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Vol. 27
No. 32
Pick Hits
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Project Power (Netflix)
Netflix’s latest big budget action spectacular stars
Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and
Dominique Fishback as a team of unlikely
heroes from different backgrounds, working to
investigate the proliferation of a designer drug that
gives its users superpowers for five minutes. Judging by
the trailer, the “Project Power” co-directors Ariel
Schulman and Henry Joost will be
relying on some eye-popping special effects to give
their movie its own five-minute boosts of energy. But
it’s the low-key charisma of the three leads that will
ultimately carry this picture.
On DVD
Military Wives
Kate Barclay is the wife of a British military soldier
who is serving in Afghanistan. While he's away, she
tries to help herself and the other wives of local
servicemen by setting up a cultural club. The women
decide on forming a choir as a distraction from the
anxiety they feel. One wife, Lisa, becomes the chair of
the Social Committee, and finds herself butting heads
with Kate because she feels that cultural stimulation is
less important than the women having fun. When the choir
receives an invitation to perform at the London Festival
of Remembrance, the wives must work together to overcome
their fears and differences to write and perform an
original piece.
The Buzz...
Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. star Clark Gregg has given up on his
19 year marriage to Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey
after filing for divorce. The couple announced its separation earlier this
summer, and now Gregg is making the split official. According to legal
documents, obtained by The Blast, Gregg filed divorce papers in
Los Angeles on Aug. 13.
Ariana Grande will join Lady Gaga for a performance
on this year’s MTV VMAs, which is taking place at various locations
across New York City. The pair will perform Rain on Me, their hit duet and video
from Gaga’s latest album Chromatica, which is nominated for a whopping
seven awards. The VMAs will air live on Sunday, August 30th at 8pm ET/PT.
One of the men convicted of murdering Michael Jordan’s father will
be released on parole in 2023. Larry Demery and Daniel Andre Green were both
handed life sentences for fatally shooting the basketball icon’s dad, James
Jordan, Sr., at a rest stop in North Carolina in July 1993.
Paris Hilton is set to reveal all about a traumatic childhood
experience she has kept secret for decades in her upcoming documentary. In a
newly-released trailer for This is Paris, the hotel heiress and socialite
reveals she has faked her happy persona her whole life, because it helped her
hide the torment she suffered as a child.
Carrie Underwood, Shania Twain, and Snoop
Dogg are among the stars to have landed their own radio shows on the
revamped Apple Music network. Twain and Snoop Dogg have been recruited for their
own Apple Music Hits shows, alongside artists including
Ciara, Meghan Trainor, the Backstreet Boys, and
Alanis Morissette, while Underwood is joined on the country
station by Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, Kelsea
Ballerini, Luke Combs, Florida Georgia
Line, and This Is Us actress turned singer Chrissy Metz.
Britney Spears is seeking to have her father replaced as the sole
conservator of her estate. Jamie Spears was put in charge of his
daughter’s welfare and finances in 2008, following the pop superstar’s headline
grabbing meltdown. He relinquished some control last year as he battled ill
health, and the Toxic hitmaker’s longtime caregiver, Jodi
Montgomery, took over as temporary conservator.
Diageo, the world’s largest spirits maker, is buying Aviation American
Gin, co-owned by Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds, through the
acquisition of Aviation Gin LLC and Davos Brands LLC for up to
$610 million US. Under the deal, Diageo will also own other brands in the Davos
Brands’ portfolio, including Astral Tequila, Sombra
Mezcal and TYKU Sake, with Reynolds retaining an ownership
interest in Aviation American Gin. |
