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Irish Daily Mirror
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
'I watched 13 Going On 30 after turning 30 and here's what they don't tell you'
Dirty Thirty. Thirty, Flirty, and Thriving. The Big Three O. No matter which out-of-touch, millennial pop culture term you use, the fact remains, you're in the third decade of your life. Statistically, you probably have another four to go. Yay. The shift from being a twenty-something that loves partying till 4am to becoming the girl who wants to spend her entire weekend in bed watching a family drama called Parenthood was swift. All of a sudden my usual vices weren't as appealing as they used to be. More importantly, I secretly loved that. The weekend after I turned thirty, while indulging in said Netflix and chill; the boring, in-the-same-pyjamas-since-the-last-three-days kind, not the steamy kind - I happened to serendipitously chance upon 13 Going On 30. As a staunch believer of fate, chosen destiny, and all that other witchy voodoo – I knew I had to spend my next hour and 38 minutes watching Jennifer Garner go full ham on my TV screen. And it was an hour and 38 minutes I did not regret. So now, like any self-respecting journalist at a major news publication, I'm going to present you with 13 thoughts I had while watching 13 Going on 30 after turning 30 (side quest : say it as a tongue-twister 13 times). 1. Whether you're 13 or 30 - friendships will always be relevant Like Jenna Rink retrospectively realised - choosing who to surround yourself with when you're a teen is supremely important, and it becomes even more glaringly obvious why when you're 30. My closest friends to date have all been in my life since I was a reckless teenager, and some from even before then. These are the bonds that have survived the test of time, that have embraced me during gut-wrenching, crush-my-soul heartbreaks and been on the phone to me while I dealt with life-shattering disappointments. These are the people that at 30 - when all of a sudden, you become painfully aware of life - have held my hand from one panic attack inducing thought to the next. These are my people. 2. The movie has a banging soundtrack - and so should your life 3. Love is always going to be the thing that's worth fighting for Because I didn't suddenly wake up in the body of my 30-year-old self with a built-in, famous, athlete boyfriend. No. I had to get through each painstaking, obstacle-wrought year with my long-distance boyfriend for eight years while he - worked at sea with only 50MB of data in a day, studied on another continent, existed in another time zone, traversed across a different hemisphere. Now while we didn't have to resort to turning back time via magic fairy dust, we certainly had our fair share of ludicrous ups and downs. But like Jenna, we didn't give up and fought for our love. The result? The law is now officially involved in our relationship. 4. A good ol' slumber party with your girls (or boys) can fix anything, so make time for them! But more generally - make time for your friends. Your older self will thank you. 5. You can't turn back time, no matter how hard you try So, as much of a Hallmark-card cliché this may be - live in the now. Do that thing you're putting off, follow that passion you left behind when you were 12, travel solo to that remote island, make that career-pivot you're too scared to make, and tell that human you love them. 6. Sometimes, you just have to hide in a closet (or room, or bathroom) and have a good cry It doesn't make you weak. It won't break your resolve. And most importantly - your skin will glow for a hot sec when you're done. 7. Thank god I left bitchy, back-stabbing, two-faced friends like Tom-Tom behind in high school 8. 'We made choices', said Matty. And those three words hit me like a ton of bricks Because it's true - our whole lives are a sum total of our choices; good, bad, ugly. It helps absolutely no one if you sit and regret the choices you made. But you know who it helps if those choices are owned, studied, and learnt from? You. 9. Sexy, brooding, Mark Ruffalo-artistic-types will always be my weak spot I don't make the rules. 10. 'You don't always get the dream house, but you get awfully close' Having recently moved to London, sitting in my sweet little apartment overlooking the river with the love of my life as we blast retro music and cook a Full English on a Saturday, I'd say Matty Flamhaff was exactly right. 11. Jumping off a swing at the age of 30 is definitely going to hurt Must try it anyway. Something about making this my fearless decade. This is obviously a metaphor. 12. When Jenna Rink said, 'I think all of us want to feel something that we've forgotten or turned our backs on, because maybe we didn't realise how much we were leaving behind', she was talking about her chance at love with Matty. But for me, watching this scene at the ripe (see how I avoided the old) age of 30 - all it reminded me of was home The ever-supportive family I left behind in pursuit of my dreams almost a decade ago when I moved out. The mundane weekdays I've missed. The celebrations and milestones I've been absent from. All the ways in which I haven't been able to be there for them, by virtue of not being around physically. All of the familial responsibilities that have fallen on the innocent shoulders on my little brother. There's no point to this rumination - this is life. This is adulthood. And sometimes, it is what it is. 13. Occasionally, all you need to do is break out into rehearsed choreography on a certified banger. *Cue Single Ladies* There's a quiet sense of triumph in watching 13 Going on 30, after turning 30. For me - it lay in the realisation that my life was nowhere near as chaotic as grown-up Jenna Rink's. It lay in the fact that I have a solid set of friends that genuinely have my back - who celebrate my victories as theirs and my failures as "it just hasn't happened for you yet ". It lay in the fact that I was not stupid enough to let my Matty go when I first found him nine years ago. And it most definitely lay in the reality that I did make it home last Christmas.
Daily Record
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
'I watched 13 Going On 30 after turning 30 and here's what they don't tell you'
Dirty Thirty. Thirty, Flirty, and Thriving. The Big Three O. No matter which out-of-touch, millennial pop culture term you use, the fact remains, you're in the third decade of your life. Statistically, you probably have another four to go. Yay. The shift from being a twenty-something that loves partying till 4am to becoming the girl who wants to spend her entire weekend in bed watching a family drama called Parenthood was swift. All of a sudden my usual vices weren't as appealing as they used to be. More importantly, I secretly loved that. The weekend after I turned thirty, while indulging in said Netflix and chill; the boring, in-the-same-pyjamas-since-the-last-three-days kind, not the steamy kind — I happened to serendipitously chance upon 13 Going On 30. As a staunch believer of fate, chosen destiny, and all that other witchy voodoo – I knew I had to spend my next hour and 38 minutes watching Jennifer Garner go full ham on my TV screen. And it was an hour and 38 minutes I did not regret. So now, like any self-respecting journalist at a major news publication, I'm going to present you with 13 thoughts I had while watching 13 Going on 30 after turning 30 (side quest: say it as a tongue-twister 13 times). 1. Whether you're 13 or 30 — friendships will always be relevant Like Jenna Rink retrospectively realised — choosing who to surround yourself with when you're a teen is supremely important, and it becomes even more glaringly obvious why when you're 30. My closest friends to date have all been in my life since I was a reckless teenager, and some from even before then. These are the bonds that have survived the test of time, that have embraced me during gut-wrenching, crush-my-soul heartbreaks and been on the phone to me while I dealt with life-shattering disappointments. These are the people that at 30 — when all of a sudden, you become painfully aware of life — have held my hand from one panic attack inducing thought to the next. These are my people. 2. The movie has a banging soundtrack — and so should your life 3. Love is always going to be the thing that's worth fighting for Because I didn't suddenly wake up in the body of my 30-year-old self with a built-in, famous, athlete boyfriend. No. I had to get through each painstaking, obstacle-wrought year with my long-distance boyfriend for eight years while he — worked at sea with only 50MB of data in a day, studied on another continent, existed in another time zone, traversed across a different hemisphere. Now while we didn't have to resort to turning back time via magic fairy dust, we certainly had our fair share of ludicrous ups and downs. But like Jenna, we didn't give up and fought for our love. The result? The law is now officially involved in our relationship. 4. A good ol' slumber party with your girls (or boys) can fix anything, so make time for them! But more generally — make time for your friends. Your older self will thank you. 5. You can't turn back time, no matter how hard you try So, as much of a Hallmark-card cliché this may be — live in the now. Do that thing you're putting off, follow that passion you left behind when you were 12, travel solo to that remote island, make that career-pivot you're too scared to make, and tell that human you love them. 6. Sometimes, you just have to hide in a closet (or room, or bathroom) and have a good cry It doesn't make you weak. It won't break your resolve. And most importantly — your skin will glow for a hot sec when you're done. 7. Thank god I left bitchy, back-stabbing, two-faced friends like Tom-Tom behind in high school 8. 'We made choices', said Matty. And those three words hit me like a ton of bricks Because it's true — our whole lives are a sum total of our choices; good, bad, ugly. It helps absolutely no one if you sit and regret the choices you made. But you know who it helps if those choices are owned, studied, and learnt from? You. 9. Sexy, brooding, Mark Ruffalo-artistic-types will always be my weak spot I don't make the rules. 10. 'You don't always get the dream house, but you get awfully close' Having recently moved to London, sitting in my sweet little apartment overlooking the river with the love of my life as we blast retro music and cook a Full English on a Saturday, I'd say Matty Flamhaff was exactly right. 11. Jumping off a swing at the age of 30 is definitely going to hurt Must try it anyway. Something about making this my fearless decade. This is obviously a metaphor. 12. When Jenna Rink said, 'I think all of us want to feel something that we've forgotten or turned our backs on, because maybe we didn't realise how much we were leaving behind', she was talking about her chance at love with Matty. But for me, watching this scene at the ripe (see how I avoided the old) age of 30 — all it reminded me of was home The ever-supportive family I left behind in pursuit of my dreams almost a decade ago when I moved out. The mundane weekdays I've missed. The celebrations and milestones I've been absent from. All the ways in which I haven't been able to be there for them, by virtue of not being around physically. All of the familial responsibilities that have fallen on the innocent shoulders on my little brother. There's no point to this rumination — this is life. This is adulthood. And sometimes, it is what it is. 13. Occasionally, all you need to do is break out into rehearsed choreography on a certified banger. *Cue Single Ladies* There's a quiet sense of triumph in watching 13 Going on 30, after turning 30. For me — it lay in the realisation that my life was nowhere near as chaotic as grown-up Jenna Rink's. It lay in the fact that I have a solid set of friends that genuinely have my back — who celebrate my victories as theirs and my failures as 'it just hasn't happened for you yet '. It lay in the fact that I was not stupid enough to let my Matty go when I first found him nine years ago. And it most definitely lay in the reality that I did make it home last Christmas.
News.com.au
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Adorable scenes as Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis step out with baby
Parenthood is treating Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis well with the loved-up duo stepping out in adorable images. The Matildas superstar and her partner announced the birth of their first child last Thursday, a baby boy named Jagger Mewis-Kerr. The football power couple shared the exciting news on Instagram writing: 'Our little man is here'. Now they've melted hearts all over again with Mewis uploading an image of the duo stepping out with stroller in hand. Mewis uploaded a carousel of images which she captioned 'Forever moments' that included a host of moments from the pregnancy to showing off the newest member of their family. From images of Mewis' bump to Kerr laying on her leg while she's in hospital to Kerr being fast asleep with Jagger nearby. In one photo it showed the loved-up couple walking hand-in-hand as Mewis pushed the stroller along the footpath. The post was flooded with messages of love and support from all corners of the football world. Team USA wrote: 'Congratulations' alongside a heart emoji. American soccer player Megan Montefusco wrote: 'Obsessed with your lil fam.' Matildas goalkeeper Mackenzie Arnold commented: 'So sweet.' Fellow Matildas star Caitlin Foord simply posted two smiling with hearts emojis. Kat Van Egmond added: 'Gorgeous mamas' along with a red heart emoji. Kerr, 31, and Mewis, 34, have been together since 2021 and got engaged in 2023. It is understood the pair met around six months after the Matildas captain had moved to London in 2019, to join Women's Super League (WSL) giant Chelsea. Speaking about how they met during Kerr's recent high-profile court case, where the Matildas forward was cleared of the racially aggravated harassment of a British police officer, the five-time WSL winner revealed the American footballer had 'slid into her DMs' during lockdown and shortly after they began dating. Kerr also said while giving evidence during the trial that she was expecting a baby boy. And while off-the-field life is better than ever for Kerr, the Matildas star still continues to battle a troublesome ACL that has kept her off the football field since January 2024. Blues boss Sonia Bompastor recently claimed more than a year on there was still no timeframe for her return to play.
Time Magazine
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
J.J. Abrams' Retro ‘70s Crime Show Duster Is Almost Too Much Fun
Someday, Josh Holloway should play Matthew McConnaughey 's brother. There's an obvious physical resemblance; born within months of one another in 1969, both actors are tall and lean but muscular, with angular features and, often, light, chin-grazing hair. They share a relaxed energy and the hint of a Southern twang—attributes that seem inextricably connected. But there's a subtle difference in their default temperaments. McConnaughey is the affable golden boy with a dark side waiting to be unearthed. Holloway, best known for his role as Lost antihero Sawyer,would make the perfect complement: a glowering outlaw with a sweet soul. If he's never quite ascended to McConnaughey's stratum of Hollywood, it's not for lack of charisma. Holloway is the kind of ideal TV actor who, when effectively cast, can keep viewers coming back to a show week after week. No one knows this better than Lost co-creator J.J. Abrams. Which is why, he and his collaborator LaToya Morgan (Turn, Parenthood) have said, they were moved to custom-build a series around Holloway, who'd been absent from the small screen since the inevitable violent end of his antagonist arc on Yellowstone in 2021. Their new 1970s-set Max crime drama Duster is, indeed, a tremendous star vehicle. In fact, it's so fun—and Holloway is such a blast in it—that the show falters a bit when it tries to get serious. Premiering Thursday, May 15 at 9 p.m. ET—a time slot inherited from its broadcast-throwback predecessor The Pitt — Duster casts Holloway as Jim Ellis, a getaway driver for a powerful crime boss, Ezra Saxton (the great Keith David). In his first scene, Jim speeds through the Arizona desert in the show's eponymous cherry-red Plymouth with a plucky preteen (Adriana Aluna Martinez's Luna) in the passenger seat, stops to pick up a duffel bag at the drive-thru window of a joint called Nachos con Dios, engages in some impressive stunt driving to evade a pair of thugs on his tail, and finally rolls up to Sax's mansion. Inside, there's a fully staffed, makeshift operating room where Sax's adult son Royce (Benjamin Charles Watson) lies unconscious on the table. The bag contains a freshly harvested human heart. His work far from finished, Jim is immediately instructed to reach into Royce's open chest cavity and aid in the surgery. The sequence epitomizes Duster 's playful, high-octane vibe, and captures the essence of its protagonist. In case you missed the neon-sign symbolism, Jim is the brave, deft, loyal, discreet, ladykiller beating heart of Sax's operation. Yet he's been stuck for too long in the lowly position of driver, overshadowed by a universally beloved brother (I picture McConnaughey, of course) who was part of Sax's inner circle before dying in an explosion. Jim is the black sheep of even his seamy family, despised by the conniving glamour-puss wife (Gail O'Grady) of his dad, Wade (a brilliantly cast Corbin Bernsen), also a longtime Sax associate. As for Luna, she worships 'Uncle Jim,' a man she's been led to believe is just a family friend because her truck-driver mom, Izzy (Camille Guaty), thinks he's too irresponsible to fulfill his actual role of father. There was a time—say, the '70s—when a charming, middle-aged white guy with an exciting job and ample motivation to prove himself would've been enough to fuel a TV hit. But in this overcrowded era, for better and worse, every streaming show has something to prove, too—it can't just be car chases and gunfights and attractive people flirting. So Duster has been freighted with heavier elements. The results of that expanded ambition are mixed. On the plus side, there's This Is Us and Love, Victor alum Rachel Hilson as Holloway's co-lead in what is really a buddy show. (The duo even banters about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.) Hilson's Nina Hayes is a freshly graduated FBI agent, at a time when Black people, women, and certainly Black women like herself are rare at the Bureau. But Nina is headstrong enough to land the assignment she's been pushing for, investigating Sax out of the Phoenix office. Her colleagues are mostly interchangeable white guys whose attitudes toward her presence range from condescending to hostile. Thankfully, she has an ally in her new partner, a nervous, guileless, half-Navajo agent named Awan (Asivak Koostachin). And she's hoping to recruit Jim as an informant because he—like Nina—has a reason to feel betrayed by Sax. Jim and Nina make great foils. Wiry and intense, she's a refreshing contrast to his languid brooding. What they have in common, besides their good hearts, is a willingness to break rules to ensure things go their way. It's an old-fashioned sort of odd-couple chemistry; Duster doesn't rush its leads into a forced will-they-or-won't-they, in part because its world is detailed enough to give both characters other viable love interests. In that sense, the central relationship suits the show's nostalgic mood, which is self-aware but not annoyingly so. Abrams and Morgan clearly cherish '70s pop culture, including that decade's nostalgia for the '50s. From the boxy cars to the music of the Spinners and the Stooges to offhand chatter about Linda Lovelace, these artifacts give the show an element of retro escapism. An animated sequence riffs on Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. There's an Elvis -obsessed gangster named Sunglasses who owns a bowling alley called Great Bowls of Fire. Do you even have to ask if Richard Nixon comes up? It's all pretty enjoyable, if not exactly the stuff of prestige drama. So it makes sense that the creators would want to add substance, and that they've done so by delving into the identity-based struggles of characters who are women, queer, people of color, or a combination of the three. There are rich veins of story to mine here. The problem is that when Nina is undermined at work or Awan wrestles with not feeling Navajo enough or Izzy goes Norma Rae on her own union over dangerous conditions for female truckers, these moments can seem spliced in from a different, stiffer show than the one where Jim and a colorful bad guy pause in the middle of an auto-shop bathroom melee to share a bottle of bourbon. It's a small complaint when Duster is such a good time on the whole. And it shouldn't be too hard, if it gets renewed for the second season that the finale so purposefully sets up, to fuse the two tones into one more consistent show. Because discovering how characters' backgrounds shaped the people they've become shouldn't feel like being forced to swallow boiled vegetables. Like the cheese that blankets a takeout container of nachos, it should be baked into the meal.
Scottish Sun
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
David Attenborough lands epic new BBC show just days before his 99th birthday
The British Icon's career has spanned an astonishing eight decades RAISING YOUNG David Attenborough lands epic new BBC show just days before his 99th birthday DAVID Attenborough has landed an epic new BBC show just days before his 99th birthday. The national treasure who turns 99 this week has already recorded his scripts for the brand new natural history series. 3 Sis David has landed a brand new show just before his 99th birthday 3 Sir David's new documentary Ocean will be released in cinemas within a matter of days Credit: Silverback Films 3 Sir David's career spans eight decades and he will be returning to the BBC this summer Credit: BBC Sir David, whose career spans eight decades will returning to BBC One this summer for another landmark natural history series, titled Parenthood. The five-part series will showcase how parenthood in the animal kingdom is a high stakes game in which some animal parents must come up with extraordinary strategies to give their young a head start. The synopsis reads: "From Orcas teaching their offspring to hunt Blue Whales to Hippo families navigating the terrifying African night. "Parenthood is an adventure and just like us, animal parents can be caring, patient, dedicated, short-tempered and foolish. "Elephant mothers will dedicate themselves to showing their calves where to find water. "Cardinalfish fathers endure housing their fry inside their own mouths, whilst a lion pride adopts the cubs of a recently killed matriarch and raise them to become giant hunters." BBC specialist factual commissioning boss Jack Bootle told The Mirror that Sir David has already recorded his carefully-worded scripts for all five episodes. "This is a wonderful, warm, engaging and surprising series, made by some of the very best wildlife filmmakers in the world, and I'm thrilled Sir David is joining us again to narrate it,' he said. Series producer and director, Jeff Wilson, speaking of the series said: 'The ultimate celebration of the joys and challenges of raising offspring in the natural world'. He added: 'Silverback Films did a deep dive into the subject over 2.5 years, uncovering extraordinary new behaviours and jaw-dropping dramas using the world's best wildlife cinematographers and directors. BBC releases official trailer for new David Attenborough series Asia 'We are incredibly proud that Sir David was on board with us to bring to the screen a landmark series that has something for everyone. "Moments of heart warming tenderness, high stakes narrative , and a timely guide from a huge cast of unbelievably engaging cast of characters on how to navigate the complex world of Parenthood.' Meanwhile, Sir David, has sadly stated that he is: 'nearing the end of his life.' He makes the admission in his new show, Ocean, in which he looks at how important aquatic life is to our planet. BBC's best nature shows The BBC has a wide range of wildlife shows - and here is a selection of some of the best. Springwatch Autumnwatch Planet Earth Animal Park The Green Planet Dynasties Hive Alive The feature length film sees him on a shoreline looking out to sea in what is widely expected to be his last location shoot for a TV show. A TV insider said: 'They're two major moments but despite being associated with the BBC for most of his working life, they both feature in the documentary which is set to drop on Disney+.' In the documentary, which airs on the streaming giant next month he is seen saying: 'When I first saw the sea as a young boy, it was thought of as a vast wilderness to be tamed and mastered for the benefit of humanity. 'Now, as I approach the end of my life, we know the opposite is true. 'After living for nearly a hundred years on this planet, I now understand that the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea.' The film shows Attenborough looking back at footage from 1957 of his first attempt at scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef. Although he says we are 'almost out of time', Attenborough remains optimistic. He tells how creating protected marine reserves where fishing is banned allows the ocean's eco-system to recover. Oceans is out in cinemas from May 8th and is available to stream from Sunday, June 8 on Disney+
