Here’s a curated collection from the Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s coming to TV, streaming services, and music and video game platforms this week.
In new Netflix movie ‘The Good Nurse,’ Jessica Chastain plays an overworked intensive care nurse and single mother who, after a patient dies, begins to suspect things about her new colleague Charlie, played by Eddie Redmayne. Danish filmmaker Tobias Lindholm directed the thriller, streaming Oct. 26, from a “1917” script and “Last Night in Soho” screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns. For something more family-friendly, Netflix also has the stop-motion animated pic “Wendell & Wild,” featuring the voices of Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele as demon brothers. It’s the brainchild of director Henry Selick, who also directed the spooky but kid-friendly classics “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Coraline.” “Wendell & Wild” begins streaming October 28.
-For new Halloween scares, several well-reviewed thrillers hit video-on-demand on October 25. The first is “Pearl,” Ti West’s Technicolor horror prequel starring Mia Goth as a farmer in a pandemic-stricken 1918 Texas town whose dreams of movie stardom make her somewhat crazy woman. There are references to everything from ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ to ‘The Wizard of Oz’, but with a sinister and murderous edge. Ahead of the film’s premiere at the Venice Film Festival earlier this fall, West said, “I just had this interest in making, for lack of a better term, a kids’ movie that tells a more demented adult story.” Goth also helped write the screenplay, which involves an epic monologue at the end done in almost one take.
“Barbarian,” the low-budget indie horror starring Justin Long that also became a sleeper box office hit, will also be available on VOD on October 25. “Barbarian” stars Georgina Campbell as a woman who is inadvertently double-booked with a stranger (“It’s “Bill Skarsgård) at a spooky Detroit-area Airbnb run by Long’s character, a television actor facing allegations of sexual misconduct. Writer-director Zach Cregger said he’s pitched the movie, which has an unconventional structure that essentially resets mid-run, to every studio that’s made a horror in the past 15 years and everyone said no. To date, it has grossed over $40 million against a production budget of $4 million.
– AP Screenwriter Lindsey Bahr
MUSIC
– Country Artist of the Year Lainey Wilson’s fourth studio album is out Friday, October 28, featuring 14 tracks, all of which she co-wrote except for one cover. Singles from “Bell Bottom Country” include the sweet first love ditty “Watermelon Moonshine” and “Heart Like a Truck”, with the lyrics: “I got a heart like a truck/It’s been drugs in the mud /Course on dreams and essence.” Wilson is the 2021 Academy of Country Music New Female Artist of the Year winner and won her coveted Song of the Year award last year for her hit single, “Things a Man Oughta Know”.
— It’s time to celebrate Garbage. A new compilation titled “Anthology” will be available on transparent yellow double vinyl and two CD editions, as well as on major online streaming platforms from Friday, October 28. It will contain the hits ‘Stupid Girl’, ‘I Think I’m Paranoid’, ‘Why Do You Love Me’ and ‘Only Happy When It Rains’. Among the 35 tracks is a rare recording titled ‘Witness to Your Love Lead vocalist Shirley Manson teased the compilation, saying it’s “a testament to nearly three decades of creative work together, our collective tenacity, and our terrifying ability as a band to regularly withstand humiliation. ritual”.
— It may be a bit early, but it’s still time for a Louis Armstrong Christmas album. While Satchmo’s holiday tunes are standard Christmas fare, he never released a Christmas album during his lifetime. Now, for the first time, “Louis Wishes You a Cool Party” was released digitally on Friday October 28, followed by CD, red vinyl and a limited edition vinyl photo on November 11 – marking his very first official Christmas album. . The 11 tracks include “Cool Yule,” “Christmas Night in Harlem,” and the swinging “‘Zat You Santa Claus?” Armstrong fans can also check out the Apple TV+ movie “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,” which will also be released on Friday, October 28.
– “Till,” director Chinonye Chukwu’s factual account of Emmett Till’s mother’s quest for justice, was a powerful film, made even more moving by its score. The work by Abel Korzeniowski, who composed, orchestrated and conducted, was released on Friday, October 28 and has soulful strings, dark pulses and heart-pounding sequences. Listen to “This Is My Boy” and try not to get emotional. Korzeniowski says, “It’s a tribute to those who, against all odds, and despite the world’s indifference to their plight, continue to preserve their humanity.”
– Mark Kennedy, AP Entertainment Writer
TELEVISION
Get in the Halloween mood with Netflix’s “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” an anthology produced by the Oscar-winning filmmaker with the aim of challenging “traditional” expectations of horror. The eight stories include “The Autopsy”, based on a short story by Michael Shea and featuring F. Murray Abraham, Glynn Turman and Luke Roberts; “Dreams in the Witch House,” based on HP Lovecraft, starring Rupert Grint and Ismael Cruz Cordova, and “Lot 36,” one of two episodes based on an original story by del Toro and featuring Tim Blake Nelson and Elpidia Carrillo. Episodes will air daily in pairs Tuesday through Friday, October 25-28.
“Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes,” which debuts Tuesday, Oct. 25 on PBS’s “Frontline” (check local listings), details the toll of Russia’s war on Ukraine and the challenges of holding Russia responsible for its actions. The documentary is part of a collaboration between “Frontline” and the Associated Press that includes collecting, verifying and cataloging potential war crimes and co-editing AP stories and videos and reporting from Frontline war. The joint initiative, which includes the War Crimes Watch Ukraine interactive experience, has documented more than 500 incidents involving potential war crimes since Russia invaded Ukraine last February.
A gunman’s deadly attack on a place of worship, its causes and consequences are examined on HBO’s “A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting,” which begins at 9 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, October 26. . The film, directed by Trish Adlesic, delves into the 11 lives that were lost in the October 2018 tragedy and the effect on family members, survivors and the community as a whole. The attack is also seen in the context of rising hate speech and actions. Michael Keaton, Billy Porter and Mark Cuban, the film’s main executive producers, hail from the Pittsburgh area. An original song, “A Tree of Life”, is performed by Broadway and movie star Idina Menzel.
— Lynn Elber, AP Television Writer
VIDEO GAMES
– The venerable “Call of Duty” series returns on Friday, October 28 for its annual round of gun-toting mayhem. This year’s chapter, “Modern Warfare II,” comes from Activision’s Infinity Ward studio, widely regarded as the publisher’s first storyteller for ironclad single-player campaigns. Special Task Force 141 is back on the prowl, this time battling a terrorist network and drug cartel that have teamed up to launch stolen missiles into the United States. As usual, there are plenty of options for multiplayer mayhem, from competitive battle royales to co-op raids. The game is available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox X/S, Xbox One and PC.
– ‘Bayonetta 3′ brings Platinum Games’ fiery witch and demon hunter – imagine a crossover between Kim Kardashian and Tina Fey in full dominatrix gear – to the Nintendo Switch on Friday, October 28. Longtime admirers might miss the original voice actress behind Bayonetta, who skipped this sequel over a salary dispute and called on her fans to boycott it. Still, fans of the Platinum brand of campy, high-octane hack-and-slash action won’t be able to resist the siren’s call, especially as this episode promises “a virtual coven of Bayonettas.” , each one more fabulous than the other”.
-Lou Kesten
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