Mieli was unruffled. “Inflation will disappear,” he promised.
Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’and her fiancé, producer and songwriter Benny Blanco, will release a joint album, Dennis Quaid stars in Paramount+’s true-crime series “Happy Face” about a serial killer and Assassin’s Creed Shadows brings Ubisoft’s globetrotting, time-hopping gaming epic to feudal Japan.
— There’s plenty of Oscar winners and contenders coming to streaming services now that the show is over, starting withdebuting on Hulu on Monday. Filmmaker Sean Baker’s odyssey of a Brooklyn sex worker, whose whirlwind affair with the wild son of a Russian oligarch goes very wrong also won best director, best editing and best actress forBaker devoted most of his Oscars speech to the importance of making movies for and seeing movies on the big screen, but don’t worry we won’t tell if you decide to watch this one on the small screen first. Just put the phone down: It’s a ride worth taking.
— Another big Oscar player, perhaps “Anora’s” complete opposite as a big, lavishly expensive studio musical, “Wicked” starts streaming on Peacock on Friday. There will also be a singalong version available and some bonus content for the super fans. Filmmaker Jon M. Chu took on the gargantuan task of adapting the Broadway musical for the big screen, and he went all out. In her review for The Associated Press,“If it feels like they made the best “Wicked” movie money could buy — well, it’s because they kinda did.” The film won two Oscars, for costume and production design.
— And, finally, a gem which got a little lost in the mix, “Sing Sing” arrives on Max on Friday. This inspired-by-real-life film about inmates who find a creative outlet through acting and performance earned three Oscar nominations: For Colman Domingo’s lead role, for the adapted screenplay, and for best original song, but don’t let its 0/3 wins detract you from a watch. “It’s a cinematic high-five to all arts programs behind bars and, in particular, the power of theater,” AP’s
“The movie’s most affecting scenes are the ones that follow the inmates doing the craft — tender auditions, reciting their lines while doing chores and working on their characters. Watching them giddy backstage in costume before a show is all of us.”swimming across the Ångerman River, some 300 kilometers (187 miles) northwest of Stockholm, in the annual spring migration toward summer grazing pastures.
The program kicked off April 15, a week ahead of schedule due to warm weather and early moose movement.Johan Erhag, SVT’s project manager for “The Great Moose Migration,” said this year’s crew will have produced 478 hours of footage — “which we are very satisfied with,” he wrote in an email to The Associated Press Saturday evening.
This undated photo, issued by SVT, shows Moose in Junsele, Sweden during preparations for the livestream ‘The Great Moose Migration’ to document the annual Moose migration near Kullberg in northern Sweden. (SVT via AP)This undated photo, issued by SVT, shows Moose in Junsele, Sweden during preparations for the livestream ‘The Great Moose Migration’ to document the annual Moose migration near Kullberg in northern Sweden. (SVT via AP)