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Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s nuclear fallout thriller \u201cA House of Dynamite\u201d and albums from Brandi Carlile and Demi Lovato are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device<\/a> near you.<\/p>\n Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press\u2019 entertainment journalists<\/a>: Season 2 of \u201cNobody Wants This\u201d sees things get more serious between Adam Brody\u2019s rabbi and Kristen Bell\u2019s agnostic podcast host, Ninja Gaiden 4 asks gamers to fight their way through cyber soldiers and other malevolent creatures, and director Ben Stiller pays tribute to his comedian parents with \u201cStiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 An old genre \u2014 the hypothetical nuclear fallout thriller \u2014 returns in Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s \u201cA House of Dynamite\u201d<\/a> (Friday, Oct. 24 on Netflix), a minute-by-minute White House drama in which a mystery missile is bearing down on Chicago. The film tells the 18-minute run-up to impact<\/a> from three different perspectives, with an ensemble including Rebecca Ferguson, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos and Idris Elba, as the president. In my review<\/a>, I wrote: \u201cWith riveting efficiency, Bigelow constructs a taut, real-time thriller that opens explosively but dissipates with each progressive iteration.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 In \u201cStiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost,\u201d<\/a> director Ben Stiller pays tribute to his comedian parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, while reflecting on how their show business lives influenced those of his own family. The film, premiering Friday, Oct. 24 on Apple TV, is a distinctly family affair, that culls from the extensive archives of Meara and Stiller, who recorded as much in their private lives as they did in film and television.<\/p>\n \u2014 Ron Howard\u2019s \u201cEden\u201d<\/a> (Wednesday on Prime Video) is based on a true story about a group of disillusioned Europeans who in 1929 sought to create a utopia on an island in the Gal\u00e1pagos. It didn\u2019t go so well. Howard\u2019s film struggled mightily at the box office despite a starry cast including Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby and Sydney Sweeney. In her AP review<\/a>, Itzel Luna wrote that the ensemble, \u201cisn\u2019t always enough to make up for the overambitious plot of a film that drags in the middle.\u201d <\/p>\n \u2014 AP Film Writer Jake Coyle<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 On Thursday, the contemporary R&B talent Miguel returns with his first full-length in nearly a decade. The bilingual \u201cCaos\u201d (the Spanish word for \u201cChaos\u201d) is the long-awaited follow-up to 2017\u2019s \u201cWar & Leisure,\u201d<\/a> and marks a conceptual pivot for the musician. \u201cTo rebuild, I had to destroy myself. That is the core confrontation of \u2018Caos,\u2019\u201d Miguel said in a press statement. \u201cThrough my personal evolution, I learned that transformation is violent. \u2018Caos\u2019 is the sonic iteration of me bending that violence into something universally felt.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014 Who is busier than Brandi Carlile?<\/a> Just a few months ago, the musician known for melding folk, alt-country, rock and Americana partnered with the great Elton John<\/a> for a charming collaborative album, \u201cWho Believes In Angels?\u201d<\/a> Now, on Friday, she\u2019s gearing up to release a new solo album, \u201cReturning to Myself,\u201d her first since 2021\u2019s \u201cIn These Silent Days.\u201d If you need any reconfirmation of her timeless talent, cue up \u201cA War with Time,\u201d written by Carlile and frequent Taylor Swift<\/a> collaborator, Aaron Dessner of The National. And on piano\/background vocals? That\u2019s Bon Iver\u2019s Justin Vernon.<\/p>\n \u2014 It\u2019s a \u201cBRAT\u201d autumn<\/a> for Demi Lovato,<\/a> whose ninth studio album, \u201cIt\u2019s Not That Deep,\u201d embraces club-dance rhythms in addictive pop songs. That\u2019s a noted departure from her last two records, 2022\u2019s \u201cHoly Fvck\u201d and 2023\u2019s \u201cRevamped,\u201d which leaned more traditionally rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. Both modes work for Lovato: give her space to belt with some edge, and she\u2019ll fashion an earworm.<\/p>\n \u2014 AP Music Writer Maria Sherman<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 As we get closer to Halloween, a number of new horror shows debut this month. Sam Claflin (\u201cDaisy Jones & the Six\u201d)<\/a> stars in a new Prime Video mystery from bestselling author Harlan Coben. He plays a forensic psychiatrist who finds himself connecting the dots between a number of cold cases after his father\u2019s death. \u201cHarlan Coben\u2019s Lazarus\u201d<\/a> debuts Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u2014 The delightful TV romance between Adam Brody’s rabbi, Noah, and Kristen Bell’s agnostic podcast host named Joanne carries on Thursday in Netflix’s \u201cNobody Wants This.\u201d<\/a> Season 2 picks up shortly after the first season ended with the two characters attempting to blend their lives as they get more serious. Joanne is also still grappling with the idea of committing to Judaism because it’s a non-negotiable for Noah. In a world that seems to have just gotten more complex in the past year, investing in these two fictional characters’ relationship is a great distraction. Team Joah!<\/p>\n \u2014 AMC continues to adapt and draw from the works of Anne Rice (known as the Immortal Universe), with \u201cAnne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order.\u201d<\/a> Debuting Sunday, Oct. 26 on AMC+, it’s about a secret society that tracks immortals like witches, vampires and the like. \u201cTalamasca\u201d stars Nicholas Denton and Elizabeth McGovern and has cameos from \u201cInterview with the Vampire\u201d cast members, Eric Bogosian and Justin Kirk.<\/p>\n \u2014 A prequel series to the \u201cIt\u201d films<\/a> called \u201cIt \u2014 Welcome to Derry\u201d<\/a> (thankfully not titled \u201cStephen King’s: It \u2014 Welcome to Derry\u201d and therefore less of a tongue twister), arrives on HBO Max also on Sunday, Oct. 26. Set in 1962, Taylour Paige and Jovan Adepo star as Charlotte and Leroy Hanlon, couple who moves to Derry, Maine, with their son and begin to recognize the town is pretty creepy. \u201cIt\u201d fans will recognize the Hanlon name and its lore. Also, Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd reprises his Pennywise the Clown role from the films.<\/p>\n \u2014 Alicia Rancilio<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Vampire: The Masquerade \u2014 Bloodlines 2<\/a> puts you in the cape of a bloodsucker named Phyre who has been asleep for a century and has somehow woken up in Seattle. But you are not alone \u2014 a \u201cvampire detective\u201d named Fabian has infected your blood and will update you on grunge, that \u201cTwilight\u201d nonsense and 21st century goth culture. That includes six competing vampire clans, some brutal, some sneaky and some just outright seductive. It\u2019s all based on a popular tabletop role-playing game that has had difficulty translating to video games, but publisher Paradox Interactive has had some success with RPGs like Pillars of Eternity and Crusader Kings. Take a bite Tuesday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X\/S and PC.<\/p>\n \u2014 If you don\u2019t want to be a vampire for Halloween, why not try on Ninja Gaiden 4<\/a>? In a near-future Tokyo, a prodigy named Yakumo must fight his way through cyber soldiers and other malevolent creatures as he tries to lift a curse from his neon-drenched city. He soon crosses paths with Ryu Hayabusa, the legendary hero of the previous Gaiden games. The latest chapter is a collaboration between two esteemed Japanese studios: Team Ninja, which has been handling this franchise for 20 years, and Platinum Games, best known for the loopy hack-and-slash favorite Bayonetta. The swords start swinging Tuesday on PlayStation 5, Xbox X\/S and PC.<\/p>\n