A rundown of what’s new in streaming
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of recently arrived offerings on TV and streaming services.
MOVIES
Can a movie be a blockbuster on Netflix? That’s what “Red Notice,” released Friday, hopes to accomplish. The comedy-action film has a big screen budget of over $160 million and three major movie stars in Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds. It’s the kind of billing where you almost don’t need to know what it’s about (a globe-trotting treasure hunt, international criminals and Johnson as an FBI agent) or what the critics are saying (not at lot of good so far). To be fair, this started out as a Universal film, but like Apple TV+’s recent Tom Hanks offering “Finch,” it was sold to the streamer in the first summer of the pandemic.
There’s also some new offerings for the family (or just the kids) in
out on Paramount+, and
“Clifford the Big Red Dog,” “Home Sweet Home Alone,”
streaming on Disney+ now. The Clifford pic brings the beloved Scholastic pup to the home of a middle schooler (Darby Camp, who played Reese Witherspoon’s daughter in “Big Little Lies”) struggling to fit in in New York City. “Home Sweet Home Alone,” meanwhile, is somehow the sixth “Home Alone” spinoff. But this one recruits talent like
Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Kenan Thompson and Chris Parnell, who might just make this one worth checking out.
TELEVISION
Jeremy Renner, Dianne Wiest and Kyle Chandler head the cast of “Mayor of Kingstown,” a Paramount+ series created by “Yellowstone” producer Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon. Set in a Michigan city whose only going concern is its prison industry, the 10-episode drama focuses on the McLusky family, described as powerbrokers trying to bring “order and justice to a town that has neither.” There are brawls and car crashes in store per a series trailer, so the struggle is more than philosophical. Dillon, seen as Sheriff Donnie Haskell in “Yellowstone,” also appears in the new series debuting tonight.
In the 2013 finale of “Dexter,” Michael C. Hall’s serial killer is seen alive and working in a Pacific Northwest lumber camp after disappearing off the Florida coast. Hall, who shared others’ disappointment with the ending, is back to set things right in Showtime’s “Dexter: New Blood.” Set a decade after the series’ end, the 10-episode sequel finds Dexter Morgan living in an upstate his late sister, Deb (Jennifer New York town as local Carpenter). store worker Jim Lindsay. Human rights activists Part of his new life: Harrison are the stars of “The (Jack Alcott), the son Young Leaders — One that Dexter left behind and, Young World Stories,” a in a truly haunting return, documentary that debuted
Thursday, on Ovation TV. Among them: a Rwanda genocide survivor who founded an organization to promote healing through art, and a Brazilian who emerged from poverty
in Sao Paolo to study at Harvard and become an elected official in her country. They and others profiled in the film are among the “ambassadors” for One Young World, a global
forum that identifies and connects a new generation of leaders whose shared goal is to “create a better world.”