Nelly Furtado-“The Ride” Album Review

By: Melgie Claire

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With 2006’s gleaming, Timbaland-created Loose, Nelly Furtado went from hippie-ish vocalist of “I’m Like a Bird” to a startling pop star with numerous Main 10 hits. The vocalist, in any case, has been experiencing a melodic identity crisis from that point onward, she overlooked subsequent meet-ups wavering between her people history and her pop achievement. The sixth album, “The Ride”, accomplishes balance.

Taking signals from recent partner Dev Hynes, an artist who makes enthusiastic synth-pop, Furtado’s first album on her label finds a home in crunchy outside the box driven tunes that superbly fit her innovative verses. Opening track “Cold Hard Truth” is one of her finest in years, an infectious single with one of the collection’s heaviest beats. The appealing “Paris Sun” conveys a menacingly sexy synth reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer” however with a milder touch.

The Ride’s essential blemish is obvious in its insignificant titles. A lot of the record, especially the ballads, falls into the lyricist’s trap of taking an arrogance and composing each and every piece of subtext out of it.

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Clint Eastwood To Direct Film About Hero Skarlatos And Friends

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The 15:17 To Paris: The True Story Of A Terrorist, A Train, And Three American Heroes

It seems that Clint Eastwood is continuing his passion for stories about regular guys turning into heroes. According to Deadline, the iconic director is taking on the story of Roseburg native Alek Skarlatos and his friends who thwarted a terrorist train attack in France. The story is based on the book ‘The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes.’

Last year, Eastwood directed ‘Sully’, a biographical drama about US Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger, who made an emergency landing on the Hudson River and saved all 155 passengers and crew. Prior to that, he made ‘American Sniper’ about the Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle.

Dorothy Blyskal adapted the book for the feature with Eastwood set to produce the film with Tim Moore, Kristina Rivera and Jessica Meier.

In August 2015, Army National Guard specialist Alek Skarlatos, and his childhood friends, U.S. Airman First Class Spencer Stone and Sacramento State University senior Anthony Sadler, subdued a heavily armed terrorist while boarded on a train bound for Paris. The three friends eventually came back home to the US and received a heroes’ welcome.

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Update on Joss Whedon’s ‘Batgirl’ and casting the iconic role

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Joss Whedon speaking at Comic-con
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We previously reported that Joss Whedon is making a jump from Marvel to DC and is “nearing a deal to write, direct and produce” a Batgirl movie as part of DC’s Extended Universe. During an interview with Variety at the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 red carpet premiere yesterday, Whedon said he doesn’t want to cast a movie star as ‘Batgirl’.

“I doubt it will be a name,” Whedon said. “I think this is something where you go and find Batgirl and then you cast her. I’m not against movie stars, they’re great, but you need somebody who’s going to be just right. And in situations like this, the name carries a lot of weight so it’s not as critical.”

Batgirl is the alter ego of Barbara Gordon. In the 1960s, she was portrayed by Yvonne Craig in the Batman TV series and then decades later by Alicia Silverstone in Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin as a variation of the character, Barbara Wilson, Alfred Pennyworth’s niece. She was also in The Lego Batman Movie as voiced by Rosario Dawson.

Check out the full video interview below for more:

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Nintendo Reportedly Working On SNES Classic

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The Japanese gaming giant Nintendo is apparently working on a miniature Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) classic version, aimed at followers of the iconic gaming company’s nostalgia. This according to Eurogame, citing multiple sources close to the company.

If it goes as reported, SNES Classic will follow the company’s other hugely popular gaming console NES Classic Mini. So there is no doubt this will be another mega hit and will be Nintendo fans’ main focus, especially considering NES Classic was understocked and just days ago been discontinued.

Development of SNES Classic is apparently “already underway” so we might see a launch of the product this year.

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‘Captain Marvel’ Finds Its Director


By Creative Media Times

There’s been speculation over who will direct Captain Marvel since Brie Larson, fresh from her Oscar best actress win, was cast last summer at a panel at San Diego Comic-Con. Today we finally got an answer: Variety reports that the movie will have not one but two helming the pic: co-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.

Before this confirmation, it was clear that Marvel was adamant about hiring a female director, as some of the contenders including Niki Caro, Lorene Scafaria and Lesli Linka Glatter were shortlisted over the past year.

But this isn’t the first time Boden and Fleck were attached to a Marvel project. In 2012, Hollywood Reporter reported that the duo was in the running to direct Guardians of the Galaxy. This job later went to James Gunn. Boden and Fleck were also responsible for Half Nelson (2006), which was career turning point for Ryan Gosling after it earned him his first academy award nomination. All in all, the project seem to be in good hands.

Captain Marvel is one of the most closely watched projects within the studio’s slate, primarily due to the character being the first female MCU superhero to headline her own film. Larson is set to play Carol Danvers, a member of the US Air Force and gained superpowers after a fusion of alien and human genes.

The movie is scheduled to be released in theaters on March 8, 2019.

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What to Expect From Prison Break Season 5

Ezekiel Gacee

Fox.com

Fox’s Prison Break which is considered one of the most thrilling series is back to your screens and this time, the iconic crime drama TV show is bigger and better than all the previous seasons.

After almost a decade, most people have been left speculating what to expect but just after the first episode, one can already anticipate high adrenaline action and perhaps more mystery than what they are used to.

At the start of Season 5, a lot of people have been left wondering what happened to Michael Scofield, (Wentworth Miller) after it turns out that he was never dead after all. His brother Lincoln Burrows, (Dominic Purcell) is the first one to bring out the possibility of Michael being alive and he goes ahead and shares the same with Sara.

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Lady Gaga in ‘A Star Is Born’: First Look

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It seems like the remake of A Star Is Born is finally moving forward. Lady Gaga herself, who’s making her first turn as a leading lady, announced in instagram and posted the first look to her role (see image right). According to Deadline, Gaga will also be credited by her real name, Stefani Germanotta.

During the weekend, Gaga headlined Saturday night’s Coachella, during which portions of the film where shot. This comes after an invitation for Gaga’s fans to “be in the audience as Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga films scenes on the actual Coachella stages,” which was also tweeted by the studio Warner Bros.

Here’s the film’s official synopsis:

Cooper plays Jackson Maine, a country music star who is on the brink of decline when he discovers a talented unknown named Ally (Germanotta). As the two begin a passionate love affair, Jack coaxes Ally into the spotlight, catapulting her to stardom. But as Ally’s career quickly eclipses his own, Jack finds it increasingly hard to handle his fading glory.

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‘Fate of the Furious’ Races to Break Global Record B.O.

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Universal Pictures


Its a massive weekend for Diesel and company this weekend at the boxoffice, as ‘Fate of the Furious’ speeds ahead of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ with global opening weekend boxoffice record. Final numbers are yet to be released, but estimates this morning put the action-thriller at of $532.5 million, ahead of Awakens’ $529 million. Furious achieve the feat despite declining domestic gross, underlining the importance of global market in Hollywood, especially in China where Furious grossed $190m this weekend (China was not part of Awakens’ weekend debut).

“There is no market that hasn’t had a strong reception,” said Duncan Clark, Universal’s president of international distribution. “Whatever culture, whatever language, whatever country, we seem to have found a home.”

Furious is also the second 2017 film to cross the $100m domestic barrier, after last month’s Beauty and the Beast.

That said, Diesel announced early last year that more movies in the Fast and Furious franchise are planned for release in 2019 and 2021. Distributed by Universal Pictures, the series began with the late Paul Walker in the 2001 film ‘The Fast and the Furious’.

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Carrie Fisher Won’t Be In “Star Wars: Episode IX”

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Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy confirmed to Good Morning America that Carrie Fisher would not be in the 2019 film “Episode IX “, putting to rest all rumors surrounding the film’s production after Carrie Fisher’s death. This means that this December’s “The Last Jedi” will be the actress’ final Star Wars film.

This clarification comes a week after Todd Fisher, Carrie’s brother recently told reporters that that Carrie Fisher will make an appearance in Episoe IX, and that he and Billie Lourd, Carrie’s daughter, have granted permission to use her recent footage. “He was probably confused because we finished everything in VIII, and Carrie is absolutely phenomenal in the movie. We’re so happy that we were able to complete shooting in the summer,” Kennedy said Friday.

Here’s a tribute video showing first glimpse of the late Carrie Fisher on ‘The Last Jedi’ set. The video debuted at a Star Wars Celebration currently happening Orlando, FL until Sunday.

“She was imperfect in many ways, but her imperfections and willingness to speak about them are what made her more than perfect,” Billie Lourd, said at the event.

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New Epic ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Trailer is here

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“It’s time for the Jedi to end,” Luke tells Rey at the end of the epic first trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which premiered at the Star Wars Celebration in Orlando on Friday before it was released online. The trailer was live streamed on the YouTube channel of Star Wars.

The Last Jedi is the follow-up to a small relatively unknown movie “The Force Awakens”, and continues to where Awakens left off. Of course that small movie is currently the highest grossing domestic film of all time.

Here we see Rey (Daisy Ridley) on a remote island where she first met the legendary Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), as well as intergalactic space battles, the Millenium Falcon, glimpses of Finn and Kylo Ren, and what seem like an epic battle between the Resistance and The First Order.

Directed by Rian Johnson (“Looper”), also features Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), Finn (John Boyega) Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). Later this year, we will find out if “The Last Jedi” lives up to the hype. “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” arrives in theaters on Dec. 15. Watch the trailer below:

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