Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Languages” returning for his sixth and last season and Viola Davis plays a US president in the action film “G20” is from the new television, films, music and games on their way to a device near you.
Also among the streaming offers worth your time, as selected by the Associated Press’s entertainment journalists: Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey reunited in the long-awaited second season of “The Last of US”, Cillian Murphy plays an Irish coal trader in the movie “Small Things Like This” and Spin-Doctors free.
New films to stream April 7-13
– Viola Davis as an action – star is generally worth seeing. While Davis is best known for more dramatic roles, she kicked in 2022’s “The Woman King” serious butt. In “G20” (Streaming Thursday on Prime Video) Davis plays an US president whose military background comes in handy when terrorists take over the group of the 20 summit.
-After his Oscar-winning performance in ‘Oppenheimer’, Cillian Murphy plays and delivers ‘Small Things Like This’, an adjustment of Claire Keegan’s Booker-nominated Novella. In the film (Streaming Tuesday at Hulu), Murphy plays an Irish coal trader and father of five daughters in 1985. Directed by Tim Mielants (who worked with Murphy on ‘Peaky blinders’) and with Emma Watson, ‘small things like this’, in the cruel traumas of Ireland’s Magdalene wash. A short story by Keegan also served as the source material for another little jewel, 2022’s “The Quiet Girl” (also flows on Hulu).
– In ‘Pets’, Bryce Dallas Howard gives a cozy documentary portrait to the relationship between people and animal communities. The film starts streaming Friday, April 11, on Disney+.
– AP -Film writer Jake Coyle
New music to stream April 7-13
– Nearly six years have passed since Bon Iver’s last album, ‘I, I’ was released, but it wasn’t the last we heard from him. His influence is everywhere in contemporary popular music; His world changed ours, from 2007’s debut album, ‘For Emma Forever’, recorded in his father’s hunting cabin, to all the Grammy nominations, tours and functions with stars from Bruce Springsteen to Taylor Swift. In October, he released the Indie People -Sable, which described AP’s Dave Campbell as a siren, and warned the listener of an intensity ahead. On Friday, that intensity arrives in the form of a new full-length album, “Sable, Fable.”
-On Friday Spin Doctors release their first new studio album in 12 years, “Face Full of Cake,” via Capitol Records. It’s been 33 years since their alt-rock, Grammy-nominated hit “Two Princes” the soundtrack in the 90s. Three decades later, their fresh spirit lasts.
– AP music writer Maria Sherman
New shows to stream April 7-13
-After a guard of more than two years, Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” is back for his sixth and final season on Tuesday. Elisabeth Moss returns as June, determined to save her daughter from the totalitarian, Theonomic Society of Gilead, who took over the United States. When “The Handmaid’s Tale” debuted in 2017, early in the first term of President Donald Trump, it was a chord with viewers, especially women, worried about their rights. The final season returns in the early days of Trump’s second term. Hulu also ordered a successor series, ‘The Testament’, 15 years later. Both shows are based on Margaret Atwood novels.
-Netflix’s Sci-Fi Anthology series “Black Mirror” returns Thursday for season 7. There are six new stories – including a successor to Season 4’s ‘USS Callister’, with Cristin Milioti reproducing her role. The new cast contains Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, Emma Corrin, Paul Giamatti, Issa Rae, Rashida Jones, Tracee Ellis Ross and Chris O’Dowd.
– A new reality competition – show on Hulu can help fill the void left by “the traitors”. ‘Got to get out’ is hosted by Marvel actor Simu Liu and contains significant reality TV stars such as Spencer Pratt, Omarosa, Val Chkkwovskiy and Kim Zolciak beer mann who have to face everyday people. They must live together in a closed home for ten days for the chance to win $ 1 million. The participants must devise plans to sneak into challenges without being trapped. “Got to get out” premiere Friday, April 11.
– Do you remember Jon Hamm’s ad for Apple TV+ where he mourns that he was the only Hollywood actor who was not rented by the Streamer? A role on “The Morning Show” changed that for him. Now Hamm is played in his own Apple show called “Your Friends & Neighbours”, which lies ahead on Friday, April 11. He plays Coop, a divorced man with an off-and-off man who loses his hedge fund. To keep up with the Joneses, not to mention his interview and child interview, he starts stealing some of his wealthy neighbors if they are not at home. The show, which has already been renewed for season 2, also plays Amanda Peet and Olivia Munn.
-Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey reunited in the long -awaited second season of “The Last of US.” The series is based on video games with the same name over a fungal infection that transforms the infected zombies. Season 2 takes five years after the events of the first, with the new cast Dever. Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Wright and Isabela Merced will also appear. “The Last of US” Season 2 is Sunday, April 13.
– Alicia Rancilio
New video games to play
– The deep south has so much strange folklore that it must be a wonderful environment for an ominous video game. Leave it to our friends in the North – Canadian studio -play – to deliver south of midnight. After a hurricane blows through a small town called Prospero, a young woman named Hazel gets some magical skills. She will need them to fight back against the witches, hints and big assists that get wild over the swamp. The supernatural creatures here, including a friendly giant catfish with a Cajun accent, have a distinctive stop-motion look, which casts a ghostly game around Hazel’s journey. You can dig on Xbox X/S and PC in this Gumbo on Tuesday, April 8.
– Speaking of ominous institutions, which were not intrigued by the classical mysterious mansion? Blue Prince, from designer Tonda Ros in Los Angeles, invites you to explore such a home-and every time you open a door, you have a choice about which room is behind it. The house is filled with puzzles, some of which require clues and objects from various places. And at the end of the day, the mansion sets itself back, so that the rooms will be in different places the next morning. It all feels like a big escape room, and you can move on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S and PC in Thursday, April 10.
– Lou Chestnut
