COMING SOON
Out this week
Albums
* Prizefighter by Mumford & Sons: Sixth album by the British folk rock band; follows last year’s Rushmere (2025); includes the songs ‘Here’ (with Chris Stapleton), ‘Rubber Band Man’ (with Hozier), ‘Icarus’ (with Gigi Perez), and ‘Badlands’ (with Gracie Abrams).
* Also out this week: My Ego Told Me To, the debut solo album by Little Mix singer Leigh-Anne; Luck... or Something, the comeback record by Hilary Duff; and Listen Up!, the eleventh album by rock band New Found Glory.
STARS
Olivia Isabel Rodrigo
- Born on 20 February 2003 in Murrieta, California, U.S.
- Is half-Filipina.
- Is an only child.
- Was born partially deaf in her left ear.
- Started taking singing and acting lessons at a young age.
- Made her acting debut with the lead role in the direct-to-video film An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success (2015).
- Gained fame for starring in the Disney series Bizaardvark (2016 – 2019) and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019 – 2022), leaving the latter to focus on her music career.
- Received international recognition after the release of her debut single ‘Drivers License’ in 2021.
- Has released two albums so far: Sour (2021) and Guts (2023).
Movies
- The Dreadful (starring Kit Harington, Sophie Turner, Marcia Gay Harden) – horror; a man from their past returns to the lives of a woman (Turner) and her mother-in-law (Harden) who live a solitary life.
- This Is Not a Test (starring Olivia Holt, Froy Gutierrez, Carson MacCormac, Luke Macfarlane) – horror thriller; a group of students must take shelter in their high school during a zombie outbreak.
- One Mile (starring Ryan Phillippe, C. Thomas Howell, Amélie Hoeferle) – action thriller, simultaneously released as two digital films; a former special forces operative (Phillippe) must rescue his estranged daughter (Hoeferle) from a hostile community.
- The Bluff (starring Priyanka Chopra, Karl Urban, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Safia Oakley-Green) – action thriller; a former pirate (Chopra) must protect her family when threats from her past resurface.
SPOTLIGHT
The Wrecking Crew
Cast: Jason Momoa, Dave Bautista, Claes Bang, Temuera Morrison, Jacob Batalon, Frankie Adams, Miyavi, Stephen Root, and Morena Baccarin
Director: Ángel Manuel Soto
- Action comedy; two estranged half-brothers (Momoa and Bautista) reunite after their father’s mysterious death and try to find out what really happened.
- Has received mixed to positive reviews, with critics praising the performance of the leads and the entertaining action despite the thin storyline.
- MGM won a four-way bidding war for the project in 2021.
- David Leitch was attached to direct the project at one point.
- Score composed by Bobby Krlic.
