Coming Soon
Out this week
* Albums
- Cows on Hourglass Pond by Avey Tare: Third solo album by the Animal Collective musician; follows 2017’s Eucalyptus; includes the singles ‘Saturdays (Again)’ and ‘Taken Boy’.
* Movies
- Us (starring Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Evan Alex, Shahadi Wright Joseph) – horror thriller; a family is terrorized by a group of strangers who look exactly like them.
- The Beach Bum (starring Matthew McConaughey, Isla Fisher, Snoop Dogg, Zac Efron, Jonah Hill) – comedy; a stoner (McConaughey) lives life by his own rules.
- The Dirt (starring Douglas Booth, Iwan Rheon, Machine Gun Kelly, Daniel Webber) – drama, based on the biography The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Mötley Crüe and Neil Strauss; biopic of glam metal band Mötley Crüe.
Celeb Tweets
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt (hitRECordJoe): Just found out Prince wrote Sinead O'Connor's ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’. He also wrote ‘Manic Monday’ by The Bangles.
That's all. Just thought I'd put that out there.
- Jen Kirkman (JenKirkman): Both flights I’ve been on in the last 24 hours were taxiing for take-off and then slammed on the brakes, then apologized explaining that they got a wrong clearance signal. I blame Trump.
- Morgan Murphy (morgan_murphy): Twitter is yell on earth.
Spotlight
Triple Frontier
Cast: Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, Pedro Pascal
Director: J. C. Chandor
- Action thriller; a group of former Special Force operatives reunite to plan a heist.
- Had been in development since 2010.
- Tom Hanks and Johnny Depp were initially in talks to star in the film, followed by Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy who left the project over creative issues.
- Has received mixed to positive reviews from critics who praised the cast and action but found the film uneven.
- Score composed by Disasterpeace.
Star
Keegan-Michael Key
- Born on 22nd March 1971 in Michigan, U.S.
- Is biracial. Was adopted by an interracial couple at a young age.
- Discovered he had two paternal half-brothers after they had died.
- Earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theater in 1993, and a Master of Fine Arts in theater in 1996.
- Gained recognition after being cast in Mad TV (2004 – 2009) alongside Jordan Peele with whom he subsequently created the sketch series Key & Peele (2012 – 2015).
- Has since appeared in TV series such as Fargo (2014), Parks and Recreation (2013 – 2015), Playing House (2014 – 2017), and Friends from College (2017 – 2019) and films including Keanu (2016) and Don’t Think Twice (2016).
- Upcoming projects include parts in the movies Playing with Fire, Dolemite Is My Name, and All the Bright Places, as well as voice roles in the animated films Toy Story 4 (2019) and The Lion King (2019).
- Has been married twice: to actresses Cynthia Blaise (1998 – 2017; divorced) and Elisa Pugliese (2018 – present).
Also born today: Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Modine, Lena Olin