The Creator, the latest film from Rogue One director Gareth Edwards, takes a strong stance against war and America’s worldwide interventionism in particular, pointing out its human cost. The movie is filled with anti-war imagery and messaging, but according to Edwards, it also gained a surprising connection to a real-life war in the middle of filming.
What to stream this week: Drake, Doja Cat, 'Sex Education,' 'The Super Models' and 'Superpower'
18.09.2023 - 02:27 / tech.hindustantimes.com / Zachary Levi / Robert Rodriguez
The return of Netflix's “Sex Education” with Gillian Anderson, Sean Penn's documentary about Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a docuseries that charts the rise of the first supermodels 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 albums Doja Cat and Drake, and a reboot of Robert Rodriguez's “Spy Kids" franchise with a film starring Gina Rodriguez and Zachary Levi.
NEW MOVIES TO STREAM
— In Mexican lucha libra wrestling, exóticos traditionally are male fighters dressed in drag who offer a campy contrast to the machismo of the main-event matches. “Cassandro,” premiering Friday, Sept. 22 on Amazon Prime Video, stars Gael Garcia Bernal as a pioneering exótico named Saúl Armendáriz who rose to become one of the biggest stars in Mexican wrestling. In my review of the film, directed by Roger Ross Williams, I wrote that Armendáriz's transformation of the exótico into something more than was prescribed by lucha tradition makes for a stirring metaphor for gay empowerment.
— Robert Rodriguez's “Spy Kids” movies are pluckily still going, more than two decades after the director — with his kids in tow — first launched the admirably goofy, charmingly childlike espionage fantasy. The family film franchise, begun with the 2001 original, had tapered off by the time the lackluster fourth installment, “Spy Kids: All the Time in the World,” was released in 2011. But Rodriguez and clan return for a reboot in Netflix's “Spy Kids: Armageddon,” debuting Friday, Sept. 22. The film, written by Rodriguez and his 26-year-old son, Racer, stars Gina Rodriguez and Zachary Levi.
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
NEW MUSIC TO STREAM
— Long gone are the days of the viral retro-hit “Say So” – but who could expect the pop experimentalist Doja Cat to stay in one lane? (Anyone who remembers the viral “Moo! (B---- I'm a Cow)” video that made her an internet star would know better.) On “Scarlet,” Doja Cat bids adieu to her former self and in the hardest rap verses of her career, demands listeners' heed. Like on the lead single, “Attention,” a criticism of normalizing parasocial relationships, or “Demons,” where she spits, “Are you off a key/I would never let you in my VIP/ We are enemies, we are foes/Who are you? And what are those?” while embodying her inner — and outer — incubus.
— Drake is no stranger to an inventive roll-out: the OVO rapper has a preference for surprise drops (last year's “Honesty, Nevermind” is evidence enough). But this year, he gave fans a bit of a heads up for his highly-anticipated “For all the Dogs” album. At select dates, on stage at his massively popular “It's All A Blur” Tour,
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