The live-action remake of the animated movie “How to Train Your Dragon” and a two-part, five-hour documentary on Billy Joel are a few 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 long-delayed third album from rapper Roddy Ricch, “The Summer I Turned Pretty” returns for its third and remaining season and two arcade favorites — Donkey Kong and Pac-Man — get reinvented for players.
New films to stream from July 14-20
— Film theaters are crowded sufficient this summer season that one current box-office hit is already coming to houses. Common Photos’ “How to Train Your Dragon” hits premium video on demand on Tuesday, simply 31 days after it debuted in cinemas. The live-action remake of the DreamWorks Animation dragon story has surpassed $500 million in international ticket gross sales. In her assessment, AP Movie Author Lindsey Bahr raved: “Unlike so many live-action remakes of animated films, it also doesn’t feel superfluous, or, worse, like a poor imitation of its predecessor.”
— Billy Joel not too long ago canceled his summer season tour after being recognized with a mind dysfunction. However “Piano Man” followers can nonetheless get their Joel repair in “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” a two-part, five-hour documentary. The primary half will arrive on HBO and HBO Max on Friday, July 18, with the second half following on July 25. Administrators Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin cowl Joel’s life and profession, with interviews with Joel, his household, his ex-wives and musicians together with Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney.
— Petra Costa’s “Apocalypse in the Tropics” (Netflix, Monday) paperwork the rise of the far proper in Brazil. Costa’s follow-up to her Oscar-nominated “The Edge of Democracy” digs into the position of the evangelical motion in bringing former president Jair Bolsonaro to energy. Bolsonaro is at the moment standing trial for an alleged coup try in 2023, a trial that U.S. President Donald Trump has known as a “witch hunt.”
— AP Movie Author Jake Coyle
New music to stream from July 14-20
— Delayed from February, rapper Roddy Ricch returns together with his third album on Friday, July 18, “The Navy Album.” The Compton rapper, who appeared on Kendrick Lamar’s “GNX,” has put out just a few singles from the brand new assortment, together with “Survivor’s Remorse” and “Lonely Road.” The latter options Terrace Martin and was launched with a video of him cruising via town seeing angels and the lyrics: “Roddy rap like the rent due/Roddy tell ’em the whole truth.”
— Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” has been all over the place in 2025; it’s an enormous, inoffensive ballad with loosely non secular themes, meticulously designed to the pull at heartstrings. And it succeeds, due partly to the truth that Warren sings in a faux-British accent. On Friday, July 18, he’ll launch his debut full-length on Atlantic Data, “You’ll Be Alright, Kid.” Count on much more soul and get the tissues prepared.
— Contemporary off a scorching new observe for the summer season blockbuster “F1” soundtrack, Puerto Rican rapper and singer Myke Towers will launch a brand new album, “ISLAND BOYZ,” on Friday, July 18. It’s simply what the center needs throughout these scorching months — really feel good reggaeton, city pop and Latin entice.
— AP Music Author Maria Sherman
New sequence to stream from July 14-20
— Are you Group Jellyfish or Group Bonrad? If in case you have no thought what meaning, you most likely don’t watch “The Summer I Turned Pretty.” The present returns for its third and remaining season on Wednesday on Prime Video. It is a few younger lady named Stomach (Lola Tung) who’s torn between two brothers, Jeremiah and Conrad, performed by Gavin Casalegno and Christopher Briney. The sequence relies on a trilogy of books by Jenny Han.
— Within the second season of Prime Video’s “Surf Girls” sequence, cameras observe 5 up-and-coming feminine surfers who journey the globe to compete within the Challenger Sequence. “Surf Girls: International” focuses on each new and returning surfers that had been featured in Season 1. A aim is to highlight ladies in a sport that has usually been skewed by sexism. All 5 episodes drop Thursday. Reese Witherspoon is an government producer.
— Within the movies “The Dry” and “Force of Nature: The Dry 2,” Eric Bana performed a federal agent investigating murders in his native Australia. Within the new Netflix sequence “Untamed,” Bana performs a U.S. legislation enforcement officer investigating the mysterious dying of a lady at Yosemite Nationwide Park. Sam Neill, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Wilson Bethel additionally star. It premieres Thursday.
— Alicia Rancilio
New video video games to play from July 14-20
— For a man who began off as a villain, Donkey Kong has confirmed to be one in every of Nintendo’s most versatile heroes, doing every thing from driving to enjoying drums to (severely) instructing math. Donkey Kong Bananza focuses on what he does finest: punching issues. Somebody has stolen his bananas, so it’s as much as DK to smash his approach via the Underground World in pursuit of the culprits. It’s the primary 3D journey for the large lug in a very long time, and Nintendo has stated it comes from the identical group that developed the bestselling Tremendous Mario Odyssey. Begin swinging Thursday on Swap 2.
— One other arcade favourite — Pac-Man — returns in Shadow Labyrinth, though writer Bandai Namco has radically altered the pellet-chomper. Right here, you play as Swordsman No. 8, an explorer who’s accompanied by a mysterious yellow orb named Puck. As you traverse the 2D alien world, you might be reminded of a unique traditional: 1986’s Metroid. There are some ranges that look extra like Pac-Man mazes, although, and you’ll nonetheless hunt and be hunted by ghosts — which at the moment are known as “G-Hosts.” It’s a bizarre and edgy method to the legend, and it arrives Thursday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, Swap and PC.
— Lou Kesten
