THE GREEN ROOM

COMING SOON

Out this week

Albums

* Sable, Fable by Bon Iver: Fifth album by the indie folk band; follows 2019’s I, I; includes the songs ‘Day One’ (featuring Dijon and Flock of Dimes) and ‘If Only I Could Wait’ (featuring Danielle Haim).

* And the Adjacent Possible by OK Go: The rock band’s fifth album, their first new set in a decade after Hungry Ghosts (2014); includes the tracks ‘A Stone Only Rolls Downhill’, ‘A Good, Good Day at Last’, and ‘Going Home’.

* Obsession by The Driver Era: The duo’s fourth record, the follow-up to 2022’s Summer Mixtape; includes the singles ‘You Keep Me Up at Night’, ‘Don’t Walk Away’, ‘Touch’, ‘Same Old Story’, ‘Don’t Take the Night’, ‘Can’t Believe She Got Away’, and ‘I’d Rather Die’.

Movies

The Amateur (starring Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Michael Stuhlbarg, Laurence Fishburne) – action thriller, based on Robert Littell’s 1981 novel; a CIA cryptographer (Malek) sets out on a mission to hunt down his wife’s (Brosnahan) killers.

Sacramento (starring Michael Angarano, Michael Cera, Kristen Stewart, Maya Erskine) – road comedy; two friends (Angarano and Cera) take an impromptu road trip from Los Angeles to Sacramento.

Drop (starring Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson) – thriller; a widowed mother (Fahy) on a date starts getting increasingly disturbing anonymous messages on her phone.

Gunslingers (starring Stephen Dorff, Nicolas Cage, Heather Graham, Costas Mandylor) – Western action; a reformed gunslinger (Dorff) and a mad genius (Cage) are guided by a spiritual leader (Mandylor) towards vindication.

SPOTLIGHT

Snow White

Cast: Rachel Zegler, Andrew Burnap, and Gal Gadot

Director: Marc Webb

Tagline: The fairest of them all.

• Musical fantasy adventure; a princess (Zegler) forms an alliance with seven magical characters and a bandit (Burnap) to liberate her kingdom from the Evil Queen (Gadot).
• Is a live-action reimagining of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), which was based on the 1812 Brothers Grimm fairy tale ‘Snow White’.
• Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul wrote new songs for the film.
• Had an estimated budget of around US$240–270 million. Has grossed around $168 million, bombing at the box office. Has been projected to lose Disney as much as $115 million.
• Has received negative reviews from critics who felt the film was bad and bland.
• Was the subject of controversy because of several factors, including the casting of an actress of Latin descent as Snow White (a character originally described as having skin “as white as snow”); the reimagining of the Seven Dwarfs as seven magical CGI characters; its pseudo-progressive tone; and Zegler and Gadot’s political views.
• Production on Disney’s live-action remake of Tangled (2010) has been suspended indefinitely following Snow White’s underperformance.