“Moana 2,” the third-biggest film box-office hit of 2024, and Amanda Seyfried enjoying a Philadelphia patrol officer preventing rampant opioid habit in Peacock’s “Long Bright River” are among the new tv, movies, music and video games headed to a tool close to you.
Additionally among the many streaming choices value your time as chosen by The Related Press’ leisure journalists: An extended-lost documentary resurfaces on Tom Petty, comic John Mulaney launches a dwell weekly movie star speak present on Netflix and a six-part sequence referred to as “Confessions of Octomom” seems again on the turbulent lifetime of single mother Nadya Suleman.
NEW MOVIES TO STREAM MARCH 10-16
– “Moana 2” was almost a streaming sequence. As an alternative, it arrived Wednesday on Disney+ after greater than $1 billion in worldwide ticket gross sales. The film, the third-biggest box-office hit of 2024, is about three years after the 2016 authentic. Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) once more units sail from her dwelling island, this time in the hunt for a wider group of Pacific Islanders. Dwayne Johnson, because the voice of Maui, can also be again. In my assessment, I wrote that “the warm Polynesian spirit and open-sea sense of adventure is back in ‘Moana 2,’ but little of the original’s humor or catchy songs finds its way into this heartfelt but lackluster sequel.”
— Administrators Anthony and Joe Russo (“Avengers: Endgame”) are again on Netflix with their adaptation of Simon Stalenhag’s 2018 illustrated novel “The Electric State.” The Russos, who final launched 2022’s “The Gray Man” on the streaming service, deliver their big-budget flare to a retro-futuristic story populated by cartoon-like robots. Millie Bobby Brown stars as a youngster in the hunt for her long-lost brother, who travels the American southwest with Keats (Chris Pratt) and his robotic sidekick, Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie). (Learn AP’s assessment.)
– Payal Kapadia’s luminous “All We Imagine as Light” begins streaming on the Criterion Channel. The movie, one of the crucial acclaimed of 2024, is about three Mumbai hospital staff — performed by Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha and Chhaya Kadam — who’re every grappling with totally different constrictions in fashionable Mumbai. After they journey to a seaside city, “All We Imagine as Light” transforms right into a radiant, illusary creativeness of the lives they might have. In her assessment, AP Movie Author Lindsey Bahr wrote, “Like a dream, this is a film that washes over you.”
— AP Movie Author Jake Coyle
NEW MUSIC TO STREAM MARCH 10-16
— In 2022, the Ok-pop lady group LE SSERAFIM emerged fully-formed: An formidable Gen Z quintet whose hooks who helped usher in a brand new wave of such teams. It was their single “ANTIFRAGILE” that appeared to counsel a brand new sound was being popularized: They pulled from reggaetón filtered via Rosalía as a lot as they did the tentpoles of a lot Ok-pop: stacked melodies, R&B, hip-hop, EDM. On Friday, they launch a brand new EP, “HOT,” its title-track promising additional mixtures of “rock and disco elements, revolving around love,” their company Supply Music mentioned in a press release. It’s sufficient to get enthusiastic about.
— In February 1983, “Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party” aired simply as soon as on MTV — a long-lost documentary that doubles as Cameron Crowe’s true directorial debut. It follows Petty and his Heartbreakers round their 1982 “Long After Dark” album. The movie has been discovered and remastered and is now on Paramount+.
— AP Music Author Maria Sherman
NEW SHOWS TO STREAM MARCH 10-16
— In 2009, the world was launched to Nadya Suleman, a single mother of six who gave delivery to eight residing youngsters at one time by way of in vitro fertilization. The general public fascination into this lady dubbed Octomom shortly turned vicious and judgmental. Suleman had no job and relied on authorities help, so she was declared irresponsible and unfit to lift 14 youngsters. She did capitalize on the eye with a e book deal, tabloid offers and paid TV appearances however inside a couple of years she’d declared chapter, turned to pornography to earn cash and was accused of welfare fraud by the state of California. A brand new six-part sequence referred to as “Confessions of Octomom” seems again at that turbulent time and the way Suleman and her 14 youngsters made it via. It debuted Wednesday on Lifetime and streams on Hulu dwell.
— Comic John Mulaney launches a dwell weekly movie star speak present on Netflix referred to as “Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney.” It’s a follow-up to “John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA” a dwell nightly present throughout final yr’s Netflix is a Joke comedy pageant. Richard Form returns because the sidekick. At a press occasion earlier this yr to advertise Netflix’s 2025 programming, Maloney promised, “We will never be relevant. We will never be your source of news. We will always be reckless.” The present is streaming now.
— Amanda Seyfried, who gained an Emmy Award in 2022 for portraying former Silicon Valley It Lady, Elizabeth Holmes, stars in a brand new thriller sequence for Peacock. In “Long Bright River,” Seyfried performs Mickey, a Philadelphia patrol officer in a neighborhood tormented by rampant opioid habit. Mickey turns into decided to resolve a sequence of murders when her sister, who can also be an addict, goes lacking. It’s based mostly on a novel by Liz Moore. The eight-episode sequence launched Thursday.
— A special restricted sequence for Apple TV+ referred to as “Dope Thief” can also be set in Philadelphia in opposition to the world of medication. Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura star as two longtime pals who pose as DEA brokers and conduct pretend raids to take possession of different folks’s medication and cash. It’s a sequence of simple scores till the 2 males goal the flawed folks. “Dope Thief,” produced by Ridley Scott, begins streaming Friday.
— Alicia Rancilio
NEW VIDEO GAMES TO PLAY
— Video video games like to make you are feeling like a hero, however what occurs to warriors who fail? Alta, the protagonist of Wanderstop, takes a job managing a quiet tea store in a magical forest. That sounds just like the setup for a calming, “cozy” sport like Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley — however be warned, one in every of its creators is Davey Wreden, the mastermind behind 2013’s The Stanley Parable. That cult basic is without doubt one of the most devious brain-twisters ever, so who is aware of what Wreden and his colleagues at Ivy Highway have up their sleeves for his or her indie studio’s debut launch? Judging from the trailer, Alta could have extra on her thoughts than creating the proper cup. Discover out what’s brewing now on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S and PC.
— Lou Kesten
