At The Movies
12 Strong
In the wake of Sept. 11, Capt. Mitch Nelson (Chris
Hemsworth) leads a U.S. Special Forces team into
Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission. Once
there, the soldiers develop an uneasy partnership with
the Northern Alliance to take down the Taliban and its
al-Qaida allies. Outgunned and outnumbered, Nelson and
his forces face overwhelming odds in a fight against a
ruthless enemy that takes no prisoners.
On DVD
Blade Runner 2049
Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a new blade runner for the Los Angeles
Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to
plunge what's left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to
find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who's
been missing for 30 years.
The Buzz...
Actor and screenwriter Paul Rudd has been named 2018 Man of the
Year by the nation's oldest collegiate theatrical organization at Harvard
University. Hasty Pudding says it is honoring Rudd because
his career has spanned many genres, from indies to mainstream films, from
heartfelt comedies to superheroes.
Kim Kardashian West has yet to announce her newborn
daughter’s name. But when the Keeping Up with the Kardashians reality
star, 37, shared a cryptic photo of a Louis Vuitton monogram on
Wednesday, she had fans guessing that she and husband Kanye West,
40, new daughter’s name was inspired by the fashion house.
At this year’s 67th Annual NBA All-Star Game, high energy Grammy
winners Pharrell Williams and Fergie are set to take center
stage at center court. For the big game, taking place on Sunday, Feb. 18 at the
Staples Center in Los Angeles, first up at the mic will be
superstar singer Fergie belting out the U.S. national anthem. It’s the latest in
a slew of recent performances by the newly single M.I.L.F.$ singer, who
just released her second full length album, Double Duchess.
Justin Bieber is currently busy soaking up the sun with a very
important woman in his life, his formerly estranged mom Pattie
Mallette.
Dolly Parton is one of the biggest stars in country music, and now
she has not one but two Guinness World Records to back it
up. The 71 year old icon was recently honored for holding the records for the
most hits on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart by a woman and the most
decades with a Top 20 hit on that same chart.
Blac Chyna just got nailed by the judge in the lawsuit she's filed
against Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner. The judge
has tentatively agreed to dismiss them entirely from her lawsuit claiming the
Kardashians torpedoed her reality show.
Diddy says he's 100% serious about buying the Carolina Panthers,
and the reason he's doing it couldn't be more important, because he says it's
all to inspire and empower black America.
Party of Five is the latest series staged to make a TV comeback, as
Freeform is set to reboot the beloved '90s drama. The network has handed a
pilot order to the original series creators Chris Keyser and
Amy Lippman, who will be modernizing the drama by tackling
immigration. Similar to the original series, the reboot will follow five
siblings, the Buendias, who struggle to keep their family together after their
parents are deported back to Mexico.
The untitled drama series based on Gabrielle Union’s Bad
Boys character has been ordered to pilot at NBC. Union will star as
Syd Burnett, her character from Bad Boys 2. In the show, she has left the
DEA and now has a fresh start in her new job as an LAPD detective. She’s
partnered with Nancy McKenna, a working mom who can’t help but
look at Syd’s freedom with some grass is greener envy.
New Line and DC’s Shazam! movie has found their
version of The Wizard. A new report claims that This Is Us star Ron
Cephas Jones is in talks for a key role in the film.
Former The Walking Dead showrunner Frank Darabont has filed
another lawsuit against AMC, claiming that an audit has uncovered more
money that is owed to him from the hit zombie drama.