Vol. 31
No. 34
Pick Hits
At The Movies
Blink Twice
When tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail
waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks fly.
He invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private
island. It's paradise. Wild nights blend into sun-soaked days and everyone's
having a great time. Nobody wants this trip to end, but as strange things start
to happen, Frida begins to question her reality. Something is wrong with this
place. She'll have to uncover the truth if she wants to make it out of this
party alive.
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The Crow
Soulmates Eric (Bill Skarsgård) and
Shelly (FKA twigs) are brutally murdered
when the demons of Shelly's dark past catch up with
them. Given the chance to save his true love by
sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek merciless
revenge on their killers, traversing the worlds of the
living and the dead to put the wrong things right in
this modern re-imagining of the 1994 cult classic. A
great film that combines elements of thriller, fantasy
and action, based on the comic book of the same name by
James O'Bar.
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Bad Monkey
Bad Monkey tells the story of Andrew Yancy (played by
Vince Vaughn), a one-time detective demoted
to restaurant inspector in Southern Florida. A severed
arm found by a tourist out fishing pulls Yancy into the
world of greed and corruption that decimates the land
and environment in both Florida and the Bahamas. And
yes, there's a monkey. Apple TV+ has been in fire with
all the great tv series they've put out the last few
years and Bad Monkey is another home run for them. It
stars Vince Vaughn as a former police detective who is
now a restaurant inspector, what follows is an action
comedy that is as entertaining as you'd think it'd be
with Vaughn doing what he does best.
The Buzz...
After a relationship that spanned two decades, two engagements, two weddings and
headlines too numerous to count, Jennifer Lopez has filed for
divorce from Ben Affleck. Court records showed Lopez filed the
petition Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The news was first reported by
the TMZ website. TMZ reported further that Lopez listed the date
of separation as April 26, 2024. It added that she did not mention any
prenuptial agreement.
Taylor Swift is to release a documentary about the Eras
tour. The pop megastar has been visiting cities around the world since March
2023 with a show that encompasses all of her studio albums to date and is now
set to document the whole mammoth process in a documentary that has been
“quietly filmed” during her time on the road. “It will be a warts and all
insight into the tour and the mechanics behind it, which will be fascinating for
fans.”
Alicia Silverstone has confirmed she is “alive and well” after
biting into a poisonous berry. The actress had left her fans concerned this week
after sharing a video of herself asking her social media followers to help her
identify an unknown fruit she had tasted during a trip to England.
While DeAndre Hopkins is currently sidelined with a knee injury
suffered during training camp, it appears that he has been using his recovery
time scrolling through Instagram and couldn’t help but comment on a
provocative post by the 26 year old movie star Sydney Sweeney.
Sweeney posted a series of snaps while wearing a black wetsuit with a plunging
zipper line in the front that also showed off assets from behind.
Neon has nabbed U.S. rights to Finn Wolfhard and Billy
Bryk’s Hell of a Summer, a horror comedy that premiered at
Toronto Film Festival in 2023.
Natalie Portman, Michelle Williams and Sebastian
Stan will be honored at the Deauville American Film
Festival which celebrates this year its 50th anniversary in the seaside
town of French Normandy.
Anya Taylor-Joy, who first broke out on Netflix with The
Queen’s Gambit, is returning to the streamer to star in a series adaptation
of Bella Mackie’s bestselling novel How to Kill Your Family.
The latest installment in the Yellowstone universe is expanding to
include Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman and Beau
Garrett. All three actors will join Michelle Pfeiffer in the
upcoming Taylor Sheridan series The Madison.
Dancing With the Stars has landed its own Clark Kent. American Olympic
medalist Stephen Nedoroscik is the first celebrity announced for
Season 33 of the reality competition show.