What to stream this week: Nicki Minaj’s birthday album, Julia Roberts is in hassle and Monk returns

A Nicki Minaj album dropping on her birthday and the return of Tony Shalhoub’s quirky non-public investigator Adrian Monk with one closing case are among the new tv, films, music and video games headed to a tool close to you.

Also among the many streaming choices price your time as chosen by The Associated Press’ leisure journalists are Julia Roberts starring within the psychological thriller “Leave the World Behind” and the brand new Britbox miniseries “Archie,” telling the story of how Cary Grant went from humble beginnings to develop into certainly one of Hollywood’s dapperest main males.

– “Mr. Robot” creator Sam Esmail directs Julia Roberts within the new psychological thriller he tailored from Rumaan Alam’s novel for Netflix. In “Leave the World Behind,” An advert government (Roberts), her faculty professor husband (Ethan Hawke) and youngsters (Charlie Evans and Farrah Mackenzie) are spending the weekend in an opulent rental on Long Island. Late one evening two strangers (Mahershala Ali and Myha’la) present up with information of a cyberattack and blackout, claiming that the home is theirs and searching for refuge. No one is kind of certain who to belief because the apocalypse looms. “Leave the World Behind” will probably be accessible to look at on Netflix on Friday, Dec. 8.

– Indie auteur Kelly Reichardt (“First Cow,” “Wendy and Lucy”) reunites along with her longtime muse Michelle Williams for the fourth time in “Showing Up,” a couple of ceramic artist in Portland, Oregon that begins streaming on Paramount+ on Thursday. Hong Chau co-stars as her landlady in a movie that AP Film Writer Jake Coyle wrote was concerning the “The compulsions and pains of making modest, hand-crafted art. ” In an interview earlier this yr, Reichardt mentioned, “We were trying to make a film about someone who’s caught up in balancing the day-to-day, someone for whom working is like eating, but life has all these other demands of you.”

– Photojournalist Amanda Mustard turns her lens to her family, investigating sexual abuses dedicated by her grandfather in “Great Photo, Lovely Life,” streaming on MAX on Tuesday. On this eight-year-journey, Mustard tries to uncover the abuses, coverups and secrecy – her grandfather was a chiropractor in Pennsylvania – and perceive the influence of the generational trauma inflicted on her household.

– AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr

– Nicki Minaj has motive to have a good time and so can we. The rapper’s “Pink Friday 2” album lands on Friday, Dec. 8, her birthday. “This entire album will be the biggest gift I have ever given humanity thus far,” she modestly says of the album that has been 5 years within the making. “I have never in my life been so in love with something that I’m working on.” Its lead single, “Super Freaky Girl,” dropped again in August. As a body of reference, the 10-time Grammy-nominated artist dropped her debut album “Pink Friday” in 2010.

– There’s excellent news when you’re burning, burning for Blue Öyster Cult: The traditional rock band is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with an album of three reside sold-out exhibits, “50th Anniversary Live – First Night.” The set is constructed round three sold-out exhibits the band performed in September 2022 at Sony Hall in New York City. Each present featured the band enjoying in its entirety certainly one of their first three albums (“Blue Öyster Cult”, “Tyranny and Mutation” and “Secret Treaties”), adopted by a set of deep cuts and classics from their different albums.

– Neil Young is wanting again with “Before and After,” an album of solo acoustic re-recordings of songs from his deep catalog. The album will function an “eclectic” recent takes on songs like “My Heart,” “On the Way Home” and “Mother Earth.” “The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece – designed to be listened to that way. This music presentation defies shuffling, digital organization, separation,” the singer-songwriter warns. There’s additionally the beforehand unreleased music “If You Got Love.”

– AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy

– Production on season three of Prime Video’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty” hasn’t begun but however there’s a brand new swoon-worthy teen romance a couple of love triangle with two brothers coming to Netflix. In “My Life with the Walter Boys,” a lately orphaned teen named Jackie strikes from New York to Colorado to reside along with her mom’s finest pal – and her 10 sons. Jackie should modify to a brand new residence, new college, new household, and new emotions for 2 of the brothers, Alex and Cole. “My Life with the Walter Boys” is tailored from a novel initially revealed on Wattpad. All 10 episodes drop Thursday.

– Grab your hand sanitizer as a result of Tony Shalhoub is reviving his Emmy Award-winning character, Adrian Monk, a non-public investigator with OCD, whom he performed for eight seasons on USA. “Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie” premieres Friday, Dec. 8 on Peacock. Original sequence stars Ted Levine, Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford, Melora Hardin and Hector Elizondo additionally return.

– Alicia Rancilio

– The “Avatar” movies have loads of video-game DNA, from their immersive 3D graphics to the thought of people just about exploring an alien world. It’s been some time, although, since we’ve gotten an opportunity to play in James Cameron’s universe. Ubisoft is about to bridge the hole with Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The protagonist is a Na’vi warrior who’s out for revenge after being held captive for years by the militaristic Resources Development Administration. The developer guarantees to point out wildlife and areas of Pandora that we haven’t but seen on IMAX screens, and also you’ll have the ability to wield each Na’vi and human weapons as you attempt to destroy the RDA’s smoke-belching factories. Your banshee will probably be able to take off Thursday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S and PC.

– Lou Kesten