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Facts About Simone Biles Simone Biles is the most decorated female gymnast ever, with 30 World and Olympic medals. The 24-year-old has won 25 World medals, including 19 golds—the most in gymnastics history. At the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016, Biles became the first female US gymnast to win four gold medals at a single Games. She’s also a seven-time US all-around champion and the first woman to win five World all-around titles, three World balance beam titles, and five World floor exercise titles. She’s hoping to add to the haul at the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer. Here are few facts from Biles’s fascinating life so far. From a daycare field trip to a Olympics The 4-foot-8-inch Biles was born in Columbus, Ohio, and now lives near Houston, Texas. When Biles was six, she took a daycare A Piercing field trip to Bannon’s Gymnastix outside of Houston and imitated the older gymnasts. The coaches spotted her talent and sent a letter home to her parents suggesting Biles take up the sport. Biles worked with coach Aimee Boorman through the Rio Olympics, took a year off, and then began training with Cecile and Masterpiece About Laurent Landi in October 2017. A sister gymnast Simone and her younger sister, Adria, were raised by their parents, Nellie and Ron, their biological grandparents who adopted the girls at a young age. Adria also competed in gymnastics and trained alongside Simone until the age of 16. What Makes a Hero Adria calls her sister “fearless” and told ESPN that when they were little, Simone would jump off a second-floor railing onto a couch one floor below. The sisters look a lot alike, so much so that Food for Thought: The Green Knight even though Adria is about 6 inches taller, fans mistook her for Simone at the Rio Olympics so often that Adria finally stopped By Brandon Yu trying to correct people and let them snap her photo.

It was early on in The Green Knight when ADHD diagnosis I began to think, rather unexpectedly, of In 2016, Russian hackers broke into the World Anti-Doping Simone Biles. Not long into the film, King Agency’s website and publicised various athletes’ private medical Arthur (Sean Harris), the uncle of Sir records, including Biles’. Biles was diagnosed with ADHD as a Gawain, the wayward protagonist of David child and takes Ritalin, a stimulant that is on the agency’s Lowery’s staggeringly audacious new banned list. However, Biles has approval from USA gymnastics to work, wonders if it’s such a bad thing to take the medication in a therapeutic-use exemption. Biles took to want greatness for his nephew. Gawain (a Twitter to send a message that taking medication for ADHD is stellar Dev Patel working at full capacity), nothing to be ashamed of. at this point just a hard-partying young man shrugging off the expectations of his Four gymnastics moves to her name becoming a knight, does not believe he is To have a move named after them, a gymnast must submit it to destined for such a thing. More a governing body for consideration and then successfully land it specifically, he seems to be afraid of what at a major competition. There are four moves that bear the it takes to be great. name Biles: two on floor, one on beam, and one on vault. In The notion of greatness and how it is addition, in May Biles became the first female gymnast to built and perceived undergirds the successfully perform a vault move called the Yurchenko double mesmerising, terrifyingly beautiful fever pike in competition. The move involves a roundoff back dream that is The Green Knight. It is one of handspring onto the springboard, then vaulting high enough to the special things about Lowery’s complete two flips in a pike position. approach, in taking on a canonical insurmountable toil under the weight of giants that goes largely unexplained (it Controversy ensued when the judges gave it a scoring value of Arthurian legend, that of the tale of Sir expectation. She provided a sobering lens, might be some mushrooms that he ate 6.6, similar to other, less risky moves. Biles and others criticised Gawain and the Green Knight, it flips it on what does a circular piece of metal, or a awhile earlier, even though the timing the International Gymnastics Federation for artificially deflating its head by concerning itself with the idea certain amount of spins and twirls, all doesn’t really check out). Is this how we the point value of the Yurchenko double pike to discourage less- of its own myth-making. In an earlier really mean, outside of what we’ve see ourselves, when we are in fact so much skilled athletes from attempting it for their own safety—and to scene, King Arthur asks his nephew to tell invented around them and in the face of a smaller? In reaching ambitiously for prevent someone like Biles from running away with a competition. him a tale about himself, to which Gawain person’s fundamental safety and well- allegorical ideas around the folly of man, Her own emoji shamefully admits he has none to tell. To being? Lowery is also smart enough to create a become a knight as part of King Arthur’s The Green Knight might ultimately land film that is resolute in not providing The ‘Simoji,’ a 99-cent app, features a variety of cartoon round table is to know you have to embark on the side of endorsing the notion of a answers to its many mysteries. The result gymnast figures in Biles’s likeness. Biles said in a quick- on the hero-making adventure if you are to knightly courage, but its most interesting is daring cinema. The end of the film is an hit YouTube interview with USA Gymnastics that her favourite have stories that will be rehearsed and parts are when it persistently interrogates ambitious, marvellous gamble that fast- emoji overall is the winking smiley face with its tongue sticking told. the nature of man’s arbitrary ideas of forwards through the years and follows out. Gawain is quickly given the opportunity. greatness, honour and bravery. Late in the Gawain’s aging (Patel adeptly offers Chased by a bee around the podium Aided by the witchcraft of Gawain’s mother film, when Gawain finds himself at a castle another dimension here to his talent) like (Sarita Choudhury), the eponymous and toward the end of his journey, the Lady an arc of man — through time and war, At the 2014 World Championships in Nanning, China, 16-year- mysterious green knight (Ralph Ineson) (Alicia Vikander, who also plays Gawain’s the making of a king and the fall of a old Biles was holding a bouquet of flowers on the podium after strides in on Christmas day and offers a lover — a double casting that is one strand kingdom — only to erase it all in instant. winning gold in the individual all-around when Romanian silver challenge to anyone at the round table, of the film’s delightfully unexplained It’s a treasure to simply see a film that is medallist Lorisa Lordache pointed out a bee. Biles tried to shake land a free blow upon him, and next mysteries and layered meanings) asks why willing and allowed to go absolutely the bee out of the bouquet, which of course prompted it to buzz Christmas, the challenger must visit him the green knight is, in fact, green. In bonkers — alongside the unexplained around in anger. Biles dropped the flowers, screamed, at the Green Chapel six days north to considering this, she unspools a giant men and disembodied heads that and ducked and danced away from the insect, laughing all the receive a reciprocated blow. Gawain leaps contemptuous monologue about the talk is also a talking fox, gorgeously while. at the challenge, finally able to prove his silliness and smallness of men and their surreal imagery and a fittingly operatic Competing with a kidney stone mettle, and beheads the knight. invented definitions of virtue, how the score — in a way that mirrors the Patel masterfully embodies a desperate, earth will grow over them and be here long gargantuan mythos and the infinite Biles led her team to gold at the World Gymnastics fumbling desire for courage, as the film after their games. (Not coincidentally, the interpretations of a fable. (It also feels like Championship in Doha, Qatar, despite visiting the ER the night tracks Gawain’s utter fear while he Lady, who eventually seduces him and a middle finger to the state of things in before the event. Biles said she had been experiencing stomach prepares to meet the knight again a year declares he is “no knight,” is the same face Hollywood — the film came out the same pain on her right side for a couple of days and went to the hospital later. He seems both determined and of his lover who earlier in the film asks weekend of the new Disneyland-ride- as a precaution, thinking of appendicitis. Testing revealed a ambivalent about earning his badge of Gawain why he must go on this quest to turned-blockbuster Jungle Cruise and kidney stone, which Biles didn’t pass prior to the competition. honour, the virtue, he unconvincingly begin with; why he should bother with made on a fraction of a fraction of its Instead, she went out and posted the highest individual scores for opines at one point, that dictates why a caring about a certain definition of how to budget, while infinitely more gorgeous and beam, vault, and the floor events, and was second on uneven knight does what he does. be.) breath-taking.) Yet even in its bars. She also had a vault named after her. In this uncertainty and vulnerability — It’s hard not to see the whole thing, and extravagance, it’s the archetypal questions Pizza after meets the opposite qualities of the prototypical the very idea of the legends that burnish a that brought me to think most deeply and noble knight — I thought of Biles. She was hero, as an indictment of man’s ego. also somehow of Biles while watching it — Biles is known for busting stereotypes of how female gymnasts unimaginably brave in piercing the veil of Lowery seems to know this: throughout that regardless of the stories they tell should look and perform, and she carries that outside of the gym her own mythos and revealing her his journey, Gawain traverses varied, awe- about you, self-conviction is what as well. She has repeatedly professed her love for pizza, going so humanity as someone whose physical and inspiring landscapes that dwarf him, and determines who you are. far as to say she treats herself to pepperoni pizza after every meet. mental health were taking an eventually he comes upon a set of literal (mic) (mentalfloss) c2 friday 13 august 2021 Sneak peeks LOOK

knee as he proposed to her on a boat during their getaway at Lake Como in Italy. Hollywood is Making “So it turns out that being A Moving your favourite person’s favourite person is the actual best feeling on planet Earth #yes” she captioned the sweet a Movie on K-Pop photo. “Thank you to @ Surprise comoclassicboats and @ bottega53 for helping my favourite human plan the most incredible, moving surprise of my life,” she continued. “My heart. It bursts.” In his own engagement post, Hughes wrote, “She is my forever Favourite. This is my favourite. And our life is that we’re building because she said ‘Yes’ is already my favourite. I am SO EXCITED to do life with you, my love.” Bush was first spotted with Hughes in May 2020. In photos posted by E! News at the time, the pair held hands as they walked through Malibu together. The day before their engagement, Bush posted pictures of Hughes on her Instagram, documenting a boat ride they took while touring Italy. Recently, Bush shared another solo picture of Hughes within an Instagram According to reports, with pre-production America will chronicle the post featuring snaps from South Korean casting starting in story of a K-pop boy Sophia Bush is engaged! her Instagram, posting a their trip. She included the entertainment company August. Linda Obst will group preparing for their The 39-year-old actress picture of now-fiancé Grant hashtag “Happy Girl.” CJ E&M is now serve as a producer on overseas debut in New shared the exciting news on Hughes getting down on one (people) developing a movie the film, bringing her York. Unfortunately, the centered around K-pop expertise that helped group is accidentally sent for Hollywood. movies like Interstellar, to Texas and must make Titled K-Pop: Lost in Contact and Sleepless in their way out to New York America, the film will be Seattle. with minimal resources directed by South Korean Additional reports and dwindling time. Expanding The Family! director Yoon Je-gyun reveal that K-Pop: Lost in (hypebeast)

Darin Brooks and Kelly Kruger Brooks of The Bold and the Beautiful and Blue Mountain State fame are currently expecting their Losing Sunni Welles second baby together, they revealed, sharing a sweet Sunni Welles, actress, also include Quincy M.E. and family photo to announce the dancer and musician has O’Banion’s 2004 short news. Darin and Kelly are died. She was 72. film Lift. already parents to 22-month- “It is with profound Outside of acting, Welles old daughter Everleigh Jolie. sadness that I announce that was also a gifted dancer and “We are so excited about my mother, Sunni Kay musician. She was a baby No. 2! We told our Welles, passed away today at principal dancer with the daughter Everleigh as soon as the age of 72,” her son, film Folies Bergère musical we found out, and since then producer Shaun O’Banion, variety show after moving to she asks to kiss my tummy announced on Monday (9). Las Vegas in 1979 and every day. It’s the sweetest “If you have a moment, give performed as a jazz singer thing,” says Kelly. a listen and think of her,” he with her band Shiver during “My first trimester was tweeting, sharing a link to the late 1990s. definitely not the same this one of her performances. In 2015, Welles accused time around. Laying down and been a “real champion” the first trimester struggle, “She was an extraordinary Cosby of sexually assaulting binge-watching TV doesn’t throughout this pregnancy so but watching her go through it woman.” her when she was 17 after work when you have a one- far. this time she’s been so strong O’Banion told Variety that meeting him on the set of I year-old running around,” she “There was a lot more handling it all and it’s been his mother died in Downey, Spy in the 1960s. She was adds. “It was definitely much morning sickness with this amazing to see. We are so California, after struggling such Leave It to Beaver one of the dozens of women more challenging. Plus, we pregnancy and a lot less excited about this new with lung cancer. and My Three Sons, who came forward and just moved! It has been a lot, sleep,” says the Daytime addition.” Born Nancy Kay Rihl, according to the outlet. She accused Cosby of drugging, to say the least, but we are so Emmy winner. “The first time The couple tied the knot on Welles kicked off her acting adopted her stage name rape, sexual assault and grateful.” around she was away shooting 21 March 2016, in Hawaii. career at 10 years old and when she was a teenager. other sexual misconducts. Darin, 37, says his wife has a movie so I didn’t get to see (people) appeared TV shows Her other acting credits (people)

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Cast Announced Review: Rick and Morty Comedy series How I Met Season 5 Premiere Your Mother (HIYM) ran for nine seasons, from 2005 until 2014. Now, seven years after the Messing with Time finale was broadcast, the premise is to be flipped, with By Corey Plante subplot echoes the show’s Hilary Duff taking on the lead bigger message. In the role in How I Met Your Father. The way Rick Sanchez frets grandest scope of the The 10-episode series was about getting the house in multiverse across time and first announced in April, with order for a dinner party with space, how much something Duff as Sophie in a romcom his nemesis Mr. Nimbus in the matters is totally relative. Is series set in future New York, Rick and Morty Season 5 there a lot of meaning packed recalling what it was like to premiere, you’d think he was a into those 90 seconds or is it date in 2021. high schooler waiting for his a meaningless blip in the Original series creators crush — not the multiverse’s grand scope of things? Carter Bays and Craig Thomas most brilliant alcoholic. And to The grand answer of Rick are attached to the Hulu top it all off, Morty winds up and Morty has always been a project and the pilot is to be murdering perhaps thousands resounding ‘both.’ So you directed by Pam Fryman, who of aliens across the eons. might as well come watch TV. directed 196 of the 208 How I Early in the episode, Rick It’s unnerving to see Morty Met Your Mother episodes. Isaac opens a portal to another go full-on Rick mode and Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger shoes to fill and I’m excited to series run of 10 episodes. Lowell, known for roles dimension where time moves murder people to blow off (This Is Us and Love, Simon) are slip my 6-and-a-half’s in there.” Valentina (Raisa, known for in Promising Young Woman, faster so he can rapidly age some steam while retrieving showrunners. The original series stars Josh her role in Grown-ish) will play Veronica Mars and Private some cheap wine to impress some wine he can drink with “I’ve been incredibly lucky in Radnor as Ted Mosby, Cobie Sophie’s “impulsive and Practice, will play aspiring his rival, Mr. Nimbus. It feels Jessica, yet the awesome my career to play some Smulders as Robin adventurous” roommate, musician and current Uber like a throwaway sci-fi joke spectacle is what we get here. wonderful characters and I’m Scherbatsky, Jason Segel as according to Deadline, a stylist driver, Jesse. with a clever Narnia One of the episode’s best looking forward to taking on Marshall Eriksen, Neil Patrick who the protagonist “relies on Sharma (Homeland and Life reference, but it winds up laughs comes when Morty the role of Sophie,” Duff Harris as Barney Stinson and to cheer her up when she gets of Pi) will take on the role of being one of Rick and Morty’s yells, “Sometimes you got to told Variety. “As a huge fan Alyson Hannigan as Lily Aldrin. down.” She will introduce the Jesse’s best friend and best sci-fi subplots in a very be an a--hole! My grandpa of How I Met Your Mother, I’m group to her new British model roommate, Sid, who runs a bar long time. taught me that!” honoured and even a little Full cast boyfriend Charlie (Ainsley, who – which will presumably serve Rick tosses some cheap nervous that Carter and Craig The extended How I Met Your stars in 2015 series The Royals) as the replacement for wine in this humble Medieval An eternity in every would trust me with the sequel Father cast was announced, when she returns from London MacLaren’s Pub, where fantasy world where a hooved moment of their baby. clearing up who would make Fashion Week. the How I Met Your Mother gang bipedal alien named Hoovy “Isaac and Elizabeth are up Sophie’s friendship group. “I am on cloud nine,” Raisa used to hangout. lives with his wife. This is Some of the best time travel brilliant, and I can’t wait to Tom Ainsley will star as wrote of landing the role of Tran (Space Force, Easy) is to nothing special for a mad stories in recent memory use work alongside them and all of Charlie, Chris Lowell as Jesse, Valentina on Instagram. “In play Ellen, the adopted sister of scientist who built an entire this same trick or relativity. their genius. Just fangirling Suraj Sharma as Sid, Francia tears and beyond excited to be Jesse, who returns to New York microverse to power his car, There’s Peter Capaldi’s over here getting to join the Raisa as Valentina and Tien working alongside this amazing City after the breakdown of her but after Hoovy offers to help ‘Heaven Sent’ episode of Hulu Originals and 20th Tran as Ellen. Like Duff, all five talented cast. Let’s make this relationship with her wife. Morty carry the wine back Doctor Who, where The families. I realise these are big are slated to appear in the full show legen-wait for it … dary!” (thenational) through the portal, he returns Doctor sacrifices himself home to find that decades countless times to break out have passed. of a time loop. Christopher Hoovy’s pregnant wife is Nolan’s Interstellar also uses long dead, and his adult son time dilation to confuse the murders him without audience and increase the remorse. Hoovy’s story is stakes of his sci-fi epic. White Lotus Renewed for Season 2 over, but Rick and Morty’s What sort of perspective problems are just getting would we gain by enduring HBO series The White Lotus the characters could make an started. for an entire lifetime, or even has been renewed for season 2. appearance at a new location. Hoovy’s ancestors build an many lifetimes? That’s a Created, written, and directed First, though, he says he must entire civilisation around the question this episode asks by Mike White, who has written see who may be available, as gateway through which Morty when Jessica winds up movies like School of Rock and they only signed the cast for would visit, proceeding captures and trapped in a Pitch Perfect 3, the miniseries one season. Regardless, more through the centuries and crystal for thousands of years follows a group of tourists as of The White Lotus is good millennia into various stages in Hoovy’s reality. “Time they check in to the titular news all around - the show’s of society – all the way up to a without purpose is a prison,” Hawaiian resort. Murray mixture of black comedy and cyberpunk dystopia. she says. “I have glimpsed Bartlett, Natasha Rothwell, social commentary has The nuanced depth we get into the mind of eternity.” Lukas Gage, and Jolene Purdy propelled it to the top of the list from this alien society is Jessica earns the following star as employees of The White of must-see shows on HBO perhaps even better than the revelation from her transcendent Lotus who must cater to their akin to recent releases like snake planet from Season 4 perspective: She and Morty guests increasingly radical Hacks and Mare of Easttown. or the cat people from the should just be friends. whims. Jennifer Coolidge stars Ultimately, the anthology Purge episode. Doubt grows In theory, Jessica will never as Tanya McQuoid, a rattled format is the perfect route to go in subsequent generations, be the same. Morty, in turn, woman who has come to for The White Lotus. Thanks to but Morty’s inevitable should at long last give up on spread her mother’s ashes on its critical acclaim, the second reappearance rekindles their his crush. If Rick and Morty can the Hawaiian beaches. season should be able to faith each time, especially commit to evolving all of these Connie Britton, Steven Zahn, Shannon. The White Lotus has in a new locale. Additionally, attract big names and with when he returns to murder characters to do something Sydney Sweeney, and Fred earned rave reviews for its season 2 will follow a different White eliciting career-best tons of them. different, the Season 5 premiere Hechinger star as the mixture of cringe comedy and group of vacationers. No other performances from Britton and In one era, a nonbelieving will be worth it. But if the Mossbacher’s, a dysfunctional dramatic revelations, with details were provided. Coolidge, seeing various stars prince is seduced by a Jafar- Season 6 premiere is all about family who brings their darkness roiling just under the White had previously teased tackle another complicated and like necromancer who Jessica yet again, what’s the daughter’s friend along, played surface. HBO Max initially a follow-up season, indicating not-so-relaxing vacation should manipulates the prince into point of rehashing all the same by Brittany O’Grady. Finally, ordered a six-episode first that it would be stretching have just about everyone killing the king, only for the threads? Jake Lacy and Alexandra season of the series. reality to bring all of the cast excited. The White Lotus’ usurper to kill the prince. Otherwise, we’ll just be Daddario star as newlyweds Now, Deadline reports that back together again for another season 1 finale will bow on 15 Then Morty shows up and looking at endless cycles, just Shane and Rachel Patton The White Lotus will return for vacation in a different location. August but there’s no word on kills everyone. The entire like we did in Hoovy’s world. whose honeymoon is crashed season 2. The second season He did, however, mention a when production of season 2 thing happens in 90 seconds, But will they be as later in the season by Shane’s will leave the shores of a Hawaii follow-up in the vein of MCU- will begin. but it leaves a big impact. entertaining? mother, played by Molly for another White Lotus resort style storytelling where a few of (screenrant) This Rick and Morty (inverse) Does the Fearsome Fright Club Need New Blood?

By Stuart Jeffries Burbank in The Truman Show? To be implicated in a plot to assassinate the fair, though, Ghosts isn’t really for Protestant queen. Hell is other people. Bad enough to those who worry about logic or Perhaps it’s because Ghosts’ spend lockdown finding out if your plausibility. writers also penned and performed nearest really are your dearest. Much Why would the ghosts and Alison in Horrible Histories that this worse, spending eternity in a manor prefer Beg-Chetwynde to die beyond storyline felt like a primer on the house with a newly dead bibulous, Button House? Because he Elizabethan age, as well as a probably inbred blowhard called mansplains, doesn’t listen and can be revival of a regular segment on that Barclay Beg-Chetwynde. heard three fields away yelling his show, namely Stupid Deaths. Sir That is the nightmare scenario catchphrase “Bit--s! Bit--es!” at his Humphrey, after discovering the faced by the eponymous dead at the errant dogs. And the wine-coloured plot, does the honourable thing to start of the third series of Ghosts, a cords. Oh God, the cords. save his wife and co-plotters from sitcom that envisages death as a kind In a way, though, Ghosts needs her majesty’s men’s disembowelling of eternal quarantine. What is life, someone to die to swell the cast list. cutlasses. He arranges their after all, but an everyday quarantine The last new member of fright club escape, then hides up the chimney. with irritating humans with whom was Julian, who died when mobile Sadly, when he comes down the one must, at the risk of otherwise phones were bigger than house chimney again (500-year-old going nuts, get along? bricks. According to the first rule of spoiler alert!) two swords hanging Beg-Chetwynde, red-faced from a Review: fright club I’ve just made up, sitcoms over the hearth swing down and lifetime of three-bottle lunches, keeps Ghosts Series Three need to introduce new characters by chop off his head. putting a hand to his heart as if he’s season three. Otherwise, they are By the end of the opening episode, about to have a massive infarction doomed to repeat minor variations on the membership of Button House’s and so join the ranks of Button Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe), who despite It’s unfortunate to be dead, doubly so established themes with the same old fright club had not increased. Beg- House’s fright club. The dead aren’t not having been bumped on the head to be like Julian the MP, for ever characters until we all get bored and Chetwynde’s supposed heart attack having that. “Tell the old guff to go is much more gormless than she wandering Button Hall trouserless, or watch something else. turned out to be a false alarm. Despite and die on his own property,” says could ever be, can’t see any ghosts like Sir Humphrey, the Elizabethan At the start of series three, though, what I said above, I’m quite pleased Julian the ghost to Alison who, and so rarely knows what’s going on gentleman whose head and body are Ghosts flouted fright club’s only rule. the old guff survived. But my worry is though living, suffered a bump to the in his manor. often in different rooms. Instead of letting Beg-Chetwynde die that Ghosts will become ruined by the head in series one. That bump means Ghosts is predicated on the idea What nonsense, you might well of a heart attack, they told us how the exclusivity of its admission policy. Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) can that once you die, you spend the object. Are we to suppose there is a headless ghost lost his head. Back in Somebody, preferably somebody commune with the spirit world like a afterlife haunting the locale where you specific radius from one’s place of Elizabethan times, you recall, likable and interesting, needs to die to 21st-century Madame Blavatsky in popped off in the outfit you were death beyond which a ghost cannot Catholic plots were rife and Sir save Ghosts. But who? bad jeans, while her dozy partner, wearing at the point of your demise. cross, like a dead version of Truman Humphrey Bone was unwittingly (theguardian) c4 friday 13 august 2021 entertainment LOOK LOOK entertainment friday 13 august 2021 c5 3 Time-Travel Tomatometer : TOP Box Oce 95% In the Heights Everything to Know 99% Summer of Soul Movies to Check Out 91% A Quiet Place Part II 96% Pig 96% Luca 95% The Sparks Brothers About Venom 2 95% Riders of Justice 98% The Paper Tigers 96% Rita Moreno: Just a Girl 98% My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It Too An Enjoyable Romp Through a Video Game

More than any other kind of science fiction, and, if we’re being honest, most of it is pretty time travel stories are the ultimate escape. The mediocre. But this underrated time-travel drama Review: Free Guy ability to move forward and backward through is an exception to that rule. history and change the outcome of your life is Produced by Spike Lee with a clever cameo nearly irresistible — even if the repercussions are from Marty McFly himself, See You Yesterday is almost never worth it. what happens when you mix Do the Right Thing If you’re looking for a time travel movie to watch with Back to the Future. It’s a powerful social on Netflix, here it is – whether you’re in the mood justice story dressed up as a sci-fi adventure. It’s for a classic sci-fi adventure, social commentary, also just a great movie. or something else entirely. Here’s a few lines from Inverse entertainment editor Gabrielle Bondi’s retrospective on the film, 3. Star Trek (2009) “See You Yesterday’s brisk 80-minute running Before he resurrected Star Wars (only to leave it time gives this time-travel adventure a lot of in worse shape than ever before), J.J. Abrams energy. From start to finish, it sustains a pace took his talents to Paramount to reboot another that pulls you in and keeps you invested.” classic science fiction franchise. The result was arguably the most pivotal sci-fi movie of the 1. The Time Traveller’s Wife century (so far) and a pretty fun time travel (2009) adventure to boot. In a recent essay on the importance of Star Trek Looking for something... different? The Time in the year 2009, Ryan Britt writes, Traveller’s Wife is a time travel movie that “There’s literally no way Lucasfilm and Disney doesn’t really care about time travel at all. would have hired Abrams to reboot the Star Wars Instead, it tells the story of a woman (Rachel movies had he only been coming off Cloverfield McAdams) in love with a man (Eric Bana) who’s and Super 8. The wildly successful and unstuck from time. convincing Star Trek reboot in 2009 is what made Bana’s character careens almost Abrams into the super-director we think of now. uncontrollably through time but seems Subjectively, that may not have been a good thing inexplicably drawn to the woman who eventually for Star Trek fans or Star Wars fans but, becomes his wife. (When they first meet he’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage is drawing nearer, hungry alien alter ego. They make actors sign about it,” he added. “In terms of its tie to the story, say, since the last story. And they’re figuring objectively speaking, the 2009 Trek reboot led to a approaching middle age and she’s a child, but despite having been subjected to the same release multi-film contracts these days, don’t you know. it’s really cool. It’s really, really cool.” out how to be with each other. And it’s like vast pop culture universe and resulted in The it’s best not to think about the weirdness of their date delays that have affected every blockbuster Michelle Williams, who stars as Eddie Brock’s Riz Ahmed starred in the first movie as living with this maniac toddler. “ Force Awakens. In this way, Star Trek can be relationship.) going. ex-wife Anne Weying, will also return. The actress Carlton Drake, but he met a messy end that Serkis went on to describe the strained thought of the most pivotal sci-fi movie of the 21st The Time Traveller’s Wife is a tragic love story However, fear not, as it seems we’ll still be getting told Yahoo! Simply, “I’m in” but more importantly, makes a return unlikely. “I think I’m done in relationship between the two, with Eddie “really century so far. (And, unlike The Force Awakens or with moments of joy and just enough sci-fi to the return of Tom Hardy’s anti-hero this year – it’ll Williams hopes the sequel will give She-Venom Venom. It’s pretty conclusive. Dude got blown struggling” unable to concentrate or work, and The Rise of Skywalker, it’s aged well.)” keep genre fans interested. In other words, it’s just be a little later than originally planned as Sony equal screen time. up in a spaceship,” Ahmed explained. Another Venom feeling trapped “because he can’t leave the perfect compromise if you’re struggling to has delayed the sequel from its original summer One new addition to the cast is James Bond star non-returner is the first movie’s director Ruben Eddie’s body unless he has his permission.” 2. See You Yesterday (2019) make your next movie night pick. slot. Naomie Harris playing the villain Shriek. Speaking Fleischer, with Andy Serkis taking over So, in addition to whatever shenanigans Netflix makes a lot of original science fiction, (inverse) Despite a tepid reaction from critics to the first to IGN, director Andy Serkis said, “She’s a damaged directing duties. Shriek and Carnage get up to, Venom: Let There Venom film, fans are still excited for the sequel – soul and she really has suffered in her childhood, While we didn’t get a Spidey-sized cameo in Be Carnage will ultimately also be about Eddie especially now that the trailer has been released. but there is a real vulnerability about her, and the first Venom movie (well, not exactly), the and Venom’s ongoing struggles, too. she’s in a lot of pain… She’s been living in isolation director has hinted at a future Spider-Man This lines up with Venom’s producer Matt Release date for years, years and years. crossover. Could that take place in Venom 2 ? Tolmach’s previous comments that the sequel Before all the delays started, the sequel was due “She’s dangerous too and I think she has her own Marvel boss Kevin Feige did say it was “likely” will focus on the relationship between Eddie in cinemas last year before being shifted to June sense of fairness and being just, and I think when that the Spider-Man and Venom would cross and Venom (via CinemaBlend.) “The heart of CCC:Family Entertainment this year. That date didn’t stick though and in that line is crossed, then you see a very, very paths eventually. Fans hoping to see a Spider- Venom was always the relationship between March, Sony pushed it to 17 September. dangerous, dark side to her, and that’s what we Man cameo were temporarily buoyed by the Eddie and Venom.” There was one little delay left though and it’s wanted to do with the character.” plethora of spidey Easter eggs in the trailer. Despite the larger cast and, particularly, more Beyond Bowling currently now scheduled to hit cinemas on 24 National treasure and frequent Tom Hardy Unfortunately, Serkis has confirmed that baddies, the movie won’t be R-rated, according September. However, that date was brought colleague Stephen Graham have been confirmed to they’re just that – Easter eggs and nothing to producer Avi Arad. “When you hear Carnage, forward in the UK to 15 September. Rumour has it, be joining the Venom sequel as Patrick Mulligan more. the only thing you can think of is R. But, if you By Brian Tallerico though, that this could be pushed back again. and is likely more significant than we realise. However, a crossover plan is in place. know his story, if you really know the comic, form an alliance to basically break Free City Event Cinemas in New Zealand delayed their Woody Harrelson’s Carnage is of course here, and there’s no R here,” he told Collider. Free Guy is like a hyperactive puppy. It apart from the inside, starting with Guy’s opening from 23 September to 14 October, but this seems to have sorted out his wig problem. Plot “He’s a tortured soul. It’s not about what he really wants to be your friend. It’s easy to like refusal to raise his rank through violence. delay has yet to be confirmed elsewhere. A late confirmation to the cast is Killing Eve star In his breakdown of the trailer, Serkis does, because we never have to show the knife and fun to hang out with. It also has a habit Guy chooses only the positive missions in Sean Delaney, who confirmed to Insider that he’s confirmed a little more about the plot of the going from here to there, and the blood is of running around in circles, losing its focus, the game, and becomes an internet success Cast got a “very, very small blink-and-you’ll-miss-me film, saying, “They are now what is, in effect, pouring. What you have to show is, what is the and shitting on the floor. A family action in the process as the world tries to figure out It was pretty much a given that Tom Hardy would role”. the Odd Couple stage of their relationship. motivation?” movie that targets the Fortnite Generation, who this mysterious gamer might be, be back as Eddie Brock and his brains chocolate- “In terms of what I play in it, I can’t say anything They’ve been together for... a year and a half, (digitalspy) Free Guy also preaches the importance of without realising that he’s actually the most individuality while not only feeling like a remarkable breakthrough in artificial dozen other movies but literally intelligence in history. As Millie and Keys incorporating some of their imagery. An discover what has been created here, they enjoyable cast, including movie-stealing endeavor to save true advancement from work from Jodie Comer, holds it all together, brash capitalism. but one can still see just enough glitches in Director Shawn Levy does an admirable job this matrix to wish it was better. of keeping Free Guy clicking and humming Talks Special Film With a set-up that feels distinctly like that through several entertaining scenes in the first of The LEGO Movie, Free Guy introduces us half, including a great montage of Guy’s ‘good’ A film about Indian war hero Captain Vikram such as (2012), Ek to the very likable Guy (Ryan Reynolds), an missions and a funny sequence in which Keys Batra, will be released at a time when freedoms Villain (2014) and Kapoor & Sons (2016), also NPC (Non-Player Character) in a wildly and his programming partner Mouser are curtailed by COVID-19 –it should serve as plays Capt Batra’s twin brother Vishal Batra in successful open world video game called Free (Utkarsh Ambudkar) go after Guy, but he the perfect anecdote, says Bollywood star the film. City. He wears the same outfit every day, really starts to lose the pace around the hour Sidharth Malhotra. He says that while preparing for his role he orders the same coffee, and goes to work at mark, circling back to a lot of the same plot Counter Strike is the first-of- Games like Odd Duck, Even This impressive complex rises “I think people have come to appreciate just interviewed many soldiers who served with the same bank, which gets robbed multiple points and themes. Rather than developing its its-kind bowling alley, located on Better, No Tap and 3-6-9 which 47 storeys above the heart of how precious freedom is,” he says. “It’s because Capt Batra. times a day by actual players in this ‘Grand own personality, the film struggles to shake the thirf floor of Colombo City test your bowling skills, the city, with a state-of-the-art of people like Captain , who “I met and talked for hours with Vishal Batra Theft Auto’-esque game. He doesn’t care. the clear influence of other projects like The Centre (CCC) Mall, which is the Counter Strike will keep you international standard fought and sacrificed their lives for their about Capt Vikram’s life and their memories Everything is awesome for Guy and his best Matrix, Ready Player One, and even The most popular entertainment hub coming back over and over shopping mall, 192 opulent country, that we have our freedoms. I really together,” he recalls. pal Buddy (Lil Rel Howery) until the cheery Truman Show while also dropping in actual of Colombo. A huge crowd puller again for those non-stop thrills apartments and the recent hope people will take that away after watching “Vikra Batra had two major phases in his life: fella spots a real player who goes by the gaming and pop culture references with for people of all ages, and and adrenaline rush from start addition of “The Courtyard by the film.” one is this affable, loveable Punjabi boy, who handle Molotov Girl (Comer) and breaks his increasing regularity. The film’s best moments bringing in participants from to end. Counter Strike Bowling Marriott” hotel, which is Malhotra, 36, plays Capt Batra in Shershaah, had such a large heart and who exuded so pattern, following the captivating woman embrace the potential of this concept; its worst families to groups of friends to operates from 10 a.m. to 10 planned to be opened towards on Amazon Prime Video this week– just in time much positivity. And the other is this very down the street. As he becomes more seem to be mimicking better projects. corporates, this is one place you p.m. every day – and is also the end of this year. The Mall at for India’s Independence Day on 15 August. focused leader who would do anything to interested in Molotov Girl and where she Levy also keeps the strongest parts of Free just can’t miss out on. The open for theme parties, Colombo City Centre is the The action film borrows its title from Capt accomplish his tasks, and a soldier who would might be going, he gets his hands on a pair Guy moving by drawing out the natural bowling alley is outfitted by corporate events and birthday premier lifestyle destination of Batra’s codename in the Indian Army, which give his life for his country.” of sunglasses that reveal what the actual charisma of his cast. Reynolds can do this QubicaAMF – the largest and parties. Sri Lanka, spread across means “king of lions”, and follows his journey Initially scheduled to be released last players see in this world, including missions, kind of charming action hero in his sleep, but most recognised global bowling A highly acclaimed addition to 200,000 square feet of prime from aspiring athlete to an officer who led a year, Shershaah has faced a number of delays medikits, hubs, and other things that will be Comer is a real breakthrough, charismatically alley equipment manufacturer. the capital’s fast-developing retail space, and houses famed battalion during the 1999 in Jammu as cinemas in India remain closed owing to the familiar to modern gamers, even if some of holding together both the action-driven scenes Counter Strike features a unique skyline, Colombo City Centre is international names such as and Kashmir. coronavirus pandemic. the tech here already looks dated. (Note: It as Molotov Girl and the more character-driven concept of glow lanes and black Sri Lanka’s first BOI-approved Apple, Swarovski, Aldo and Capt Batra, who was killed on the battlefield Last month, Amazon Prime Video announced was a brilliant move to incorporate actual ones as Millie. She’s easily the best thing about lighting for that futuristic yet mixed use development project, Charles & Keith, as well as local while trying to rescue an injured soldier, was it had struck a deal with its producer, Dharma gamers and streamers like Ninja, Pokimane, the film, although it’s nice to see the affable nostalgic atmosphere. fully owned by the corporate favourites such as Abans, posthumously awarded the , Productions, to release the film on the and DanTDM, cameos that will have kids Joe Keery get his best movie role to date too. Whether you’re a bowling powerhouse, Abans Group. The Colombo Jewellery Stores, India’s highest military honour, that year. streaming platform. who know those personalities jumping out of Sadly, both cede a bit too much screen time to enthusiast, beginner at bowling US$ 180 Million valued iconic ODEL and Spa Ceylon. It also Malhotra, whose grandfather served in the “Shershaah is the true story of a war hero their seats.) an overplaying Waititi in the second half of the or a die-hard bowling pro, venture is one of Sri Lanka’s features the Cargills Food Hall – Indian Army, says he jumped at the whose indomitable spirit and bravery brought Back in the real world, we learn that movie, who hits the same unfunny beats over Counter Strike caters to every largest investments in recent which operates a specialty opportunity to play Capt Batra. victory to our nation. His sacrifices are Molotov Girl is a programmer named Millie, and over again and ends up feeling more kind of interest with the largest times, and has been honoured gourmet supermarket – plus “This film is special to me. It is such an invaluable and his life is an inspiration for who used to work with another tech genius cartoonish than the actual NPCs. selection of exciting and one-of- with numerous laurels such as world-class restaurants inspirational story. I feel people around the generations to come,” says the film’s director, named Keys (Joe Keery) on the development Every time that Free Guy threatens to a-kind games to choose from. ‘Best Mixed-Use Development’ providing the best of local and world, and not only India, can gain so much . of a truly ambitious virtual game, one that become numbingly monotonous, a decision by From Themed Games like by PropertyGuru Asia, ‘Most global cuisine, along with ample from his life story. Malthotra, who is currently filming spy would replicate the actual world instead of writers Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, or one Bubble Gum, Oceano, Promising Mixed-Use parking space for customers. “So many of us stop ourselves short due to thriller Mission Majnu and comedy Thank God, just giving gamers violent missions to by Comer or Reynolds, brings it back into Bowlopolis and YouToons Development’ by CMO Asia, All COVID-19 health and fear. You will see how Capt Vikram Batra heart wants more”, was a popular Pepsi portraying Capt Batra. says he hopes viewers take encouragement perform. She’s in Free City trying to find focus. Free Guy is more disposable than it holding an unimaginable variety ‘Asia’s Greatest Brand’ by safety protocols are strictly overcomes his fears and showed the ultimate advertising slogan in the 90s. Capt Batra was “When you’re playing a fictional character, from his movie. evidence that the game’s egocentric should have been, but it’s a pleasant enough of animations; to Mad Games AsiaOne Magazine and followed throughout the entire courage in the most difficult and severe known to have popularised it as a battle cry. sometimes you’re allowed to interpret it in a “I hope it will inspire other people to publisher Antwan (Taika Waititi) stole her distraction. Gamers often turn to virtual such as Bowling Hood, Monster ‘Upcoming Mall of the Year’, Colombo City Centre complex, conditions. And yet he keeps saying ‘Yeh dil Malhotra, who has not played a real-life certain way. Here, you had to stay as true to overcome their fears and find their true code and deformed it into this bland worlds to escape their own. It’s fun to see the Factory and Battle on the Lanes; among several other accolades to ensure that all our visitors mange more’.” character before, says the biggest challenge the real-life character as possible,” he explains. calling.” experience when Guy proves to be the perfect journey taken in the other direction as well as Skill and Classic by the Golden Globe Tigers. can enjoy a safe experience. “Yeh dil mange more”, which is Hindi for “the was following “certain boundaries” in The model-turned-actor, known for films (thenational) inside man. The Trinity to his Neo, the two (rogerebert) c6 friday 13 august 2021 Feature/Puzzles LOOK Ever Heard of Phubbing? Why some people stare at their phones at parties

By Tracey Anne Duncan But, surprisingly, sometimes people phubb regardless of how it comes Recently, I was at a dinner party across. “It’s ironic that while so many (with other vaccinated people, mind people believe that phubbing you) and I noticed that some of them behaviour is rude, they still do it,” were spending a lot of time on their Sun told EurekAlert. The size of a phones instead of in conversation. I group can be one reason why this was perplexed. We have been waiting happens. The research shows that for actual years to be in the same phubbing is more likely to happen in place with other humans, I thought, larger groups — groups of three or but some people will still choose more. texting or scrolling through As you can imagine, phubbing isn’t Instagram over in-person interactions great for relationships. According to they could easily be having. As a the findings, greater amounts of person who generally keeps their phubbing led to lower degrees of phone out of sight at parties, I find satisfaction in friendships. And this mystifying. But, it turns out, phubbing is basically a non- there are important psychological negotiable in my intimate factors at play when someone stares relationships. I get it; I am not above at their phone when they’re setting a “no phones at the dinner socialising. table” rule. This phenomenon is so common I may be taking things a bit far that communication experts have though, given the research. The given it a name: Phubbing, a.k.a. reality is that it can be really snubbing people with your phone. challenging to put your phone down, When you do it to friends — as especially if social situations make opposed to strangers in public — it’s you anxious. But paying attention to called Fphubbing — friend phubbing. your friends is the best way to foster Recent research on phubbing, which platonic intimacy. Putting your phone was published yesterday by the face down or turning it off, Sun said, University of Georgia, was inspired by shows respect in both personal and a situation similar to the one I professional situations. “[It’s] is a described. “I observed that so many signal – I am listening to what you are people use their phones while they saying, this meeting is important and are sitting with their friends at the I am focusing on you,” Sun told cafe, any dining time, regardless of EurekAlert. the relationship type,” Juhyung Sun, Look, we all phubb up sometimes. lead author on the paper, told “People are really sensitive to their EurekAlert. Sun saw the people notifications. With each buzz or around her phubbing (and fphubbing) sound, we consciously or and was eager to find out why. unconsciously look at our phones,” The study looked at the mental Sun said, according to EurekAlert. health factors and personality traits So, in some cases, it may just be a associated with phubbing and how habit. We have been trained to staying glued your phone when you’re respond to the alerts our devices send supposed to be connecting in-person addiction. Researchers can’t prove How agreeable you are also may who had high degrees of us, Sun explained. impacts satisfaction with that link, but there does seem to be a also indicate how likely you are to be agreeableness were less likely to So, the next time you reach across relationships. What researchers relationship between depression, engaged in conversation versus phubb. “They have a high tendency to the table to grab your phone when found is that people with anxiety or anxiety, and smartphone use. “Some scrolling. To be clear, in this context, maintain social harmony while you’re supposed to be having a heart- depression were more likely to be on people who have high social anxiety agreeableness is a personality trait avoiding arguments that can ruin to-heart, notice how you’re feeling, their phones during social or depression are more likely to be that includes friendliness, kindness, their relationships,” Sun told how you want your partner or interactions, as were individuals who addicted to their smartphone,” Sun and cooperation. Basically, EurekAlert. “In face-to-face partners to feel, and how the had neurotic personality traits, told EurekAlert. This makes perfect agreeableness is a legit psychological conversations, people with high levels relationship will be impacted. The EurekAlert reported. sense and, in these cases, I don’t term, not a judgement, and it exists of agreeableness consider phubbing truth is that not all friendships may At first, Sun thought that phubbing judge at all. But mental health isn’t on a spectrum. behaviour rude and impolite to their be able to handle a casual phubb. might be an indicator of smart phone the only reason why people phubb. It doesn’t seem surprising that folx conversational partners.” (mic) 1822 1821 SOLUTION

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PappaRich Now at the Heart of Thalwathugoda! The world-renowned business meetings. restaurant franchise In light of the current PappaRich, with almost health concerns, the 150 restaurants around PappaRich staff continue the globe, has now to stringently sanitise the expanded its fourth restaurants, social restaurant in Sri Lanka distance all seating in Thalawathugoda. The arrangements and Thalwathugoda outlet, diligently adhere to other which officially opened health guidelines. on the 6 August, is an Since its inception in Sri addition to the other Lanka in 2019, PappaRich outlets in Park Street, has garnered a loyal fan Nawala and at The Grove base, who continue to in Kirulapone. Famously rush to the outlets for known for serving Asian their personal favourites Hawker Cuisine, the or order them via delivery. extensive menu offers Despite its presence for close to a 100 options of only two years in Sri drinks, mains and Lanka, the brand has desserts. become a fan-favourite for With a cosy ambience, its Asian Hawker cuisine, ample parking and a with each dish carrying an private dining room- the outlet provides a unique private room, which can age-old tradition and Thalawathugoda outlet experience of its own, the accommodate around story, which is served in a has gained a lot of private dining room at 12-14 people, is a comfortable and spacious traction among its loyal the Thalawathugoda popular choice of ambience. fan base since its branch has created a reservation, ranging from (Pix by Udesh opening. While each large demand. This family gatherings to Ranasinha)

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Unearthing Riches of the River Sand mining in Maduru Oya, Welikanda

For sand miners in Welikanda life is not bought at a dirt cheap rate literally, but Of course, there is also the huge damage exactly a bed of roses. Their daily wage when the construction material reach the sand mining causes to the environment. depend on the amount of sand they can west of the country eventually, it becomes Regardless whether the mining is unearth from the bottom of Maduru Oya. much expensive and high in demand. permitted or not, the greed created by the Spending practically the whole day in chilling The sand mafia is something that has demand for the quality building material water risking hypothermia, carrying the extra been going on for decades now. While on has resulted in the practice being largely heavy sand baskets drenched in water on the way to Colombo, the precious sand unsustainable and it is a concern that their heads and emptying it on the shore, and mined in Welikanda and other areas in the needs to be swiftly addressed. However, repeating that arduous trip as many times as North Central are sold by the shovel load whatever decision the authorities decide to possible in a day to earn something that no and in Colombo the sand in lorries are take should be made after considering the way reflects their labours and barely enough tossed up to create illusion that the full plight of these sand miners because at the to support their families, it not only requires truck load of sand is actually there. Both end of the day they are just trying to make sheer physical and mental strength but also a the buyers and the sand miners receive ends meet by doing something no one else hint of desperation since they are fully aware the short end of the stick in the business dare to do. that their efforts are majorly spoiled by the while the middle man easily lines up his (SH) big sand businessmen. What they mine is pocket. (Pix by J. Weerasekara)

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