Everything Now by Arcade Fire: Fifth album by the Canadian rock band; comes after 2013’s Reflektor; includes the singles ‘Everything Now’, ‘Creature Comfort’, ‘Signs of Life’, and ‘Electric Blue’.
Coming Soon
Out this week
* Albums
Everything Now by Arcade Fire: Fifth album by the Canadian rock band; comes after 2013’s Reflektor; includes the singles ‘Everything Now’, ‘Creature Comfort’, ‘Signs of Life’, and ‘Electric Blue’.
All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell by PVRIS: The American rock band’s second album; follows their 2014 debut White Noise; includes the songs ‘Heaven’, ‘What’s Wrong’, and ‘Half’.
* Movies
The Dark Tower (starring Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor) - action, continuation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower novel series, part of the Connected KINGdom franchise; a gunslinger (Elba) battles a vicious sorcerer (McConaughey) to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower which holds the universe together.
Detroit (starring John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore) - crime drama; based on the 1967 Algiers Motel incident during racially charged riots that involves the death of three black men and the beatings of nine other people.
Kidnap (starring Halle Berry, Sage Correa, Lew Temple, Chris McGinn) - action; a mother (Berry) tries to rescue her abducted son (Correa) from kidnappers.
Star
Dylan Thomas Sprouse and Cole Mitchell Sprouse
Born on 4th August 1992 in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy
Are identical twins; Dylan is 15 minutes older than Cole.
Started acting at the age of eight months, often playing the same roles and switching on-screen time due to child labour laws.
Made their TV debut with a shared regular role in Grace Under Fire (1993 - 1998) and film debut in Big Daddy (1999).
Gained recognition after being cast as the titular twins in Disney Channel’s sitcom The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005 - 2008) and its sequel The Suite Life on Deck (2008-11). The massive popularity of the shows made them the highest-paid teenage Disney television actors and the richest teenage twins in the world.
Took a break from acting after being accepted to New York University; attended the university from 2011 to 2015 before resuming acting.
Have also appeared separately in some projects; most prominently, Cole portrayed Ross Geller’s son on Friends (2000 - 2002) and currently stars as Jughead Jones in Riverdale (2017 - present).
Also born today: Greta Gerwig, Abigail Spencer, Lee Mack, Dennis Lehane, Barack Obama, Billy Bob Thornton
Spotlight
War for the Planet of the Apes
Cast: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn
Director: Matt Reeves
Tagline: For freedom. For family. For the planet.
Action; amidst the war between apes and humans, Caesar (Serkis) begins a quest to avenge his kind.
Third instalment in the Planet of the Apes reboot series. Sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014).
Premise shares similarities to the fifth film in the original series, Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), but it is not a direct remake of that movie.
Had a budget of $150 million; has made around $225 million in less than three weeks.
Has received critical acclaim; the performance by Serkis, in particular, has been praised, along with the film’s direction, visual effects, and storyline.
Andy Serkis, Terry Notary, and Karin Konoval - all of whom portray apes - are the only actors to be in all three instalments of this trilogy so far.
Score composed by Michael Giacchino.
Is likely to be followed by a sequel, as a fourth film is being planned.
- action, continuation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower novel series, part of the Connected KINGdom franchise; a gunslinger (Elba) battles a vicious sorcerer (McConaughey) to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower which holds the universe together.
