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“Stranger Things 3” review: The New DVDs Tribune News Service Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to same formula and New Coke, too change: By Verne Gay July 9 Newsday Pet Sematary Little WHAT IT’S ABOUT: A mall has After come to Hawkins, Ind., but there’s High Life something strange about this shiny Broad City: Season Five new establishment, packed with Gotham: Season 5 shiny new stores – real, recogniz- The Magicians: Season Four able ones, in fact. Or is that strange The Professor “something” what lies beneath? The mall is a magnet for the gang – Elev- July 16 en (Millie Bobby Brown), Lucas Shazam! (Caleb McLaughlin), Dustin (Gaten Breakthrough Matarazzo), Mike (Finn Wolfhard) Teen Spirit and Max (Sadie Sink). Lucas’ wise- Little Woods acre little sister, Erica (newcomer Abduction Priah Ferguson), is one of the mall Criminal Minds: Season 14 rats, too. Meanwhile, Billy (Dacre Fast Color Montgomery) is pool lifeguard, and Titans: The Complete First still, surprise, conceited. Season Oh, and speaking of magnets and July 23 rats – real ones – they’re behaving Alita: Battle Angel strangely in Hawkins. Hellboy This third season begins late June Missing Link 1985 and wraps a few days later, on Master Z: Ip Man Legacy July 4. Critters Attack MY SAY: Before getting their Manifest: Season 1 hands on these eight episodes, Netf- July 30 lix made critics promise not to reveal Cast at the “Stranger Things” Season 3 World Premiere at the Santa Monica High School on Sunday in Santa Monica, Calif. The Intruder a laundry list of spoilers – so long Courtesy Long Shot that just about the only thing we can UglyDolls safely reveal is that, yes, “Stranger the third; Mike/El is hot enough. of the can in the fifth episode. Domino Things 3” is indeed still set in fiction- “Stranger Things” Even Dustin, back for the summer That’s right: Coke will briefly re- al Hawkins. But such lists and such from science camp, insists he’s got a launch the greatest marketing fiasco El Chicano The Good Place: Season Three promises are largely irrelevant any- Now streaming on Netflix. girlfriend, and pulls out his ham in its history as tribute to “Stranger way. Devoted fans who studied the radio set to prove her existence (he Things” and that long-ago moment. The Hot Zone promos already have a good idea, or says she lives in Utah). Then there’s In fact, “Stranger Things 3” has be- keeps its culinary priorities in order, August 6 at least a good vague idea of what to Steve (Joe Keery), former boyfriend come a relentless engine of promo- Pokémon: Detective Pikachu too. Hawkins is entirely back to nor- expect, and everyone else will just of Nancy, who may also have found a tional tie-ins, and that’s where the The Curse of La Llorona mal, as if nothing ever happened, or have to watch. new romantic interest in Robin (se- fancy new mall comes in. Burger Poms as if a 50-foot-tall spider-monster- King has a prominent role, or least But here is one reveal which is ries newcomer Maya Hawke). They Tolkien brain-vacuum-cleaner known as the position, and so does Jazzercise, more like reassurance – the formula both work at a mall ice cream stand Amazing Grace Mind Flayer had never even terror- Zales, J.C. Penney and many others. remains exactly the same. Reliable, with a nautical theme, Scoops Ahoy. The Souvenir durable and comfortable, “ST3” is ized this sylvan all-American mu- “Stranger Things” is now one of the But once again, Will (Noah Batman: Hush what you’d expect and certainly nicipality last season. Schnapp) occupies the series’ emo- most expensive franchises on TV, Donnybrook what you want, if what you “want” is As the reset and summer begins, tional heart. He just wants to play and perhaps the Starcourt Mall was Knightfall: Season 2 seasons 1 and 2, with a few big twists love is in the air, or at least the air Dungeons & Dragons, like the good seen as a way to help pay for it. along the way. surrounding Mike and El, and some old days, and everyone else wants to Meanwhile, the big questions: LEGO DC: Batman: Family Matters w/ LEGO Batmobile Brothers and series creators Matt of the air around Hopper (David grow up. Will doesn’t, and to really Does little Hawkins even need a Premium and Ross Duffer didn’t waltz into this Harbour) and Joyce (Winona appreciate – and to a certain degree mall? Will Billy ever stop being a Plus One new season assuming otherwise. Ex- Ryder), too. Jonathan (Charlie Hea- love – “Stranger Things,” we all have jerk? Does Dustin really have a girl- pect the expected and you will be ton) and Nancy (Natalia Dyer), both to be like Will. He is our proxy nostal- friend named Suzie? Has the Mind Project Ithaca satisfied. This is ‘80s-era comfort working at a local newspaper for a gist, and “ST” is pure nostalgia, and Flayer retired? food and as with any comfort food, pack of dull-witted chauvinist edi- at its best, effective nostalgia. The Most of all, will true love prevail? New games The formula and those commercial you certainly wouldn’t want the tors (they call her Nancy Drew), ambience of the mid-’80s has been The following is a list of video tie-ins certainly do. pickle substituted on your hamburg- have started to develop mutual feel- recreated so effectively this season games scheduled for release er for a scoop of ice cream (would ings as well. Max and Lucas are still that viewers can almost taste the BOTTOM LINE: Still fun, still next week, according to you?). Likewise, “Stranger Things 3” an item, although that’s cooled off for New Coke when it finally comes out predictable. www.ign.com. Release dates are subject to change. Professor Lupo and His Horrible Pets (PC and Nintendo ALBUM REVIEWS Switch. Genre: Puzzle, adventure. Rating: Not available) SolSeraph (PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One. Genre: Action, strategy. Rating: Not Review: finds dread available) Dr. Mario (Android and iPhone. Genre: Puzzle. Rating: Everyone) beneath the glamour of “Anima” Space Dance (PC. Genre: Shooter. Rating: Not available)

By Mikael Wood briefly revived during a gig in De- Bear With Me (Nintendo Los Angeles Times cember at the Orpheum in down- Switch, PS4, Xbox One. Genre: town Los Angeles. Adventure. Rating: Not available) Being embraced by the show- And “Dawn Chorus,” with Umihara Kawase Fresh business establishment hasn’t Yorke’s low, breathy vocals over a (Nintendo Swtich. Genre: made Thom Yorke feel all warm halting keyboard pattern, is one of Platformer. Rating: Not and fuzzy. the prettiest things he’s ever writ- available) Last year, the famously gloomy ten – a strangely tender ballad de- frontman made the livered from “the middle of the shortlist for the Academy Awards’ vortex,” as he puts it, where “soot New music original song category with his from the chimney pot” forms “spi- The following is a partial list of haunting title theme from director ral patterns of you, my love.” titles released Friday. Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria.” “Dawn Chorus” features promi- Compiled by Keith Coombes of And, in March, he was inducted nently in Anderson’s movie, which Ernie November along with the rest of Radiohead follows Yorke through a bleakly fu- , “Outstrider” into that back-slappiest of institu- turistic cityscape as he tries to re- tions, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. turn a missing bag to its owner. The The Acacia Strain, Yet nothing about Yorke’s new film, which began streaming “Wormwood” solo album, “Anima,” suggests that Thursday on Netflix, has no dia- this 50-year-old veteran is looking Bullet, “Live” logue but tells its story through in- forward to getting his star on the Thom Yorke’s new solo album is “Anima.” Katie Falkenberg/Los Angeles Times/ tricate choreography by Damien Climax Blues Band, “Albums Hollywood Walk of Fame. “Who TNS 1969-1972” 5-CD box set are these people?” he wails to open Jalet, who also worked on “Sus- “Not the News,” while “Dawn Cho- played efforts. And the album son” has him insisting, “I have to piria.” And though serious Radio- Dark Funeral, “25 Years Of rus” offers a typically fraught con- comes with its own Hollywood con- find some way to escape.” head fans will know “Anima” Satanic Symphonies” 10-CD box fession: “I think I miss something, nection in the form of an accompa- Other tracks on the album, doesn’t mark Yorke’s screen debut set but I’m not sure what.” nying short film directed by Paul which Yorke has said was partly as a dancer – who could forget the Thomas Anderson, with whom inspired by the work of Carl Jung, endlessly memed “Lotus Flower” Deep Purple, “Live In Newcastle Could he be longing for the days 2001: Soundboard Series” when Radiohead was known as a Radiohead’s depict even sleep as being unsafe video? – it’s striking to see this of- proudly iconoclastic guitar band – scored an Oscar nomination in from overreach by the government ten-glum little dude throw his body Duel, “Valley of Shadows” 2018 for his score for Anderson’s or the corporations from which it’s into the project with such abandon; the kind more likely to intimidate a Jesca Hoop, “Stonechild” studio executive than to be wooed “Phantom Thread.” increasingly indistinguishable. at moments his movement comes by one? This month, after hours of In other words, Yorke may not be Produced by Yorke’s longtime close to Broadway, even Charlie Immortal Bird, “Thrive on demos from 1997’s “OK Comput- happy in this newly rarefied air, right hand Nigel Godrich, with Chaplin. Neglect” er” leaked online, Radiohead offi- but that’s no reason to leave – espe- whom the singer performed some Like “Anima” the album, Ander- Khiis, “Bezoar” cially released the trove through cially when he knows he probably of these tracks live on tour last son’s film isn’t always easy to the streaming platform Band- wouldn’t be happy anywhere else. year, “Anima” is slightly more parse. At the end of the short – Nebula, “Holy Shit” camp; the music reminded you Indeed, the sense of dread on songful than Yorke’s previous solo spoiler alert – Yorke’s character fi- how much energy Yorke used to “Anima,” released Thursday, feels record, 2014’s “Tomorrow’s Mod- nally catches up with the woman Rhapsody, “Zero Gravity” draw from deconstructing classic tied to Yorke’s vague, if deeply ern Boxes.” (That’s not counting who lost her bag (she’s played by Sacri Monti, “Waiting Room rock textures and structures. held, conviction that politics and last year’s “Suspiria” soundtrack, the musician’s real-life girlfriend, For The Magic Hour” But no: Built mostly from buzz- technology have combined to cre- which mostly wasn’t meant to be Italian actor Dajana Roncione) ing synth squiggles and twitchy ate a global menace from which songful.) “I Am a Very Rude Per- and the two mime something like Stranger Things, “Season rhythmic loops, “Anima” has little there’s no hiding. In “Last I Heard son” and “Impossible Knots” both romance. Then he falls into a bliss- Three: Original Motion Picture to do (beyond Yorke’s strangled (He Was Circling the Drain),” he ride funk grooves that recall Atoms ful-looking slumber – a condition, Soundtrack” moan) with the sound of “OK Com- describes being “swallowed up by for Peace, the short-lived side proj- of course, that Yorke has already 3Teeth, “Metawar” puter” or Radiohead’s other hand- the city”; “I Am a Very Rude Per- ect with bassist that Yorke told us is not to be trusted.