Coming Soon
Out this week
* Albums
- Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose by Plan B: Third album by the English hip hop artist, his first in nearly eight years following 2010’s The Defamation of Strickland Banks; includes the singles ‘Heartbeat’ and ‘Grateful’.
* Movies
- Overboard (starring Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris, Eva Longoria) – comedy; a single mother (Faris) convinces a spoiled, wealthy man (Derbez) with amnesia that they are married.
- Tully (starring Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, Mark Duplass, Ron Livingston) – comedy; an overwhelmed mother (Theron) is gifted the services of a night nanny (Davis) by her brother (Duplass).
- Bad Samaritan (starring David Tennant, Robert Sheehan, Kerry Condon) – horror; a burglar (Sheehan) comes across a woman (Condon) being held captive in a home he intended to rob that is owned by a psychotic man (Tennant).
Celeb Tweets
- Rainn Wilson (rainnwilson): I’m sure if they really tried, Marvel could fit a couple dozen more superheroes into the new Avengers movie.
- Michael Ian Black (michaelianblack): Thinking about having a cheeseburger because at this point what difference does it make.
- Kanye West (kanyewest): I’ve got a new challenge for everyone today. Pick somebody that you had an argument with that you think you hate maybe even someone you haven’t spoken to in years and contact that person and tell them I love you.
Star
Audrey Kathleen Ruston
- Born on 4th May 1929 in Brussels, Belgium.
- Her father later added “Hepburn” to his name, mistakenly believing that he descended from Duke James Hepburn, changing his last name to “Hepburn-Ruston”.
- Had a privileged childhood.
- Family lost their fortune during World War II; suffered from malnutrition during the war.
- Took ballet lessons in her youth before moving her attention to acting.
- Started performing as a chorus girl in theatre productions in the late 1940s before getting minor television and film roles in the early 1950s.
- Shot to stardom after starring in Roman Holiday (1953), receiving numerous awards for the performance; went on to star in a number of successful films, such as Sabrina (1954), The Nun’s Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Charade (1963), My Fair Lady (1964), and Wait Until Dark (1967).
- Subsequently appeared in fewer films, devoting much of her later life to UNICEF.
- Married twice, first to Mel Ferrer (from 1954 to 1968; divorced; 1 son, born in 1960), and then to Andrea Dotti (1969 to 1982; divorced; 1 son, born 1970).
- Could speak Dutch, English, French, Spanish, and Italian.
- Died of appendix cancer in Switzerland on 20th January 1993.
Also born today: Lance Bass, Will Arnett, Randy Travis
Spotlight
Rampage
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jake Lacy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Director: Brad Peyton
Tagline: Big meets bigger.
- Action; a primatologist (Johnson) must team up with a white gorilla who turns into an enormous, raging creature after a rogue experiment, in order to stop two other giant monsters.
- Loosely based on the video game series of the same name.
- Had a budget of $120 million; has made around $335 million in nearly three weeks.
- Has received mixed to negative reviews; critics found it derivative and not very exciting.
- Score composed by Andrew Lockington.