What's streaming now: 'Barbie,' Dan & Shay, 'The Morning Show' and 'Welcome to Wrexham'

16.09.2023 - 05:39 / tech.hindustantimes.com / Greta Gerwig

Tunes from Dan & Shay and Vic Mensa plus a genre-blending Hulu series “The Other Black Girl” set inside the world of publishing are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you

Among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists are a joyous season two of “Welcome to Wrexham,” “Barbie” can be bought for $30 and Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon return for season three of “The Morning Show.”

“Barbie” is finally coming to the small screen, giving audiences everywhere the freedom to belt out “I'm Just Ken” along with Ryan Gosling without shame. It'll come at a cost, though, at least for a little while. Greta Gerwig's billion-dollar blockbuster is available to buy on video-on-demand for a cool $29.99. The film took on a life of its own after a wild marketing blitz and “Oppenheimer” proximity, inspiring moviegoers to don their pinkest, most sparkly ensembles for group trips to the theaters. With over $1.3 billion in global ticket sales, it has ascended to become the biggest movie of the year, the biggest in Warner Bros. 100-year-history and the biggest live-action movie directed by a woman. AP's Jocelyn Noveck wrote in her review that, “Barbie” "can simultaneously and smoothly both mock and admire its source material."

Unlike “Barbie,” Disney and Pixar's latest offering “Elemental” did not set the cultural conversation, or box office, on fire this summer. Lost in the sea of pre- Barbenheimer fizzles, the film imagines a city where anthropomorphized elements (fire, water, earth and air) live separately from and in fear of one another. In a marketplace void of meaningful offerings for young kids however “Elemental” did slide its way to $480 million globally, but if you failed to catch it in theaters, is on Disney . In his review, AP Film Writer Jake Coyle asked where it fits in the Pixar canon. “Probably in the lower half,” Coyle wrote. “But ‘Elemental' — sincere and clever, with a splash of dazzle — comes closer to rekindling some of the old Pixar magic than some recent entries. ”

And for something completely different, and definitely not for kids, Netflix has Pablo Larraín's “El Conde” arriving Friday. The director of “Spencer” and “Jackie” returns to his home country to make a dark satire about Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a 250-year-old vampire who'd like to die. With cinematography from the great Ed Lachmann and a smart allegorical take on history repeating itself, “El Conde” is stunning to behold. It also coincides with the 50-year-anniversary of the coup that brought Pinochet to power.

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