Entertainment
Guide: Apple TV+, Music, Arcade holiday specials
Entertainment galore this season of giving
Apple is offering a great holiday lineup across its entertainment services. Enjoy these on Apple TV+, Apple Music, and Apple Arcade as Christmas approaches.
Classics, originals, sing-alongs on Apple TV+
Apple Original special “The Velveteen Rabbit” and musical “Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas” featuring Rebecca Welton from Ted Lasso and special guests headline Apple TV+ specials this holiday season.
For kids, “The Snoopy Show,” “Frog and Toad,” “Sago Mini Friends,” and “Shape Island” are available to stream throughout the season while classics like “Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special,” “I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown,” and “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” are all streaming on the platform.
As a bonus, a sing-along version of the hit musical comedy “Spirited” which stars Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, and Octavia Spencer has been made available.
Apple Music: TWICE’s Jeongyeon headlines Carols Covered
This year, Carols Covered returns with a new lineup of holiday songs reimagined by today’s top artists.
The Apple Music selection includes renditions led by TWICE’s Jeongyeon. She encourages listeners to bring back “some sweet holiday memories” while tuning in to her cover.
The lineup of performers also includes Ángela Aguilar, Armani White, Bnxn, Coco Jones, David Shaw, Dikka, and Elevation Worship. There’s also Ella Henderson, Gallant & Jensen McRae, G Flip, Hakushi Hasegawa, Hemlocke Springs, Lauren Spencer Smith, and Restless Road.
Apple Arcade: Updates for the holidays
For Apple Arcade, more than 50 updates to existing titles on the service have been rolled out. All of that coming in time for the festivities this December.
Players may join Sonic and friends in Sonic Dream Team, step into a Disney magic-filled world with Disney Dreamlight Valley Arcade Ediiton and enjoy an epic fantasy puzzle RPG adventure with Puzzle & Dragons Story.
The award-winning Hello Kitty Island Adventure has also introduced the Give & Gather Celebration on the Island, along with its newest resident, My Sweet Piano.
Multi-player game Taiko no Tatsujin Pop Tap Beat has six new songs, while Cooking Mama: Cuisine! has an all-new Flour Recipes book to get everyone busy and hooked on their Apple devices.
Entertainment
Dune: Part Three teaser trailer: First look at Robert Pattinson’s Scytale
In cinemas this December
The countdown is officially on as Warner Bros. Pictures has released the teaser trailer for Dune: Part Three.
The epic conclusion to Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” trilogy opens in cinemas and IMAX this December.
In addition, character posters have also been released. Here are some, courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures:
The highly anticipated film stars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Ferguson, Florence Pugh, Robert Pattinson, Anya Taylor-Joy and Isaach De Bankolé.
The trailer, meanwhile, gives an excellent first look at Pattinson as the main antagonist of the final installment, Scytale.
In the final movie, the plot jumps ahead 17 years after Chalamet’s Paul Atreides ascended to the throne.
There will be a dramatic change in the tone from the first two films, focusing more on psychological thriller instead of a war epic, given the visuals of the previous two installments.
Atreides is now a battle-hardened Emperor, struggling with the “Holy War” that has claimed 61 million lives.
Worse, Scytale will lead a conspiracy from within that attempts to overthrow the protagonist’s empire.
Pattinson’s character will mess with Atreides’ head instead of pure brawns, in a bid to wear him down. This presents the central conflict of the upcoming film.
Universal Pictures has released the final trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which hits cinemas early next month.
Chris Pratt and Charlie Day return to play the iconic brothers Mario and Luigi, with the group getting bigger and more lovable with the addition of Donald Glover’s Yoshi.
Other actors returning to voice beloved characters from the franchise are:
- Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach
- Jack Black as Bowser
- Keegan-Michael Key as Toad
- Brie Larson as Rosalina
Worth noting, the Captain Marvel and The Marvels lead actress, Larson, fulfills her dream as a Super Mario fan as her character makes her big-screen debut.
In The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the plumber brothers are sent into space to save Rosalina from the clutches of Bowser Jr.
Coming along for the ride are Princess Peach, Toad, and Yoshi, their newest companion.
More beloved characters will make their first big-screen appearances, including Pikmin, R.O.B., Birdo, and more.
The trailer also highlights some of the wonderful worlds the protagonists will visit, from the Preshistoric Falls to the Honeyhive Galaxy.
The film will show in theaters on April 1 in the United States and April 4 in the Philippines.
Watch the final trailer here:
Entertainment
Spider-Man: Brand New Day first trailer hits hard — and gets weird
What’s happening to Peter?
Spider-Man is back — and this time, it doesn’t feel safe.
The first trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day just dropped, and it’s equal parts heartbreaking, chaotic, and… a little unsettling. The kind of trailer that makes you pause halfway through and go, “Wait, what is happening to Peter?”
Because this isn’t just about swinging through New York anymore.
This is about what happens after Peter Parker chooses to disappear.
A lonelier Spider-Man
The trailer opens with Peter hanging upside down high above the city, quietly watching MJ and Ned Leeds celebrate their first day at MIT.
They’ve moved on. They’re happy. And Peter… doesn’t exist to them anymore.
That idea lingers through the next few scenes. He rehearses introductions like a stranger trying to fit in and washes his bloodied suit in a laundromat. He carries on as Spider-Man, even receiving a Key to the City — while Peter Parker fades into the background.
Things get violent, fast
Then the trailer flips.
We see a little moment between Frrank Castle (The Punisher) and Spidey. The exchange was lighthearted but also brutal. Spidey ends up immobilizing Frank and tells him to “Go home.” Could be a quick nod to Tom Holland’s “Home” trilogy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
And in the middle of it all, Scorpion finally emerges as a major threat, alongside a brute with mechanical gauntlets and a swarm of red-clad ninjas.
This isn’t your usual friendly neighborhood lineup.
Something is wrong with Peter
And then there’s the part that really sticks.
Peter starts deteriorating. He looks sick. Sweaty. Unstable. At one point, he collapses completely.
Then comes the reveal: Peter trapped inside a massive web cocoon — before violently breaking out of it.
He seeks out Bruce Banner, who seems to confirm what we’re all thinking — something is very wrong with Peter’s DNA. His warning? Mutation at this level is dangerous.
Paired with the narration about a spider’s life cycle and Banner’s warning, it really feels like the film is setting up a Man-Spider arc. A version of Peter where the mutation goes too far. Where the line between hero and something else starts to blur.
If that’s where this is headed, Brand New Day might be the most unsettling Spider-Man story we’ve seen on screen.
And still… MJ
The trailer closes things out with a quiet moment.
Peter shows up at MJ’s door with flowers, trying to reconnect in the simplest way he can.
She smiles. Introduces herself. Like they’ve never met. And Peter, of course, plays along. Just a friendly neighbor from across the hall.
It’s soft. It’s painful. And it lands harder than any punch in the trailer.
I’m all in
Between Frank Castle’s brutality, Bruce Banner’s warning, the arrival of Scorpion, and the possibility of a full-on Man-Spider transformation…
Yeah. This one feels different.
Can’t wait. I’m so hyped.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is coming to theaters on July 31. In the Philippines, the movie will start showing on July 29.
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