By The Associated Press
Sadie Sandler starring in the Netflix comedy “Roommates” and fresh tunes from Zayn Malik 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: Elle Fanning playing a single mom who creates an OnlyFans account in “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” Capcom’s Pragmata offering gamers a moon-based adventure and Netflix’s critically acclaimed series “Beef” is back for a second season with a new cast.
New movies to stream from April 13-19
— Sadie Sandler, eldest daughter of Adam, is starring in the new Netflix comedy “Roommates,” about a college freshman and her boundaryless dormmate (Chloe East). Nick Kroll and Natasha Lyonne play her parents in a cast that also includes Francesca Scorsese, Carol Kane and Storm Reid. It’s streaming on Friday, April 17.
— Edgar Wright’s new take on Stephen King’s dystopian 1982 novel “The Running Man,” starring Glen Powell, will be streaming on Prime Video on Friday, April 17. The movie flopped at the box office, making less than $69 million on a reported budget of $110 million. Reviews weren’t the greatest either. The Associated Press’ Jake Coyle wrote that, “from the start, the darkest shades of King’s book have been snuffed out of this blandly entertaining remake that swaps out the brutalist 1980s nihilism of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie for a satirical portrait of America lacking in bite and prescience.” But, Coyle added, “if there’s one aspect of Wright’s film that feels genuinely connected to today, it’s the movie’s media metaphor.”
— A young girl (Sophie Sloan) hires her hitman neighbor (Mads Mikkelsen) to kill the monsters she thinks ate her family in the R-rated “Dust Bunny,” the debut feature from “Hannibal” series creator Bryan Fuller. The film, streaming on HBO Max starting…