What to Stream: 'Project Hail Mary,' Colin Farrell in 'Sugar' and Myles
Smith
[June 15, 2026]
The streaming debut of “Project Hail Mary” and Myles Smith's
debut album 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: Colin
Farrell plays an alien on Earth in “Sugar,” a Square Enix game that
evokes “Chrono Trigger” and “Released At Last,” a collaboration between
Big Freedia and the late artist Sophie.
New movies to stream from June 15-21
— “Project Hail Mary,” one of the biggest hits of the first half of the
movie year, begins streaming Thursday, June 18, on MGM+. Phil Lord and
Chris Miller’s sci-fi adventure stars Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace, a
science teacher who wakes up on a ship sent into space on a mission to
save dying stars. Sandra Hüller co-stars, as does an alien named Rocky
played by puppeteer James Ortiz. In her review, AP Film Writer Lindsey
Bahr called it “a clever, sincere, most-ages crowd-pleaser that’s full
of life, energy and a love of science.”
— In “How to Make a Killing” (June 19, HBO Max), Glen Powell stars as a
working-class man who sets out to murderously reclaim his inheritance.
The film, written and directed by John Patton Ford (“Emily the
Criminal”), is inspired by the great Alec Guinness Ealing comedy “Kind
Heart and Coronets.” But such tonal deftness is lacking, I wrote in my
review, in “a disappointingly flat almost-remake that has neither the
biting farce nor the chilling darkness to match its black-comedy
ambitions.”
— “Voicemails for Isabelle” hopes to separate from the pack of a long
line of Netflix rom-coms. In writer-director Leah McKendrick’s film,
Zoey Deutch stars a woman grieving her sister’s death who, to cope,
leaves voicemails on her phone. When that number is reassigned to Austin
real estate agent (Nick Robinson), the two are drawn together. It debuts
Friday, June 19.
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
New music to stream on June 19
— On Friday, Myles Smith will release his debut album, “My Mess, My
Heart, My Life.” It is a bit hard to believe, because the English
singer-songwriter already has a three-times platinum single under his
belt. His 2024 song “Stargazing” was a folk-pop megahit from a
once-unknown performer. And on his first full-length album, he aims to
keep up the momentum.
— The music world lost a nascent pop hero in 2021, when Sophie, the
Grammy-nominated Scottish disc jockey, producer and recording artist who
had worked with the likes of Madonna and Charli XCX, died following an
accident in the Greek capital of Athens. She was 34. Her music continues
to resonate, and her influence continues to be heard across the
underground and mainstream alike. On Friday, the New Orleans icon and
Queen of Bounce music Big Freedia will drop “Released At Last,” a
three-song EP she recorded with the late Sophie back in 2016. It serves
as a reminder: The club is open.
— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman
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This combination of images shows promotional art for the series
"Sugar," left, and the film "Project Hail Mary." (Apple TV+/Amazon
MGM Studios via AP)
 New series to stream from June
15-21
— You could call it “The Baby-Sitters Club” for ballers. In the new
docuseries “Million Dollar Nannies,” cameras follow a boutique
agency in Ibiza that offers babysitting for the children of wealthy
parents. These clients are VIPs who have big expectations to match
their big lifestyles. There are NDA’s, private planes and kids who
eat caviar. All episodes drop Thursday, June 18 on Hulu.
— Colin Farrell returns as an alien disguised as a human in Season 2
of “Sugar” for Apple TV. Premiering Friday, June 19, Farrell’s
character goes by the alias John Sugar, a private investigator in
Los Angeles. The series is a noir-style detective drama with a
central mystery that lasts all season. Sugar has two jobs. One is to
solve his case du jour and the other is to secretly monitor people
here on Earth.
— AP Writer Alicia Rancilio
New video games to play from June 15-21
— Square Enix’s “The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales”
takes place in a land called Philabieldia, “a beautiful but savage
land” that sounds just like our own Pennsylvania city, only without
cheesesteaks. After some mysterious ruins are discovered, the gutsy
Elliot and his fairy sidekick, Faie, are sent on a journey that goes
back and forth in time across 1,000 years. The pixelated art will
look familiar to fans of developer Clay Tech Works’ role-playing
fantasy “Octopath Traveler,” but the action is more arcade-like. And
the time-jumping story is reminiscent of Square’s 1995 classic
“Chrono Trigger.” Start making history Thursday, June 18, on
PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, Switch 2 and PC.
— Lou Kesten
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