Vol. 32
No. 05
Pick Hits
At The Movies
Love Hurts
A realtor is pulled back into the life he left behind after his former partner
in crime resurfaces with an ominous message. With his crime-lord brother also on
his trail, he must confront his past and the history he never fully buried.
Ke Huy Quan first started studying martial arts as a child,
when he trained in Tae Kwon Do to appear in Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom. He continued the practice into adulthood, utilizing it on
screen in Breathing Fire, and then parlaying it into a second
career as an assistant fight coordinator and action choreographer on such movies
as X-Men and The One. He returned to working in front of
the camera in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Stream This
Paradise (Hulu)
A security service team is tasked with protecting a past
president. A political drama, murder mystery, and sci-fi
thriller all rolled into one. When the President is
found murdered in his residence, his Secret Service
detail gets right on it, and one of his top agents
quickly becomes Suspect Number One. A show like this is
only as good as its premise, and the premise here is
terrific; and it can only maintain suspense as long as
the Big Questions go unanswered, and right from the
start the head scratchers.
Stream This Too
The Night Agent (Netflix)
Low-level FBI agent Peter Sutherland works in the
basement of the White House manning a phone that never
rings - until the night it does, propelling him into a
conspiracy that leads all the way to the Oval Office.
According to Netflix's What We
Watched Engagement Report, released in
December 2023, this series was Netflix's most watched
title between January and June, 2023. Netflix reported
more than 812,000,000 total watch hours worldwide, more
than 92,000 years worth of watch time.
The Buzz...
Sir Elton John is teaming up with
11-time Grammy winner Brandi Carlile
for a new studio album, Who Believes In
Angels? John, 77, announced the surprise project
this week calling the 10-track record saying in a
release that the pair “pushed each other out of their
comfort zones to write and record an album completely
from scratch in just 20 days.”
Tori Spelling knew for sure she was into
men after engaging in her “one and only” three-way.
Spelling said that whereas nowadays partners are more
willing to engage in threesomes to satisfy their own
sexual curiosity, when she participated in hers girls
were more apt to try them out to “shock the boys.”
Last year’s Oscar winners Emma Stone,
Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine
Joy Randolph and Robert Downey Jr.
are set to return to the 2025 ceremony as presenters.
Ahead of her highly-anticipated visit to The
White Lotus, Parker Posey has
signed on to star in Martin McDonagh’s
next film, Wild Horse Nine.
Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming
scripted series about the life of Muhammad Ali
has cast two more series regulars. Omari
Hardwick and Dana Gourrier have joined
The Greatest, which is the first
authorized scripted series about Ali’s life. The pair
will appear alongside previously announced series lead
Jaalen Best.
A Blackpink reunion is right around the corner.
The K-pop group, comprised of ROSÉ, Lisa,
Jennie and Jisoo, took to social media to
reveal that they had plans to embark on a world tour
this year.
Film Movement has landed North American
rights to Stranger Eyes, the
surveillance-themed thriller from Singaporean director
Yeo Siew Hua that competed for
Venice’s Golden Lion in 2024.
Tommy Gulliksen’s documentary Facing
War, which depicts Jens Stoltenberg’s
final year as NATO secretary general, has been selected
as the opening film of the Copenhagen Intl.
Documentary Film Festival.
Paradise had a heavenly opening week, per Disney,
which says Hulu’s Sterling K. Brown-led
drama from This Is Us creator Dan
Fogelman drew 7 million views across its first nine
days of streaming.
Original Little House on the Prairie
actors Dean Butler and Alison
Arngrim are quelling concerns that the recently
announced reboot will tarnish the legacy of the beloved
1974 drama.