Also coming this week: A documentary about Broadway star Idina Menzel, the video game 'Dragon Quest Treasures' and a holiday-themed romantic comedy about a jewelry mix-up that leads to sparks in 'Something from Tiffany's.'
This week's new entertainment releases include Will Smith's comeback campaign in the Antoine Fuqua movie"Emancipation," a documentary about Broadway star Idina Menzel, the video game"Dragon Quest Treasures" and a TV series exploring the tumultuous relationship between country music stars Tammy Wynette and George Jones.
MOVIES People are also reading… — Will Smith's comeback campaign is in full swing thanks to the new Antoine Fuqua movie"Emancipation," which begins streaming on Apple TV+ on Friday. The film follows the escape of an enslaved man, Peter , from a Louisiana plantation during the Civil War. In his review, AP Film Writer Jake Coyle writes that the film is"something distinct from many recent big-screen treatments of slavery and also more shallow.
— Or for a holiday-themed romantic comedy , head over to Amazon Prime for"Something from Tiffany's," in which a jewelry mix-up sends two relationships into a spiral. Kendrick Sampson plays a man about to propose to his longtime girlfriend and Zoey Deutch plays a woman in a dead-end relationship who accidentally gets an engagement ring meant for someone else. This mishap is an elaborate set-up that gets Sampson and Deutch to meet.
— The true crime genre is booming but ID/discovery+ explores a case perhaps you haven't heard of."The Tetris Murders" is a three-part look at the murder of Vladimir Pokhilko, one of the creators of the video game"Tetris," died along with his family in their California home in 1998. Originally believed to be a murder-suicide, investigators revisit the case and find it's much more complicated than once thought.
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