Taylor Swift鈥檚 鈥�1989 (Taylor鈥檚 Version),鈥� a Paramount+ documentary on the duo Milli Vanilli examining one of music鈥檚 biggest lip-syncing scandals and the horror movie 鈥淔ive Nights at Freddy鈥檚鈥� are some of the new television, movies, music and games near you
Among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press鈥� are Julian Fellowes鈥� 鈥淭he Gilded Age鈥� back for a second season on HBO and Hollywood鈥檚 latest attempt to delve into the opioid crisis with the glossy 鈥淧ain Hustlers,鈥� starring Emily Blunt, Chris Evans and Andy Garcia.
NEW MOVIES TO STREAM
鈥� Hollywood鈥檚 latest attempt to delve into the opioid crisis is the glossy, starry starring Emily Blunt, Chris Evans and Andy Garcia. Based on a New York Times Magazine article (which then became a book) by Evan Hughes, 鈥淧ain Hustlers,鈥� on Netflix now, centers on a pharmaceutical startup, Insys Therapeutics, which engaged in criminal activities like bribery and kickbacks and misleading insurers to push their addictive oral fentanyl spray called Subsys. Blunt plays a high school dropout who gets a job at the company, run by Garcia, where she excels. Directed by David Yates, 鈥淧ain Hustlers鈥� was not generally well received by critics at its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, but Alyssa Wilkinson wrote for Vox that, though predictable, 鈥溾�橮ain Hustlers鈥� manages to be lively and moving.鈥�
鈥� The video game series 鈥淔ive Nights at Freddy鈥檚鈥� is now a movie, available both in theaters and on Peacock on Friday. The horror pic, from Blumhouse Productions, follows a security guard (played by 鈥淭he Hunger Games鈥欌�� Josh Hutcherson) who accepts a job at an old family entertainment center, Freddy Fazbear鈥檚 Pizza, where the animatronic mascots are mobile and murderous after midnight. ( .)
鈥� Filmmaker Paul Schrader rounds out his unofficial Man in a Room trilogy (鈥淔irst Reformed,鈥� 鈥淭he Card Counter鈥�) with on Hulu. Joel Edgerton plays a horticulturist named Narvel who works on the large estate of a wealthy dowager (Sigourney Weaver鈥檚 Norma). Narvel harbors some secrets under his gardening jumpsuits, though, including tattoos and a past with a body count. that its ideas are many and perhaps not terribly coherent, but there are pleasures in the enjoyable performances from Edgerton, Weaver and Quintessa Swindell.
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NEW MUSIC TO STREAM
鈥� It was the album that fully cemented her move away from country-pop to mainstream pop superstardom. has dropped the fourth of the six albums she plans to rerecord, The Taylor鈥檚 Version albums, instigated by music manager Scooter Braun鈥檚 sale of her early catalog, represent Swift鈥檚 effort to control her own songs and how they鈥檙e used. Like the others in the series, 鈥淔rom the Vault鈥� tracks written around the time of the 2014 album鈥檚 initial release, as well as the fan-favorite 鈥淣ew Romantics,鈥� originally released as a Target exclusive.
鈥� Also on Friday: and Columbia Records will release 鈥淓VERGREENS: Celebrating Six Decades on Columbia Records鈥� and 鈥淵ENTL: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition,鈥� arriving a few days before the publication date of her highly anticipated memoir, Unreleased tracks abound. Welcome to Streisand season.
鈥� In preparation for his latest studio album, 鈥淎ction Adventure,鈥� DJ Shadow took crate digging to the next level: he bought 200 tapes on eBay, a collection that was recorded off the radio from a mix station in the Baltimore/D.C. area in the 1980s, and dove through his vinyl record collection for new music. (That latter is 60,000 records deep, so discovery at home is easy.) If that doesn鈥檛 speak to the producer鈥檚 dedication to evolving his craft, what could?
鈥� A on the German-French R&B duo Milli Vanilli (appropriately titled, 鈥淢illi Vanilli,鈥�) examines one of music鈥檚 biggest lip-syncing scandals 鈥� and suggests Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan鈥檚 music producers were pulling the strings and knew more than they let on at the time.
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NEW SERIES TO STREAM
鈥� Apple TV+ has a new family friendly animated series from Dreamworks called When a centuries-old family curse turns Alex Vanderhouven to stone, his wife, Sky, and their two kids Pandora and Russ team up to save him, break the spell, and return stolen artifacts to their owners. John Krasinski is an executive producer. Voice actors include Reid Scott (鈥淰eep鈥�, 鈥淭he Marvelous Mrs. Maisel鈥�), Rhea Perlman (鈥淐heers鈥�), Phylicia Rashad (鈥淭he Cosby Show鈥�) and Robert Englund ("A Nightmare on Elm Street鈥�). 鈥淐URSES!鈥� debuted Friday.
鈥� Matt Bomer (鈥淲hite Collar鈥�) and Jonathan Bailey (鈥淏ridgerton鈥�) co-star as two men who meet and fall in love during the 1950s McCarthy-era. Their love story stretches across the cultural and political milestones in U.S. history including the Vietnam War protests, the age of disco, drug use and nightclubs of the 1970s, and into the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. The story is based on a novel by Thomas Mallon. debuts Friday on Paramount+ and on Showtime on Sunday.
鈥� Julian Fellowes鈥� is back for a second season on HBO. The show features a large ensemble cast including Carrie Coon, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Morgan Spector and Taissa Farmiga and takes place in New York during the industrialization period in the late 1800s. This time of extreme wealth and also extreme poverty became known as The Gilded Age, though is often more remembered for its extravagance. The Carnegies, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and Morgans are prominent last names from this time period that still have relevance today. 鈥淭he Gilded Age鈥� series follows two wealthy families, one with inherited wealth and the other with new money, along with their domestic workers. Season two debuts Sunday on HBO and will stream on MAX.
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NEW VIDEO GAMES TO PLAY
鈥� In 2010, bestselling writer Alan Wake went on vacation in the Pacific Northwest and never came back. Turns out he鈥檚 been trapped all these years in 鈥渢he Dark Place,鈥� trying to maintain his sanity and write his way out of the nightmare. Enter Saga Anderson, an FBI agent investigating a series of ritual murders that she thinks might be connected to the missing novelist. That鈥檚 the setup for , Remedy Entertainment鈥檚 long-awaited sequel to a game that鈥檚 become a cult favorite. If you were rattled by the David Lynch-meets-Stephen King vibe of the original, Remedy is promising to lean even further into the creepiness. The horror returns Friday on PlayStation 5/4, Xbox X/S and PC.
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