The British version of Love Island is on the move in the States.
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A new Kevin Hart film which earned a Rotten Tomatoes score of just 31% has been slammed as 'hollow' by viewers.
Lift landed on Netflix on January 12 and is currently sat at the top on the streamer's UK film charts. It's a departure from Hart's usual comedy projects and sees him play calm-and-cool ringleader Cyrus Whitaker.
A mastermind at heart, his latest mission is to lift $500 million in gold from a plane. Mid-flight. At 40,000 feet in the air. Black Mirror's Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Echo's Vincent D’Onofrio, Money Heist's Úrsula Corberó and No Time To Die's Billy Magnussen make up the rag-tag team attempting to pull off the heist.
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Meanwhile Italian Job's F. Gary Gray serves as director - with viewers comparing Lift's plot to that of his 2003 crime thriller. Gray previously told Netflix: “I love the heist genre and the idea of pairing Kevin Hart with a world-class cast.
“I really felt for his character, Cyrus Whitaker, as he orchestrated an impossible global mission — as a director, tackling the seemingly impossible task of filming a global production is my everyday adventure!”
Lift was rated a measly 31% by critics on Rotten Tomatoes, however, with the audience score not much more forgiving at 34%. Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times said: "Kevin Hart’s heist crew steals ideas from better movies" while Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com described the film as: "Competently made and star-studded, with a couple of intriguing ideas, but hollow."
Over on X, formerly Twitter, most fans were in agreement with the critics. @Mim_maryamhn recommended the film, but warned: "...Don’t expect much from the plot, the cast, or the humour. It’s a case study in
The British version of Love Island is on the move in the States.
Even in the glut of Netflix content, some projects prove too troublesome for the streamer to release. Variety reports that after myriad post-production delays, Netflix won’t complete or release “The Mothership,” a sci-fi movie starring Halle Berry.
Justin Bieber, Michael Bublé, Tate McRae and Will Arnett have been named team captains for the upcoming NHL All-Star Game.Yesterday (January 21), the NHL took to Instagram to announce the team captains for their upcoming All-Star Game, which takes place at the Scotiabank Arena on February 3. Four teams have been announced for the game, namely Team Matthews, Team McDavid, Team MacKinnon and Team Hughes.A post shared by NHL (@nhl)Team Matthews will be led by Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews and Justin Bieber, with the team’s defenseman Morgan Rielly as assistant captain.
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Kevin Hart has told critics of Dave Chappelle to simply not watch the comedian if they don’t find his material funny or entertaining.Both comedians are regular Netflix fixtures, but it’s Chappelle who frequently draws controversy for making jokes about the transgender community. His latest special for the streamer, The Dreamer, opens with a 12-minute joke in which he once again takes aim at trans people.In a new interview with The Independent, Hart discussed the current climate of stand-up comedy before offering a simple to solution to those who find Chappelle’s performances offensive.“We’re just in a time now where the microscope is significantly pointed in the direction of the comic, and what the comic is saying,” Hart said.
Fool Me Once collected another week atop Netflix‘s TV charts.
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Love Island's Jake Cornish is returning to the villa for ITV's All Stars spin-off and he's in for a shock when he gets to South Africa - his ex Liberty Poole is also on the show.The reality star, 26, made his TV debut on Love Island's seventh series, on which he met Liberty. The pair were coupled up throughout the competition but broke up just days before the final, with Liberty choosing to leave the show. Ahead of Love Island: All Stars, Jake revealed how he felt about Liberty joining in the villa - and admitted that there was no chance of the pair rekindling their romance.
Kevin Hart is addressing the Oscars.
Kevin Hart has asserted that he will never host the Oscars, saying that they are not “comedy-friendly environments”.The comic actor had been scheduled to host the 2019 edition of the awards ceremony, but stepped down from the role in the wake of a backlash over a series of homophobic tweets that he had posted in 2010 and 2011.He had previously said that he would not go back to host the show, but in a new interview with Sky News, he has underscored his aversion to the role.“Whatever little hope you had, I want to destroy it right now,” he said. “Those gigs aren’t good gigs for comics.
Caroline Brew editor SPOILER ALERT: This story contains minor spoilers for “Lift,” now streaming on Netflix. From “The Italian Job” to “The Fate of the Furious,” F. Gary Gray is no stranger to heist movies.
Kevin Hart insists he will not host an award show ever again. "Whatever little hope you had, I want to destroy it right now," Kevin told Sky News. "Those gigs aren’t good gigs for comics.
Kevin Hart has revealed that he “almost died” in a terrifying plane accident.The comedian and actor shared the story while appearing on Friday’s edition (January 12) of The Graham Norton Show, where he was promoting his recently released Netflix action-comedy Lift.Speaking to Norton, Hart recalled his frightening experience on a flight, during which the exterior of the plane caught fire.“I almost died,” he said. “We were landing and as we did the front wheel broke, and I just saw flames coming out of the front of the plane.”Hart went on to say that, despite the scary nature of the situation, he was able to stay calm as he had reached a point of contentment in his life.“It was one of those moments when I thought, ‘This is it’, and I realised that if it happens I was cool with where I was in life.
After parodying his attempts to become an action movie star in the Quibi/Roku short film series Die Hart (later compiled into a Amazon Prime feature), Kevin Hart goes for the gold in the genre and attempts to do the real thing in Lift, an absurdly ridiculous, over the top, but still entertaining heist movie that strains credibility at every turn – but who cares because it’s got Hart.
Michael Nordine author A case study in the downside of timeliness, “Lift” is a caper predicated on a truly ludicrous concept: an NFT increasing in value. That might have seemed plausible two years ago, when Netflix first acquired Daniel Kunka’s spec script, but F. Gary Gray’s followup to “Men in Black: International” has the misfortune of arriving shortly after the vast majority of non-fungible tokens were deemed officially worthless.
A film panned by critics when it debuted ten years ago has suddenly become one of Netflix's most-watched.
Úrsula Corberó is known for her roles in action packed films and TV shows. In a new interview, Corberó discussed her new action project alongside Kevin Hart, and reveals that, despite her body of work and great looking stunts, she dislikes action films. Úrsula Corberó joins Madonna onstage at Barcelona concertÚrsula Corberó graces the cover of Vogue SpainIn a new interview, Corberó was asked about her interest in action films, since she tends to star in action packed projects that feature heists and all manner of stunts.
The stars of Netflix‘s new heist comedy movie are hitting the red carpet!
Love Island fans don't have long to wait for their next villa fix, with an All Stars version of the hit ITV show launching next week.