Barbie brunch coming to Manchester with themed drinks and sing-a-long sessions

There's a turning point in the movie, when Margot Robbie's Stereotypical Barbie realizes that the human influence that's been causing turmoil in her perfect Barbie Land life — flat feet, thoughts of death, and, worst of all, — is not a child at all, but a nostalgic mother.Mattel employee Gloria, played by America Ferrera, has been playing with the doll in the Real World and reminiscing about happier times with her now-sullen tween daughter, Sasha (Ariana Greenblatt). But as her adult-level worries took over, they also crept into Barbie Land, making things far less perfect then usual.When the trio return to Barbie Land to find that the Ken-led patriarchy has taken over, Barbie's existential crisis begins in earnest, but a rousing, epic monologue from Ferrera's character helps break the spell of masculine brainwashing and motivates the Barbies to take back their lives.The film was co-written by director Greta Gerwig and her partner, Noah Baumbach, but the monologue has Gerwig's signature style all over it.

Sam Hunt and Hannah Lee Fowler have quite a history. The married couple, who are currently expecting their second child together, have been on-again, off-again for more than a decade — and they have the ups and downs to prove it.In a recent interview with ET Canada, Hunt described the transformative nature of becoming a husband and parent alongside Fowler. «There were years there where, you know, maybe I didn't realize how much growing up I had needed to do,» he said.

Simu Liu is letting it be known that the Kenergy between him and his Barbie costar Ryan Gosling has never been stronger.

Living in one place for so long you can sometimes forget that beauty is at you doorstep. This is especially true when you live in Leigh as it can be very difficult to find in the ever evolving former mining town.

Police have released an image of two men they want to speak to following the theft of a mobile phone.

Jennifer Lopez is celebrating her birthday — in style — all month long.

Amazon has slashed the prices of its most popular items of luggage in a flash summer sale that ends on Tuesday (August 8). In the post Prime-day sale, holidaymakers can pick up discounted suitcases, holdalls, duffel bags and carry on cases.

Netflix has sparked an outcry by listing a vacancy for a new $900,000-a-year product manager role for their AI Machine Learning programme in the midst of the SAG-AFTRA strike.The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) union went on strike earlier this month, after negotiations broke down with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) over streaming residuals and safeguards against AI technology.According to the job description, the Product Manager position will focus on “increasing the leverage of our Machine Learning Platform.” The MLP is Netflix’s in-house AI program, which has traditionally been used to power the streamer’s algorithmic recommendations. Per Netflix’s research page, the company is now making more use of the program to “optimise” film and TV production, although it’s not clear how they plan to do so.We all know one of the biggest issues both of the striking guilds, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, have with AMPTP’s offer for a new contract is a lack of protection against and regulation of AI.

Blur‘s Damon Albarn has shared his love for Arctic Monkeys‘ Alex Turner, saying he sings “a lot like him” on the band’s new album.Albarn and his band released new LP ‘The Ballad Of Darren’ this month, their first since 2015’s ‘The Magic Whip’.In a new interview with Musikexpress, Albarn has discussed his admiration for Turner, and how he influenced the Britpop heroes’ new album.Asked what he thinks of Turner, Albarn responded: “I think he’s great, I sing a lot like him on the new album.“You know our producer James Ford?” the frontman added. “He also worked with the Arctic Monkeys, I mentioned that to him.

Rosalia is addressing her split from her fiance Rauw Alejandro and she’s taking on the infidelity rumors.

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Less than 24 hours after Sinéad O'Connor's death, police are releasing new details on the Irish musician's passing. Metropolitan Police shared a statement with Fox News Digital that said an unresponsive female was found in a residential area of London at 11:18 Wednesday morning. Officials say O'Connor's death is "not being treated as suspicious," adding that a report will be filed by the coroner.

Gospel singer Tori Kelly is speaking out for the first time after being hospitalized over the weekend. Kelly, who is reportedly suffering from blood clots around her vital organs that were discovered after she collapsed on Sunday, told her fans in an Instagram post that she is "feeling stronger now and hopeful," but that "unfortunately there are still some things to uncover." She began her statement with, "As you may have heard, I'm dealing with some unexpected health challenges." "It's been a scary few days," she admitted to her followers, "but I can feel your prayers and can't stop thinking about you." She also noted how grateful she is for the "amazing doctors and nurses that have been looking after me." Kelly had been promoting her upcoming EP "tori," which is set to release tomorrow, and she told fans, "Of course I'm heartbroken about all the things I had planned for this week of releasing my EP, but I know my health must come first." View this post on Instagram A post shared by tori kelly (@torikelly) "Until I see you again, I still want you to enjoy a project that represents the happy place I've been in the last few years.

Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag Sinéad O’Connor made a truly heart-wrenching promise that she would stop performing, following the devastating death of her 17 year old son Shane in January 2022. She told her fans that there would "never be anything to sing about again". The iconic Irish singer, who crooned a version of one of the most famous 90s songs in the world, Nothing Compares 2 U, was sadly confirmed dead yesterday, July 26, at the age of 56.

Erik ten Hag believes Manchester United have regained their transfer pull but that is set to be tested with Paris Saint-Germain entering the race for Rasmus Hojlund.

Passengers were forced to evacuate part of Manchester Airport today with bus services kept away from the scene. Firefighters were seen outside the airport's bus and rail station earlier this afternoon (July 27).

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A string of important financial changes will take place in August, affecting DWP payment dates and benefits.

Cinephiles already know that “Ferrari,” Michael Mann‘s first film since 2015’s “Blackhat,” will have its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival in September. But now Mann fans know when his biopic will have its North American premiere: as the closing film of the New York Film Festival on October 13.

Two police officers were injured in what has been described as an 'unprovoked' knife attack in the street on Wednesday afternoon (July 26).

Selena Gomez is sending a message!

Police officials in London continue to look into the circumstances of singer Sinéad O’Connor‘s shocking death on Wednesday.

CBS and Fox weighed in on their upfronts today, following NBC last week. CBS has closed its 2024 selling season up “low-to-mid single digits” in dollar commitments. Fox Corp. showed gains in news and is looking at a fall slate of sports, animated and unsripted content.

The Jonas Brothers are bringing their huge global tour to Manchester next year at one of the cities' newest venues.

Mitski has returned with a brand new single – watch the video for ‘Bug Like An Angel’ below.This week, the singer announced details of a new album titled ‘The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We’.Now, it has been confirmed that the singer-songwriter’s follow-up to 2022’s ‘Laurel Hell’ will come out on September 15 via Dead Oceans.On Sunday night (July 23), the singer-songwriter sent out a newsletter to her fans that included a voice memo, through which she revealed the title of the upcoming album.“Hi, this is Mitski, and I’m at Bomb Shelter Studios in Nashville, where we recorded my new album that’s coming out. It’s called ‘The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We’, and its first single is coming out on Wednesday,” Mitski said in the voice memo.Watch the video for ‘Bug Like An Angel’, directed by Noel Paul, below.In a new statement to fans, Mitski said that she had re-negotiated her contract with her label and wants to make more music in the future, having hinted at a potential retirement in the past.“There are a lot of things about working in the music industry, and about being in the public eye, that feels like it goes against my nature,” she began.“I think you all might have seen me struggle with it, from time to time! But I am also in a miraculously lucky position, to be able to make music with resources and time, and to have an audience like you who give me the opportunity to perform.

Barbie movie is packed out with plastic characters, but one in particular is very much based on a real-life person.The satirical comedy, which is adapted from the popular Mattel toy franchise, was released on Friday (July 21). It stars Margot Robbie as the titular doll and follows her journey from Barbie Land to the real world.

Barbie director Greta Gerwig has responded to the right-wing backlash against the new film.Various right-wing commentators have criticised the film around its release. Among them was Texas senator Ted Cruz, who described it as “Chinese communist propaganda” due to its depiction of a disputed region in the South China Sea (via Business Insider).Ben Shapiro, meanwhile, branded it “one of the worst movies I have ever seen” and “angry, feminist claptrap that alienates men from women” in his YouTube review.In a new interview with The New York Times, Gerwig was asked whether she expected “the degree to which rightwing pundits are bashing the movie as being ‘woke’ and burning their Barbies”.The director responded: “Certainly, there’s a lot of passion.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director If you watched “Barbie” and thought it was missing a proper fart joke, then you might’ve loved one scene that Greta Gerwig and editor Nick Houy left on the cutting room floor. In a new IndieWire interview with the collaborators, it’s revealed that “Barbie” had a “fart opera” in the middle of its runtime that got cut because it wasn’t received as well as Gerwig hoped. “We’ve always tried to get in a proper fart joke and we’ve never done it,” Gerwig said.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. It’s been exactly a year since Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” first took the world by storm, and Tiffany & Co. is celebrating the moment with the launch of the Return to Tiffany & Beyoncé collection.

Strictly Come Dancing star Neil Jones has revealed he will be dancing with Strictly Come Dancing Live this year.

Strictly Come Dancing professional Giovanni Pernice has made a sad announcement regarding the upcoming Strictly 2023 series after he injured his ankle whilst on tour.

An 82-year-old man was tragically found dead in a stream in the early hours of Wednesday (July 26) after discharging himself from hospital hours before, the Manchester Evening News understands.

Barbie fans love more about the hottest movie of the year – aside from the pink, the cast, the vibes, and the pink – than spotting its hidden references and subtle Easter eggs sprinkled throughout.Fans have been poring over every pink detail of the highly-anticipated Greta Gerwig flick since the first trailer dropped, going into a hot pink frenzy with every “genius” tid bit uncovered.But since the film’s record-breaking release weekend, once Barbies and Kens had a chance to take in Barbieland’s full pastel glory, theories are swirling about the more subtle pop culture nods.One particular theory speculates that the film features a subtle cameo by Barbie’s biggest rival: the Bratz dolls.Fans have taken to social media to unpack their theory, honing in on the scene where Barbie (Margot Robbie) travels to the real world and goes to a high school while searching for the girl she believes is responsible for her existential crisis.At the school, she comes across a teenager named Sasha (Ariana Greenblatt) and her three friends who give the cowgirl-dressed Barbie a brutal reality check about her problematic history in the real world.“We haven’t played with Barbie since we were, like, five years old,” Sasha tells Barbie.“You’ve been making women feel bad about themselves since you were invented.”One TikTok user, Ivan Mars, posted a video saying it took him three trips to the cinema to realize the group of teens bear an eerie resemblance to the original four Bratz dolls named Yasmin, Sasha, Cloe, and Jade.And though the three friends – played by McKenna Roberts, Sasha Milstein, and Brylee Hsu – being unnamed “Junior High Friend” characters, their apparent ringleader Sasha shares not only a name, but a nickname with one of Barbie’s

“All the Leaves Are Brown: How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart.” It explores the rise and downfall of the folk quartet whose tracks influenced the Southern California music scene. He spoke to several surviving insiders who knew and befriended the band over the years.“They were lightning in a bottle,” Shea told Fox News Digital. “And the level of dysfunction was incredible.

Grammy-winning singer Tori Kelly is speaking out on social media for the first time since being hospitalized after collapsing while out with friends.

Penn and Teller are leaving Sin City and heading Northeast for a pair of shows this summer and fall.The duo, who typically perform a long-standing residency at the Penn and Teller Theater in the Rio Las Vegas Hotel and Casino will play Brookville, NY’s Tilles Center Concert Hall on Friday, July 28 and New Brunswick, NJ’s State Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 23.According to The Guardian, the current iteration of their show is “enjoyable greatest-hits package that includes several new spins on old tricks.”And if you don’t want to see too much money disappear from your bank account, it may behoove you to attend the show in the Garden State.At the time of publication, tickets for the night in Brookville start at $150 before fees on Vivid Seats; $76 before fees is the starting price in New Brunswick.In addition to these shows, the inimitable pair have a number of additional performances lined up across the country these next few months.Want to see where and how much it will cost to see them live?Here’s everything you need to know and more about Penn and Teller’s 2023 tour.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete calendar including all upcoming U.S.