Sidney Sweeney played real-life boxing legend Christy Martin in the movie “Christy,” and “Hacks,” which launches its fifth and final season on HBO, features some new television, movies, music and games. moved towards a device near you.
One of the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as chosen by The Associated Press. entertainment journalist: Country hitmaker Ella Langley releases her sophomore album, Nintendo drops monster combat game Pokemon Champions and “Malcolm in the Middle” fans are getting a four-episode revival with Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston and Jen Kaczmarek.
— Sydney Sweeney The real-life boxing legend will play Christy Martin in David Michôd’s “Christy” (HBO Max, Friday, April 10). The film, which Sweeney also produced, received some of his best reviews. Her clearly unglamorous performance spans Martin’s small-town West Virginia beginnings to a professional career shadowed by her abusive manager-husband (Ben Foster). In his review, Jocelyn Noveck of the AP wrote that Sweeney “infuses her portrayal of Martin with both sweetness and anger, brio and genuine vulnerability.”
– One of last year’s highlights, Akinola Davis Jr.’s tender father-son drama, “Shadow of my father,” Streaming begins Friday, April 10 on MUBI. The film, written by Davis and his brother, Vale, is entirely autobiographical. His father died when he was young. But in “My Father’s Shadow,” two Nigerian boys spend an unexpected day with their father ( მერერერისი ) in Lagos, at a critical time for the country. in his reviewAP Film writer Lindsay Bahr called it “a gem, a deeply felt memory piece and vivid portrait of Nigeria in 1993.”
-Jonah Hill makes his directorial debut with Coming-of-Age The skate film “Mid90s.” He has returned to directing “outcome,” A Hollywood satire starring Keanu Reeves as a movie star named Reef Hawk who fears that a video could destroy his reputation. Hill, who co-wrote the film, also co-stars as Reef’s crisis-management lawyer. It debuts on Apple TV on Friday, April 10.
– A chart-topping country hitmaker prepares his second album: ella langley – Known for radio mainstays like “You Look Like You Love Me” – a throwback with Riley Green and The george straight-referenced The No. 1 hit “Chosin’ Texas,” co-written with Miranda Lambert, will release a new record on Friday, April 10. If “Dandelion” as a whole is anything like those songs, she has a long career ahead of her.
– English disco-pop singer Jessie Ware “Superbloom” will also be released on Friday, April 10. She’s as ready to soundtrack late nights on the dance floor as she’s ever been – such as on the single “Ride”, which interpolates the theme of the 1966 Spaghetti Western film “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and melts into its sequenced synths. “Come be my cowboy, baby, come, let’s ride,” she sings, more discotheque than honky-tonk. “You know I want you, I need you tonight, tonight.”
— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman
— “Boys” launches it Fifth and final season Wednesday on Prime Video. The critically acclaimed series is based on the comic books and follows villainous superheroes and the team that tries to thwart them. series regular jack quaidKarl Urban, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty and Jessie T. Usher and Chace Crawford are all returning, as are the roles most recently played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jensen Ackles. “Hamilton” star David Diggs also joins the cast.
– Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” sequel “Testament,” There will be a premiere on Wednesday also. Ann Dowd reprises her Aunt Lydia character from the original and is now in charge of a school for girls that basically prepares them for adulthood, marriage, and children. These young women have never known anything except Gilead. these are the stars chase infinity and also based on Lucy Holiday A novel by Margaret Atwood.
-Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen are leading a new sci-fi comedy, “The Miniature Wife,” For peacock. They play a couple who is working on their marriage when their lives become more complicated after a strange accident. It will premiere on Thursday.
– Another series launching its fifth and final season “hacks” On HBO. The show, premiering Thursday, is based on the love-hate relationship between a famous comedian (Gene Smart) and a talented writer, played by Hannah Einbinder. The series has garnered plenty of hardware, including an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. Smart has won four consecutive Emmy Awards for the show while Einbinder has won one.
— Have you ever wondered how your favorite former TV stars would perform today? “Malcolm in the Middle” fans are getting their wish. Twenty years after their show closed, Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek returned to TV for a revival, where Muniz’s character is now the father of a teenage girl. four episodes of “Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair” Premieres Friday, April 10 on both Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
— Alicia Ransilio
– Nintendo is pulling out all the stops to celebrate Pokemon’s 30th anniversary. Just a month after releasing the cozy community-creator Pokemon Pokopia, it’s getting a lot less cozy pokemon champions. This time it’s all about combat, as you recruit and train monsters before pushing them into the arena to fight other trainers’ creatures. You can compete in ranked events with players from around the world, or enjoy casual or private battles that won’t affect your ranking. It’s a free-to-start challenge, but you might want to set aside some cash for in-app purchases. Fight Club opens on Switch and Switch 2 on Wednesday, with iOS and Android versions coming later in 2026.
– Annapurna Interactive people of note Tells the story of a pop singer named Cadence who decides she wants to start a band. This means he’ll need to trek across the world of Note, where each city is defined by its own style of music. However, on her journey, Cadence discovers that a Harmonic Convergence is disrupting the music itself, and she and her bandmates must solve puzzles, explore dungeons, and fight tone-deaf villains to stop the note from falling silent. Los Angeles-based Iridium Studios promises that “each battle is an interactive musical performance,” and you can turn up the volume on Tuesday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, and PC.
— lou keston
