New this week: Ed Sheeran, Watergate and Pete Davidson
This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Ed Sheeran, Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux co-starring in the comic Watergate-era series “White House Plumbers” for HBO, and Netflix hoping to convince Jewish singles to settle down in the series “Jewish Matchmaking.”
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week.
NEW MOVIES TO STREAM
— In “A Man Called Otto,” Tom Hanks stars as a despondent and ornery widower whose suicide plans keep getting foiled by the needs of his neighbors. When it played in theaters in December, the Sony Pictures release proved the rare adult-oriented success at the box office, and grossed more than $100 million globally. Marc Forster’s adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s bestseller and remake of the 2016 Swedish film “A Man Called Ove" arrives Saturday, May 6, on Netflix. In my review, I wrote that Hanks' role “interestingly, if not always entirely successfully, caters to his strengths while tweaking his familiar screen presence.”
— A new series on the Criterion Channel pegs the 1980s as the birth of Asian American cinema. The 12 collected films — mostly products of the independent film movement — chronicle some of the inroads Asian Americans made in mainstream film while exploring new definitions of identity. Among the films here are several by Wayne Wang (1982's “Chan Is Missing” and 1985's “Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart”), Peter Wang's China-set culture-clash comedy “A Great Wall” (1986) and Steven Okazaki's 1987 rom-com “Living on Tokyo Time.”
