IN THE SPOTLIGHT
New this week: Bruce Springsteen, ‘The Big Brunch’ and ‘Is That Black Enough For You?!?”
MOVIES
⏩ Did you follow all the “Don’t Worry Darling” fuss and forget to watch the film behind it all? Well, don’t worry, darling, Olivia Wilde’s mid-century styled psychological thriller be streaming on HBO Max starting Monday.
⏩ Film critic and historian Elvis Mitchell looks at the history of Black cinema and “a group of artists who changed the culture forever” with the landmark films of the 1970s in a new Netflix documentary, “Is That Black Enough For You?!?” streaming Friday, Nov. 11.
⏩ Disney+ gets one of the best documentaries of the year starting Friday in “Fire of Love” about Katia and Maurice Krafft, French, celebrity volcanologists who died on Japan’s Mount Unzen in 1991. Sara Dosa’s experimental documentary about a strange love triangle between man, woman and volcano is compiled from hundreds of hours of the Krafft’s wildly cinematic footage of their explorations.
MUSIC
⏩ Bruce Springsteen takes on the Four Tops, Temptations, Supremes, Frankie Wilson, Jimmy Ruffin and other soul legends in an album of cover songs due out Friday.
⏩ Louis Tomlinson seems to be in an optimistic mood judging from the title of his sophomore album, “’Faith in the Future.” It’s the former One Direction member’s first album since 2020’s “Walls” and the first single “Bigger Than Me” has a massive pop hook. Tomlinson says the goal is “to produce a collection of songs befitting an anthemic live show.”
⏩ Morris Day, lead singer of The Time, is calling time. His fifth solo album, “Last Call,” will be his last, he says, and he’s brought some friends along to say goodbye. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons appears on “Too Much Girl 4 Me,””Grown Man” features Big Daddy Kane and “Use to Be the Playa” has Snoop Dogg aboard. Other guests include E40, Flo-Rida, Tech N9ne and Trinidad James. Day rose to prominence in the 1980s as the leader of The Time, a band put together by Prince, who released several classic albums and singles, including “Jungle Love, “777-9311” and “The Bird.”
TELEVISION
Road trip! The proprietors of the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop are heading out from their “Pawn Stars” Las Vegas home base for The History Channel’s “Pawn Stars Do America.” Father-son shop owners Rick Harrison and Corey Harrison and pal Austin “Chumlee” Russell visit eight states in the eight-part series, debuting Wednesday, Nov. 9.
Dan Levy of Emmy-winning “Schitt’s Creek” fame is serving up a change of pace with “The Big Brunch,” a cooking competition he created and hosts. The HBO Max series, debuting with the first three of its eight episodes on Thursday, Nov. 10, aims to tout “inspiring and undiscovered culinary voices” from across the country. Ten chefs vying for a $300,000 prize will be judged by Levy — who calls brunch “the ultimate connector” — along with chef Sohla El-Waylly and restaurateur Will Guidara.
In Netflix’s “The English,” aristocratic foreigner Lady Cornelia Locke and Eli Whipp, a Native American ex-cavalry scout, join forces in a perilous trek across 1890 America to reach a fledgling Wyoming town that’s no safe haven — it’s beset by murders. Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer star in what’s described both as an epic chase Western and a “parable on race, power and love.” The series, with an ensemble cast including Stephen Rea, Valerie Pachner, Toby Jones and Ciarán Hinds, debuts Friday, Nov. 11.