A 1998 video recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s music theater classic “Oklahoma!” - starring then-newcomer Hugh Jackman - is hitting movie theaters for a lot less than a Broadway ticket. In addition to Jones, vocals on the album also include Shawn McQuiller, Lavell Evans, Dominique Karan, Rick Marcel and Walt Anderson, plus rappers Ami Miller & Ole’. The band is led by founding members Robert “Kool” Bell on bass and George “Funky” Brown, the keyboardist, drummer and producer, whose memoir “Too Hot: Kool & The Gang & Me” arrives Tuesday. The R&B, funk and soul icons - celebrating their 60th anniversary next year - have a new album, “People Just Wanna Have Fun.” The first single is infectious stuff, the happy, funky “Let’s Party,” featuring vocals from Sha Sha Jones. Kool & The Gang and summer go together like peanut butter and jelly. Another single, “Alcohallelujah,” touches on both the highs and lows of drinking, with Nelson singing: “Forgive me, Father, for I’ve been inspired /I got bars and bars of melodies and memories/May this spirit lift me ever higher.” The new 12-track album, out Friday, sees Nelson backed by his longtime band Promise of the Real. Country star Lukas Nelson calls his latest album “the perfect setlist.” “Sticks and Stones,” the follow-up release to his 2021 album “A Few Stars Apart,” includes the first single, “More Than Friends,” featuring Lainey Wilson. Is it worth your time? Check out AP’s review here. ![]() Álex and David Pastor wrote and directed this installment based on Josh Malerman’s 2014 novel. The blindfolds are once again paramount in “Bird Box Barcelona,” in which a father played by Mario Casas tries to protect his daughter from the monsters. Remember the Sandra Bullock-in-a-blindfold movie “Bird Box” that seemingly everyone with a Netflix account watched over the holidays in 2018? Well, the streamer made a spin-off, in Spanish, debuted Friday. It’ll also still be available in theaters around the country for anyone still hoping to catch it on the big screen. I wrote in my review that it is very, very Wes Anderson and also a return to form. This outing is a whimsically constructed play-within-a-play that’s set in the American midcentury Desert West at a junior stargazer convention, bringing together several kid geniuses, their parents, including Scarlett Johansson’s Marilyn-esque movie star and Jason Schwartzman’s widowed war photographer, scientists, military types, some singing cowboys and a very special cameo from Jeff Goldblum. Wes Anderson’s stylish and star-studded “Asteroid City” arrived on premium video on demand (VOD) on Tuesday.
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