Vol. 28
No. 23
Pick Hits
At The Movies
Spirit Untamed
Lucky Prescott befriends a wild mustang named Spirit who
shares her rebellious spirit. When a heartless wrangler
plans to capture Spirit and his herd, Lucky and her new
friends embark on a quest to rescue the horse that
forever changed her life. A cute and inspired tale that
families can take in together that is sure to delight
one and all.
Stream This
Friends: The Reunion (HBO Max)
Friends: The Reunion, also known as The One Where They
Get Back Together, is a 2021 reunion special of the
American television sitcom Friends. The special is
executive produced by the show's co-creators, Marta
Kauffman and David Crane, Kevin
S. Bright, the show's main cast, and Ben
Winston. The reunion takes us back into a time
machine and then fast forwards us 17 years to present
day with the same feel goodness and fuzziness. It’s
warm, it’s still top notch and the characters still
exude the charm that made them a steady rage and global
sweethearts. The set replica brings the connection back
in a nano second and makes it known as to much much
effort and thought ha gone into recreating the magic.
On DVD
The Courier
The United States sits on a terrifying precipice, and
one unlikely British man is charged with the task of
pulling it back from the brink of destruction. Of
course, nothing about this mission is easy. Along the
way, he'll have to liaison with potentially dangerous
Russian contacts with names like Ironbark. As the world
stares down the barrel of what will eventually become
the Cuban Missile Crisis, there has never been a better
time to step up to the plate. Benedict
Cumberbatch helms this stand out film.
The Buzz...
Focus Features will open Wolf starring George
MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp in theaters on Friday, Dec. 3. The first
weekend of December, following the five-day Thanksgiving frame, is notoriously
one of the slowest at the box office in pre-pandemic times, however, arthouse
and awards season fare always break through. Wolf will be on marquees with other
limited fare such as Searchlight’s Guillermo del Toro movie
Nightmare Alley and an untitled movie from Neon.
Shania Twain slipped back into the original outfit from her 1999
Man! I Feel Like a Woman! music video on social media. “Same outfit, 20
years apart! #letsgogirls,” the 55 year old country singer captioned a clip of
herself modeling the iconic itty bitty black bustier dress, white button down
shirt, veiled top hat and fishnet tights, both then and now.
If you've been looking for some summer beauty inspo, there's no need to search
any further. Sophie Turner just debuted fresh fringe bangs that
will most certainly influence your next hairstyle. Taking to Instagram
Stories, the Game of Thrones star showed off her new
'do with a sweet selfie, writing, "Ya gal's bange'd up."
Taylor-Johnson, who also headlined the R-rated comic book hero
franchise Kick-Ass and played Quicksilver in Marvel
Studios’ Avengers: Age of Ultron, so impressed Panitch that he
instantly shot to the top of the list for Kraven the Hunter, the long
gestating adaptation of the Marvel comics anti-hero.
Victoria Pedretti, who stars as Love Quinn on Netflix’s
You, has been tapped to play The Lovely Bones author
Alice Sebold in the film adaptation of her 1999 memoir, Lucky.
Lucky focuses on the 18 year old Alice, then a burgeoning writer in her freshman
year at Syracuse University. After being viciously beaten and raped by a
stranger in a tunnel near her college campus.
Twenty years ago, one woman convinced her neighbours to buy, rear and train a
thoroughbred racehorse, Dream Alliance. Now their unlikely story
is relived in a feelgood film. Out on 4 June, Dream Horse is the
true story of the extraordinary racehorse that brought a group of impoverished
Welsh owners together and offered them fresh hope against all imaginable odds.
Gavin MacLeod, a sitcom veteran who played seaman "Happy” Haines
on McHale’s Navy, Murray on Mary Tyler Moore
and the very different, vaguely patrician Captain Stubing on The Love
Boat, has died. He was 90.
Freddie Stroma will replace Chris Conrad as
Vigilante in HBO Max’s Suicide Squad spinoff
about John Cena’s Peacemaker. Conrad dropped out of the
role due to creative differences. Vigilante, otherwise known as Adrian Chase, is
a hand to hand combatant, a brilliant marksman and a master of the lariat.
Miles Teller will play producer Al Ruddy in the
upcoming Paramount Plus series The Offer, which
details the behind the scenes story of the making of The Godfather.
Danai Gurira isn’t hanging up her vibranium staff any time soon,
as the actress will reprise the role of Okoye not only in the upcoming Black
Panther: Wakanda Forever, but also in a Disney+
series focused on the character.
Season two of Netflix’s Bridgerton continues to come into focus.
Rupert Evans has joined the cast of the Shondaland-produced
Regency London drama.
Porsha Williams just took her relationship to another level.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta star, who recently confirmed her engagement
to Simon Guobadia, revealed she made their romance extra
permanent. During a virtual appearance on Fox's Dish Nation,
the Bravo star said she got her fiancé's middle named tattooed on her
neck.
Below Deck Sailing Yacht's Dani Soares
announced the sweet and special news that she welcomed her first child, a baby
girl.
Pete Davidson might not be saying the words, “Live from New York,
it’s Saturday Night …,” for much longer. During a comedy actor roundtable
conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the comedian, 27,
reflected on the NBC sketch series and said that he’s envisioning a
career for himself that follows the path of former Saturday Night
Live stars like Eddie Murphy and Adam Sander.