Vol. 29
No. 39
Pick Hits
At The Movies
Don't Worry Darling
In the 1950s, Alice (Florence Pugh) and Jack (Harry
Styles) live in the idealized community of Victory, an experimental company
town that houses the men who work on a top-secret project. While the husbands
toil away, the wives get to enjoy the beauty, luxury and debauchery of their
seemingly perfect paradise. However, when cracks in her idyllic life begin to
appear, exposing flashes of something sinister lurking below the surface, Alice
can't help but question exactly what she's doing in Victory. Chris
Pine and Olivia Wilde also star.
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Quantum Leap (Peacock)
Set 30 years after Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the
Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished, follows a new
team that must restart the project hoping to understand
the mysteries behind the machine and its creator. The
new Quantum Leap sequel takes place 30 years after Dr.
Sam Beckett disappears into the Quantum Leap accelerator
and centers around a new character, Dr. Ben Seong,
played by Raymond Lee. Dr. Seong has
ultimately been tasked with leading a new team to
uncover the mysteries surrounding the original
experiment and missing scientist Dr. Sam Beckett.
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Do Revenge (Netflix)
Drea (Camila Mendes) is at the peak of her
high school powers when her entire life goes up in
flames after her sex tape gets leaked to the whole
school, seemingly by her boyfriend and king of the
school, Max. Eleanor (Maya Hawke) is an
awkward new transfer student who is angered to find out
that she now has to go to school with her old bully,
Carissa who started a nasty rumor about her in summer
camp when they were 13. After a clandestine run-in at
tennis camp, Drea and Eleanor form an unlikely and
secret friendship to get revenge on each other's
tormentors.
The Buzz...
Khloe Kardashian is feeling the love following the season two
premiere of The Kardashians. Khloe took to Twitter to thank her fans for
their support and admitted that she had fears about appearing online after the
episode, which focused on the birth of her and ex-boyfriend, Tristan
Thompson’s son, following his latest paternity scandal.
Rihanna will take centre stage at February’s Super Bowl
halftime show. The singer, who declined to perform in the 2019 Super Bowl
halftime show out of solidarity with Colin Kaepernick, will
headline the 2023 Super Bowl, the NFL announced Sunday along with
Jay-Z’s Roc Nation and Apple Music. Rihanna posted an image on
Instagram of an arm outstretched holding an NFL football.
Constance Wu has alleged she faced “sexual harassment and
intimidation” on the set of Fresh Off the Boat. The
actress claims that she was harassed by a producer on the sitcom but she did not
go public with her allegations until now because she wanted to protect the show
and its impact on the Asian American community.
Olivia Wilde says it was “insanity” filming scenes in her new film
Don’t’ Worry Darling in a bikini and rushing back to her director’s
chair. The actress, 38, said she made parts of the film still in her revealing
costume and while holding her daughter and juggling news about COVID-19
shutdowns and cinematography.
Sylvester Stallone and his estranged wife Jennifer
Flavin have reconciled just over a month after the model filed for divorce.
The Rocky actor, 76, and his partner of 25 years, 54, decided to “meet up
at home” so they could work through their differences and are now happy,
Stallone’s spokesperson told the New York Post‘s Page
Six.
Britney Spears slammed her 14 year conservatorship in a new
Instagram post. Spears insisted fellow singer Jennifer Lopez
would never be treated how she was, writing: “After 14 years of telling me no to
what I wanted… it’s ruined for me… but that wasn’t the worst part… the worst
part was my family locking me up in that place for 4 months.
George Clooney will soon be celebrating his eighth wedding
anniversary with his wife, Amal Clooney, and the handsome
filmmaker and movie star is singing her praises. The happy couple walked the
carpet at the History Talks 2022 event in Washington, and
the Oscar winner spoke with Et’s Deidre Behar at the
star studded lecture gala and reflected on his happy marriage and forthcoming
anniversary.
Cops showed up to Aaron Carter’s door last week. The rapper got a
welfare check from police after his Instagram Live left fans concerned.
During the Sept. 20 livestream chat, it appeared as though Carter was doing
drugs off-camera when his screen suddenly went black.
Brad Pitt’s new genderless skincare range has corrected a
declaration it contains “NO Conservatives.” The Le Domaine website
selling the Fight Club actor’s serums made the boast before it was
updated to instead read the products consist of “no preservatives.”