THE GREEN ROOM

COMING SOON

Out this week

Albums

* In Times of Dragons by Tori Amos: Eighteenth album by the American singer; comes after last year’s The Music of Tori and the Muses (2025); is built around a metaphorical story about “the fight for Democracy over Tyranny”; includes the singles ‘Stronger Together’, “Shush’, and ‘Gasoline Girls’.

Movies

* The Devil Wears Prada 2 (starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Justin Theroux, Kenneth Branagh) – comedy drama, sequel to the 2006 film; as Miranda Priestly (Streep) navigates a new media landscape, she reunites with Andy Sachs (Hathaway) and reconnects with her former assistant Emily Charlton (Blunt).

* Animal Farm (with the voices of Seth Rogen, Gaten Matarazzo, Kieran Culkin, Glenn Close, Steve Buscemi) – animated comedy adventure, based on the 1945 novella by George Orwell; following a revolution, the pigs seize power at a farm.

* Swapped (with the voices of Michael B. Jordan, Juno Temple, Tracy Morgan, Cedric the Entertainer, Justina Machado) – animated comedy; a tiny woodland creature (Jordan) and a majestic bird (Temple) suddenly swap bodies, forcing them to team up for survival.

* Deep Water (starring Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Angus Sampson) – thriller; passengers are forced to make an emergency landing in shark-infested waters.

STAR

Victoria Monét McCants

• Born on 1 May 1989 in Atlanta, Georgia, US.
• Formed her own dance group as a child.
• Started writing poetry which then led to writing music.
• Joined the girl group Purple Reign that was dropped and disbanded before releasing music.
• Worked as a songwriter – and became a frequent songwriting collaborator of singer Ariana Grande – before getting her own record deal.
• Released her debut EP, Nightmares & Lullabies: Act 1, in 2015.
• Earned critical recognition for her fifth EP, Jaguar (2020).
• Got her commercial breakthrough with the release of her debut album, Jaguar II (2023), which included her hit single ‘On My Mama’.
• Has a daughter (born in 2021) with her ex-partner John Gaines.

SPOTLIGHT

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy

Cast: Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, and Verónica Falcón

Director: Lee Cronin

Tagline: Some things are meant to be buried.

• Supernatural horror; a family is reunited with their long-missing daughter (Grace) and realises something is wrong with her.
• Reimagining of The Mummy franchise.
• Lee Cronin’s name was added to the title to distinguish the movie from Stephen Sommers’ 1999 film The Mummy.
• Has grossed over US$65 million on a
• $22 million production budget
• Has received negative reviews, with critics finding it gory, gross, overlong, and derivative of The Exorcist.
• Score composed by Stephen McKeon.