The streaming debut of “Project Hail Mary” and Myles Smith’s debut album are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
New movies to stream
“Project Hail Mary,” one of the biggest hits of the first half of the movie year, begins streaming Thursday on MGM+. Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s sci-fi adventure stars Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace, a science teacher who wakes up on a ship sent into space on a mission to save dying stars. Sandra Hüller co-stars, as does an alien named Rocky played by puppeteer James Ortiz.
In “How to Make a Killing” (Friday on HBO Max), Glen Powell stars as a working-class man who sets out to murderously reclaim his inheritance. The film, written and directed by John Patton Ford (“Emily the Criminal“), is inspired by the great Alec Guinness comedy “Kind Hearts and Coronets.”
“Voicemails for Isabelle” hopes to separate from the pack of a long line of Netflix rom-coms. In writer-director Leah McKendrick’s film, Zoey Deutch stars as a woman grieving her sister’s death who, to cope, leaves voicemails on her phone. When that number is reassigned to a real estate agent (Nick Robinson), the two are drawn together. It debuts Friday.
— Jake Coyle
New music to stream
On Friday, Myles Smith will release his debut album, “My Mess, My Heart, My Life.” It is a bit hard to believe, because the English singer-songwriter already has a three-times platinum single under his belt. His 2024 song “Stargazing” was a folk-pop megahit from a once-unknown performer. And on his first full-length album, he aims to keep up the momentum.
— Maria Sherman
New series to stream
You could call it “The Baby-Sitters Club” for ballers. In the new docuseries “Million Dollar Nannies,” cameras follow a boutique agency in Ibiza that offers babysitting for the children of wealthy parents. These clients are VIPs who have big expectations to match their big lifestyles. There are NDAs, private planes and kids who eat caviar. All episodes drop Thursday on Hulu.
Colin Farrell returns as an alien disguised as a human in Season 2 of “Sugar” for Apple TV. Premiering Friday, Farrell’s character goes by the alias John Sugar, a private investigator in Los Angeles. The series is a noir-style detective drama with a central mystery that lasts all season. Sugar has two jobs: One is to solve his case du jour, and the other is to secretly monitor people here on Earth.
— Alicia Rancilio
New video games to play
Square Enix’s “The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales” takes place in a land called Philabieldia, “a beautiful but savage land.” After some mysterious ruins are discovered, the gutsy Elliot and his fairy sidekick, Faie, are sent on a journey that goes back and forth in time across 1,000 years. The pixelated art will look familiar to fans of developer Claytechworks’ role-playing fantasy “Octopath Traveler,” but the action is more arcadelike. And the time-jumping story is reminiscent of Square’s 1995 classic “Chrono Trigger.” Start making history Thursday on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC.
— Lou Kesten
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