Vol. 29
No. 19
Pick Hits
At The Movies
The Innocents
During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children
reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults
aren't looking. In this original and gripping
supernatural thriller, playtime takes a dangerous turn.
The film is strongest and most harrowing when the
characters come face to face with the irreversible
consequences of their actions. In terms of pure
atmosphere and tension, watching The Innocents is like
experiencing a two-hour long sinking feeling.
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Lincoln Lawyer (Netflix)
Based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling
The Brass Verdict, from his Lincoln
Lawyer series, Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo)
is an iconoclastic idealist who runs his law practice
out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car. The
Lincoln Lawyer is an upcoming American legal drama
streaming television series created for television by
David E. Kelley and developed by Ted
Humphrey, based on the 2008 novel The Brass
Verdict by Michael Connelly. It stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
as Mickey Haller, a defense attorney in Los Angeles who
works out of a chauffeur-driven Lincoln Town Car rather
than an office.
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Kids In The Hall (Prime Video)
Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch,
Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney
and Scott Thompson return with a new
season of their ground breaking sketch series that first
premiered in 1989. “We’re like cicadas. Every 17 years
we come, flourish and then we die in 24 hours,”
McCulloch jokes. As they ready their return to TV, The
Kids in the Hall aren’t too worried that their brand of
humour might not sit well with the politically correct
woke crowd. In fact, the comedy troupe is relishing the
idea of potentially offending a few people with a
rebooted sketch series that hits Prime Video
worldwide this week.
The Buzz...
Country singer Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas sized honky
tonk bar was the birthplace of the Urban Cowboy music and fashion
fads of the 1980s, died at age 86 in Branson, Missouri, his Facebook page
announced on Saturday.
Ncuti Gatwa will be the first Black actor to play the lead role in
British sci-fi series Doctor Who, taking over from Jodie
Whittaker as the 14th incarnation of the Time Lord next year, the BBC
said on Sunday. The 29-year-old Scot, a star of Netflix hit Sex
Education, posted two hearts plus a blue square, representing the Doctor’s
Tardis, a time-traveling police telephone box, on his Instagram account
before the news was confirmed by the broadcaster.
Drake gave his Toronto rap festival OVO Fest a major plug
while at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday afternoon. Drizzy told
NBC Sports interviewer Rutledge Wood he was there to
support fellow rapper and Louisville native Jack Harlow, after
they just released a new single called Churchill Downs, named
after the storied racetrack where the Kentucky Derby is held.
Irish rock group U2’s frontman Bono and his bandmate The
Edge performed a 40 minute concert in a metro station in the Ukrainian
capital of Kyiv on Sunday and praised Ukrainians fighting for their freedom from
Russia.
Travis Scott is back in front of the mic. The rapper hit the stage
at Miami's E11EVEN Club in the early hours of May 8, as part of
the Formula 1 Race Week celebration. The event marks Travis' first public
performance since the tragedy as his Astroworld Festival in
November.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the newest timeline
altering tentpole in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe,
captured a huge 265 million in its international box office debut. Those mighty
ticket sales represent the second-biggest opening weekend overseas in pandemic
times. Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home still stands as the
highest-grossing Covid-era debut with 340 million internationally.
One show that nobody wants to wait for is Succession, which ended its
blockbuster third season with a jaw-dropping finale. The series has already been
renewed for a fourth season, and fans may get to see it sooner than they think.