Documentaries on comic John Sweet and pop artist-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham in addition to a “Family Guy” Halloween particular are among the new tv, movies, music and video games headed to a tool close to you.
Additionally among the many streaming choices price your time this week, as chosen by The Related Press’ leisure journalists: Keira Knightley stars as a journalist in “The Woman in Cabin 10,” Digital Arts is able to get again within the combat with the sport Battlefield 6 and hip-hop group Mobb Deep will launch “Infinite,” their ninth and last album.
New films to stream from Oct. 6-12
— Greater than 30 years after his loss of life at age 43, John Sweet is perhaps much more beloved than he was throughout his all-to-short profession. “John Candy: I Like Me” (Friday on Prime Video), a documentary directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds, is a sort of eulogy and tribute to the actor of “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” “Uncle Buck” and “Stripes.” The movie, made with the cooperation of the Sweet household, consists of many well-known faces, from Invoice Murray to Mel Brooks.
– In “The Woman in Cabin 10” (Friday on Netflix), Keira Knightley stars as a journalist aboard a luxurious yacht for an project. In the course of the night time, she sees a girl go overboard, however the ship has no file of her, and nobody believes her. Simon Stone, who directed 2021’s underrated “The Dig,” directs this thriller, primarily based on Ruth Ware’s bestselling novel.
— It being October, nearly all the pieces streaming service has by now trotted out their greatest horror choices. By why fiddle when you possibly can go to the supply? Or, at the least, one of many richest B-movie legacies of synths and scares? In Directed by John Carpenter, the Criterion Channel gathers among the filmmaker’s most vivid nightmares, together with “The Fog,” “Escape Form New York” and “They Live.”
— AP Movie Author Jake Coyle
New music to stream from Oct. 6-12
— Mobb Deep hath returned. On Friday, the hardcore New York hip-hop duo will launch “Infinite,” their ninth and last album and first for the reason that loss of life of Prodigy in 2017. It options P’s distinctive movement on just a few posthumous tracks, produced by his different half Havoc and their frequent musical collaborator, the Alchemist. It’s clearly a labor of affection.
— Indie followers would possibly bear in mind the upcoming and coming folk-rocker Avery Tucker from his earlier mission, the primitive punk duo Girlpool. His debut album, “Paw,” out Friday, couldn’t be farther from that materials — however each lead with the center. Begin with “Big Drops,” “Like I’m Young,” “Malibu,” and the ascendant nearer “My Life Isn’t Leaving You.” The album was co-produced by A. G. Prepare dinner, the hyperpop virtuoso greatest recognized to many as one in every of Charli XCX’s “Brat” collaborators. This isn’t a launch for the membership, nevertheless it one which grows and grows extra bodily with every hear.
— It has been six years since Jay Som, the mission of multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Melina Duterte, launched a brand new album. On Friday, the wait is over. “Belong” is an growth of her as soon as nascent abilities, a rush of electro-synths, punk-pop and different variously nostalgic indie genres, introduced in a brand new method. Maybe it has a bit one thing to do with how Duterte has spent the previous couple of years: rating up manufacturing credit on a variety of beloved albums, together with the Grammy-winning boygenius’ “The Record” and Lucy Dacus’ “Forever Is A Feeling.”
— AP Music Author Maria Sherman
New collection to stream from Oct. 6-12
— It is spooky season and “Family Guy” has a brand new Halloween particular debuted Monday on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+. The episode, titled “A Little Fright Music,” options Brian and Stewie’s try to jot down a success Halloween track and Peter studying concerning the risks of mendacity about trick-or-treating.
— David Beckham’s 2023 Netflix docuseries was each an Emmy Award winner and web fodder due to a scene the place he repeatedly advised his spouse Victoria to “be honest” about her household’s financial standing as a baby. It is solely becoming that the filmmakers turned their sights on her subsequent and she or he agreed. “Victoria Beckham” is a three-part docuseries launching Thursday on Netflix. Viewers will see the previous pop star-turned-fashion designer share her story — and it is TBD whether or not David weighs in.
— With reference to Emmys, Kathy Bates didn’t win this 12 months for greatest actress in a drama collection as predicted for her work on “Matlock.” The award as an alternative went to Britt Decrease for “Severance.” You may nonetheless watch the efficiency that acquired Bates nominated although when the present begins streaming its second season Friday on Paramount+. A 3rd season of “Elsbeth” may also start streaming then, too.
— Tubi debuts one other docuseries Friday that additionally follows a celeb however this one’s on the come-up. “Always, Lady London” options the rising rapper, Girl London, as she data her first album and will get able to go on tour.
— Alicia Rancilio
New video video games to play from Oct. 6-12
— In relation to video-game warfare, there are two superpowers: Name of Obligation and Battlefield. The latter hit a tough patch with its final main installment, 2021’s Battlefield 2042, however Digital Arts is able to get again within the combat with Battlefield 6. You might be a part of an elite Marine squad attempting to cease a personal navy company in a single-player marketing campaign that bounces across the globe. There’s loads of gut-wrenching infantry fight, however you additionally get to drive tanks and fly helicopters and fighter jets. And there would be the ordinary assortment of multiplayer mayhem, together with the brand new Escalation mode, wherein the territory shrinks each time a workforce captures a management level. Take up arms Friday, on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S and PC.
— Bandai Namco’s Little Nightmares video games specialize within the sort of issues that terrified if you have been a child, presenting them in a dark but vivid world harking back to Tim Burton’s stop-motion animation. Little Nightmares III guarantees extra of the identical, with one main addition: Now you can confront your night time terrors with a pal in co-op play. One in every of you will get a bow and arrow, whereas the opposite makes use of a wrench to sort things or clobber enemies. Britain’s Supermassive Video games, the studio that has taken over the collection, is understood for horror gems like Till Daybreak and The Quarry, so don’t count on nice desires. The haunting begins Friday on PlayStation 5/4, Xbox X/S/One, Change and PC.
— Lou Kesten
