“Only Murders in the Building” returning for its fifth season and Ed Sheeran coming again with the brand new pop album “Play” are a number of 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: The Netflix two-part documentary “AKA Charlie Sheen” chronicles the 60-year-old star’s up-and-down profession, Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke star in a psychological thriller for Prime Video referred to as “The Girlfriend” and R&B large Ty Dolla $ign gives his first full-length album in half a decade.
— The Netflix two-part documentary “AKA Charlie Sheen” chronicles the 60-year-old star’s up-and-down profession, from “Wall Street” to “winning.” The movie, debuting Wednesday on the streaming service, options candid interviews with Sheen, together with many associates and co-stars. Andrew Renzi (“Pepsi, Where’s My Jet?”) directs.
— Clouds of IED smoke and cries of agony fill Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s harrowing movie, “Warfare” (HBO Max on Friday, Sept. 12) with little however the faces of its Navy SEALs to floor the practically real-time, based-on-a-true-story dramatization. The film successfully embeds viewers on a seemingly minor mission in Iraq in 2006. In my overview, I wrote: “War-movie cliches have been rigorously rooted out of ‘Warfare,’ a terse and chillingly brutal immersion in a moment of the Iraq War.”
— Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet” (Monday on Paramount+) joyfully remakes and updates Ang Lee’s 1993 queer landmark movie. Ahn’s film, starring Kelly Marie Tran, Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang and Han Gi-chan, rebuilds Lee’s queer comedy of errors for a brand new technology. In her overview, AP’s Lindsey Bahr praised the supporting performances by Youn Yuh-jung and Joan Chen, however wished the movie expressed extra enjoyable: “There’s a through-line about found families, but I’m not totally convinced that these people are great for each other.”
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
— Ed Sheeran returns with a brand new album on Friday, Sept. 12, his eighth. titled “Play.” The launch detours away from the acoustic introspection of his final launch, 2023’s “Autumn Variations,” and as a substitute gives a form of reserved pop music. “Azizam,” a Farsi phrase which interprets to one thing approximating “my dear one,” is a cultural crossover hit; “A Little More” has a much-needed groove. It’s clear Sheeran is in it for a very good time – and his loyal listeners will observe swimsuit.
— Little has been made obvious in regards to the extremely anticipated, fourth studio album from R&B large Ty Dolla $ign. Here’s what we do know: It’s his first full-length in half a decade, it arrives Friday, Sept. 12, and the lead single, the infatuated “ALL IN,” contains an impressed pattern of Wayne Wonder’s “No Letting Go.” It is likely to be the tip of summer time, however that track is proof that Ty is bringing the warmth.
— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman
— “Only Murders in the Building” returns for its fifth season Tuesday on Hulu. The newbie sleuths Charles (Steve Martin), Mabel (Selena Gomez), and Oliver (Martin Short) start the brand new episodes making an attempt to determine who murdered the doorman of their constructing.
— Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke star in a brand new psychological thriller for Prime Video referred to as “The Girlfriend.” Wright performs Laura, a really, very protecting mom of her grown man son, Danny. Her inner alarm goes off when she meets Danny’s new girlfriend Cherry, performed by Cooke. Cherry is a street-wise realtor who doesn’t meet Laura’s requirements for her son. Make no mistake, each girls are unhinged. Each episode exhibits Laura and Cherry’s perspective, which is enjoyable. It premieres Wednesday.
— Alicia Rancilio
— Last yr’s “Borderlands” film bombed, however you possibly can’t preserve a well-liked franchise down. So Gearbox Software and 2K Games have returned with Borderlands 4, bringing its brash model of comedian violence again to the place it belongs: your recreation console. It’s the apotheosis of the so-called “looter-shooter,” by which you shoot quite a lot of enemies and acquire quite a lot of loot. In this chapter, you’ve landed on a jail planet dominated by a tyrant generally known as the Timekeeper. You should resolve which insurgent faction to hitch in addition to which of the Timekeeper’s lieutenants you need to take down first. You can play solo or be a part of forces with as much as three different Vault Hunters. Fight the facility starting Friday, Sept. 12, on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S or PC.
— Lou Kesten
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