* Albums
n Time of My Life by Ronan Keating: Tenth album by the Irish singer; comes after 2012’s Fires; led by the single ‘Let Me Love You’; also includes a cover of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová’s ‘Falling Slowly’ (featuring The Shires).
n Also out this week: Wynonna & the Big Noise, Wynonna Judd’s eighth album; K 2.0, the fifth Kula Shaker record; and Mya’s seventh album, Smoove Jones.
Books
n Cometh the Hour by Jeffrey Archer: Fiction; the sixth book in the Clifton Chronicles, the penultimate instalment of the series; a suicide note leads to devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington, and Lady Virginia.
Celeb Tweets
l Wasim Akram (@wasimakramlive): Let’s not complain about what we don’t have and enjoy the things we do have.
l Armeena Khan (@ArmeenaRK): I wish people actually looked like their personalities. Some would be downright horrific and others would be beautiful.
l Born on the 12th of February 1968 in California, U.S.
l Son of actor James Brolin.
l Has a younger brother, Jess, and a half-sister, Molly.
l Parents divorced when he was a teenager. (His father would later marry actress Barbra Streisand.)
l Started acting in the mid ‘80s. Subsequently gained prominence in the ‘00s, with role in the films No Country for Old Men (2007), American Gangster (2007), W. (2008), and Milk (2008). Has since starred in movies including True Grit (2010), Men in Black 3 (2012), Inherent Vice (2014), Sicario (2015), Everest (2015), and Hail, Caesar! (2016).
l Is currently portraying Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a role he will reprise in the upcoming Infinity Wars films.
l Has been married twice: to actresses Alice Adair (1988 - 1994; divorced; two children) and Diane Lane (2004 - 2013). Is currently engaged to his former assistant Kathryn Boyd.
Also born today: Jennifer Stone, Mike Posner, Christina Ricci, Jesse Spencer, Darren Aronofsky, Christopher McCandless, Arsenio Hall
n Deadpool (starring Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T. J. Miller) - action comedy, based on the Marvel Comics character; a former special forces operative (Reynolds) turns into a mercenary after a rogue experiment leaves him with healing powers.
n Zoolander No. 2 (starring Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Penélope Cruz) - comedy, sequel to the 2001 film; Derek (Stiller) and Hansel (Wilson) are recruited to infiltrate a new world of fashion and put an end to a string of assassinations.
n How to Be Single (starring Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Leslie Mann, Alison Brie) - romantic comedy, based on Liz Tuccillo’s novel; a group of unmarried people learn how to be single.
n Tumbledown (starring Jason Sudeikis, Rebecca Hall) - romantic comedy; a young widow (Hall) falls for the writer (Sudeikis) who is investigating the death of her folk singer husband.
The 5th Wave
Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Alex Roe, Maria Bello, Maika Monroe, Liev Schreiber
Director: J Blakeson
Tagline: Protect your own.
l Sci-fi thriller; after four waves of alien attacks, a young girl (Moretz) tries to survive and save her brother as she prepares for the fifth wave.
l Based on Rick Yancey’s 2013 novel of the same name, which is the first instalment in a trilogy.
l Had a budget of $38 million; has made over $66 million in its first few weeks.
l Has received very negative reviews from critics, who found the film derivative and unimpressive.
l During filming, a planned bus explosion spread wider than intended, damaging several buildings in the vicinity.
l Score composed by Henry Jackman.
