The long-awaited second season of “Squid Game” on Netflix and singing famous person Andrea Bocelli’s Christmas TV particular are a number of the new tv, movies and music headed to a tool close to you.
Also among the many streaming choices price your time as chosen by The Associated Press’ leisure journalists: the British coming-of-age story “Bird” from British filmmaker Andrea Arnold and Mariah Carey’s Christmas particular forward of the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers recreation.
— British filmmaker Andrea Arnold (“Fish Tank”) made maybe her most divisive film but with “Bird,” a coming-of-age story a couple of 12-year-old named Bailey (Nykiya Adams) that come to MUBI on Monday. Her life in Kent is way from simple, rising up with mother and father who aren’t removed from childhood themselves, together with a tattoo coated dad named Bug (Barry Keoghan). But then sooner or later she meets a stranger named Bird (Franz Rogowski) and issues take a fantastical flip. In his evaluate for the Associated Press, movie author Jake Coyle wrote that, “A resolutely realistic filmmaker turning to magical realism has the uncomfortable effect of making the whole movie, not just the Rogowski bits, feel inauthentic. Instead of being ‘too real for ya,’ ‘Bird,’ with its in-your-face poverty and narrative extremes, never feels particularly real at all.” MUBI additionally has Arnold’s “Fish Tank” and “Wasp” accessible for streaming too.
— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr
— Nothing says “happy holidays” fairly like tuning right into a festive music particular. On Christmas Eve, the Recording Academy and famous person Andrea Bocelli will group up for “Christmas with Andrea Bocelli and Friends: A Grammy Holiday Special,” airing dwell and on-demand on Paramount+ at 8 p.m. ET. Bocelli shall be joined by his household, his spouse Veronica and daughter Virginia Bocelli, in addition to Jennifer Hudson, Dua Lipa, Sofia Carson and Josh Groban for a memorable night time of merry performances.
— It’s laborious to make the entire household joyful on Christmas, particularly when another person controls the distant. But this Wednesday, there’s one thing for everybody with a Netflix subscription to take pleasure in: Mariah Carey will kick off the NFL Christmas Gameday with a pre-recorded efficiency of her smash “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” airing forward of the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers recreation at 1 p.m. ET, and once more at 4:30 p.m. ET, when the Baltimore Ravens tackle the Houston Texans. Music followers could be sensible to remain tuned in for the latter match-up: Beyoncé will take the stage at halftime. Who stated sport followers and pop heads couldn’t get alongside?
— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman—The long-awaited second season of “Squid Game” begins Thursday on Netflix. Lee Jung-jae returns to steer the seven-episode season, which is already nominated for greatest drama sequence on the 2025 Golden Globe Awards. The present follows a recreation the place contestants who’re down on their luck and in debt are recruited to compete for a money prize, solely to search out out it has lethal penalties. Hwang Dong-hyuk, who created the sequence and wrote and directed season one, additionally wrote and directed season two. A 3rd and ultimate season has already accomplished filming.
— Alicia Rancilio
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