The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)

New this week: Camila Cabello, Tony Hawk and ‘Tokyo Vice’ SPOTLIGHT

- Photos and text from wire services

— Tony Hawk may not have seemed the most obvious Academy Awards presenter but he does have a new movie coming out. “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off,” a documentar­y about the profession­al skateboard­er’s life, debuts Tuesday on HBO Max and on HBO.

— In “Cow,” which debuts in theaters and on digital rental Friday, Andrea Arnold makes her first documentar­y with an unlikely star: Luma, a dairy cow on a southern England farm. Arnold filmed “Cow” over four years, capturing the quotidian rhythms of Luma’s life, giving the bovine the kind attention and empathy she would for any human protagonis­t.

— Filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, who made the Oscar-winning “Free Solo” and last year’s non-fiction standout “The Rescue,” this time set their sights even higher in “Return to Space.” The documentar­y, which premieres Friday on Netflix, is about Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its attempts to transform space travel.

MUSIC

— Camila Cabello, last year’s Cinderella, is all about music magic this week. She drops her third studio album, “Familia,” on Friday, April 8. The day before the album drops, she’ll perform songs from it as part of a live TikTok concert — “Familia: Welcome to the Family” airs at 7 p.m. ET on Cabello’s TikTok channel.

— Jack White has not one but two albums slated for 2022, the first of which is “Fear of the Dawn,” out Friday, April 8, with a title track that uses fuzzed-out guitars, slamming drums and sound effects pushed to 11. Another early preview is “Hi-De-Ho,” his oddly wonderful collaborat­ion with A Tribe Called Quest figurehead Q-Tip that mixes electronic­ally enhanced rock with a salute to jazz hero Cab Calloway. Don’t dawdle: White’s got the second album, “Entering Heaven Alive,” set for release on July 22.

TELEVISION

— Ken Burns, whose latest two-part, four-hour PBS documentar­y “Benjamin Franklin” dives into the life and work of the Founding Father who lived during a remarkable period of social, political and scientific change and helped drive it. Mandy Patinkin gives voice to Franklin in the film airing Monday and Tuesday, April 4 and 5, on PBS stations.

— Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe star in “Tokyo Vice,” a HBO Max crime drama described as “loosely” inspired by Jake Adelstein’s 2009 memoir, “Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan.” Elgort plays Adelstein, who finds himself immersed in 1990s Tokyo, “where nothing and no one is truly what or who they seem,” as HBO intriguing­ly puts it.

The series was filmed in Tokyo, so it’s also an armchair adventure. “Tokyo Vice,” created and written by Tony-winning playwright J.T. Rogers (“Oslo”), debuts Thursday, April 7, with three episodes on the streaming service, with two episodes released on subsequent Thursdays until the April 28 finale.

— Celebritie­s try to stump each other with stories that may or may not be true in CW’s “Would I Lie To You?” based on a hit British series of the same name. Actorwrite­r-comedian Aasif Mandvi (“Evil”) hosts the series debuting Saturday, April 9, with Matt Walsh (“Veep”) and Canadian comedian Sabrina Jalees as opposing team captains. Among the season’s guests: Brooke Shields, Amber Ruffin, Laura Benanti, Michael Ian Black, Jordan Klepper and Preet Bharara, a former U.S. attorney for New York’s Southern District. Legal advice, anyone?

 ?? Associated Press ?? “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off,” premiering April 5 on HBO Max, “Return to Space,” a documentar­y premiering April 7 on Netflix and “Tokyo Vice,” a series premiering April 7 on HBO Max.
Associated Press “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off,” premiering April 5 on HBO Max, “Return to Space,” a documentar­y premiering April 7 on Netflix and “Tokyo Vice,” a series premiering April 7 on HBO Max.

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