The Oscars telecast hosted by Conan O’Brien and Kate Hudson taking part in a professional basketball workforce president in a brand new Netflix sequence referred to as “Running Point” are among the new tv, movies, music and video games headed to a tool close to you.
Also among the many streaming choices value your time as chosen by The Associated Press’ leisure journalists: RaMell Ross’ sensational “Nickel Boys,” the indie stunner “Ghostlight” and a not too long ago unearthed, never-before-released live performance album by Ella Fitzgerald.
— RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” (streaming Friday, Feb. 28 on MGM+) tailored from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, has been referred to as the perfect American movie of the yr. It’s up for 2 Oscars: greatest image and greatest tailored screenplay. The movie, about two younger males who’ve been despatched to an abusive, mid-century Florida reform faculty referred to as Nickel Academy. Ross movies it virtually completely from the primary particular person of these two boys, performed by Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson. In her assessment, AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr referred to as “Nickel Boys” “a lyrical, heartbreaking and haunting journey into the darkness of a brutal reform school in the Jim Crow South.”
— One of 2024’s small revelations was the indie stunner “Ghostlight” (Monday on Hulu). Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan’s movie stars Keith Kupferer as a grieving father, a development employee, who reluctantly joins a neighborhood theater manufacturing of “Romeo and Juliet.” A nominee at each the Spirit Awards and the Gotham Awards, “Ghostlight” is an uncommonly light, warm-hearted testomony to the therapeutic energy of theater.
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
— Lalisa Manobal — who performs underneath the primary identify moniker of “Lisa,” speaking Cher- and Prince-like ambition — is greatest referred to as a vocalist and lead rapper of Blackpink, the impossibly fashionable Okay-pop woman group. Her story begins at age 14, when she auditioned for the quartet in her native Thailand, and explodes from there. Now 27, and with a “White Lotus” performing credit score to her identify, a debut solo album is the following milestone. “Alter Ego,” out Friday, Feb. 28, demonstrates her chameleonic expertise: from her fierce circulate on “Rockstar” to the ethereal pop of “New Woman” that includes Rosalía and the transformative “Moonlit Floor (Kiss Me)” that interpolates Sixpence None the Richer’s 1998 hit “Kiss Me.”
— Ella Fitzgerald followers, rejoice. A not too long ago unearthed, never-before-released live performance album, “The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum,” arrives Friday. The LP, recorded on the Oakland Coliseum on June 30, 1967, consists of 9 tracks. Fitzgerald, her voice as highly effective as ever, is joined by The Duke Ellington Orchestra. Start with “Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love),” her cowl of the Cole Porter lower. Or begin wherever — simply begin.
— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman— The 97th Academy Awards shall be handed out on Sunday, March 2. This yr, the Spanish-language, French-made “Emilia Pérez,” leads with 13 nominations, together with greatest image, greatest actress for Karla Sofía Gascón and greatest supporting actress for Zoe Saldaña. The narco-musical may make historical past as Gascón is the primary transgender performer to be nominated for a greatest actress Oscar. The enthusiasm over Gascón has waned in latest weeks, nonetheless, attributable to problematic previous tweets. The musical “Wicked” and the postwar drama “The Brutalist” comply with with 10 nominations every. The Oscars will air on ABC and stream on Hulu.
— Kate Hudson performs the brand new president of a professional basketball workforce in Los Angeles in a brand new Netflix sequence referred to as “Running Point,” government produced by Mindy Kaling. Hudson’s character is predicated on LA Lakers president Jeanie Buss. The sports activities comedy debuts Feb. 27 on the streamer and likewise options Drew Tarver, Brenda Song, Chet Hanks, Jay Ellis and Max Greenfield.
— Alicia Rancilio
— What’s new in Monster Hunter Wilds, the most recent version of Capcom’s long-running franchise? More monsters to hunt, in fact. There’s Nu Udra, an enormous octopus that prowls the Oilwell Basin and has no qualms about setting the entire place on fireplace. There’s Rey Dau, a wyvern that may harness lightning and zap you out of your armor. There’s Uth Duna, a fishy leviathan that wields water as a weapon. They’re just some of the apex predators able to eat you for lunch — however on the plus aspect, you do get to satisfy the pleasant Seikret, an ostrich-like mount you’ll be able to trip round Wilds’ sprawling environments. The hunt begins Friday, Feb. 28, on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S and PC.
— Lou Kesten
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