{"id":19407,"date":"2023-01-16T15:13:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T23:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=19407"},"modified":"2023-01-16T15:13:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T23:13:45","slug":"new-releases-while-we-were-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/new-releases-while-we-were-away\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases While we were Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written by:<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gretchen Sims<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It feels like so much time has passed since the traumatizing end of finals week. Since The Howl has yet to have a release since school was in session, there is much that has been missed. Here are just a few media releases that have been rocking viewers since early December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Albums and Singles \u2014<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> During the month of December alone, several albums have blown up, taking America by storm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SZA had the biggest success in December with the \u201cSOS\u201d album released on Dec 9. Paramore released \u201cThe News\u201d as a precursor for their album that is set to release in January.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lana Del Rey also released a song, \u201cDid you know that there\u2019s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd,\u201d teasing her 9th studio album set to release in March.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weezer released \u201cWinter,\u201d the 4th and final EP in their SZNZ series.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A$AP Rocky released \u201cSh\u2014n\u2019 Me\u201d as part of the official soundtrack for the racing video game, \u201cNeed For Speed Unbound.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ava Max continues to tease her upcoming album \u201cDiamonds and Dancefloors,\u201d which is set to release in late January, by dropping \u201cDancing\u2019s Done.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Movies \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This past month has had many notable movie releases. However, here are a few that broke the box office.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBabylon,\u201d starring Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Jean Smart, follows several key figures of early Hollywood through their rise and fall.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI Wanna Dance With Somebody\u201d documents the heartbreaking yet joyous story of Whitney Houston \u2014 arguably the most influential female vocalist of all time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAvatar: The Way of Water,\u201d the second movie in the critically acclaimed Avatar series, follows Jake Sully\u2019s new family and their struggle to protect their home.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cViolent Knight\u201d redefines Christmas movies with a bloody spinoff of \u201cHome Alone.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cPuss in Boots: The Last Wish\u201d is a long-awaited sequel to the Puss in Boots franchise in which Puss must go on an adventure of a lifetime to preserve his own.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cM3GAN\u201d addresses the fears of AI going rogue while preying on an audience\u2019s fear of dolls.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>TV Series \u2014 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because they deserve a category of their own, here are the TV series released in December 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Season three of \u201cEmily in Paris\u201d was released on Netflix on Dec 21.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c1923,\u201d the second Yellowstone prequel, debuted on Paramount Dec 18.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The rebut of \u201cGossip Girl\u201d was released on HBO Max on Dec 1.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Witcher: Blood Origins,\u201d a prequel to \u201cThe Witcher\u201d series on Netflix, could be streamed as of Dec 25.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at howlentertainment@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":19408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}