Staying Fit
What’s on this week? Whether it’s playing on cable, streaming on Prime Video or Netflix, or opening at your local movie theater, we’ve got your must-watch list. Start with TV, and scroll down for movies. It’s all right here.
On TV this week …
Interview With the Vampire, Season 2 (AMC, AMC+)
Aged but uninterested in retirement, vampire Louis (Jacob Anderson) tells his interviewer (Eric Bogosian, 71) how he, his fanged 514-year-old lover, Armand (Assad Zaman), and teen vampire Claudia (Delainey Hayles) moved to Paris, where Armand led the Théâtre des Vampires troupe — bloodsuckers who pose as actors biting people onstage while the audience applauds, unaware that the mayhem is real, not playacting.
Watch it: Interview With the Vampire, May 12 on AMC, AMC+
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Harry Wild, Season 3 (Acorn TV, BBC America)
Who killed a nasty soap opera director, a boy band singer, a mystery writer, an ex-husband found in a fishpond and a woman whose head got served in a Dublin restaurant? Only retired lit prof turned detective Harry Wild (Jane Seymour, 73) can sleuth it out in Acorn’s greatest hit series.
Watch it: Harry Wild, May 13 on Acorn TV, BBC America
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 10th Anniversary Special (NBC)
A procession of stars joins Fallon to celebrate his greatest monologues, sketches, interviews and musical guests.
Watch it: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 10th Anniversary Special, May 14, 9 p.m. ET on NBC
Mother of the Bride (Netflix)
This one has rom-com crowd-pleaser written all over it. Brooke Shields, 58, grapples with separation anxiety as her daughter (Miranda Cosgrove) is about to walk down the aisle at a destination beach wedding in Thailand. She snaps out of her funk the second she’s introduced (or reintroduced) to the groom’s dad, who just happens to be the old college boyfriend who broke her heart (Benjamin Bratt, 60). The fact that this was directed by Mark Waters (Freaky Friday, Mean Girls) bodes well.
Watch it: Mother of the Bride, May 9 on Netflix
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The Last Stop in Yuma County, R (Apple TV+ and theaters)
In Francis Galluppi’s Tarantino-influenced micro-budget flick, two bank robber brothers, one scary (Richard Brake, 59), one dim (Nicholas Logan), get stuck at a remote Arizona diner and hold hostage a waitress (Jocelin Donahue), a traveling knife salesman (Jim Cummings), a nosy older couple (Gene Jones, 71, The Hateful Eight, and Robin Bartlett, 73, Mad About You). Then more folks arrive, and things get tenser still. It’s such a promising first film that Galluppi just got a deal to make an Evil Dead spin-off movie.
Watch it: The Last Stop in Yuma County, May 10 in theaters and on Apple TV+
Planet of the Apes movies (Hulu)
What could be better than watching the new Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (in theaters May 10, see review below)? Watching all nine of the previous Planet of the Apes movies, streaming on Hulu! The best are the last two, with Andy Serkis, 60 (2017 and 2014), and the original 1968 Planet of the Apes, with Charlton Heston. Get watching!
Watch it: Planet of the Apes franchise on Hulu
Kevin Hart: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (Netflix)
Comedians Chris Rock, 59, Jimmy Fallon, Jerry Seinfeld, 70, and Dave Chappelle, 50, help roast and toast comedian Kevin Hart as he receives comedy’s highest honor at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Watch it: Kevin Hart: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, May 11, 8 p.m. on Netflix
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In the Kitchen With Harry Hamlin (AMC+)
Hamlin, 72, the L.A. Law star known as “the king of Bolognese,” invites Ted Danson, 76, Bobby Moynihan, Mary Steenburgen, 71, Ed Begley Jr., 74, and you to his home kitchen to cook up something wonderful where dinner party meets cooking show and documentary.
Watch it: In the Kitchen With Harry Hamlin, May 15 on AMC+
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Let It Be, G (Disney+)
Don’t have six hours to watch the 2021 docuseries The Beatles: Get Back? Watch Let It Be, the 88-minute 1970 film it grew from. Unavailable for 50 years, it used to look dark and grainy and sound awful. Now it’s gorgeously restored. “It was originally going to be a TV special, with documentary footage only to be used for a short trailer,” director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 84, tells AARP. “But we could never agree on the TV special, and the rehearsal footage was all we had — plus, of course, the great roof concert. It shows the love and good humor the four of them had for each other as they were working through their songs, not always easy, with men who’d known each other since they were teenagers, who had different opinions.”
Watch it: Let It Be on Disney+
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Bodkin
If you liked Only Murders in the Building and dark comedies such as Bad Sisters, try this series starring Saturday Night Live’s Will Forte, 53, as an American podcaster getting in touch with his roots in a small Irish town, along with his eager assistant (Robyn Cara) and a tough-as-nails reporter (Siobhán Cullen). During the death-themed Samhain celebration (the ancient Celtic rite that inspired our Halloween), they investigate the disappearance of several townsfolk 25 years before.
Watch it: Bodkin, May 9 on Netflix
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