New Orleans legend Massive Freedia returning with a brand new gospel album and the appearing trio of Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson and Keke Palmer teaming up for the armored truck motion comedy “The Pickup” are a number of the new tv, movies, music and video games headed to a tool close to you.
Additionally among the many streaming choices value your time, as chosen by The Related Press’ leisure journalists: The animated “King of the Hill” returns after a 15-year pause, the primary half of season two of “Wednesday” lands on Netflix appropriately on Wednesday and the “Welcome to Wrexham” spinoff “NECAXA” premieres with Eva Longoria.
New films to stream from Aug. 4-10
— Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson are armored truck drivers coerced right into a heist within the motion comedy “The Pickup.” Keke Palmer performs the felony mastermind who disrupts their routine drive. Eva Longoria, Andrew Cube Clay and Marshawn Lynch co-star within the film, which made headlines throughout its Atlanta manufacturing after a number of crew members had been injured in a collision throughout the shoot. It streams on Prime Video on Wednesday.
— Filmmaker Osgood Perkins’ newest horror “The Monkey” will probably be streaming on Hulu beginning Thursday. The follow-up to his breakout hit “Longlegs” was impressed by a 1980 Stephen King story. Theo James performs twin brothers whose lives flip to chaos when a demonic toy monkey stars causes deaths round them. In her assessment for The Related Press, Jocelyn Noveck wrote that it felt “uneven.” She added that, “surely there will be an audience for the creatively rendered gore. The rest of us may feel left with a witty, visually arresting, highly inventive quasi-mess on our hands.”
— In the event you haven’t had sufficient Pedro Pascal this 12 months, he’s a key a part of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s “Freaky Tales,” streaming on HBO Max on Friday. The anthology motion comedy follows 4 interconnected tales in Oakland, California, in 1987. Earlier than the movie’s Sundance debut in 2024, Boden instructed the AP that “It’s a movie lover’s movie … It has one foot in reality and then one foot just launches off into fantasy.”
— AP Movie Author Lindsey Bahr
New music to stream from Aug. 4-10
— New Orleans legend Massive Freedia, the queen of bounce music (and a notable Beyoncé collaborator, lest anybody overlook the zeitgeist-shifting “Renaissance” ), is again with a brand new album. However “Pressing Onward” is new territory for the artist. It’s her first gospel album and it nonetheless manages to induce as a lot booty-shaking as ever earlier than. The distinction this time is that her vibrant sonic celebrations are all about religion. Begin with “Holy Shuffle” that includes Billy Porter or “Sunday Best” with Tamar Braxton. It’s good for the soul.
— For a number of years now, one of the crucial thrilling names in heavy rock music has been BABYMETAL, Japanese kawaii metallic trio that marries pop idol tradition with chugging riffs, full-throated vocals, blast beats and bilingual lyricism. They’ve impressed fanfare throughout the globe, and on Friday, they’ll launch their fifth studio album, “METAL FORTH.” It options visitor spots from Poppy, Spiritbox and Rage Towards the Machine’s Tom Morello. Clearly, it’s not for the faint of coronary heart.
— AP Music Author Maria Sherman
New sequence to stream from Aug. 4-10
— Would you consider it’s been 15 years since “King of the Hill” went off the air? The animated comedy returns Monday with a brand new 14th season on its new residence, Hulu. All 10-episodes drop directly for bingeing. The present picks up give or take 10 years after the occasions of season 13. Hank and Peggy are each retired after getting back from Saudi Arabia, the place Hank had been working. Their children are actually grown. Adjusting to life as retirees and within the present political local weather in America presents challenges for the couple.
— One other lengthy wait involves an finish Wednesday when the primary half of season two of “Wednesday” premieres on Netflix. The present follows teen Wednesday Addams (performed by Jenna Ortega) as she research at a boarding faculty known as Nevermore Academy. Ortega’s deliciously deadpan supply earned her an Emmy Award nomination for her work on Season 1. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán play Wednesday’s mother and father, Morticia and Gomez.
— Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne proved that sure, women and men might be simply pals within the first season of their Apple TV+ comedy known as “Platonic. ” The codependent buddies, Will and Sylvia are again with a brand new season on Wednesday. We meet them once more and Will is engaged to his boss — who would not like Sylvia. And Sylvia is planning their marriage ceremony. Will is struggling to open his bar and Sylvia’s event-planning enterprise has but to take off.
— Greater than two years in the past, AMC Networks pulled the plug on its sci-fi comedy “Demascus ” as a cost-cutting measure though manufacturing was already accomplished. Tubi has rescued the present, starring Okieriete Onaodowan, and it premieres Thursday. It is a couple of man who begins utilizing an experimental expertise that permits him to expertise completely different timelines of his life.
— The “Outlander” prequel “Outlander: Blood of my Blood” debuts on Starz on Friday. It is in regards to the mother and father of Claire and Jamie from “Outlander.” Not like its predecessor, “Blood of my Blood” doesn’t have supply materials by writer Diana Gabaldon however its showrunner Matthew B. Roberts additionally works on “Outlander” and may be very acquainted with the lore. The solid is already filming a second season. It streams on the Starz App or by means of platforms like Hulu and Prime Video.
— The “Welcome to Wrexham” spinoff “NECAXA ” premieres Thursday on FX on Hulu. After their success proudly owning the Welsh soccer staff Wrexham AFC, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney be part of Eva Longoria and purchase a stake in a Mexican membership, NECAXA, “It’s more than winning games. We’re gonna win hearts. We’re gonna inspire pride. We’re gonna empower the team,” Longoria says within the trailer.
— Alicia Rancilio
New video video games to play from Aug. 4-10
— The Mafia sequence from 2K Video games has moved from Thirties Chicago to Nineteen Forties New York to Sixties New Orleans, however now it’s going again in time and area. Mafia: The Outdated Nation goals to ship an origin story of types, touring to 1900s Sicily. Enzo Favara is a younger man who’s suffered a tough childhood, and he’s hoping to enhance his standing by working for the Torrisi crime household. Meaning pulling off heists, punching out rivals and killing anybody who may threaten the Don. The vehicles could also be slower and the weapons will not be as slick, however in the event you’re bummed out about having to attend for the subsequent Grand Theft Auto, you may wish to spend a while with the unique gangsters. It arrives Friday, on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S and PC.
— Lou Kesten
