THE GREEN ROOM

A screw-up (Hart) and a deadly assassin (Harrelson) are forced to team up after being confused for one another....

By Sameen Amer
June 24, 2022

COMING SOON

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*Movies

* The Man from Toronto (starring Kevin Hart, Woody Harrelson, Kaley Cuoco) – action comedy; a screw-up (Hart) and a deadly assassin (Harrelson) are forced to team up after being confused for one another.

* Elvis (starring Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh) – biographical musical; chronicles the life and career of singer and actor Elvis Presley (Butler) as well as his complex relationship with his manager Colonel Tom Parker (Hanks).

* The Black Phone (starring Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw) – horror; locked in a soundproof basement, an abducted teenager (Thames) starts receiving calls on a disconnected phone from the kidnapper’s (Hawke) previous victims.

* Rise (starring Uche Agada, Ral Agada, Jaden Osimuwa, Elijah Shomanke) – biographical drama; three Nigerian-Greek brothers immigrate to the United States and pursue basketball careers.

SPOTLIGHT

Jurassic World Dominion

Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, DeWanda Wise, Mamoudou Athie, BD Wong, Omar Sy

Director: Colin Trevorrow

Tagline: The epic conclusion of the Jurassic era.

* Sci-fi action; four years after the events of Fallen Kingdom, dinosaurs and humans live alongside each other, their fragile balance set to reshape the future.

* Is the sixth instalment in the Jurassic Park franchise; serves as the final chapter in the Jurassic World trilogy and concludes the storyline started in the original trilogy.

* Has made around $625 million on a $185 million budget.

* Has received negative reviews from critics who criticised the screenplay and opined that the franchise has run its course.

* Score composed by Michael Giacchino.

* Franchise could potentially return for further instalments in the future.

STAR

Vera Mindy Chokalingam

* Born on 24 June 1979 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.

* Parents are from India bur met while working at the same hospital in Nigeria.

* Has an elder brother, Vijay.

* Was named “Mindy” after the TV show Mork & Mindy (1978 – 1982).

* Graduated from Dartmouth College in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in playwriting.

* Performed stand-up comedy, and subsequently wrote and starred in the hit off-Broadway play Matt & Ben (2002).

* Gained recognition after being hired as a writer-performer on the American adaptation of The Office (2005 – 2013).

* Starred in her own series, The Mindy Project (2012–2017), and also co-created series including Champions (2018), Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019), and Never Have I Ever (2020 – present).

* Has also appeared in films including A Wrinkle in Time (2018), Ocean’s 8 (2018), and Late Night (2019).

* Has two children, a daughter (born in 2017) and a son (born 2020).

CELEB TWEETS

* Bill Maher (billmaher): On the bright side with the economy, that guy at the office who would never shut up about crypto has finally shut up about crypto.

* Sarah Silverman (SarahKSilverman): I know this is really just a variation of “why don’t they make the whole plane out of the black box,” but — bulletproof vests — can they not also come in a hat?

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