Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17, a new installment in the final season of Stranger Things, and Kevin Hart's debut in a new Netflix comedy are just some of the new TV shows, movies, music and games. headed towards the device next to you.
Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as chosen by The Associated Press. entertainment journalists: “Everybody Loves Raymond” will get a 30th anniversary special on CBS, a Hallmark special “A Grand Ole Opry Christmas” with Brad Paisley and Mickey Guyton, and a new Beatles docuseries coming to Disney+.
— Taiwanese film director Shih-Ching Tsou, known for collaborating and producing several Sean Baker films, including “Mandarin” and The Florida Project makes his solo directorial debut with Lefty Girl, about a single mother and her two daughters who return to Taipei to open a stall at a night market. Netflix acquired the film after it was warmly received at the Cannes Film Festival and Taiwan has already selected it as an Oscar contender. It will start streaming on Netflix on November 28th.
— “Mickey 17” by Bong Joon Ho. will be released on Prime Video on Thursday, November 26th for dystopian holiday viewing. In it review for Associated PressJocelyn Noveck praised Robert Pattinson's performance (or rather, performances) as consumable material that is constantly being re-released. She writes: “It's his movie, and it saves it from Bong's tendency to overdo it. In an extremely physical, committed and even exhausting performance, Pattinson takes what could have been an unwieldy mess and makes it far less, well, expendable.”
-FINE, “The Last Duel” streaming on Hulu on Sunday, November 30 may be four years away, but it's a much better option than, say, Flight Risk (on HBO Max on Wednesday). Ridley Scott's medieval tale, written by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Nicole Holofcener, is a brilliant interpretation of the historical epic told from three different points of view: Damon's Jean de Carrouges, Adam Driver's Jacques Le Gris and Jodie Comer's Marguerite. In his review for the AP, screenwriter Jake Coyle wrote that it “feels more like a medieval tale that's deconstructed piece by piece until its heavily armored male characters and mythologized genre nobility are exposed.”
— On Thanksgiving Day 2021, Disney+ released a six-hour film directed by Peter Jackson. “The Beatles: Come Back” to your streaming platform. The gigantic project allowed fans to delve deeper into the band's history. “Let it be” sessions, including footage of their entire rooftop concert, presented in full for the first time. It was a perfect release date, to say the least. After all that delicious food, who doesn't want to take a long trip to see one of the greatest musical acts of all time? Well, there's one more thing to be grateful for in 2025: The Beatles Anthology docuseries is coming to Disney+ starting Wednesday. There are nine episodes that chronicle their journey. Lock in.
“It’s Hallmark holiday movie season. And for a country music fanatic, that means “A Grand Old Opry Christmas.” The film follows a woman forced to confront her musical past and heritage. respected place and there may or may not be some time travel and Christmas magic. Stay tuned for more all-star cameos: Brad Paisley Megan Moroney, Mickey Guyton, Rhett Akins, Tigerly Gold and others appear. It begins streaming on Hallmark+ on Sunday.
— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman
– It's hard to believe “Everybody Loves Raymond” has not aired for two decades. The multi-camera sitcom stars Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton as Ray and Debra Barone, a young married couple whose daily lives are regularly interrupted by Ray's meddling parents, played by Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts, who live across the street. CBS recently taped a 30th anniversary special that will air Monday and will also stream on Paramount+. Organizer: Romano and creator, Phil Rosenthalit recreates the setting of Barone's living room and features interviews with actors including Romano, Heaton, Brad Garrett and Monica Horan. There will also be a tribute Boyle and Roberts, who died in 2006 and 2016, respectively. The special aired around the holidays because its Thanksgiving and Christmas episodes were top-notch. All nine seasons are streaming on Paramount+ and Peacock.
– ” Stranger Things” is finally back with its fifth and final season. Netflix is producing the sci-fi series in three parts, with the first four episodes dropping on Wednesday. Millie Bobby Brown says fans will “going crazy” with how it ends.
— Also Monday, Kevin Hart is premiering a new comedy special on Netflix. It's called “Kevin Hart: Acting My Age.” The jokes center around, you guessed it, aging.
— Hulu's new Family Guy special pokes fun at those holiday movies we all know, love and watch. It's called “The Most Familiar Holiday Movie on Disney's Hulu's Family Guy's Hallmark Channel” and satirizes the common trope of the big city girl who ends up in a small town for Christmas and falls in love. It releases Friday, November 28th on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
— Artificial intelligence: a friend of all humanity or an existential threat to the planet? IN AILABrazilian studio Pulsatrix is leaning towards the second option. You play as a game tester who has been asked to try out a horror story created by artificial intelligence. But while you're busy fighting ghosts, zombies and ax murderers, the AI might be up to something more nefarious in the background – which could be bad news if you have a smart fridge. This all has the potential to be very meta, whether you welcome our new robot overlords or not. The game will be released on Tuesday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S and PC.
