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Vol. 27
No. 12
Pick Hits
Movies Streaming
Marriage Story (Netflix)
Noah Baumbach's (The Squid & the
Whale/Greenberg) current Oscar
bait, airing on Netflix, stars Adam Driver
& Scarlet Johansson as a couple in the
throes of divorce. He is a theater director in New York,
she is an actress & California transplant, who had a hit
film back in the day but now performs in a play her beau
is mounting for the stage. Something has happened & we
never get a definitive cause as to the genesis of their
breakup but when civility starts to crumble (they're
hoping to negotiate the divorce on their own for peace
of mind & their young son) but when accusations &
resentments begin to surface, lawyers are engaged (she
has Laura Dern in her corner while he gets
Alan Alda & Ray Liotta).
On DVD
1917
During World War I, two British soldiers, Lance Cpl. Schofield and Lance Cpl.
Blake, receive seemingly impossible orders. In a race against time, they must
cross over into enemy territory to deliver a message that could potentially save
1,600 of their fellow comrades, including Blake's own brother. Sam
Mendes's 1917 has received The Golden Globes and also
10 Oscar 2020 nominations.
The Buzz...
With the nation’s movie theaters dark due to the coronavirus outbreak, Sony
Pictures has given its hit action comedy Bad Boys for
Life an early video on demand release on March 31. The movie, starring
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, will debut April 21 on
4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD.
Russian fitness model Yulia Ushakova offended many when she took
to Instagram to post of a photo of the new bikini she made. The caption
(courtesy of Google translate) says, "I ordered a new trend of the
swimming season 2020 on Ali Express; Built-in valves make
breathing easier, but komlekt needs to be changed every two hours! The bikini
she is wearing is made of masks that are in desperate need for hospital staff
and first responders dealing with the novel coronavirus.
Eric Weissberg, half of the duo that recorded Dueling
Banjos for the film Deliverance in 1973, resulting in an unlikely
smash hit single and album, has died at 80. Family members and friends said
Weissberg had been suffering from Alzheimer’s for years.
Frank Grillo, Luke Wilson and Adelaide
Kane have joined Bruce Willis in the independent science
fiction action movie Cosmic Sin. Cosmic Sin follows a group of
warriors and scientists who must fight to protect and save their race when a
hostile alien species with the power to infect and take over human hosts sets
its sights on a futuristic human society.
If you’re prone to boredom shopping on Amazon you’re going to have to
wait a while before you receive your items. Due to increased demand because of
the coronavirus, the e-commerce juggernaut is delaying shipments on
non-essential items, and that includes movies, for up to one month.
The new trailer for Quibi’s upcoming drama Survive hit YouTube
today, giving us a more in-depth look at the series than we’ve previously seen.
The show, starring Sophie Turner and Corey Hawkins
as a pair of strangers trapped together in the mountains after surviving a plane
crash, is set to debut on the new streaming platform this April.
WWE is opening up a huge portion of its library of shows and Pay-Per-View
events for viewers to watch for free on the WWE app without a subscription,
including every single WrestleMania. Yes, that includes the one where
Hulk Hogan tag teams with Mr. T. All you have to do is
download the app and set up an account, and you can start watching some classic
bouts.
Amazon has dropped the paywall for the kids’ programming streaming on its
Prime Video platform. Children shows streaming on Amazon such as
Arthur, Caillou, Peppa Pig, and more will be
available for free to all customers worldwide, regardless of whether they have
an Amazon Prime account.
Monday's episode of Supernatural, which marks the return Genevieve
Padalecki's Ruby after she was killed by the Winchesters back in Season 4,
is poised to be the last new episode for the time being.
The View co-host Meghan McCain announced her
pregnancy Sunday, followed by her intention to self-isolate and work from home
amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Dionne Warwick has slammed the hologram tour of her late niece
Whitney Houston, calling it a “waste of time.” It was recently
announced that the controversial hologram tour, An Evening With Whitney: The
Whitney Houston Hologram Concert, will tour North America, following its recent
European debut, which garnered mixed reviews.
Rihanna has pledged $5 million towards coronavirus relief efforts through
her Clara Lionel Foundation (CLF). Bosses at the 32 year
old Work hitmaker’s foundation announced the contribution on the Twitter
account for the nonprofit on Saturday, which aims to support and fund
“groundbreaking and effective education, health and emergency response programs
around the world”. |
