New this week: Jingle Ball 2020 and two doses of Meryl Streep
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
Movies
■ Travel may seem closed off right now but how about a cruise with Meryl Streep, Dianne Wiest and Candice Bergen? “Let Them All Talk,” on HBO Max, was filmed on an Atlantic crossing of the Queen Mary 2, the British ocean liner. Directed in a two-week dash by Steven Soderbergh and scripted by the short-story writer Deborah Eisenberg, the film — delightful and light despite its lumbering setting — is about an American novelist (Streep) given a prize in England, who, refusing to fly, takes the boat instead and brings along several old friends (Wiest, Bergan) and her nephew (Lucas Hedges).
■ If one Streep film wasn’t enough for you, she’s again in typically fine form in “The Prom,” parodying a diva actor in Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of the 2018 Broadway musical. In the Netflix film, Streep and James Corden play a pair of comically self-centered, awards-obsessed theater stars. When their show flops and their careers are teetering, they try to win back public favor by traveling (with Nicole Kidman and Andrew Rannells in tow) to small-town Indiana to defend a high-schooler (Jo Ellen Pellman) barred from attending prom with her girlfriend (Ariana DeBose).
■ From the Irish animator Tomm Moore (“The Secret of Kells,” “Song of the Sea,” both Oscar nominated) comes his latest lyrical, earthy beauty. “Wolfwalkers,” which Moore co-directed with Ross Stewart for the Kilkenny-based studio Cartoon Saloon, is a hand-drawn folk tale set in a medieval village suffering wolf attacks. When the daughter (Honor Kneafsey) of a hunter (Sean Bean) befriends a mythical tribe who walk as wolves by night, a once-unthinkable peace becomes possible. It streams on Apple TV+.