A$AP Rocky’s archetypal full-length medium successful 8 years, “Don’t Be Dumb,” and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reuniting again successful Netflix's “The Rip” are immoderate of the caller television, films, euphony and games headed to a instrumentality adjacent you.
Also among the streaming offerings worthy your clip this week, arsenic selected by The Associated Press’ amusement journalists: The pop-R&B vocalist Madison Beer returns with her 3rd LP, “Locket,” Idris Elba tries to lick a hostage concern connected a bid successful Season 2 of “Hijack” and Will Smith takes viewers connected a travel to each 7 continents successful his caller docuseries “Pole to Pole with Will Smith.”
— Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are unneurotic again, this clip successful Miami. In “The Rip” (Friday, Jan. 16 connected Netflix), the Boston-bred stars are directed by Joe Carnahan successful an enactment thriller astir a radical of Miami constabulary officers whose bonds statesman to fray aft they observe millions successful currency successful a derelict stash house. The supporting formed including Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor and Kyle Chandler.
— James Sweeney’s “Twinless,” an award-winning standout astatine past year’s Sundance Film Festival, arrives Friday, Jan. 16 connected Hulu. In it, Sweeney stars alongside Dylan O’Brien arsenic 2 young men who go friends aft gathering astatine a duplicate bereavement enactment group. In her review, AP’s Jocelyn Noveck wrote: “Sweeney’s movie argues that grief is besides subjective, and that it doesn’t ever travel logical paths — oregon adjacent acceptable ones.”
— While improvement and nonstop casting rumors situation the adjacent James Bond film, each 26 of the 007 movies are coming to Netflix opening Thursday. Though Bond is present owned and controlled by Amazon MGM, the workplace is licensing the Bond room to Netflix to whet appetites portion manager Denis Villeneuve preps the archetypal post-Daniel Craig introduction successful the long-running spy series.
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
— It has been astir a decennary — 8 years — since A$AP Rocky released a full-length project, his 3rd workplace medium titled “Testing” backmost successful 2018. The hold is yet implicit Friday erstwhile helium drops “Don’t Be Dumb.” The archetypal authoritative sensation of the merchandise comes courtesy “Punk Rocky,” a restrained alt-rock opus built atop a dream-pop riff and Rocky alternating betwixt a reverbed chorus and melodic flows.
— The pop-R&B vocalist Madison Beer returns with her 3rd LP, “Locket,” besides connected Friday, Jan. 16. It whitethorn beryllium to beryllium her strongest output to date: “Bittersweet” plays to her strengths, recalling a soft, balladic Ariana Grande. Others corroborate the existent taste infinitesimal arsenic post-“Brat,” similar the propulsive electro-pop azygous “yes baby” and the somewhat sinister “15 minutes.” Could this beryllium the medium that sends Beer to the adjacent level? Only clip volition tell.
— For the eclecticists speechmaking along: Avant-garde experimentalists Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore person teamed up for the collaborative medium “Tragic Magic.” It’s ambient, well, magic — the 2 composers improvising and weaving into 1 another; Lattimore with her harps and Barwick with her synthesizers. Together, they signifier a benignant of poetry.
— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman
— Will Smith takes viewers connected a travel to each 7 continents successful his caller National Geographic docuseries “Pole to Pole with Will Smith.” This is not your mean question show. It's taken 5 years to implicit and Smith visits the jungles of the Amazon, skis successful the South Pool and climbs the Himalayas. The seven-episode bid debuts Tuesday and streams adjacent time connected Disney+ and Hulu.
— A comic meme circulated past summertime astir Prime Video’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty” that fundamentally said, if you deliberation the Jeremiah quality is simply a atrocious fellow you haven’t seen the quality Stephen DeMarco of Hulu’s “Tell Me Lies.” See for yourself conscionable however toxic helium is successful the show’s 3rd season, debuting Tuesday. It follows a radical of (sort of) friends during 2 timelines, astatine assemblage and past six years aboriginal arsenic twentysomethings. Grace Van Patten and Jackson White star.
— Idris Elba saved the time during a hijacking connected a level successful play 1 of “Hijack” for Apple TV. In Season 2, retired Wednesday, his quality is scarred from the events of play one, but helium finds himself successful different hostage concern connected a train.
— An adaptation of “The Seven Dials Mystery,” a 1929 Agatha Christie novel, lands connected Netflix Thursday. It’s astir a young affluent pistillate investigating a execution astatine a enactment successful the English countryside. “Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials” is simply a three-part bid and stars Helena Bonham Carter, Martin Freeman and Mia McKenna-Bruce.
— Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson co-star successful a caller thriller called “Ponies” for Peacock. Out Thursday, the brace play 2 women surviving a mundane beingness successful the Soviet Union successful the 1970s arsenic their husbands are CIA operatives. When they some find themselves widowed, they get thrust into the action.
— Alicia Rancilio
— Last year’s sensational Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 drew overmuch of its inspiration from classical Japanese role-playing games, leaving galore fans to wonder: Where tin I get much of this goodness? Well, Japanese developer Nihon Falcom has been astatine this for a while, and the English translation of its latest epic, The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon, is here. As this section begins, humanity is astir to task into outer space, but determination are inactive immoderate issues to beryllium resolved connected your location planet. That means rounding up a squad of fighters and taking connected the kinds of battles, some real-time and turn-based, that Nihon has refined implicit the years. This is the 14th crippled successful the progressively fashionable Trails series, but don’t fto that scare you off. You tin dive successful Thursday connected PlayStation 5/4, Switch oregon PC.
— Lou Kesten
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