Entertainment

Summer is the perfect time to catch up on all the shows your friends are buzzing about, especially if you subscribe to streaming services. Here are 10, in alphabetical order, that stood out during the first six months of 2022.

The arrival of the compact disc nearly killed off record albums, with vinyl pressing machines sold, scrapped and dismantled by major record labels. Four decades later, with resuscitated record album sales producing double-digit annual growth, manufacturers are rapidly rebuilding an industry to keep pace with sales that reached $1 billion last year.

On the day of Austin Butler’s final screen test for “Elvis,” director Baz Luhrmann threw everything at him. Butler had spent five months building up to that moment, workshopping the role with Luhrmann, doing hair and makeup tests, rehearsing the songs.

“The Lies I Tell” by Julie Clark (Sourcebooks Landmark) NEW YORK (AP) — Clear your schedule to read “The Lies I Tell” because this book is nearly impossible to put down from the first page. It begins from the perspective of Kat Roberts, an unsatisfied journalist, who has waited 10 years to expose the many grifts of Meg Williams, a con artist who she blames for altering the course of her own life when she was on an uphill trajectory.

NEW YORK — After more than six decades of making bicycles soar, sending panicked swimmers to the shore and other spellbinding close encounters, John Williams is putting the final notes on what may be his last film score.

Disney has made big business mining content from content, with spinoffs and sequels and multiverses dancing through multiplexes and streaming apps. “Lightyear,” the latest Disney/Pixar animated film, has been extracted from the much-beloved “Toy Story” universe, but it’s a bit unique.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — No one can accuse Carrie Underwood of underdressing — or underdelivering — when the country superstar puts out her latest record “Denim & Rhinestones” during the same weekend of CMA Fest and giving tens of thousands of fans a stadium-sized performance.

A new Adam Sandler film arrived on Netflix this week -- no surprise given his long-standing contract with the streamer -- but while most of Sandler’s Netflix output has been lowbrow comedy, his newest film, “Hustle” is a far cry from that.