Reconnects

Singer-songwriter Dua Lipa had never written a song from a character’s point of view, she’d always drawn from personal experience — until “Dance the Night,” from “Barbie.” (Alex Harper / For The Times) Dua Lipa was on tour — she can’t remember where, it was a bit of a blur — when she got the Instagram DM from Mark Ronson. The decorated producer was working on the soundtrack for “Barbie,” and he wanted her to be part of it. “There are two songs in the film as it stands,” he told her, “and is the…

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has finally made contact after 63 days of radio silence, re-stablishing communication with mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. The wait ended with a sigh of relief as the data received indicated that the pioneering aircraft was in excellent condition on the distant red planet.What happenedIngenuity had originally been planned for five test flights to showcase its capabilities. However, it surpassed all expectations, completing a…

The films of Cameron Crowe turned him into one of the most important and influential filmmakers of an entire generation, with the writer and director knocking out success after success, ranging from Say Anything… and Jerry Maguire to Almost Famous and Vanilla Sky. That being said, it might be somewhat telling that he hasn’t helmed a feature since 2015’s disastrous Aloha. A 20 percent critical score and 28 percent user rating ensures that the Hawaii-set romantic comedy lives on in infamy as his single worst-reviewed movie…

via Anchor Bay Films In a fitting development given the movie’s title, were forgotten ensemble comedy 10 Years shot and sent out into the wild a decade on from its release, then the chances are incredibly high that it would become a certifiable box office sensation based on the sheer volume of names involved in the project that have gone on to much bigger and better things in Hollywood. As it stands, though, you’d be hard-pressed to find a huge number of people who’ve even seen writer and director Jamie…

Nav is warming fans up.The XO artist returned Thursday with his new track “Never Sleep,” featuring his previous collaborators Travis Scott and Lil Baby. Nav teased the record on Discord last week, before unveiling its cover art and a clip from its official video. The song is expected to appear on his long-awaited studio album, Demons Protected by Angels.“New @nav album otw but first… Never Sleep with @travisscott and @lilbaby this Friday on Spotify,” he wrote on Instagram.Nav has worked with the two rappers on multiple…