DRAMA

Elizabeth Banks wrote and directed Charlie's Angels, a 2019 American

action comedy film based on a story by Evan Spiliotopoulos and David
Auburn. It stars Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska as the
new generation of Angels who work for the Townsend Agency, a private
detective agency. The film is the third installment in the Charlie's Angels
film series, and it continues the story that began with Ivan Goff and Ben
Roberts' television series of the same name, as well as the two previous
theatrical films, Charlie's Angels (2000) and Charlie's Angels: Full
Throttle (2003).

Ari Aster's Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film written and directed by
him. Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor play a dysfunctional couple who
travel to Sweden with a group of friends for a midsummer festival, only to
fall prey to a sinister cult practicing Scandinavian paganism. William
Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe,
and Will Poulter are among the supporting actors.

After firing up a lost 80s survival horror game, a young coder unleashes a
hidden curse that tears reality apart, forcing her to make terrifying
decisions and face deadly consequences.
Genre: Horror, Mystery & thriller
Original Language: English
Director: Toby Meakins
Producer: John Zois, Sébastien Raybaud, Matthew James Wilkinson
Writer: Simon Allen

Patrick Hughes directs The Man from Toronto, a 2022 American action comedy film. Kevin
Hart and Woody Harrelson star in the film, as do Kaley Cuoco, Jasmine
Mathews, Lela Loren, Pierson Fodé, Jencarlos Canela, and Ellen Barkin.
Netflix will release The Man from Toronto on June 24, 2022. Critics gave
the film generally negative reviews. At an Airbnb rental, the world's
deadliest assassin and New York's biggest blunder are mistaken for each
other.

Fatherhood is a 2021 American comedy-drama film directed by Paul Weitz from a screenplay
written by Weitz and Dana Stevens and based on Matthew Logelin's 2011
memoir Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love. Kevin Hart,
Alfre Woodard, Frankie R. Faison, Lil Rel Howery, DeWanda Wise,
Anthony Carrigan, Melody Hurd, and Paul Reiser star in the film, which
follows a new father who struggles to raise his daughter after his wife dies
unexpectedly.
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FICTION
Rob Letterman directed the 2019 mystery fantasy comedy film Pokémon
Detective Pikachu. The film is based on the Pokémon franchise and is a
loose adaptation of the 2016 video game of the same name. It was
written by Letterman, Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, and Derek
Connolly, and produced by Legendary Pictures and Toho. The plot follows former Pokémon
trainer Tim Goodman and the titular Pokémon as they try to solve the mystery of Tim's father,
Harry's, disappearance.

Cinderella is a 2015 romantic fantasy film directed by Kenneth Branagh

and co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Kinberg Entertainment,
Allison Shearmur Productions, and Beagle Pug Films. The film is based
on a folk tale and is a live-action adaptation of Walt Disney's 1950
animated film. It stars Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Holliday
Grainger, and Helena Bonham Carter as the title character. When Ella's
father dies unexpectedly, she is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother
and scheming stepsisters. Ella, never one to give up hope, sees her
fortunes improve after meeting a dashing stranger.

M3GAN (pronounced "Megan") is a 2022 American science fiction

horror film directed by Gerard Johnstone, written by Akela Cooper
from a story by Cooper and James Wan (who also produced with Jason
Blum), and starring Allison Williams and Violet McGraw, with Amie
Donald playing M3GAN physically and Jenna Davis voicing the
character. Its plot revolves around the eponymous artificially intelligent
doll, who becomes self-aware and hostile toward anyone who stands in
her way of her human companion.

Gone Girl is a 2014 American psychological thriller film written and

directed by David Fincher, based on Gillian Flynn's 2012 novel of the
same name. Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler
Perry, and Carrie Coon star in it. In the film, Nick Dunne is named as the
prime suspect in the mysterious disappearance of his wife, in Missouri.

Christopher Nolan co-wrote, directed, and produced the 2014 epic science fiction film
Interstellar. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen
Burstyn, Matt Damon, and Michael Caine star in the film. The film follows a group of
astronauts who travel through a wormhole near Saturn in search of a new home for humanity in
a dystopian future where humanity is struggling to survive.
NONFICTION
A Night to Remember is a 1958
British historical disaster docudrama film based
on the eponymous 1955 book by Walter Lord.
The film and book recount the final
night of RMS Titanic, which sank on her maiden
voyage after she struck an iceberg in 1912.
Adapted by Eric Ambler and directed by Roy
Ward Baker, the film stars Kenneth More as the
ship's Second Officer Charles Lightoller and
features Michael Goodliffe, Laurence Naismith, Kenneth Griffith, David McCallum and Tucker
McGuire. 

The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 biographical drama film based on

the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1955 play of the same name, which was in turn
based on the posthumously published diary of Anne Frank, a German-born
Jewish girl who lived in hiding in Amsterdam with her family during World
War II. It was directed by George Stevens, with a screenplay by Frances
Goodrich and Albert Hackett, is the first film version of both the play and
the original story, and features three members of the original Broadway
cast.
Margot Lee Shetterly wrote the nonfiction book Hidden Figures: The
American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped
Win the Space Race in 2016. Shetterly began writing the book in 2010.
The story takes place from the 1930s to the 1960s, and it depicts the
specific barriers that Black women faced in science during this time
period, providing a less-known history of NASA. During the space race,
Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson worked as
computers (then a job description) at NACA and NASA.

Hidilyn wins page one (July 27,2021)(5:11 pm). By Gary A. Mariano,

weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz hoisted 127 kg — more than twice her listed
body weight of 55 kg — to win the Philippines’ first gold medal at any
Olympic Games and setting a new Games record to boot. The Manila
Bulletin, normally of the staid, formal page one, is screaming GOLD!
with the uncharacteristic exclamation point. So is the Manila Times.
Technically their identical headlines are not banners but rarely will you
see ALL CAPS headlines on page one of Manila’s so-called
“broadsheets.” 

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POETRY
An Ode in Time of Hesitation by William Vaughn Moody After seeing
at Boston the statue of Robert Gould Shaw, killed while storming Fort
Wagner, July 18, 1863, at the head of the first enlisted negro regiment,
the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts. Moody's poem, first published in 1900
and quickly famous, was inspired by the author's seeing Augustus Saint-
Gaudens' memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-
Fourth Regiment in Boston. The Mungo brothers were Italian
immigrants to New York, who specialized in the production of illuminated manuscripts,
particularly of patriotic subject matter.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron
public recognition. He himself disliked the poem, because he felt it
revealed too much of himself. In it a young man (called childe after the
medieval term for a candidate for knighthood) travels to distant lands to
relieve the boredom and weariness brought on by a life of dissipation. It
is thought to be a comment on the post-Revolutionary and -Napoleonic
generation, who were weary of war.
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a book
containing two narrative poems and related texts composed by English
writer J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published by Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt and HarperCollins on 5 May 2009. The two poems that make
up most of the book were probably written during the 1930s, and were
inspired by the legend of Sigurd and the fall of the Niflungs in Norse
mythology. Both poems are in a form of alliterative verse inspired by the
traditional verse of the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th
century. Christopher Tolkien has added copious notes and commentary
on his father's work.[1]

"My Last Duchess" is a poem by Robert Browning,

frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It
first appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics.[1] The poem is
composed in 28 rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter. In the first
edition of Dramatic Lyrics, the poem was merely titled "Italy".

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", commonly known as "Prufrock",

is the first professionally published poem by American-born British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–
1965). Eliot began writing "Prufrock" in February 1910, and it was first published in the June
1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse at the instigation of Ezra Pound (1885–1972). It was
later printed as part of a twelve-poem pamphlet (or chapbook) titled Prufrock and Other
Observations in 1917.  At the time of its publication, Prufrock was considered outlandish, but is
now seen as heralding a paradigmatic cultural shift from late 19th-century Romantic
verse and Georgian lyrics to Modernism.