What to stream: Adam Sandler, John Legend, Only Murders in the Building and Star Wars Outlaws

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power returns for its second season and Adam Sandler’s first comedy special since 2018 are just some of the new TV shows, movies, music and games coming soon to a device near you.

Other streaming offerings to watch, as selected by the Associated Press entertainment journalists, include: John Legend offers his first children’s album, the fourth season of Only Murders in the Building moves to Los Angeles, and DJ and dance producer Zedd returns with an album after nearly a decade.

NEW MOVIES TO STREAM

— The Fall Guy is finally coming to Peacock, where it will stream alongside an “extended cut” version starting Friday, Aug. 30. The film may not have reached the blockbuster heights the studio dreamed of during its theatrical run, but it’s a pure delight: a comedy, action and romance that soars thanks to the charisma of its stars. Based on Lee Majors’ 1980s TV series (he has a cameo), the film stars Ryan Gosling as a stuntman, Emily Blunt as his director and dream girl, Aaron Taylor-Johnson as an egotistical movie star and Hannah Waddingham of “Ted Lasso” as a Diet Coke-swilling producer.

— Ishana Night Shyamalan’s thriller The Watchers, in which Dakota Fanning plays an artist stranded in the western half of Ireland, where mysterious creatures lurk and haunt the night, is available to stream on MAX starting Friday, August 30.

— Emma Stone delivers a must-see performance (and an expressive dance) in “Kinds of Kindness,” her latest collaboration with Yorgos Lanthimos, hot on the heels of her Oscar-winning performance in “Poor Things.” The film, which streams Friday, Aug. 30, on Hulu, is a triptych with a large ensemble cast including Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons (who won a prize for his performance at Cannes), Hong Chau, Margaret Qualley, Mamoudou Athie and Joe Alwyn. Jocelyn Noveck described it in her review for the Associated Press as “a meditation on our free will and the ways we willingly surrender it to others — in the workplace, at home and in religion.” Noveck wrote that the “Stone-Lanthimos pairing … continues to advance an aspect of Stone’s talents that increasingly sets her apart: her fearlessness and the obvious joy she derives from it.”

— Somehow, Yorgos Lanthimos’ film isn’t the most eccentric new streaming offering this week. That title goes to “Sasquatch Sunset,” Nathan and David Zellner’s experimental film about a family of Sasquatches just living their lives. Starring a virtually unrecognizable Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough (in addition to Nathan Zellner), this Sundance oddity begins streaming on Paramount+ Monday. In his review for the AP, Mark Kennedy wrote that it’s “a confusing 90-minute experiment with no narrator and no words that’s as daring as it is infuriating. It’s not clear whether everyone was high while making it or we should be while watching it.”

— AP film writer Lindsey Bahr

NEW MUSIC TO STREAM

— DJ and dance producer Zedd is back with an album after nearly a decade: Telos. The first single is aptly titled “Out of Time” featuring Bea Miller, a dreamy tune with atmospheric strings that builds into a dancefloor banger. Zedd revealed that he started writing “Out Of Time” back in 2015 but was never able to finish it. That changed with Bea — “Her voice added an emotional depth that completed the song. ‘Out Of Time’ really embodies the DNA of the Telos album, which is why I chose it as the song to kick off this new era,” he says.

— If you’re in the mood for a slower change of pace, listen to John Legend, who releases his first children’s album, My Favorite Dream, on Friday, August 30. Produced by chamber-pop polymath Sufjan Stevens, it centers on universal themes of love, security, family and dreams on nine original tracks, two covers, a solo piano piece and three bonus covers of Fisher-Price songs.

— Get ready for an explosion of K-pop — on your TV. Apple TV+ will premiere the six-part docuseries “K-Pop Idols” starting Friday, August 30, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the highly competitive reality of K-pop stardom. It follows Jessi, CRAVITY and BLACKSWAN as they learn choreography and pull it all together to conquer the stage. Producers say the series “follows the superstars through highs and lows, breaking down cultural and musical barriers in K-pop with passion, creativity and determination as they pursue their dreams.”

— With the album “A Ballet Through Mud,” RZA takes a sharp turn as a classical composer. The composition made its debut last year in the form of a ballet performed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Composed and set to music by the Wu-Tang Clan star, the piece reflects his journey from growing up in New York City public housing to becoming a famous artist and “weaves stories of love, loss, discovery, Buddhist monks and a journey ‘through the mud.’” RZA says he began the project at the start of the pandemic after rediscovering notebooks full of song lyrics he wrote as a teenager. “The inspiration for ‘A Ballet Through Mud’ comes from my earliest creative output as a teenager, but the themes are universal — love, discovery and adventure,” he says.

— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy

NEW SHOWS TO STREAM

— Adam Sandler gets all the feels right with his stand-up performances and signature comedy songs in his new Netflix special, “Adam Sandler: Love You.” Directed by Josh Safdie, who co-directed Sandler’s 2019 film “The Black Diamond” with his brother Benny, “Love You” is Sandler’s first comedy special since 2018. It premieres Tuesday on Netflix.

— Charles, Oliver and Mabel (Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez) head to Los Angeles in Season 4 of “Only Murders in the Building” because their podcast is being made into a movie. Their life in Hollywood is interrupted when another murder occurs, meaning the trio has a new case to solve. Eugene Levy, Zach Galifianakis and Eva Longoria join the cast. “Only Murders in the Building” premieres Tuesday on Hulu.

— A new animated series set in the “Terminator” universe is coming to Netflix on Thursday. It will introduce new characters voiced by “House of the Dragon” actors Sonoya Mizuno, Timothy Olyphant, André Holland, Rosario Dawson and Ann Dowd.

— The second season of The House of the Dragon aired in its entirety on HBO, and if your fantasy cravings aren’t satisfied yet, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power returns Thursday with season 2 on Prime Video. The story is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, before the events of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

— Alicia Rancilio

NEW VIDEO GAMES TO PLAY

— Luke Skywalker may make headlines, but the real MVPs of the Star Wars franchise are crooks like Han Solo and Lando Calrissian. Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws introduces a new villain: Kay Vess, a young thief trying to work her way up the galaxy’s crime syndicates and pull off the big heist. She’s neither Jedi nor Sith, but she knows how to fire a blaster and fly a spaceship. From Massive Entertainment, the developers of Tom Clancy’s The Division, Outlaws aims to spread Ubisoft’s brand of open-world adventure to multiple planets. It’s out Friday, August 30, for PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, and PC.

— Many gamers who grew up with the Super Nintendo Entertainment System remember 1993’s Secret of Mana as their introduction to a certain style of high fantasy RPG. It’s been 15 years since we got a new chapter in the Mana series, but Square Enix finally delivers with Visions of Mana. A young man named Val is chosen to accompany his girlfriend Hinna on a pilgrimage to the life-sustaining Mana Tree, and they must use magic and swordplay to battle any monsters along the way. The lush, anime-style graphics are sure to bring back memories for old-school RPG fans, out Thursday, August 29 on PlayStation 5/4, Xbox X/S, and PC.

— Lou Kesten