Samuel L. Jackson turns in one of the best performances in his career in the new six-part “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey” (Apple TV+, streaming), adapted by Walter Mosley from his own novel about a failing man with dementia who gets care from a no-nonsense teen (the excellent Dominique Fishback) before he’s offered an experimental treatment that will suddenly sharpen his memory.
It’s rare for a major Pixar feature to get its debut on streaming platforms but the animated “Turning Red” (Disney+, streaming) is just that, a rarity also by being written and directed by a woman, Domee Shi, about a Chinese American girl who accidentally turns into a giant red panda when she gets excited. And since she and her friends are boy band fans in the early 2000s, that happens a lot. Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh provide voices.
Another Hollywood film premiering online is the sci-fi “The Adam Project” (Netflix, streaming) with Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Garner, Zoe Saldana, Mark Ruffalo and Catherine Keener, a bout a time-traveling pilot who meets his young self and late father.
Greg Daniels’ uneven “Upload” (Amazon Prime, streaming), about a futuristic afterlife, begins its second season.
Engines rev up for the new season of “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” (Netflix, streaming).
The new Spanish fantasy romance series “Once Upon a Time.. Happily Never After” (Netflix, streaming) is about a couple forced to separate who must find each other in another life to break a spell on their town, where no one can fall in love.