Spillovers from last week are relatively few, although that includes the top entry, a Netflix action-zombie-heist movie. Which shows this week had many events and releases - none more dominating of this list as HBO Max bringing back the six people who spent a decade living weird lives and drinking coffee.
Zack Snyder's newest film, released to Netflix on May 21, stars Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, and a digitally-superimposed Tig Notaro. The plot's about a crew breaking into a zombie-infested Las Vegas to retrieve millions of dollars before the place is nuked, but it's also about a father reconnecting with his estranged daughter—read into that what you will.
The first trailer for this MCU film—from Nomadland director Chloé Zhao—was released on Monday. If you're wondering how an Oscar winning director makes a Marvel movie, just take it from producer Kevin Feige:
We cut a little sample reel together, I remember, to show [Disney higher-ups]. And it was so beautiful, and I had to keep saying, “This is right out of a camera; there’s no VFX work to this at all!” Because it was a beautiful sunset, with perfect waves and mist coming up from the shore on this giant cliffside — really, really impressive stuff. (Variety)
After the goddamned pandemic ensured the only Eurovision Song Contest in 2020 was the one with Will Ferrell, the music extravaganza featuring the best and most bombastic of Europe (and Australia) made a glorious return.
This special, starring the cast of the really big 90s-00s sitcom, premiered on HBO Max on Thursday. The guestlist included people that had appeared on the original series, as well as Malala, BTS, Justin Bieber, and Lady Gaga.
Page, star of Juno and The Umbrella Academy, came out as a trans man at the end of last year. On Monday, he posted his first post-top surgery shirtless photo.
One of the many movies delayed by the pandemic got internationally released (the US only gets it in late June), and for those who joked The Fast and the Furious had to go to space, the ninth (tenth counting Hobbs & Shaw) movie delivers that!
A mononymous stylist played by Ewan McGregor in an eponymous Netflix series, showing Ryan Murphy might've taken a turn towards thrillers but can make shows out of them once in a while.
This week in Utter Bullshit: a Facebook meme which had a fake Montagnier quote was going around recently. Montagnier never said that any who gets their COVID shot will die in 2 years; rather, he has a far more nuanced reason why COVID vaccines will kill you. One of Montagnier's other kooky COVID theories—that the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology—has earned credence from the Biden administration this week, with intelligence groups being tasked with investigating the New Cold War-heating bullshit.
Rodrigo's first album, SOUR, was released on May 21. The week before that, she released "good 4 u" as a single; it's currently at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (a slightly more important chart than the Top 25 Report.)
If Maleficent wasn't enough, Disney decided to again make a live-action adaptation centered around one of its animated villainesses, namely the puppy-hating fashionista from One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Cruella hit theaters (and Disney+ for those willing to shell out an extra $30 on top of the subscription) and reviewers liked Emma Stone's performance as Cruella de Vil and how the movie is full of personality and style, even if, again, it's a questionable choice for an origin story, specially for leading to scenes like this one.
The big release of the week all theaters closed last year is finally available! And this here writer just prays there are film screens near him again when his country gets it in mid-June, as he just can't wait to be reunited with Emily Blunt in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by beasts who hate loud noises.
One more Friends (#13) star, and one who even managed to get a spin-off for his character in Joey. And in the period before the reunion (#9), Joey Tribbiani had been the lead in Episodes and Man with a Plan, and also served as the host of Top Gear. After the reunion, Matt became a viral meme in Ireland.
The Belarusian government intercepted a flight in its airspace to arrest Roman Protasevich, an opposition activist that had been in exile, on May 23. Belarus's explanation: Hamas had sent an email to Minsk National Airport, threatening to blow up the plane over Vilnius if the Israel-Palestine conflict wasn't immediately resolved. Because I know if I wanted to win a war in the Middle East, the first people I'd think of who could do something about that would be ... security services of an Eastern European airport ...
Closing this list, the final Friends (#13). First, Phoebe Buffay - who when the show begun was in another NBC show, Mad About You, playing dumb waitress Ursula, who eventually was brought into Friends as Phoebe's twin - and then Monica Geller - 'owner' of the biggest gathering point (well, aside from the cafe; to wit, a Greenwich Village apartment inherited from Monica's grandma that rent control ensured she and whoever roommate could live in, no matter if in real life it'd cost a fortune!), little sister of #12, instigator of the whole show as #11 moved in with her after running from her wedding, former roommate of #24, and next-door neighbor of #21 and #4, who she married. Kudrow has kept steady work in comedies (aside from The Girl on the Train), while Cox has Cougar Town to her name (along with one of the few peopleGhostface can't seem to kill).
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