What to Stream: 'Freakier Friday,' NF, 'Landman,' 'Palm Royale' and
Black Ops 7
[November 10, 2025]
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan re-teaming as the
body-swapping mother and daughter duo in “Freakier Friday” and albums
from 5 Seconds of Summer and the rapper NF are some of the new
television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as
selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: Claire
Danes and Matthew Rhys team up for the new limited-series thriller “The
Beast in Me,” gamers get Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Apple TV’s
star-studded “Palm Royale” is back.
New movies to stream from Nov. 10-16
— Richard Linklater’s love letter to the French New Wave and the making
of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless,” “Nouvelle Vague,” will be streaming
on Netflix on Friday, Nov. 14. In his review, Associated Press Film
Writer Jake Coyle writes that, “To a remarkable degree, Linklater’s
film, in French and boxed into the Academy ratio, black-and-white style
of ‘Breathless,’ has fully imbibed that spirit, resurrecting one of the
most hallowed eras of movies to capture an iconoclast in the making. The
result is something endlessly stylish and almost absurdly uncanny.”
— Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan re-team as the body-swapping mother
and daughter duo in “Freakier Friday,” a sequel to their 2003 movie,
streaming on Disney+ on Wednesday. In her review, Jocelyn Noveck writes,
“The chief weakness of ‘Freakier Friday’ — an amiable, often joyful and
certainly chaotic reunion — is that while it hews overly closely to the
structure, storyline and even dialogue of the original, it tries too
hard to up the ante. The comedy is thus a bit more manic, and the plot
machinations more overwrought (or sometimes distractingly silly).”
— Ari Aster’s latest nightmare “Eddington” is set in a small, fictional
New Mexico town during the coronavirus pandemic, which becomes a kind of
microcosm for our polarized society at large with Joaquin Phoenix as the
sheriff and Pedro Pascal as its mayor. In my review, I wrote that, “it
is an anti-escapist symphony of masking debates, conspiracy theories,
YouTube prophets, TikTok trends and third-rail topics in which no side
is spared.”
— An incurable cancer diagnoses might not be the most obvious starting
place for a funny and affirming film, but that is the magic of Ryan
White’s documentary “Come See Me in the Good Light,” about two poets,
Andrea Gibson, who died in July, and Megan Falley, facing a difficult
reality together. It will be on Apple TV on Friday, Nov. 14.
— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr
New music to stream from Nov. 10-16
— There’s nothing worse than a band without a sense of humor. Thankfully
5 Seconds of Summer are in on the joke. Their sixth studio album,
“Everyone’s a Star!,” sounds like the Australian pop-rock band are
having fun again, from The Prodigy-esq. “Not OK” to the self-referential
and effacing “Boy Band.” Candor is their provocation now, and it sounds
good — particularly after the band has spent the last few years
exploring solo projects.
— The R&B and neo soul powerhouse Summer Walker has returned with her
third studio album and first in four years. “Finally Over It,” out
Friday, Nov. 14, is the final chapter of her “Over It” trilogy; a
release centered on transformation and autonomy. That’s evident from the
dreamy throwback single, “Heart of A Woman,” in which the song’s
protagonist is disappointed with her partner — but with striking
self-awareness. “In love with you but can’t stand your ways,” she sings.
“And I try to be strong/But how much can I take?”
— Consider him one of the biggest artists on the planet that you may not
be familiar with. NF, the musical moniker of Nate Feuerstein, emerged
from the Christian rap world a modern answer to Eminem only to top the
mainstream, all-genre Billboard 200 chart twice, with 2017’s
“Perception” and 2019’s “The Search.” On Friday, Nov. 14, he’ll release
“Fear,” a new six-track EP featuring mgk (formerly Machine Gun Kelly)
and the English singer James Arthur.
— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman
New series to stream from Nov. 10-16
— Apple TV's star-studded “Palm Royale” is back just in time for a new
social season. Starring Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern, Allison Janney, Leslie
Bibb, Kaia Gerber, Ricky Martin AND Carol Burnett, the show is campy,
colorful and fun, plus it has great costumes. Wiig plays Maxine, a woman
desperate to be accepted into high society in Palm Beach, Florida, in
the late 1960s. The first episode streams Wednesday and one will follow
weekly into January.
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This combination of photos shows promotional art for the films "Eddington,"
left, "Nouvelle Vague," center, and the series "Landman."
(A24/Netflix/Paramount+ via AP)
— “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” cast member Heather Gay has
written a book called “Bad Mormon” about how she went from a devout
Mormon to leaving the church. Next, she's fronting a new docuseries that
delves into that too called “Surviving Mormonism with Heather Gay.” The
reality TV star also speaks to others who have left the religion. All
three episodes drop Wednesday on Peacock.
— Thanks to “Homeland” and “The Americans,” Claire Danes and Matthew
Rhys helped put the prestige in the term prestige TV. They grace the
screen together in a new limited-series for Netflix called “The Beast in
Me.” Danes plays a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who finds a new subject
in her next door neighbor, a real estate tycoon who also may or may not
have killed his first wife. Howard Gordon, who worked with Danes on
“Homeland,” is also the showrunner and an executive producer of “The
Beast in Me.” It premieres Thursday.
— David Duchovny and Jack Whitehall star in a new thriller on Prime
Video called “Malice.” Duchovny plays Jamie, a wealthy man vacationing
with his family in Greece. He hires a tutor (played by Whitehall) named
Adam to work with the kids who seems likable, personable and they invite
him into their world. Soon it becomes apparent that Adam's charm is
actually creepy. Something is up. As these stories go, getting rid of an
interloper is never easy. All six episodes drop Friday, Nov. 14.
— “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” returns to Fox Nation on
Sunday, Nov. 16 for a second season. The premiere details the story of
Saint Patrick. The show is a passion project for Scorsese who executive
produces, hosts, and narrates the episodes.
— Billy Bob Thornton has struck oil in the second season of “Landman” on
Paramount+. Created by Taylor Sheridan, the show is set in modern day
Texas in the world of Big Oil. Sam Elliott and Andy Garcia have joined
the cast and Demi Moore also returns. The show returns Sunday, Nov. 16.
— Alicia Rancilio
New video games to play from Nov. 10-16
— The Call of Duty team behind the Black Ops subseries delivered a
chapter last year — but they’re already back with Call of Duty: Black
Ops 7. The new installment of the bestselling first-person shooter
franchise moves to 2035 and a world “on the brink of chaos.” (What else
is new?) Publisher Activision is promising a “reality-shattering”
experience that dives into “into the deepest corners of the human
psyche.” Beyond that storyline there are also 16 multiplayer maps and
the ever-popular zombie mode, in which you and your friends get to blast
away at relentless hordes of the undead. Lock and load Friday, Nov. 14,
on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S or PC.
— Lumines Arise is the latest head trip from Enhance Games, the studio
behind puzzlers like Tetris Effect, Rez Infinite and Humanity. The basic
challenge is simple enough: Multicolored 2x2 blocks drift down the
screen, and you need to arrange them to form single-color squares.
Completed squares vanish unless you apply the “burst” mechanic, which
lets you build ever-larger squares and rack up bigger scores. It’s all
accompanied by hallucinatory graphics and thumping electronic music, and
you can plug in a virtual reality headset if you really want to feel
like you’re at a rave. Pick up the groove Tuesday on PlayStation 5 or
PC.
— Lou Kesten
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