Jurassic World rebirth, new Florence + the Machine album out this week
“Jurassic World Rebirth” roaring and snarling on Peacock and Florence + the Machine’s latest Halloween-ready album, “Everybody Scream,” are some of the new television, films and music headed to a device near you.
Movies to stream from Oct. 27 to Nov. 2
Eva Victor’s “Sorry, Baby” comes to HBO Max on Thursday. Victor wrote, directed and stars as Agnes, a graduate student in a quaint New England town, who is assaulted by her professor.
Tessa Thompson and Nina Hoss are brilliant in Nia DaCosta’s fiery, sensuous reimagining of the classic Henrik Ibsen drama “Hedda,” which is streaming on Prime Video on Wednesday. The film transports the “catastrophically bored” housewife to 1950s England where Hedda (Thomson) manipulates and schemes over the course of a lavish party at her country estate.
Colin Farrell plays a high-stakes gambler running away from his past in Macao in “Ballad of a Small Player,” streaming on Netflix on Wednesday.
“Jurassic World Rebirth” also makes its Peacock debut on Oct. 30.
Music
Leading up to Florence + the Machine’s latest album, “Everybody Scream,” out on Halloween, frontwoman Florence Welch suffered the effects of an ectopic pregnancy onstage. A fallopian tube then ruptured and she nearly died. It’s a harrowing story, one that no doubt lends itself to the thematic horrors that abound on the band’s record. The title is appropriate. But for all the tragedy, there are pleasures across the release.
The nine-member Japanese boy band &TEAM will release their debut Korean album, “Back to Life,” via HYBE Japan and YX LABELS on Tuesday. It’s a big step for the group whose members first turned heads on the South Korean survival show “I-Land” and the Japanese program “&Audition — The Howling.”
Series
Adapting novels by Mick Herron has worked out for Apple TV with its acclaimed series “Slow Horses.” Now, they've got “Down Cemetery Road," also from Herron's catalog. It stars Emma Thompson as a brazen, brash detective and Ruth Wilson as her unlikely Girl Friday.
A new “Robin Hood” reimagining on MGM+ is described as “a romance adventure.” It stars Jack Patten and Lauren McQueen as Robin (he goes by Rob) and Marian, who fight corruption together. Sean Bean plays the main antagonist, the Sheriff of Nottingham. The 10-episode series debuts Sunday, Nov. 2.
