One of the singles, ”A&W,” offers a glimpse at the sing-songwriter’s bleak poetry: “Puts the shower on while he calls me/Slips out the back door to talk to me/I’m invisible, look how you hold me/I’m a ghost now.” The album features Jack Antonoff, Father John Misty, Jon Batiste and more. Now she’s got “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd” set to drop Friday. Fans of Lana Del Rey got two albums in 2021 - “Chemtrails Over the Country Club” and Blue Banisters” but nothing full-length in 2022. You can’t go wrong but a few highlights: Keaton’s glorious Olympic finale in “College” his deft ladder balancing act in “Cops” and his escape, through a high window, from an angry police chief-slash-furious-father in “The Goat.” With apologies to Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, nobody did it better. With five features and more than a dozen shorts, the series is an unbeatable feast. This month, the Criterion Channel has been paying tribute to the greatest comic artist of the 20th century: Buster Keaton. In his review, AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy called “Maverick” “a textbook example of how to make a sequel.” After an uncommonly long run in theaters, a lucrative stop on video on demand and a streaming launch on Paramount+, “Top Gun Maverick” arrives on a larger streaming platform Friday, March 24th, when it touches down on Amazon’s Prime Video. But one of the biggest box office hits of the year otherwise struck out at the Oscars. “Top Gun: Maverick” did come away with an Academy Award, for best sound. In her review, AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr called the film” a “holistic portrait of an artist’s battle cry.” After debuting Sunday, March 19, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” is available to stream on HBO Max. Though the film didn’t win at the Oscars - something Goldin told me she was surprised to find she wanted - it took the top prize of the Venice Film Festival. Goldin, who has herself wrestled with addiction, led the campaign to eradicate the Sackler name from many of the world’s top museums. In it, Laura Poitras chronicles the pioneering photographer Nan Goldin, juxtaposing an intimate survey of her groundbreaking work in 1970s and 1980s New York and her contemporary crusade against the Sackler family, owners of the Oxycontin-maker Purdue Pharma. The Oscar-nominated “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” was one of the high points in documentary in the past year. The album’s greater message is that society needs to crumble in order to rebuild itself.From Lana Del Rey's latest album to the new spy thriller series “The Night Agent,” here's a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music and video game platforms this week. We live in a time right now, where we believe that history is a thing of the past, and everything that we live through here and going forward is eternal. I think a lot of the Victorian times are similar to what we’re experiencing now, in the sense that industrialism is phasing out mankind. The album revolves around the great dangers and changes that loomed around at the time, where dangerous jobs are being taken care of by machines but people are being laid off. To cast Papa Emeritus’ cynical eye over corruption and madness and observe how, for both good and ill, everything, everywhere eventually ends. the falling of empires, periods of great change, seeing things become too powerful and collapse under their own soporific weight and ushering in the start of a new era in the fallout. As writer Nick Ruskell describes it in a recent Kerrang! article: Ghost’s 5 th album Impera is thematically set in the Victorian era.
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