If you haven’t watched yet, the show takes place about a decade before “Star Trek: The Original Series,” so it features younger versions of some of the “Star Trek” characters viewers know and love. Season two of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” arrives on Paramount+ on Thursday. It’s already been announced that season two will feature several guest stars including Donald Faison, Bradley Whitford, Phoebe Robinson, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Patti LaBelle. The show is told from the point of view of 12-year-old Dean Williams (played by Elisha “EJ” Williams) with Don Cheadle narrating as the adult version of Dean. The new “The Wonder Years” about a middle-class Black family in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s, returns for its second season on Wednesday on ABC. Only one band can make fonts sound cool and that's Queens of the Stone Age, who are out Friday, with the 10-track studio album “In Times New Roman…” On the spiky, off-kilter “Emotional Sickness,” frontman Josh Homme sings “Use once and destroy/Single servings of pain/A dose of emotion sickness I just can’t shake.” But on “Carnavoyeur,” he has a smooth, distant cool: “Flying high, realize/There are no more mountains to climb.” The album was produced by Josh Johnson and also features Jason Moran, Ambrose Akinmusire, Joel Ross, Jeff Parker, Brandee Younger, Julius Rodriguez, Mark Guiliana, Cory Henry, Joan As Police Woman and Thandiswa. First single “Clear Water” is a soul-searching Sly Stone-inspired song featuring Jeff Parker’s bluesy guitar lines and vocals by Justin Hicks. ![]() “This album is about the way we see old things in new ways,” Ndegeocello says. “The Omnichord Real Book” is an album made after she lost her parents. Loss is also in the DNA of the new album by multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello. Father’s Day may be around the corner, but Killer Mike is honoring his mother on his new solo album, “Michael.” The single “Motherless” has Mike rapping about his late mother, featuring R&B singer Eryn Allen Kane: ”I be missin’ huggin’ you, I miss kissin’ you/I miss all the jewels and I miss all your wisdom, too.” Another single is the Run the Jewels-like “Don’t Let the Devil,” in which he shows off his delinquent side, with the lyrics “Catch me after Sunday service disturbin’ the church’s workers.” “All of these homeless/Where do they come from?/In this land of plenty/Where nothing gets done,” sings Mellencamp, 71, on the latter track. A year after releasing the album “Strictly a One-Eyed Jack,” the heartland rocker is back with “Orpheus Descending.” Many of the 11 tracks - including the anti-gun violence anthem “Hey God” and a song about the homeless crisis “The Eyes of Portland” - focus on social issues. John Mellencamp’s output is not slowing down. Lee, who died in 2018 at age 95, co-created an army of comic book characters including Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Ant-Man and many more who have in the past 15 years become household names thanks to the popularity of Marvel films, many of which feature fun Stan Lee cameos. “Stan Lee,” directed by David Gelb, promises to explore Lee’s life and cultural impact. And on Disney+, a new original documentary about the late Stan Lee premieres on Friday. plays the title role in the Stephen Williams-directed film, which I wrote in a review “may be more fiction than history, but it’s worthwhile with effective acting, tension (helped by Kris Bowers’ score) and a decadently beautiful production.” ![]() But it’s now headed to Hulu starting on Friday where audiences can learn about Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the son of a wealthy French plantation owner and an enslaved Senegalese teenager who rose through the ranks of French society due in part to his extraordinary musical talents as a composer and a violinist. ”Chevalier,” a lush, dramatic biopic of an accomplished Black man in Marie Antoinette’s France who was all but erased, came and went in theaters without a lot of fanfare. ![]() ![]() And Hemsworth has said that they opted for practical stunts and set pieces over green-screen fakery, which could be a bit frightening filming a sequence atop a train going 40 miles per hour through the snowy Czech Republic while a helicopter hovered 23 feet in front of him flying backwards. Director Sam Hargrave promised twice as much action and more emotion in this outing, produced again by the Russo brothers. In this outing, he’s assigned the dangerous task of rescuing a Georgian gangster’s family from a prison. Clinical death is just a minor obstacle for Chris Hemsworth’s action hero Tyler Rake, who audiences can see again in “Extraction 2,” debuting on Netflix on Friday.
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