“Black Bird,” inspired by real events, is a crime drama with an enviable pedigree: Its creator is novelist Dennis Lehane (“Mystic River,” “Gone Baby Gone”), whose TV credits include “The Wire.” The cast is a match, topped by Taron Egerton (“Rocketman”) as a onetime golden boy turned convicted drug dealer. It marks the first time the band worked with producer Flood, and they also reteamed with co-producer Alan Moulder. The band began writing the album remotely in 2020 before meeting in upstate New York and finishing the project in London. “Still in shape, my methods refined,” Paul Banks sings in a line that could very well apply to Interpol itself. Interpol are back with their seventh album, the 11-track “The Other Side of Make-Believe.” The lead single, “Toni,” is a melancholy masterpiece of jangling guitar and layers of interesting things that reveal themselves with every listen. An exciting talent, Beabadoobee has notes of Alanis Morissette, The Cranberries and The Smashing Pumpkins. “You don’t exist/You’re just a bad decision.” The album builds on her 2020 debut album “Fake It Flowers” and the fantastic “Our Extended Play” EP that was co-written and produced by Matty Healy and George Daniels of The 1975. The fuzzed-out single “10:36” has her trademark ’90s indie rock vibe and ”Talk” has an Avril Levine-like strut in its kiss-off to a lover: “We go together like the gum on my shoes,” she sings.
Bea Laus, who performs as Beabadoobee, will release her sophomore album “Beatopia” on Friday. Both singles use samples: “About Damn Time” samples the song “Hey DJ” by The World’s Famous Supreme Team and “Grrrls” samples the song “Girls” performed by Beastie Boys, Lizzo apologized and edited the song to remove the word. She performed the first single, “About Damn Time,” on ”Saturday Night Live.” Another single, “Grrrls” had a bumpier debut after she offended disability advocates with the use of a word considered a slur derived from spastic diplegia. Lizzo returns with her fourth album, “Special,” on Friday. The kids are dreaming of summer plans and the parents are trying to save the burger joint from financial ruin when a skeleton turns up in a pit outside the restaurant and suddenly there is a mystery to be solved. “The Bob’s Burgers Movie” finds the Belcher crew (all original voices) at the end of the schoolyear. Take it from someone who has seen exactly one episode of “Bob’s Burgers” ever: You don’t need to have watched the long-running show to enjoy the movie, which comes to Hulu and HBO Max on Tuesday. A late movie karaoke scene also might have you wondering why John Cho hasn’t starred in a movie musical yet.
Yes, there is a cancer element, and some tears are guaranteed, but this film, written by “This is Us” writer Vera Herbert and directed by Hannah Marks, has more heart and comedic moments than the logline might give it credit for. A single father, Max (John Cho), and his teenage daughter, Wally, (charming newcomer Mia Isaac) take a road trip across the country in “Don’t Make Me Go,” coming to Amazon Prime Video on Friday. The film also introduces audiences to Cosmo Jarvis in a star making turn as Anne’s first love, Captain Frederick Wentworth. Starring Dakota Johnson as the “past her prime” heroine Anne Elliot, “Persuasion,” debuting on Netflix on Friday, is still set in Regency-era England but with some distinctly modern flourishes and a subversively comedic voice. Jane Austen’s last completed novel “Persuasion” gets a fresh spin from British theater director Carrie Cracknell. Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
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