The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT)

New this week: Angelina Jolie thrills and Black Keys rock

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Movies

⏩ After a bit of a hiatus from action films, Angelina Jolie is back in the thriller “Those Who Wish Me Dead” as a Montana smoke jumper who comes across a 12-year-old boy (Finn Little) on the run and in need of help. “Those Who Wish Me Dead” co-stars Nicholas Hoult, Jon Bernthal and Tyler Perry.

⏩ This week also sees the long-awaited release of director Joe Wright’s “The Woman in the Window” adaptation, starring Amy Adams as an agoraphobi­c psychologi­st who becomes obsessed with solving a crime she sees from her window. It’s a film that has everything going for it in terms of pedigree. Tracy Letts wrote the adaptation of A.J. Finn’s bestseller and it co-stars Gary Oldman, Brian Tyree Henry, Julianne Moore, Anthony Mackie and Jennifer Jason Leigh. ⏩ Or over on Amazon Prime and Hulu starting Wednesday, you can catch up with “Saint Maud,” Rose Glass’s haunting debut about a pious nurse (Morfydd Clark) who has decided she must save the soul of one of her patients (Jennifer Ehle).

Music

⏩ The Black Keys are honoring the Mississipp­i hill country blues standards they loved as teens before becoming a band. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney are releasing the 11-track covers album, “Delta Kream,” on Friday. It was recorded at Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville and includes their versions of “Crawling Kingsnake” and “Poor Boy a Long Way from Home,” among others.

⏩ St. Vincent is returning Friday with her new album, which was produced by Jack Antonoff. The pair worked together on 2017’s “MassEducat­ion,” winning the best rock song Grammy for the title track. They reunite on the 70s-influenced “Daddy’s Home,” which was inspired by St. Vincent’s father’s release from prison in 2019. The album includes the singles “Pay Your Way

in Pain” and “The Melting of the Sun.”

⏩ Get ready for Alan Jackson’s new album, packed with 21 songs. The country icon will release “Where Have You Gone” on Friday.

Television

⏩ Now’s your chance to catch up with FX’s dramedy “Breeders,” before the season wraps with episodes airing on Monday and May 17 (10 p.m. EST). Paul and Ally (Martin Freeman, Daisy Haggard), first introduced as the exhausted parents of pint-size kids in season one, have become the overwhelme­d parents of a tween and teen, with a turning point in store for Paul and 13-year-old Luke (Alex Eastwood).

⏩ Vanessa Williams hosts PBS’ “Great Performanc­es: The Arts Interrupte­d,” part of the #PBSForTheA­rts initiative honoring the “resiliency of the arts in America” during the pandemic and amid the country’s gradual reopening. The special includes survival stories from arts organizati­ons across America, examples of innovative performanc­es, and an exploratio­n of how COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement have affected emerging artists.

⏩ Mitzi Gaynor’s verve brightened “South Pacific” and other 1950s movies that came at the tail end of Hollywood’s golden age of musicals. Gaynor then transferre­d her songand-dance talent and charisma to the small screen, in a series of Emmy-winning specials in the 1960s and ’70s. Eight remastered programs and a 2008 documentar­y about the shows will make their streaming debut Friday on services including Amazon, Pluto, Tubi and Crackle.

 ?? Photos and text from wire services AP ?? “Those Who Wish Me Dead,” premiering Friday on HBO Max, left, and “The Woman in the Window,"“premiering Friday on Netflix.
Photos and text from wire services AP “Those Who Wish Me Dead,” premiering Friday on HBO Max, left, and “The Woman in the Window,"“premiering Friday on Netflix.

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