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Denzel Washington also stars in what is sure to be a thrilling entry back into the
violent machinations of a wild ancient world. CN

22 November

Pop

Sugababes

New album

Rarely has a reunion generated as much hype as that of the original line-up of the
Sugababes. After a tumultuous decade in which the band’s original line-up changed
several times, the original three members – Mutya Buena, Siobhan Donaghy and
Keisha Buchanan – got back together in 2011, but it was only in 2019 that they

reclaimed the name. In 2021, they released a 20th-anniversary edition of their debut
album One Touch, and in 2022 played at various music festivals, announcing plans for
new music. Although they released The Lost Tapes last year, an album of previously
unreleased material, their upcoming album – whose title is yet to be announced – will
be the first release of newly written music in recent years, with this year’s single,
“When the Rain Comes”, fuelling excitement among the fanbase for more sultry R&B
and lush vocal harmonies. EBo

Date TBC

Film

Hit Man

Filmmaker Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Dazed and Confused) returns to screens with his
purest crowd-pleaser in ages. In this comic and romantic hitman story, the hitman in
question (charisma machine Glen Powell) is actually an undercover cop looking to
bust low-level contract killers by pretending to be one. But his success rate falters
when he meets a seemingly abused wife (the sultry Adria Arjona) who’s looking to
have her husband knocked off. Rather than arrest her for her plotting, he lets his
crush on her take the wheel – with both disastrous and very funny consequences.
Smart, funny, and surprisingly sexy, Hit Man isn’t heavy-duty in its themes, but it is

pure Hollywood fun with a dash of self-awareness in the vein of Steven
Soderbergh’s Out of Sight. In other words: it’s the kind of movie that rarely gets made
well these days. CN

TBA