Coming Soon
Out this week
* Albums
- Who Built the Moon? by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: Third album by the English band; comes after 2015’s Chasing Yesterday; includes the songs ‘Holy Mountain’ and ‘It’s a Beautiful World’.
- Utopia by Bjork: Ninth album by the Icelandic musician, the follow-up to Vulnicura (2015); includes the singles ‘The Gate’ and ‘Blissing Me’.
* Movies
- Coco (with the voices of Anthony Gonzalez, Gael Garcia Bernal, Benjamin Bratt) - animation; a boy (Gonzalez), whose family has an ancestral ban on music, sets off a chain of events leading to an unexpected reunion.
- Just Getting Started (starring Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones, Rene Russo) - action comedy; a former FBI agent (Jones) and an ex-mob lawyer (Freeman) have to put aside their rivalry to defeat the mafia.
- Darkest Hour (starring Gary Oldman, Ben Mendelsohn, Kristin Scott Thomas) - war drama; British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Oldman) faces a crucial moment against Adolf Hitler during World War II.
- The Man Who Invented Christmas (starring Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce) - drama; tells the story behind the creation of Charles Dickens’ (Stevens) A Christmas Carol which ended up redefining the holiday.
Celeb Tweets
- Mahira Khan (TheMahiraKhan): Tonight I realize how powerful artists are, not those in power. We are. Why else do we get banned? Why else do our films pose a threat to them? In this game of power, we will always win. Art/love/truth always does! #PowerDiGame #Verna
- Ali Zafar (AliZafarsays): A run in -6 degrees is the best thing ever. Wah wah wah, maza aa gaya. Brrrrr
- Mehreen Jabbar (mehreenjabbar): Be afraid of social media. Be very afraid. The lynch mobs and trolls are out there to make you fly one minute and crawl the next. :)
Star
Sarah Jane Hyland
- Born on 24th November 1990 in Manhattan, New York, U.S.
- Has a brother, actor Ian Hyland.
- Attended the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan.
- Started acting as a child, making her screen debut with a small role in Private Parts (1997).
- Subsequently appeared in movies including Annie (1999), Spanglish (2004), and Blind Date (2007) before gaining recognition for her role in the popular sitcom Modern Family (2009 - present).
- Has since appeared in films like Struck by Lightning (2012), Scary Movie 5 (2013), Vampire Academy (2014), and XOXO (2016).
- Was diagnosed with kidney dysplasia as a young child; received a kidney (from her father) transplant in April 2012.
- Has had 10 surgeries since she was born to improve her health.
Also born today: Katherine Heigl, Colin Hanks, Stephen Merchant, Garret Dillahunt, Ian Botham, Parveen Shakir
Spotlight
Thor: Ragnarok
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Taika Waititi
Tagline: No Hammer. No Problem.
- Action; Thor (Hemsworth) must escape an alien planet and save his home from destruction.
- Is the third Thor film and the seventeenth Marvel Cinematic Universe release.
- Had a budget of $180 million; has made around $740 million in less than three weeks.
- Has received positive reviews from critics, who found it an improvement over the previous Thor movies, calling it the best of the series so far, and praising the direction, energy, and humour.
- Most of the dialogue in the film was improvised.
- Score composed by Mark Mothersbaugh. The film also includes Led Zeppelin’s ‘Immigrant Song’ and the track ‘Pure Imagination’ from the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).