The lowdown on film, books, television, music & happenings

By Staff writer

Movies:

Justice League

Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s(Henry Cavill) selfless act at the end of the last movie Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, Bruce Wayne(Ben Affleck) enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince(Gal Gadot), to face an even greater enemy.

Together, Batman and Wonder Woman recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.

Also starring Jason Momoa, Amy Adams and Ezra Miller, the movie is set to release in theatres on November 17, 2017.

TV Series:

The Orville

The new show from the acclaimed creator of Family Guy, Seth McFarlane, is not your average Sci-Fi show. The Orville’ is a live-action, one-hour, ensemble comedic drama set 400 years in the future that follows the adventures of The Orville, a mid-level exploratory spaceship, as its crew, both human and alien, face the wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the familiar, often humorous problems of everyday life. With McFarlane playing the lead role of Captain Ed Mercer, whose first officer also happens to be the ex-wife who cheated on him with a blue alien, the jokes just write themselves.

Books:

HOMEGOING

—By Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing is an astonishing and heartrending debut novel written by the undeniably talented Yaa Gyasi. Truly epic in scope, the book covers a span of about three hundred years from the eighteenth century straight into the twentieth century. Alternating between Ghana and America, Gyasi weaves a masterful account of the lives of two sisters, Effia and Esi, and their descendants.

We follow Esi as she is sold into slavery and then we are introduced to her descendants as they struggle as slaves and then as free black people in racist America. On the other side, Effia is married to an English slave merchant and moves with him to Cape Coast Castle. Her descendants struggle with their legacy as slavers, their identity as tribe members and the fight for a free Ghana. This one is definitely worth the read.

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