What's streaming now: '1989 (Taylor’s Version),' Emily Blunt and 'Five Nights at Freddy’s'
Taylor Swift's “1989 (Taylor's Version),” a Paramount documentary on the duo Milli Vanilli examining one of music's biggest lip-syncing scandals and the horror movie “Five Nights at Freddy's” are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you
Among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists are Julian Fellowes' “The Gilded Age” back for a second season on HBO and Hollywood's latest attempt to delve into the opioid crisis with the glossy “Pain Hustlers,” starring Emily Blunt, Chris Evans and Andy Garcia.
Hollywood's latest attempt to delve into the opioid crisis is the glossy, starry “Pain Hustlers,” starring Emily Blunt, Chris Evans and Andy Garcia. Based on a New York Times Magazine article (which then became a book) by Evan Hughes, “Pain Hustlers,” on Netflix now, centers on a pharmaceutical startup, Insys Therapeutics, which engaged in criminal activities like bribery and kickbacks and misleading insurers to push their addictive oral fentanyl spray called Subsys. Blunt plays a high school dropout who gets a job at the company, run by Garcia, where she excels. Directed by David Yates, “Pain Hustlers” was not generally well received by critics at its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, but Alyssa Wilkinson wrote for Vox that, though predictable, “'Pain Hustlers' manages to be lively and moving.”
The video game series “Five Nights at Freddy's” is now a movie, available both in theaters and on Peacock on Friday. The horror pic, from Blumhouse Productions, follows a security guard (played by “The Hunger Games'” Josh Hutcherson) who accepts a job at an old family entertainment center, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where the animatronic
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