Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan team up again as the body-swapping mother-daughter duo in “Freakier Friday” and albums from 5 Seconds of Summer and rapper NF are some of the new TV, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.
Also among the streaming deals worth checking out this week, selected by Associated Press entertainment reporters: Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys team up for new limited series thriller “The Beast in Me,” gamers get Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Apple TV star “Palm Royale” returns.
— Richard Linklater’s love letter to the French New Wave and Jean-Luc Godard’s directorial debut “À bout de souffle,” “New Wave,” will be streamed on Netflix on Friday, November 14. In his review, Associated Press screenwriter Jake Coyle writes that “To a remarkable degree, Linklater’s film, in French and framed in the Academy format, in the black-and-white style of Breathless, fully imbued itself with this spirit, resurrecting one of cinema’s most hallowed eras to capture an iconoclast in the making.” The result is something infinitely elegant and almost absurdly strange.
— Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan team up again as a body-swapping mother-daughter duo in “Freakier Friday,” a sequel to their 2003 film, premiering Wednesday on Disney+. In her review, Jocelyn Noveck writes: “The main weakness of ‘Freakier Friday’ – an amiable, often joyful and certainly chaotic reunion – is that while it hews too close to the structure, storyline and even dialogue of the original, it tries too hard to up the ante. So the comedy is a little more manic and the plot machinations more over-the-top (or sometimes stupid).”
— Ari Aster’s latest nightmare, “Eddington,” is set in a fictional small town in New Mexico during the coronavirus pandemic, which becomes a sort of microcosm for our polarized society at large with Joaquin Phoenix as sheriff and Pedro Pascal as mayor. In my review, I wrote that “it’s an anti-escapism symphony of mask debates, conspiracy theories, YouTube prophets, TikTok trends and third-rail topics in which no side is spared.”
— A diagnosis of incurable cancer may not be the most obvious starting point for a funny, affirming film, but that’s the magic of Ryan White’s documentary “Come See Me in the Good Light,” about two poets, Andrea Gibson, who died in July, and Megan Falley, facing a difficult reality together. It will be on Apple TV on Friday, November 14.
—Lindsey Bahr, AP writer
— There’s nothing worse than a band with no sense of humor. Luckily, 5 Seconds of Summer is in on the joke. Their sixth studio album, “Everyone’s a Star!”, sounds like the Australian pop-rock band is having The Prodigy-esq fun again. “Not OK” to the self-referential and self-effacing “Boy Band.” Directness is their provocation now, and it sounds good – especially after the group has spent the last few years exploring solo projects.
-The R&B and neo soul powerhouse Summer Walker returns with her third studio album and first in four years. “Finally Over It,” released Friday, November 14, is the final chapter in his “Over It” trilogy; an exit focused on transformation and autonomy. This is evident in the dreamlike single “Heart of A Woman”, in which the song’s protagonist is disappointed in her partner – but with a striking self-awareness. “I’m in love with you but I can’t stand your habits,” she sings. “And I try to be strong/But how much can I take?”
— Consider him one of the greatest artists on the planet that you may not know about. NF, Nate Feuerstein’s musical moniker, emerged from the Christian rap world as a modern answer to Eminem and went on to top the Billboard 200 all-genre mainstream chart twice, with “Perception” in 2017 and “The Search” in 2019. On Friday, November 14, he will release “Fear,” a new six-track EP featuring mgk (formerly Machine Gun Kelly) and English singer James Arthur.
— Maria Sherman, AP music editor
— Apple TV’s popular “Palm Royale” is back just in time for a new social season. Starring Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern, Allison Janney, Leslie Bibb, Kaia Gerber, Ricky Martin AND Carol Burnett, the show is campy, colorful and fun, and it features great costumes. Wiig plays Maxine, a woman desperate to be accepted into the high society of Palm Beach, Florida in the late 1960s. The first episode will air on Wednesday and the second will follow weekly through January.
— “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” cast member Heather Gay wrote a book called “Bad Mormon” about how she went from being a devout Mormon to leaving the church. Next, she’s introducing a new documentary series that also delves into this topic, called “Surviving Mormonism with Heather Gay.” The reality star also speaks to others who have left religion. All three episodes release Wednesday on Peacock.
— Thanks to “Homeland” and “The Americans,” Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys helped bring prestige to the term prestige television. They’re gracing the screen together in a new limited series for Netflix called “The Beast in Me.” Danes plays a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who finds a new subject in her next-door neighbor, a real estate mogul who may or may not also have killed his first wife. Howard Gordon, who worked with Danes on “Homeland,” is also the showrunner and executive producer of “The Beast in Me.” It will be presented on Thursday.
— David Duchovny and Jack Whitehall star in a new thriller on Prime Video called “Malice.” Duchovny plays Jamie, a wealthy man vacationing with his family in Greece. He hires a tutor (played by Whitehall) named Adam to work with the children who seem friendly and kind and they invite him into their world. Soon it becomes clear that Adam’s charm is actually frightening. Something is happening. As these stories go, getting rid of an intruder is never easy. All six episodes will be released on Friday, November 14.
— “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” returns to Fox Nation on Sunday, November 16 for a second season. The first details the story of Saint Patrick. The show is a passion project for Scorsese who produces, hosts and narrates the episodes.
— Billy Bob Thornton found oil in the second season of “Landman” on Paramount+. Created by Taylor Sheridan, the show is set in modern-day Texas, in the world of Big Oil. Sam Elliott and Andy Garcia have joined the cast and Demi Moore is also returning. The show returns on Sunday, November 16.
— The Call of Duty team behind the Black Ops subseries delivered a chapter last year — but they’re already back with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. The new installment of the best-selling first-person shooter franchise moves to 2035 and a world “on the brink of chaos.” (What else is new?) Publisher Activision promises a “shattering” experience that delves “into the deepest recesses of the human psyche.” Beyond this storyline, there are also 16 multiplayer maps and the ever-popular Zombie Mode, where you and your friends can take on relentless hordes of the undead. Lock and load Friday, November 14 on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, or PC.
— Lumines Arise is the latest journey from Enhance Games, the studio behind puzzlers like Tetris Effect, Rez Infinite, and Humanity. The basic challenge is quite simple: 2×2 multi-colored blocks drift across the screen and you must arrange them to form single-colored squares. Completed squares disappear unless you apply the “burst” mechanic, which allows you to build ever larger squares and accumulate larger scores. It’s all accompanied by mind-blowing graphics and thumping electronic music, and you can plug in a virtual reality headset if you really want to feel like you’re at a rave. Get back into the groove Tuesday on PlayStation 5 or PC.
