Weekend Argus (Saturday Edition)

THE LAUGHS ARE MIA IN SPY COMEDY

- SONIA RAO

VERYWOMAN Audrey (Mila Kunis) is a grocerysto­re cashier who discovers that her ex, Drew (Justin Theroux), isn’t really the host of an NPR podcast about jazz and economics. In reality, he’s a CIA operative, now on the run from bad guys who want a flash drive he has hidden.

After Drew gets shot, informing his astonished ex that she is a target too, Audrey and loyal best friend Morgan

(Kate McKinnon) embark on an involuntar­y European adventure to deliver the flash drive to Drew’s Viennese contact.

The women get chased around the continent by a Russian

EGabrielle Union has adenomyosi­s.

The 45-year-old actress revealed in her book

that she had previously endured “eight or nine miscarriag­es”.

Gabrielle said: “Everyone said ‘You’re a career woman… you waited too long. The reality is I have adenomyosi­s.” gymnast turned assassin (Ivanna Sakhno) and assisted by bickering agents Sebastian and Duffer (Sam Heughan and Hasan Minhaj).

Despite a few bits where the action-comedy hybrid actually works, neither genre is given Nina Dobrev’s trick to dealing with a break-up is going on vacation.

When asked what the best way to deal with a break-up is, the 29-year-old former star said: “A plane ticket, a glass of tequila and a group of girlfriend­s.”

Nina is a big fan of travelling. enough room to breathe.

The movie also works overtime to earn its R rating, larding the plot with gratuitous nudity and exceedingl­y graphic murders.

McKinnon’s trademark kookiness saves the day. You’ll want to slap Drew when he tells Morgan, disdainful­ly, that she is a “little too much.” Even her character’s shrieking declaratio­n that Gillian Anderson’s classy spy chief is “the Beyoncé of the government” manages to Robin Wright has married Saint Laurent VIP relations manager Clement Giraudet.

The actress, 52, and Clement tied the knot in a private ceremony in France last week. Robin was married to Hollywood star Sean Penn from 1996 to 2010 and the couple had two children. She said she found divorce “devastatin­g”. charm (and the spy genre could certainly do with more female representa­tion).

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: laugh a little bit, but prepare to be overwhelme­d a lot. – Washington Post

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