What to Stream: Harry Styles, ‘War Machine,’ Steve Carell and ‘Young Sherlock’
Harry Styles’ fourth solo album, “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally,” and Guy Ritchie’s detective series “Young Sherlock” are some of the new television, films and music headed to a device near you.
– For anyone catching up with this year’s Oscar nominees, both Jafar Panahi’s darkly comedic revenge film “It Was Just an Accident” and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” are streaming on Hulu starting in March. Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winner is vying for best international feature and best original screenplay at the Oscars. “The Secret Agent” is up for best picture, best actor (Wagner Moura), best international feature and best casting.
– Netflix has a new sci-fi action pic called “War Machine” streaming on Friday. This new film stars Alan Ritchson as an Army Ranger who while on a training mission comes across a deadly machine that relentlessly hunts him and his peers.
– He hath returned: Harry Styles is back with his fourth solo album, “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally,” out Friday via Columbia Records. Details are sparse: He described the album as “an audio representation of a long diary entry” in a Q&A with his stylist Harry Lambert in The Sunday Times Magazine. He’s teased the release as a direct reflection of his time spent out of the spotlight in Rome.
– Denzel Curry and The Scythe (made up of rappers Bktherula, TiaCorine, Key Nyata and Ferg) are back at it with “Strictly 4 The Scythe.” Call them the exemplar Southern rap crew. This dream team sounds like they’re having more fun than anyone else in the game.
– Scott Speedman’s charisma is on full display in the new ABC series “R.J. Decker.” Speedman plays a former newspaper photographer and ex-con who has decided to forge a new path as a private investigator. The show takes place in South Florida where the cases can be bonkers, because Florida.
– Before Sherlock Holmes became the world’s greatest detective, he studied at Oxford University. That’s the backdrop for Prime Video’s “Young Sherlock,” starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin as the titular character. The series is executive produced and directed by Guy Ritchie and has all the qualities you would expect from a Ritchie production: action sequences, fast pacing and smart dialogue.
– “Ted” the TV series returns for a second season Thursday on Peacock. It’s about the early days of the foul-mouthed teddy bear (Seth MacFarlane) and his best friend John (Max Burkholder) who is in high school.
– Steve Carell stars in the new feel-good comedy “Rooster” for HBO. He plays a best-selling author who takes a job at a college where his daughter is also a professor and going through a tough time.
