Albums from Sabrina Carpenter and Lainey Wilson, as well as John Woo revisiting his 1989 Hong Kong-set action movies “The Killer” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: the returns of acclaimed TV series “Reasonable Doubt” and “Pachinko” and Adam Sandler offers his first comedy special since 2018. — George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” streaming now on Max, may have struggled to match the dizzying heights of 2015’s “Fury Road.
” But the film, a prequel to “Fury Road,” features some extraordinary action sequences, a grand fleet of dystopian vehicles and one of the best performances of Chris Hemsworth’s career. Anya Taylor-Joy stars as young Furiosa, taking over the role played earlier by Charlize Theron. In his review, AP’s Mark Kennedy lamented that “Miller is trying to add operatic heft and seriousness to what started in 1979 as a fun, rip-roaring smear of nightmarish, post-apocalyptic motor oil.
” — After a bumpy run in theaters, Kevin Costner's Western “Horizon: An American Saga” is landing Friday, Aug. 23, on Max. Costner's three-hour epic, the first of what Costner had hoped would be a four-film series, didn't win over a lot of critics and didn't light up the box office ($29 million domestically) despite Costner's passionate belief in the project.
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