Antelope Valley Press

‘Top Gun,’ Lana Del Rey and ‘Rabbit Hole’

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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.

Movies

• The Oscar-nominated “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” was one of the high points in documentar­y in the past year. In it, Laura Poitras chronicles the pioneering photograph­er Nan Goldin, juxtaposin­g an intimate survey of her groundbrea­king work in 1970s and 1980s New York and her contempora­ry crusade against the Sackler family, owners of the Oxycontin-maker Purdue Pharma. After debuting Sunday, March 19, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” is available to stream on HBO Max

• “Top Gun: Maverick” did come away with an Academy Award, for best sound. But one of the biggest box office hits of the year otherwise struck out at the Oscars. After an uncommonly long run in theaters, a lucrative stop on video on demand and a streaming launch on Paramount+, “Top Gun Maverick” arrives on a larger streaming platform Friday, March 24, when it touches down on Amazon’s Prime Video

• This month, the Criterion Channel has been paying tribute to the greatest comic artist of the 20th century: Buster Keaton.

Music

• Fans of Lana Del Rey got two albums in 2021 — “Chemtrails Over the Country Club” and Blue Banisters” but nothing fulllength in 2022. Now she’s got “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd” set to drop Friday

• Do you have what it takes to be a country music’s next big star? Then tune into Apple TV+’s “My Kind of Country,” in which Jimmie Allen, Mickey Guyton and Orville Peck search for talented amateur artists and invite them to Nashville, Tenn., for a showcase. Reese Witherspoo­n and Kacey Musgraves also are featured in the series, set to premiere globally on Friday.

Television

• Fans of shows including “Jack Ryan” and “The Recruit,” about low-level government agency workers who get pulled into danger and secret missions, should check out “The Night Agent” on Netflix. “The Night Agent” debuts Thursday

• Mae Whitman, bestknown for her roles in “Parenthood” and “Good Girls,” demonstrat­es she can also sing in her new rom-com series “Up Here” for Hulu. Set in 1999 in New York, Whitman plays Lindsay, who falls for Miguel — played by Carlos Valdes (“The Flash” and “Gaslit”) — and the will-they, won’t-they find a happily ever after ensues. The series boasts some major behind-the-scenes musical talent. All eight episodes drop Friday, the same day the soundtrack lands

• Kiefer Sutherland is back with another highstakes TV drama in “Rabbit Hole” for Paramount+. He plays John Weir, a corporate spy skilled in the art of deception — until he finds the rug pulled out from underneath him and he is framed for murder. Weir goes from having total control to none, and unsure of who can be trusted. “Rabbit Hole” premieres with two episodes on Sunday.

Video games

• Annapurna Interactiv­e has developed a nearly impeccable reputation among connoisseu­rs of indie video games, from 2017’s groundbrea­king mystery What Remains of Edith Finch to 2022’s futuristic cat sim Stray. The publisher’s latest release is Storytelle­r, a long-brewing project from Argentine designer Daniel Benmergui. The premise is simple: You have a library of characters, objects, events and other plot devices, and your job is arrange them to tell a particular type of tale. It’s a puzzle game that pays homage to classic literature, and the graphics ooze charm. Start spinning your own yarns Thursday on Nintendo Switch and PC

• Death, the CEO of Death Inc., is burned out. His top minions — the executives in charge of Natural Disasters, Modern Warfare, Toxic Food-Processing and other misery-producing department­s — are going about their business way too enthusiast­ically, and Death needs them to settle down before he drowns in paperwork. In Have a Nice Death, from France’s Magic Design Studios, you wield Death’s scythe as he hacks and slashes his way through the red tape.

The vibrant, angular 2D graphics are reminiscen­t of the classic Rayman, which some members of Magic Design’s team worked on. The not-so-grim reaping comes to Nintendo Switch and PC on Wednesday.

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