NEW TO STREAM
After a tour through many stadiums and a
blockbuster debut in cinemas, Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” lands in homes, appropriately enough, on Swift’s birthday. “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” the concert film of Swift’s career-spanning spectacular, is now streaming. An already lengthy film (2 hours and 49 minutes) will also now run past three hours, with the addition of three songs: “Wildest Dreams,” “Long Live” and “The Archer.” In her review, Associated Press writer Maria Sherman praised the experience of seeing the Time magazine Person of the Year up close in “The Eras Tour,” calling it “a near exact replica of her blockbuster concert performance.”
More than two decades after the release
of “Chicken Run,” Aardman Animations has returned to the adventures of its defiant feathered protagonist, Ginger, in the sequel “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.” The 2000 original remains the highest grossing stop-motion animation flick ever, with more than $227 million in ticket sales. But “Dawn of the Nugget,” which introduces an allnew voice cast including Thandiwe Newton, Bella Ramsey and Zachary Levi, debuts Dec. 15 on Netflix. In it, Ginger has escaped from Tweedy Farm and found sanctuary elsewhere but again must lead the flock to freedom.
In writer-director Rodrigo Moreno’s
“The Delinquents,” Morán (Daniel Eliás) has a clever scheme to steal from the bank he works in. He’ll steal only what he would be paid for 25 years of work, hide the money with a colleague (Esteban Bigliardi), confess to the crime and do three years in jail before having the rest of his life to himself. In the film, which streams Dec. 15 on Mubi, Moreno takes the hard genre apparatus of a heist movie and melts it into an existential meditation on life, work and stolen time.
— Jake Coyle, Associated Press
TELEVISION
Peacock has been airing the
Bravo “Ultimate Girls Trip” series where they pluck various “Real Housewives” cast members, past and present, from different
cities and send them to a destination as far as Thailand and as close as the Berkshires mountains in Massachusetts. The latest iteration, “The Real Housewives Ultimate
Girls Trip: RHONY
Legacy,” features some of the early cast members of “The Real Housewives of New York” (prior to its reboot earlier this year with an all-new cast).
Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Luann de Lesseps, Dorinda Medley, Sonja Morgan, Ramona Singer and Kristen Taekman jet off to St. Barths to stay at a location familiar to fans, Saline Beach, featured in the reality show’s fifth season. The first three episodes are out now.
The 50th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards
were postponed last June due to the Hollywood writers’ strike and will now air Dec. 15 on CBS and Paramount+
with hosts Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner of “Entertainment Tonight.” “General Hospital” leads with 19 nominations, followed by “The Bold and the Beautiful” with 14. “The Kelly Clarkson Show” has 11 nominations, the most for a daytime talk show. Longtime “All My Children” star Susan Lucci will receive a Lifetime Achievement award.
The second season of Amazon Prime
Video’s “Reacher” starring Alan Ritchson returns Dec. 15 and is based on Lee Child’s novel “Bad Luck and Trouble.” The new episodes see Reacher with a new cast of characters, as he is depicted as a loner who spends his life traveling from town to town, with no home base or belongings, except for a toothbrush. Season 3 has already been ordered.