What to Stream: ‘The Bear,’ Lorde, ‘Smoke,’ ‘A Minecraft Movie,’ ‘Nosferatu’ and Nelly and Ashanti

June 23, 2025

The Jack Black-led movie phenomenon "A Minecraft Movie" and Lorde's fourth studio album, "Virgin," are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time, as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists: All 10 episodes of season four of FX's "The Bear" drop Wednesday, Nelly and Ashanti get their own reality show and Bill Skarsgård leads an update of the 1922 silent vampire classic "Nosferatu." New movies to stream from June 23-29 — The Porky Pig and Daffy Duck movie "The Day The Earth ...

Mr. Miyagi’s absence is felt in ‘Karate Kid: Legends’

June 2, 2025

Mr. Miyagi was known for waxing poetic. So the fact that "Karate Kid: Legends" has nothing to say is all the more disappointing. One of the most interesting aspects of the original "The Karate Kid" and its early sequels is Mr. Miyagi's radical proclivity for mercy, often mistaken for ...

What to Stream: Krasinski and Portman search for ‘Fountain of Youth,’ and Joe Jonas’ album

May 19, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Jonas' sophomore solo album Work It Out" and John Krasinski and Natalie Portman searching for immortality in Guy Ritchie's adventure movie "Fountain of Youth" are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming ...

This summer at the movies, superheroes, from ‘Superman’ to ‘Fantastic Four,’ return

May 12, 2025

Superman already has a lot on his broad shoulders. It seems unfair to add the fate of Hollywood to his worries. But that's the kind of pressure that comes with being one of the biggest stars in the comic book universe, who is getting a grand reintroduction at a tumultuous time. Thankfully ...

‘Thunderbolts’ is Marvel, and Florence Pugh, in high gear

May 5, 2025

As they so often do in Marvel Land, worlds collide in "Thunderbolts." But in this refreshingly earthbound iteration of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the collision isn't a matter of interplanetary strife. "Thunderbolts" has been touted as the unlikely meeting of two of the dominant forces in ...

A tactile, retro-coded fantasy in ‘The Legend of Ochi’

April 28, 2025

"The Legend of Ochi," a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on and loved as a kid. Something tactile, something fantastical and, maybe, something a little dangerous — the kind of movie ...