While it originally was supposed to hit theatres earlier this year, EVERBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE, which played at the Apollo Theatre, now will find a home on Amazon Prime Video!

Synopsis:

“Everybody’s Talking about Jamie” follows Jamie New, who is 16 and doesn’t quite fit in—instead of pursuing a “real” career, he dreams of becoming a drag queen. 

See the Trailer:

EVERBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE arrives on Amazon Prime Video September 17, 2021.

(Photo/video credit: 20th Century Studios)

Ribs. It’s been way too long since we’ve relished a rack and who would’ve known how easy it is to make these at home? The trick is to remove the tough membrane on the back of the rack, bake at a low heat and to apply your sauce right at the finish! These were perfect and oh so tender!

Ingredients:
3 lbs pork ribs
8 cloves garlic, minced
3 tbsps soy sauce
Black pepper, to taste

BBQ Sauce:
1/4 cup Billy Bones Carolina Gold BBQ Sauce (or your favourite!)
3 tbsps honey
1 tbsp Gochujang (Korean Pepper Paste)
1 tbsp Sambal (or Sriracha)
1 tbsp rice vinegar
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce

Instructions:
1. Remove white membrane on back of ribs. Cut ribs into four sections.
2. Marinate ribs in garlic, soy sauce and pepper. Let stand room temperature for 30 minutes to an hour.
3. Preheat oven at 275°F.
4. Place ribs in dish and cover with foil. Bake 3.5 hours.
5. Mix all BBQ sauce ingredients together in bowl.
6. Remove ribs from oven and brush with sauce.
7. Set rack in oven one level up (be careful) and set oven to a high broil. Place ribs back in oven uncovered and broil about 5-6 minutes to desired level of charring.
8. Let stand 10 minutes. Serve with corn, potato salad and baked beans.

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Szechuan Eggplant. I’ve received requests for eggplant recipes and what I love about Oh, Aubergines is that it is substantial enough to be a main course. Topped with mounds of garlic, chilli, with the freshness of coriander and green onion, you won’t miss meat for a meal when your veggies are done right like this. 🍆🌶️

I’m all for reducing our carbon footprint and eating a bit cleaner, so enjoy this recipe if you’re looking for a flavourful break from meat proteins.

Ingredients:
4 Japanese Eggplants
2 garlic bulbs, minced
2 red Thai chillies, minced
2 stalks green onion, minced
4 tbsps soy sauce
2 tbsps sesame oil
1 tbsp fish sauce (optional)
2 tbsps olive oil
1 tsp 5 Spice Powder
Sea salt, to taste

Coriander, minced

Instructions:
1. Preheat oven at 410°F.
2. Cut each egg plant in half vertically. Using knife score criss-cross grid pattern across flesh of each eggplant.
3. Sautée garlic till just about caramelized.
4. In bowl, mix fish sauce, 3 tbsps soy sauce, 1/2 tsp 5 Spice Powder, 1 tbsp sesame oil and 1 tbsp olive oil. Brush half of mixture over eggplant. Bake 15 minutes.
5. Remove from oven and brush with remainder of soy mixture. Bake 15 more minutes.
6. In bowl, mix garlic, 1 tbsp soy sauce, 1/2 tsp 5 Spice powder, 1 tbsp olive oil and 1 tbsp sesame oil. Season with salt, to taste.
7. Scoop garlic on-top of eggplant. Bake 10 minutes more or till skin of eggplant begins curling-up.
8. Sprinkle chillies, coriander and green onion on-top and serve.

Gallery:

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So apparently this was a big part of my generation’s lives growing-up!  Check-out this new Teaser for THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB a new Series coming on Netflix!

Synopsis:
Netflix’s new series The Baby-Sitters Club is based on the best-selling, beloved book series that follows the friendship and adventures of Kristy Thomas (Sophie Grace), Mary Anne Spier (Malia Baker), Claudia Kishi (Momona Tamada), Stacey McGill (Shay Rudolph) and Dawn Schafer (Xochitl Gomez) as the middle-schoolers start their babysitting business in the town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut. Rounding out the cast, Alicia Silverstone plays Elizabeth Thomas-Brewer, the selfless single mother of Kristy Thomas and love interest of all around good guy Watson Brewer, played by Mark Feuerstein.

Ann M. Martin, the series author and show producer, conceived the idea of these inspiring young girls with different backgrounds, personalities and opinions that were brought together by a business venture they created and bonded through the friendships they forged. The adaptation of the contemporary dramedy that continues to champion friendship, female empowerment and entrepreneurship was led by Rachel Shukert (Glow) as showrunner and Lucia Aniello (Broad City) as executive producer and director.

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Check-out this Trailer for ALL ABOUT WHO YOU KNOW, which was set to premiere at the Canadian Film Fest, but will surface in Canada on Crave soon!

Synopsis:
All About Who You Know is the story of Cole (Dylan Everett), an aspiring screenwriter who writes his most ambitious script to date by plotting out a rom-com relationship with the daughter of his screenwriting idol, Haley (Niamh Wilson). By winning over the girl, Cole hopes to meet her legendary father, Michael Burwell (David Hewlett), and get a leg up in showbiz.

See the Trailer:

ALL ABOUT WHO YOU KNOW is available May 12, 2020 in the US on Digital and VOD, and May 28, 2020 in Canada on Crave.

(Photo/video credit: All About Who You Know)

Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment x Mr. Will want to give Readers a chance to win a free Digital Download of TOP GUN 4K! We know how excited you all are for TOP GUN: MAVERICK, coming to theatres later this year and TOP GUN DAY is May 13, 2020!

Synopsis:

As students at the United States Navy’s elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.

Artwork:

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Rules and regulations here.

TOP GUN 4K is available on Digital Wednesday, May 13, 2020 and on 4K UHD Blu-ray™ Tuesday, May 19, 2020.

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Justin Bieber x Ariana Grande team-up on new Charity Single, STUCK WITH U, proceeds going to support the First Responders Children’s Foundation! The Video also was just released with self-filmed footage of both megastars at home in isolation.

Check-out the Single here:

Purchase or stream the single here.

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Butter Chicken. This Indian institution requires some meticulous treatment, but is well worth the wait. This recipe will leave you with leftovers so no need to stress about lunch or dinner tomorrow also! And it tastes better the second day! You’re welcome.

Marinade:
4 chicken breasts, sectioned
2 tbsp MDH Curry Masala Blend (red chilli, coriander, cumin, turmeric, nutmeg, star anise)
1/2 cup plain yogurt
2 tbsps lemon juice
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 tbsp ginger, minced
1 teaspoon sea salt

Sauce:
1 can crushed tomatoes
1 can tomato paste
1/2 cup cherry tomatoes
2 tbsp MDH Curry Masala Blend
3/4 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup chicken stock
1/4 cup cashews/almonds, ground
3 tbsps Ghee or 2 tbsp butter + 1 tbsp oil
1 white onion, minced
3 chillies, seeded and minced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tbsp ginger, minced

Sea salt, to taste

Coriander or green onion, chopped for garnish

Instructions:
1. Place chicken pieces in marinade, mixing well and covering overnight in refrigerator.
2. In large skillet, sautée onions in ghee/butter on medium-high heat. Add chilli, ginger and garlic and fry till caramelized. Add chicken and marinade in batches. Do not overcrowd skillet.
3. Do not cook chicken fully. Remove from skillet once half-cooked.
4. Add tomatoes and paste to skillet, plus Masala. Cook about 10 minutes on medium heat.
5. Add chicken, chicken stock and 1/2 cup water and bring to boil. Reduce to low heat and simmer 30 minutes.
6. Toast almonds/cashews. Place into food processor with a tablespoon of water and blend into a paste.
7. Remove chicken from skillet and separate sauce into a blender. Add cream and blend quickly till smooth.
8. Place sauce back into skillet on medium heat. Once it boils, add-in ground cashews/almonds and salt, stirring evenly.
9. Add chicken and reduce to low heat for 10 minutes.
10. Garnish with chopped coriander or green onion and serve with Basmati Rice and/or Naan. Pickled lime, optional.

(Photo credit: Mr. Will Wong)

Hollywood Suite‘s got you covered for all your isolation blues May 11-17, 2020. Check-out some of the fan favourites they’ve got coming your way during this free preview period.

The 2000s: The 2000s brought Facebook, Twitter, reality television, iPods and some breakthrough performances deserving of critical recognition.

· Django Unchained (2012) Thursday, May 14 at 9:00 pm on HS00 – Quentin Tarantino’s revisionist western, starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson, deserves both your curiosity and your attention. With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

· Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) Friday, May 15 at 9:00 pm ET on HS00 – In this epic action-adventure Kristen Stewart plays the only person in the land fairer than the Evil Queen (Charlize Theron). In a plot twist, the huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) sent to kill Snow White, becomes her mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.

· Erin Brockovich (2000) Saturday, May 16 at 9:00 pm ET on HS00 – In the role that brought her critical acclaim and numerous awards including an Oscar, Julia Roberts shines as an unemployed single mother who almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city’s water supply.

· Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011) Sunday, May 17 at 9:00 pm ET on HS00 – Like salmon swimming upstream, the film, based on a true story, tells the unlikely tale of a fisheries professor (Ewan McGregor) and a British consultant (Emily Blunt) as they embark on a somewhat unlikely plan to bring salmon to the desert of Yemen. Available On Demand and on Hollywood Suite GO all month.

The 90s: The Internet was born and grunge ruled radio while these big-screen treasures were wowing audiences in multiplexes.

· Happy Gilmore (1996) Tuesday, May 12 at 9:00 pm ET on HS90 – A head-butting, knock-down fight with the Price is Right’s Bob Barker may not have garnered critical love, but the box office returns were no joke for this Adam Sandler film about a rejected hockey player who puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother’s house.

· Tremors (1990) Saturday, May 16 at 7:20 pm ET on HS90 – Walking the tightrope between horror and humour, this cult-classic B-movie has residents of the small-town of Perfection defending themselves against murderous underground creatures. Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are handymen Val and Earl, who will do anything including pole-vaulting, sprinting, and flipping for it, to outwit the giant, blood-thirsty Ass Blasters.

· The Truth About Cats and Dogs (1996) Sunday, May 17 at 2:30 pm ET on HS90 – It’s a distaff twist on Cyrano de Bergerac in this Rom-Com about a successful veterinarian and radio show host with low self-esteem (Janeane Garofalo) who asks her model friend (Uma Thurman) to impersonate her when a faithful listener (Ben Chaplin) wants to meet her.

· American History X (1998) Sunday May 17 at 9:00 pm ET on HS90 – Edward Norton was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of a white supremacist who is rehabilitated after serving three years in prison and then tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same path.

The 80s: Ronald Reagan gets elected, the Berlin wall crumbles, and MTV rewrites pop culture while a new generation of filmmakers reshape Hollywood.

· Wargames (1983) Tuesday, May 12 at 7:05 pm ET on HS80 – Shall we play a game? Matthew Broderick headlines as high-schooler David Lightman who unknowingly hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for a new video game. When he starts a game of Global Thermonuclear War, little does he know, he triggers the onset of World War III. Available On Demand and on Hollywood Suite GO all month.

· Blood Simple (1982) Friday, May 15 at 11:00 pm ET on HS80 – The twisty, darkly humorous first film from Joel and Ethan Coen won them the Grand Jury prize at Sundance and a legion of fans. Frances McDormand made her onscreen debut as an adulterous wife whose husband hires a private investigator to kill her and her lover. But, as we’ve come to expect from the Coen Brothers, nothing is that simple. Available On Demand and on Hollywood Suite GO all month.

· Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) Saturday, May 16 at 9:00 pm ET on HS80 – It’s a cavalcade of stars: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Nicolas Cage, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz and Anthony Edwards showcase their young talents in this coming-of-age comedy based on Cameron Crowe’s undercover exposé of life in a Southern California public school. Where else will you see Sean Penn as a stoner surfer talking about tasty waves, cool buzz and driving on ‘ludes, dude?

· Flashdance (1983) Sunday, May 17 at 9:00 pm ET on HS80 – Steelworker by day, dancer by night, Jennifer Beals in her breakout role proved she really was a maniac, maniac on the floor.

The 70s: The Beatles broke up, Watergate and the Vietnam war dominated headlines, and the first in-vitro baby is born as the era of lower-budget films get their big break.

· Save The Tiger (1973) Monday, May 11 at 9:00 pm ET on HS70 – Jack Lemmon won an Oscar for his portrayal as Harry Stoner, a clothing manufacturer in a midlife crisis, who considers torching his factory for the insurance settlement. Available On Demand and on Hollywood Suite GO all month.

· The Last Picture Show (1971) Wednesday, May 13 at 6:50 pm ET on HS70 – Peter Bogdanovich’s classic chronicles the coming-of-age of a group of high school students in a nowhere town in Texas with impressive performances from Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Timothy Bottoms, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan and Cloris Leachman.

· American Graffiti (1973) Wednesday, May 13 at 9:00 pm ET on HS70 – Where were you in ’62? If you were teens in Modesto, California, you were attending sock hops and riding top-down along Main Street. Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Harrison Ford, Suzanne Somers and Mackenzie Phillips cruise the strip in George Lucas’s film about a group of high-school grads on their last night of summer vacation.

· The French Connection (1971) Friday, May 15 at 9:00 pm ET on HS70 – William Friedkin’s gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops (Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider) trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. It’s a chance to see what many have called the best-car chase sequence in cinema history. Available On Demand and on Hollywood Suite GO all month.

Essential Classics: They have gained prestige due to their staying power and ability to define a generation. Now you can catch them for the first time or re-watch them.

· A Hard Day’s Night (1964) Thursday, May 14 at 11:35 am ET on HS70 – It’s the Fab Four’s scripted concert film… As the Beatles travel from Liverpool to London for a televised concert, their travel is challenged by rabid fans, Paul’s mischievous grandfather, and Ringo’s disappearance. Hilarity ensues. Available On Demand and on Hollywood Suite GO all month.

· The Dirty Dozen (1967) Friday, May 15 at 6:25 pm ET on HS70 – During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen military prisoners to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers. The ensemble cast includes: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, and Donald Sutherland. Available On Demand and on Hollywood Suite GO all month.

· The Birds (1963) Saturday, May 16 at 5:20 pm ET on HS70 – A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town. Things slowly take a turn when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people. Alfred Hitchcock’s horror movie, which spawned a commemorative Barbie doll of star Tippi Hedren in 2008, is described as a masterpiece of filmmaking, and has often been listed as one of Hitchcock’s greatest films. Warning… you may never look at feathered fowls without feeling terror again.

· High Noon (1952) Sunday, May 17 at 7:30 pm ET on HS70 – Known for setting the bar for the Western genre and touted as an allegory to the McCarthy trials, the film explores morality, integrity and duty. Gary Cooper stars as newlywed Marshal Will Kane, who is about to retire and leave to start a new life with his pacifist Quaker wife played by Grace Kelly. However, news arrives that a revenge-seeking criminal is riding to town with a band of outlaws and Kane must choose between the town and his wife.

(Photo credit: Hollywood Suite)

Spanning ten episodes, Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why) returns to Netflix in a new series, CURSED coming this Summer!

About Cursed:
Based on the New York Times bestselling book, Cursed is a re-imagination of the Arthurian legend, told through the eyes of Nimue, a young woman with a mysterious gift who is destined to become the powerful (and tragic) Lady of the Lake. After her mother’s death, she finds an unexpected partner in Arthur, a humble mercenary, in a quest to find Merlin and deliver an ancient sword. Over the course of her journey, Nimue will become a symbol of courage and rebellion against the terrifying Red Paladins, and their complicit King Uther. Cursed is a coming-of-age story whose themes are familiar to our own time: the obliteration of the natural world, religious terror, senseless war, and finding the courage to lead in the face of the impossible.

Cast: Katherine Langford (Nimue), Devon Terrell (Arthur), Gustaf Skarsgård (Merlin), Daniel Sharman (Weeping Monk), Sebastian Armesto (King Uther Pendragon), Matt Stokoe (Gawain), Lily Newmark (Pym), Shalom Brune-Franklin (Igraine), Emily Coates (Sister Iris), Billy Jenkins (Squirrel), Bella Dayne (Red Spear), Peter Mullan (Father Carden)

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(Photo credit: Netflix)