Coming Soon
Out this week
* Albums
- Expectations by Bebe Rexha: The debut album by the American singer; includes the songs ‘Meant to Be’ (featuring Florida Georgia Line), ‘2 Souls on Fire’ (featuring Quavo), and ‘Steady’ (featuring Tory Lanez).
- Also out this week: Joytime II, the second album by DJ Marshmello; Bad Witch, the ninth album by industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails; and Pray for the Wicked, pop rock band Panic! at the Disco’s sixth release.
* Movies
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeff Goldblum) – action, sequel to Jurassic World (2015); Owen (Pratt) and Claire (Howard) try to rescue the dinosaurs before a volcanic eruption destroys the island.
- Boundaries (starring Vera Farmiga, Christopher Plummer, Lewis MacDougall) – comedy drama; a woman (Farmiga), along with her teenaged son (MacDougall), drives her father (Plummer) to her sister’s house after he is kicked out of a retirement home.
- Damsel (starring Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska) – comedy period drama; an affluent pioneer (Pattinson) ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life (Wasikowska).
Spotlight
Show Dogs
Cast: Will Arnett, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Natasha Lyonne, Jordin Sparks, Gabriel Iglesias, Shaquille O’Neal, Omar Chaparro, Stanley Tucci
Director: Raja Gosnell
Tagline: Unleashed and undercover
- Comedy; a police dog (voiced by Ludacris) and his human partner (Arnett) go undercover at a prestigious dog show to stop an animal smuggling activity.
- Had a budget of $5.5 million; has made nearly $23 million in around a month.
- Has received extremely negative reviews from critics, who panned it for being stale and uninspired.
- Was at the centre of a controversy after being accused by viewers of including a scene normalizing child grooming. The studio then apologized and recut the film.
- Is director Gosnell’s fourth talking dog film, after Scooby-Doo (2002), Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), and Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008).
- Score composed by Heitor Pereira.
Star
Mary Louise Streep
- Born on 22nd June 1949 in New Jersey, U.S.
- Has two younger brothers.
- Was a cheerleader in high school.
- Was chosen as the homecoming queen in her senior year.
- Became seriously interested in acting after appearing in the play Miss Julie at Vassar College in 1969.
- Received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 1975.
- Appeared in several theatre productions before making her film debut with a small role in Julia (1977).
- Gained attention after appearing in the film The Deer Hunter (1978) and further recognition for starring in the mini-series Holocaust (1978) as well as the movie Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) for which she won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award.
- Has since received Oscar nominations for her performance in the movies The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), Silkwood (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Ironweed (1987), Evil Angels (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), One True Thing (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), Adaptation (2002), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Doubt (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), August: Osage County (2013), Into the Woods (2014), Florence Foster Jenkins (2016), and The Post (2017), and won Best Actress Oscars for Sophie’s Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011).
- Has been married to sculptor Don Gummer since 1978. They have four children – musician Henry Wolfe, model Louisa, and actresses Mamie and Grace.