Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy” premieres its final season and a Boston heist movie starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are some of the new television, films, music and games near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ : a new “Dance Moms” series, a “Yo Gabba Gabba” reboot for younger audiences and J Balvin promises an album that hits like a house party. — A poorly planned heist goes terribly wrong in (Friday, Aug.
9, on Apple TV+), a loosely amiable Boston-set caper starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. The movie, directed by Doug Liman (“Go,” “The Bourne Identity”), returns Damon and Affleck to familiar hometown terrain. They play a despondent pair who try to steal money from a corrupt mayor (Ron Perlman) but end up on the run, with a therapist (Hong Chau) in tow.
, I called it “a rudderless but winningly shaggy action comedy.” — (“Mud,” “Take Shelter,” “Loving”) extends his survey of classically American dramas with a chronicle of a Chicago motorcycle club in the 1960s. In the film (Friday, Aug.
9, on Peacock), Austin Butler and Tom Hardy star as riders with an antiauthoritarian streak who help found the Vandals, but watch as their club grows beyond their control. In a male-populated film, though, Jodie Comer, as the heavily accented narrator, is closer to the main character. I called it “a vivid dramatization of the birth of an American subculture.
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