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12 movies to be the most New DVDs Tribune News Service Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release excited about this summer dates are subject to change: May 4 By Moira Macdonald Charlize Theron, Michelle “The Little Things” The Seattle Times Rodriguez and the rest of the gang “Judas and the Black Messiah” return – along with Helen Mirren, “The Virtuoso” Good luck planning ahead to see who according to the trailer gets movies this summer; the schedules her own car this time. Bring it on! May 11 (and the theatrical versus stream- “The Marksman” ing strategies) are still changing “Black Widow” (July 9, also “Land” rapidly. But here are a dozen movies streaming on Disney+ Premier “The Mauritanian” I’m keeping an eye on, and hoping to Access). The 24th film in the “Justice Society: World War II” see on the biggest screen I can find. Marvel Cinematic Universe has at “My Brother’s Keeper” its center one Natasha Romanoff “Pixie” “The Dry” (May 21). Based on a (Scarlett Johansson), a former “Senior Moment” wonderfully atmospheric novel by KGB assassin and present Jane Harper, Robert Connolly’s Avenger; it takes place after the New games film stars Eric Bana as an events of “Captain America: Civil The following is a list of video Australian federal agent who War.” It’s been delayed three games scheduled for release reluctantly agrees to investigate a times due to the pandemic, but next week, according to crime in his hometown. finally hits theaters in midsum- www.ign.com. Release dates mer. And sure, you could stream are subject to change. “A Quiet Place Part II” (May it, but don’t you want to see this “Trash Sailors” (Nintendo 28). The original “A Quiet Place,” one big? Switch, Xbox One, PC. Genre: back in 2018, freaked me the hell Action, Adventure, Simulation. out, to put it mildly. (Do not watch “Cinderella” (July 16). Billy Rating: Everyone) this film in an empty house; every A scene from the upcoming film “In the Heights,” based on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Porter as Fairy Godmother? Sign “Bibi & Tina at the Horse subsequent noise will terrify you.) hit Broadway musical. Warner Bros/courtesy me up. This musical version of the Farm” (PlayStation 4, Nintendo Now the sequel to John at the multiplexes! (And after the 18). You might know Moreno familiar fairy tale also stars Switch, PlayStation 5. Genre: Krasinski’s very effective horror year we’ve all been through, we from “West Side Story,” or maybe recording artist Camila Cabello (in Adventure. Rating: Everyone) movie, in which he stars with her first feature film) and Idina deserve all the L-MM we can get.) from growing up with “The “Mad Devils” (PC, Xbox Series Emily Blunt as a couple who must First up: this animated family Electric Company,” or maybe Menzel as her wicked stepmother. fend off apocalyptic monsters who X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One. comedy about an adventurous kin- more recently from her delightful Genre: Shooter. Rating: are triggered by sound, is coming kajou who travels from Havana to work on “One Day at a Time” – “Old” (July 23). M. Night Pending) up, with even more silence. Yikes. Miami. Miranda (“Hamilton,” regardless, the EGOT winner is a Shyamalan’s output has been “Arc The Lad R” (Android, should you need reminding) wrote legend in show business, and has decidedly uneven since “The “Cruella” (May 28, also Sixth Sense,” but what the heck, iPhone. Genre: RPG. Rating: Not the songs; his “In the Heights” long deserved a documentary of available) streaming on Disney+ Premier collaborator Quiara Alegría Hudes her own. we’ve all been missing movies so Access). Do we really need an wrote the script with director Kirk let’s give this one a go. Gael “Jin Conception” (Nintendo origin story for “101 Dalmatians” DeMicco. “Blue Bayou” (June 25). The Garcia Bernal and Vicky Krieps Switch, PC. Genre: RPG. Rating: villain Cruella de Vil? Apparently latest from filmmaker/actor Justin (“Phantom Thread”) play a cou- Pending) we do! Two always-splendid “In the Heights” (June 11, Chon (“Gook”) sounds timely and ple who are horrified when their “Retro Machina” (Nintendo Emmas – Stone and Thompson – also streaming on HBO Max). moving; let’s hope it doesn’t get children begin rapidly aging on a Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation appear in this live-action Disney See above! A year after it was lost in a sea of higher-profile films. remote tropical beach. OK then! 4, PC. Genre: Action, RPG. comedy, with Stone as the young originally scheduled to be in the- Chon plays a Korean adoptee liv- Rating: Pending) title character who dreams of “Respect” (Aug. 13). Jennifer aters, the film of Miranda’s hit ing in Louisiana with his wife “GetsuFumaDen” (PC. Genre: Hudson was personally chosen by being a fashion designer. The cos- Broadway musical about a (Oscar winner Alicia Vikander, Action, Adventure, Platformer. tumes alone, by the great Washington Heights bodega “The Danish Girl”) who learns Aretha Franklin, years before the Rating: Not available) Merchant-Ivory veteran Jenny owner is finally hitting the multi- that he is facing deportation. Queen of Soul’s death in 2018, to Beavan, look to be a treat. Craig plexes. Jon M. Chu (“Crazy Rich play her as a young woman in this “Monster Harvest” (Nintendo Gillespie (“I, Tonya,” “Lars and Asians”) directs; expect dancing “F9” (June 25). Inject this biopic, which also stars Forest Switch, PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4. Genre: RPG, the Real Girl”) directs. in the streets. movie into my veins immediately, Whitaker, Audra McDonald and Simulation. Rating: Everyone) please. Dwayne Johnson might Mary J. Blige (the latter as Dinah “Vivo” (June 4). It’s the “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who have left this fast-driving, insanely Washington). And yes, of course “RWBY: Grimm Eclipse” (PC, Summer of Lin-Manuel Miranda Decided To Go For It” (June fun franchise, but Vin Diesel, Hudson does her own singing. Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch. Genre: Action. Rating: Teen) “Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla – ALBUM REVIEWS Wrath of the Druids” (PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, The Philadelphia Inquirer PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4. Genre: Action, Adventure, DLC / Expansion. Rating: Pending) “Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind” (Nintendo Switch. Genre: Adven- ture, Visual Novel. Rating: Teen) “Mass Effect: Legendary Edition” (PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One. Genre: Compilation, RPG. Rating: Pending) “Subnautica: Below Zero” (PC, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlaySta- tion 5, Xbox One. Genre: Action, Adventure. Rating: Everyone) New music “KOROLEN” “SWEEP IT INTO SPACE” “HEART” HH ½ The following is a partial list of titles released Friday. TOUMANI DIABATE AND THE LONDON DINOSAUR JR. (JAGJAGUWAR) HHH “SOUL” HHH Compiled by Keith Coombes of SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (WORLD It was only a matter of time before Kurt Vile and HHH ½ ERIC CHURCH (EMI NASHVILLE) Ernie November CIRCUIT) J Mascis got around to working on an album Natalie Bergman “Mercy” Mali’s Toumani Diabate is a master of the together. Vile was a Dinosaur Jr. fan growing up “I need a melody without a memory,” Eric 21-string West African kora. Diabate has released in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, in the 1990s, and Church sings on “Russian Roulette” from Kenny Chesney “Here And many celebrated albums: of solo kora work, with his loose, discursive style as a singer-guitarist “Heart,” one of his two new albums. While Now” revisiting a favorite topic – the power of music his Symmetric Orchestra of fellow griots, and in owes a significant debt to the sound Mascis Gilby Clarke “Gospel Truth” collaborations – notably with Malian guitarist Ali patented on the group’s 1987 album, “You’re and radio – the country star is making a sly Farka Toure and American bluesman Taj Mahal. Living All Over Me.” reference to his terrific 2011 hit “Springsteen,” Infectious Grooves “Take You He also guested on Bjork’s “Volta.” in which he observed, “Funny how a melody On A Ride” Vile is credited as coproducer on the new sounds like a memory.” “Korolen” documents a 2008 performance at “Sweep It Into Space,” the fifth album that Iron & Wine “Archive Series London’s Barbican Centre by Diabate’s Dinosaur Jr. has released since Mascis Nothing on “Heart,” however, surpasses past Vol. 5: Tallahassee Sessions” reconvened the original lineup of drummer glories or breaks ground, and the set suggests Symmetric Orchestra and the London Symphony DJ Khaled “Khaled Khaled” Orchestra. It’s a thoughtful, engrossing work of Patrick Murphy and bassist Lou Barlow. Vile also that the talented Church might benefit from a synergy and synthesis. plays 12-string guitar on “I Ran Away,” a bright, break from his longtime cast of co-writers and Miranda Lambert “Marfa springy ditty that sounds for all the world like a from his producer, the estimable Jay Joyce. Tapes” Diabate’s kora creates precise, crystalline notes Kurt Vile song. in the foreground, both in meditative, circular “Heart on Fire” is the kind of swaggering Leftover Salmon “Brand New patterns and in sudden lightning-fast arpeggios. The circle of influence isn’t seamless, however. country-rocker Church excels at, and “People Good Old Days” Vile – who has announced that his next album Break” is a finely wrought mid-tempo ballad. His compositions here, several of which appeared Mighty Mighty Bosstones will be on the storied jazz label Verve – began (“The ice on Hawk Lake this time of year/ Broken on albums such as “The Mande Variations” and “When God Was Great” the Grammy-winning “In the Heart of the Moon,” work on “Sweep It” in late 2019, but the COVID- and busted like my bathroom mirror/ So hard to often build on traditional folk tunes but provide a 19 pandemic prevented him from finishing at see what lies beneath/ Shattered reflections like Van Morrison “Latest lot of room for improvisation over the course of Dino headquarters in Amherst, Massachusetts. the pieces of me.”) Recordings Project Volume 1” their seven or so minutes. Instead, Mascis completed the album on his own. But the most powerful track is one Church didn’t New Order “Live: education An orchestra, of course, isn’t built for Dinosaur Jr. is unquestionably Mascis’ band, and have a hand in writing: “Stick That in Your entertainment recreation” he deserves props for maintaining remarkable Country Song” is a searing indictment of the improvisation. But conductor Clark Rundell and Travis Tritt “Set In Stone” the arrangers here – Britain’s Ian Gardner and quality control over a 35-year period. His lazy banality of most mainstream fare. America’s Nico Muhly – find ways for it to drawl is as inviting as ever on “Sweep It,” wheth- “Soul” features the same players, writers, and We Came As Romans “Cold recede to the background and then build on a er he’s singing over the cascading chords of “I producer, but it’s more engaging largely because Like War” Ain’t” or the AC/DC churn of “I Met the Stones.” melody so that it interacts with Diabate’s kora. the arrangements tend to be more soulful and Weezer “Van Weezer” But credit for this melodically enticing and funky. That starts with the sinuous, slide- Muhly’s three arrangements tend to be more Tony Joe White “Smoke From satisfyingly rocking new release must also go to accented groove of “Rock and Roll Found Me.” coloristic and ambient than Gardner’s three, The Chimney” which are more assertive, but always the Barlow, who penned the single “Garden” and the And the brash, rocking “Break It Kind of Guy” interplay is fascinating. “Korolen” is a complex lovely psych-rock closer “You Wonder,” fulfilling introduces some welcome twang to the Lucinda Williams “Ramblin’ On work of calm beauty that rewards close listening. his two-songs-per-album quota like Keith proceedings. My Mind: 1979 recordings” Richards on a quality Rolling Stones LP. Wisely, Church again brings in backup singer Nancy Wilson “you and me” – Steve Klinge Joanna Cotten for both albums. Her soul- – Dan DeLuca drenched contributions elevate even the most Amy Winehouse “Live At The pedestrian material and undercut the occasional BBC” bursts of macho bluster. Zappa “Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” – Nick Cristiano