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Michael B. Jordan voicing a tiny woodland creature who switches bodies with a majestic bird in the animated movie \u201cSwapped\u201d and Kacey Musgraves\u2019 seventh studio album, \u201cDry Spell,\u201d are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device<\/a><\/span> near you.<\/p>\n Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press\u2019 entertainment journalists<\/a><\/span>: a TV adaptation of Isabel Allende\u2019s beloved novel \u201cThe House of the Spirits\u201d on Prime Video, the anime hit \u201cChainsaw Man \u2014 The Movie: Reze Arc\u201d on Crunchyroll and two Matthew Rhys projects \u2014 the movie thriller \u201cHallow Road\u201d and the Apple TV horror comedy \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Emerald Fennell\u2019s loose adaptation of Emily Bront\u00eb\u2019s<\/a><\/span>\u201cWuthering Heights\u201d<\/a><\/span> is on its way to heat up the small screen, streaming on HBO Max on May 1. Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi play Catherine and Heathcliff in the hyper stylized film which lets its tortured characters do something about all that pent up lust. In my review for The Associated Press, I wrote \u201cThere are myriad pleasures to be had in the bold, absurd pageantry and devilish scheming. Yet for all the big swings, Fennell\u2019s \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019 amounts to something oddly shallow and blunt: garish and stylized fan fiction with the scope and budget of an old-school Hollywood epic.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Newly minted Oscar winner Michael B. Jordan<\/a><\/span> voices a tiny woodland creature who switches bodies with his sworn enemy, a majestic bird (voiced by Juno Temple) in \u201cSwapped,\u201d streaming on Netflix on Friday, May 1. \u201cTangled\u201d filmmaker Nathan Greno directs the movie, which also features the voices of Cedric the Entertainer and Tracy Morgan.<\/a><\/span> If it sounds a bit like \u201cHoppers,\u201d remember, that was an \u201cAvatar\u201d situation. This is \u201cFreaky Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 The anime hit \u201cChainsaw Man \u2014 The Movie: Reze Arc\u201d will be streaming on Crunchyroll on Thursday. Tatsuya Yoshihara directed the film, based on the manga<\/a><\/span> series by Tatsuki Fujimoto about a teenager who was murdered by the Yakuza and reborn with a unique ability: transforming body parts into chainsaws, which he uses to help fight devils now. It\u2019s also a romance! And rated R.<\/p>\n \u2014 \u201cConbody vs Everybody,\u201d about an ex-con attempting to rebuild his life in New York, might not technically be a movie (OK, it\u2019s a five-part docuseries), but it\u2019s from the great Debra Granik (\u201cWinter\u2019s Bone\u201d and \u201cLeave No Trace\u201d<\/a><\/span> ) and it\u2019s debuting exclusive on the Criterion Channel on Friday, May 1. Filmed over eight years, Granik chronicles Coss Marte\u2019s journey to building a New York gym that employs formerly incarcerated people. <\/p>\n \u2014And finally, in the eerie \u201cHallow Road,\u201d<\/a><\/span> streaming on Hulu on Saturday, May 2, Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys play parents rushing to help their daughter after an accident late one night. I wrote in my review for The Associated Press that \u201cit\u2019s an effectively minimalistic thriller that leaves much room for interpretation and debate.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2014 Hold her beer, Sabrina Carpenter.<\/a><\/span> It\u2019s time. Kacey Musgraves<\/a><\/span> has returned to corner the market on too-clever, comedic country-pop songs about arousal. Such is the case of Musgraves\u2019 \u201cDry Spell,\u201d the first single from her highly-anticipated seventh studio album, \u201cMiddle of Nowhere,\u201d out Friday, May 1. But a one trick pony she is not. The release was inspired by her home state of Texas, as evidenced by a song she premiered at Coachella earlier this month: \u201cUncertain, TX,\u201d which on the album features the patron saint of the Lone Star State, Willie Nelson.<\/a><\/span> Yeehaw and carry on.<\/p>\n \u2014 Many might know the Irish-language, Belfast-based hip-hop trio Kneecap from the headlines they inspire: From criticism for their political statements, which previously saw them banned in Canada and Hungary<\/a><\/span> \u2014 they\u2019ve accused critics<\/a><\/span> of trying to silence them because of their support for the Palestinian cause throughout the war in Gaza \u2014 to their BAFTA award-winning self-titled biopic<\/a><\/span>. But Kneecap is a hip-hop group with a DIY ethos, and a hip-hop group with a DIY ethos they remain. On Friday, May 1, listeners will be able to form their own opinions: They\u2019ll release another new album, titled \u201cFENIAN,\u201d a reference to the 19th-century Irish revolutionaries dedicated to independence from British colonial rule. It opens with \u201c\u00c9ire go Deo,\u201d a rallying cry for the protection of the Irish language, and builds in intensity from there.<\/p>\n \u2014 Even if you haven\u2019t heard of them, you\u2019ve heard them \u2014 or the results of their legacy. American Football, like the cult classic film version of a rock band, have been undeniably influential in independent music circles for the last three decades. That\u2019s namely for their role as progenitors of a very distinct guitar sound often referred to as \u201ctwinkly,\u201d or with the genre term \u201cMidwest emo.\u201d It is an immediately recognizable sound, defined by it\u2019s characteristics: An unusual, complex time signature, intricate fingerpicking and tapping but with a clean tone, no distortion, generous reverb and so on. If that\u2019s too technical an explanation, just press play on their latest album, \u201cLP4.\u201d It\u2019s not too late to become obsessed. And \u201cNo Feeling,\u201d which features Brendan Yates of the Grammy-award winning<\/a><\/span> Turnstile, is not a bad place to begin.<\/p>\n \u2014 A new high-concept album from Tori Amos?<\/a><\/span> Why not! On Friday, May 1, she\u2019ll release \u201cIn Times of Dragons,\u201d a 17-track release that sees the singer performing an alternative universe version of herself as she \u201ccontinues her flight from a dangerous and powerful billionaire husband,\u201d according to the record\u2019s official press materials. It\u2019s allegorical and political, to be sure, and she\u2019s not going it alone. She\u2019s joined by the \u201cGasoline Girls\u201d \u2014 there\u2019s power in numbers \u2014 which is also a jaunty piano number about not giving up the good fight.<\/p>\n \u2014 AP Music Writer Maria Sherman<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2014 Roku has a new program for younger first time home buyers. \u201cThis First House<\/a><\/span> \u201d follows millennial and Gen Z families as they go through the daunting process of buying a home. They\u2019re guided by renovation experts Zack and Camille Dettmore. The show is a spinoff of the PBS staple \u201cThis Old House.\u201d It hits The Roku Channel on Monday.<\/p>\n \u2014 The TV adaptation of Isabel Allende\u2019<\/a><\/span> s beloved novel \u201cThe House of the Spirits\u201d<\/a><\/span> debuts on Prime Video on Wednesday. The Spanish-language series follows the trials and tribulations of a multi-generational Latin family. The cast includes Alfonso Herrera, Dolores Fonzi and Nicole Wallace with Allende and Eva Longoria among executive producers.<\/p>\n \u2014 Matthew Rhys plays the mayor of a small coastal town that\u2019s more creepy than charming in a new horror comedy for Apple TV called \u201cWidow\u2019s Bay.\u201d<\/a><\/span> He wants to make the island a tourist destination but the locals aren\u2019t on board. The reason? They think it\u2019s haunted. The series launches Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u2014 If you don\u2019t scroll through real estate websites fantasizing about your dream home then what do you do with your downtime? HGTV\u2019s \u201cZillow Gone Wild\u201d is hosted by Jack McBrayer and takes you on a tour of some of these outrageous houses. A new season begins streaming Saturday, May 2 on HBO Max.<\/p>\n \u2014 Alicia Rancilio<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2014 Artemis II made space travel look fun, but things get scarier the farther you get from Earth. Take Carcosa, the setting of Sony\u2019s Saros<\/a><\/span>. Not only is it filled with hostile life-forms, but the planet itself is a shape-shifter \u2014 meaning its geography changes with each new mission. Fortunately, you have an arsenal of high-tech weapons as well as a nifty shield that absorbs alien projectiles and sends them back as missiles. Housemarque, the Finnish studio that helped launch the PlayStation 5 with 2021\u2019s Returnal, calls it \u201cbullet ballet, evolved.\u201d Start dancing Thursday on PS5.<\/p>\nNew movies to stream from April 27-May 3<\/h2>\n
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