Out this week:
Coming Soon
* Albums
- Hot Hot Heat by Hot Hot Heat: Fifth and final album by the Canadian indie rock band, their first since 2010’s Future Breeds; includes the single ‘Kid Who Stays in the Picture’.
- On Desire by Drowners: Second album by the American-Welsh rock band; comes after their 2014 self-titled debut record; includes the songs ‘Cruel Ways’ and ‘Troublemaker’.
* Movies
- Independence Day: Resurgence (starring Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman) - action, sequel to Independence Day (1996); twenty years after the first invasion, aliens once again attack Earth, this time with a larger and more powerful battle fleet.
- Free State of Jones (starring Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Keri Russell) - biographical drama based on the life of Newton Knight; a poor farmer (McConaughey) leads a rebellion against the Confederacy in Jones County.
- The Shallows (starring Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada) - horror; a surfer who is stranded on a rock after a shark attack must find a way to get back to safety.
Celeb Tweets
- Hannah Simone (HannahSimone): To the weird bald man bicycling up and down the street at one in the morning scream singing ‘Hey Jude’: if I had a spirit animal, you would be it.
- Lily Allen (lilyallen): To people saying not to politicize the horrendous death of Jo Cox, she was an MP, a left wing politician killed outside her surgery. How can you not politicize it? Such a sad day for this country. Great Britain? Not so much.
Star
Vera Mindy Chokalingam
- Born June 24, 1979 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Daughter of a Tamil architect father and a Bengali doctor mother who met while working at a hospital in Nigeria.
- Was given the name Mindy based on the TV show Mork & Mindy (1978-1982) because her parents wanted her to have an Americanized name.
- Graduated from Dartmouth in 2001with a bachelor’s degree in playwriting.
- Gained some recognition after co-writing the play Matt & Ben (2002).
- Was hired as a writer-performer on The Office in 2004, and then developed her own show The Mindy Project in 2012 which was cancelled by Fox after three seasons but then picked up by Hulu.
- Has written two memoirs, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) (2011) and Why Not Me? (2015).
- Is close friends with The Office’s B.J. Novak, whom she has dated on and off. Is writing a book with him about their relationship.
Also born today: Lionel Messi, Solange Knowles, Stuart Broad, Minka Kelly, Mick Fleetwood, Jeff Beck
Spotlight
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
Out of the Shadows
Cast: Megan Fox, Stephen Amell, Will Arnett, Brian Tee, Tyler Perry, Brittany Ishibashi, Laura Linney, Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Tony Shalhoub, Brad Garrett
Director: Dave Green
Tagline: Raise some shell.
- Action; the Turtles try to save the city from the threat of alien Kraang’s (Garrett) invasion.
- Is the sequel to 2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- Had a budget of $135 million; has made around $124 million in its first two weeks.
- Has received negative to mixed reviews from critics who thought it was silly and unmemorable despite being a slight improvement on its predecessor.
- Series co-creator Kevin Eastman makes a cameo appearance as a pizza delivery guy.
- Score composed by Steve Jablonsky. Mexican boy band CD9 perform the theme song.
- Is expected to be followed by a sequel as the main cast members have signed on for three films.