![]() It’s about a group of American girls who travel to London for the social season, to hopefully find husbands. ![]() The eight-episode series is inspired by an unfinished novel by Edith Wharton with the same name. NEW SERIES TO STREAM- “The Buccaneers” is Apple TV+’s answer to “Bridgerton,” featuring attractive young people in London in the late 1800’s with contemporary dialogue and corsets. “I’ve got better things to do with my time / Than you,” they sing. That’s evident from the English-language lead single, “Better Things,” which its cheery, hand-clap production and kiss-off chorus. That shouldn’t have ever been the case, and they continue to prove their distinction on the high-octane “Drama,” the group’s fourth mini album. Of course, sometimes that meant the conversation surrounding aespa distracted from the music itself. Once, aespa were best known as the K-pop group that had their own AI avatars – a quartet that was actually an octet with digital twins who performed alongside them, in an effort to develop innovative transmedia storytelling to match a futuristic pop sound. No one is immune when Stapleton’s textured, bellowing ballads play. Cure, pedal steel player Paul Franklin, drummer Derek Mixon, and multi-instrumentalists Morgane Stapleton (Stapleton’s wife) and Lee Pardini, the release is a rich collection of up-tempo rock-stompers like “White Horse” and stripped-down soulful harmonies of “It Takes a Woman” - sung with Morgane, of course. ![]() Recorded at Nashville’s famed RCA Studio A with an a-list crew of producer Dave Cobb, bassist J.T. NEW MUSIC TO STREAM- Country superstar Chris Stapleton ’s enigmatic voice – known for its raw versatility, so anchored in his chosen musical genre with an unusual ability to transcend it – is as present as ever on his fifth studio album, “Higher,” out Friday. In his AP review, Mark Kennedy wrote that “Dumb Money,” whose title comes from “the derisory term institutional investors call regular folk, wears its love of the little guy on its sleeve” and that it’s a sort of corrective to “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “The Big Short.” It’s nowavailable on video-on-demand. Two former Wall Street Journal Reporters, Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, wrote the script and Craig Gillespie (“I, Tonya”) directed a starry cast that includes America Ferrera, Seth Rogen, Anthony Ramos, Pete Davidson, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley and Nick Offerman. Paul Dano plays Keith Gill, otherwise known as Roaring Kitty, an amateur investor whose endorsement of GameStock on Reddit in 2021 created a viral frenzy that shook Wall Street power players. “Dumb Money,” the enjoyable film about the GameStop stock frenzy got a little unfairly buried in its theatrical release - perhaps lost in the post-Barbenheimer, early strike haze. “It took this to finally hear a compliment,” Brooks laughs. Reiner and Brooks, who have been friends for “almost 60 years,” also have a one-on-one chat about his career, from stand-up to generation-defining writer and filmmaker with classics like “Lost in America” and “Modern Romance,” in a cozy restaurant with plush red leather booths. ( Read AP’s review.) - Rob Reiner enlists the likes of Steven Spielberg, David Letterman, Ben Stiller, Larry David, Chris Rock and Wanda Sykes to take stock the impact of Albert Brooks in the new documentary “Albert Brooks: Defending My Life,” streaming on Max on Saturday. While it might not rank among Fincher’s stone-cold classics, reviews have been largely positive. But of course, things go very wrong on this particular job in Paris, and he’s left to deal with the consequences in a globetrotting race. It’s based on a French graphic novel and adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker, who also wrote the screenplay for “Seven” (or “Se7en” for the purists), this nameless assassin has some very specific rules for his chosen profession which he monologues to the audience. ![]() NEW MOVIES TO STREAM - Michael Fassbender plays an unnamed hitman in David Fincher’s “The Killer,” debuting on Netflix on Friday. Country superstar Chris Stapleton’s fifth studio album and a documentary about Albert Brooks that includes Steven Spielberg, David Letterman, Ben Stiller, Larry David, Chris Rock and Wanda Sykes are some of the new television, movies, music and games available on a device near you.Īlso among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists are Michael Fassbender playing a hitman in David Fincher’s “The Killer,” Tim Allen putting on his Santa suit for season two of “The Santa Clauses” and “The Buccaneers,” Apple TV+’s eight-episode series answer to “Bridgerton.” ![]()
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