The It Listing is Yahoo’s weekly take a look at one of the best in popular culture, together with films, music, TV, streaming, video games, books, podcasts and extra. Listed below are our picks for Feb. 20-26, together with one of the best offers we might discover for every. (Yahoo Leisure could obtain a share from purchases made through hyperlinks on this web page.)
WATCH IT: Kelsey Grammer will get non secular within the new drama Jesus Revolution
He is listening… to God. Longtime TV psychiatrist, Kelsey Grammer, steps as much as the pulpit for Jesus Revolution, a dramatization of the life and occasions of real-life California pastor, Chuck Smith. Rising from the wilderness on the peak of SoCal’s hippie period, the preacher man launched the Calvary Chapel with assistance from long-haired evangelist Lonnie Frisbee (performed by Jonathan Roumie). Collectively, the duo hoped to discover a center floor between old style Christians and a brand new era represented by the film’s central character, Greg Laurie, performed by Kissing Sales space franchise star Joel Courtney. You possibly can see the fictionalized first assembly between Chuck and Lonnie within the unique clip above. In actual life, although, Smith’s Jesus Revolution did not go as deliberate: In his later years, the pastor — who died in 2013 — misplaced followers and affect after incorrectly predicting that the world would finish in 1981, and delivering ugly sermons denouncing homosexuality as a “perverted life-style.” — Ethan Alter
Jesus Revolution premieres Friday, Feb. 24 in theaters; go to Fandango for showtimes and ticket data.
STREAM IT: Murdaugh Murders recounts the autumn of a household dynasty
Speak about ripped from the headlines. Because the stunning story of Alex Murdaugh, the patriarch of a distinguished South Carolina household, performs out in court docket, Netflix is inspecting simply what occurred, an unlikely saga that finally led to the lawyer being accused not solely of monetary crimes, together with stealing cash from his purchasers, however of killing his spouse and son to cowl up his different crimes. (He has denied it.) Medication and rumored secret relationships are among the many many different twists and turns explored on this three-part sequence, which options interviews with among the witnesses, lots of whom have not spoken publicly till now. — Raechal Shewfelt
Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal premieres Wednesday, Feb 22 on Netflix.
STREAM IT: Eugene Levy hits the street in Apple’s globetrotting actuality sequence, The Reluctant Traveler
After spending six seasons in small-town Canada, it solely is sensible that Schitt’s Creek star Eugene Levy would wish to see extra of the world. However because the title of his new journey sequence implies, the 76-year-old comic and actor can be a creature of behavior. The Reluctant Traveler pushes Levy out of his consolation zone as he excursions the globe from South Africa to Costa Rica, consuming new meals, seeing new sights and making an attempt new issues… like helicopter rides and ice fishing. Hopefully he made positive to pack loads of Western Ontario fruit wine. — E.A.
The Reluctant Traveler premieres Friday, Feb. 24 on Apple TV+.
WATCH IT: Jim Gaffigan is a rocket man in new dramedy Linoleum
We don’t get sufficient Jim Gaffigan in our films, we’ll simply say it. One factor the brand new dramatic comedy Linoleum has instantly going for it: There are two Jim Gaffigans in it. The comic performs a double position, starring as Cameron Edwin, a small city host of an area youngsters’s science present, and Kent Armstrong, the “youthful, higher trying” model of himself that all of a sudden seems to taunt him. When a Russian rocket crashes into Cameron’s yard, he units out to get previous a transparent midlife disaster by making it fly once more. The Colin West-directed movie additionally comes with one Rhea Seehorn (Higher Name Saul), and that’s all we’d like. Take a look at an unique clip above. — Kevin Polowy
Linoleum opens in choose theaters Friday, Feb. 24; go to Fandango for showtimes and ticket data.
WATCH IT: Occasion Down picks up (nearly) the place it left off
As Henry Pollard, performed by Adam Scott, says within the revival of Starz’s darkish comedy a few Los Angeles catering crew, whose members aspire to a extra inventive life, “This isn’t how I envisioned my 40s.” And but, he and the others, together with characters performed by Ken Marino (Ron), Ryan Hansen (Kyle), Martin Starr (Roman), Jane Lynch (Constance) and Megan Mullally (Lydia) nonetheless discover themselves partying — nicely, you realize, working events — prefer it’s 2010, the final time contemporary episodes aired. Most of them are there, not less than. Sadly, Lizzy Caplan’s Casey is out, as a result of the actress was filming one other sequence, Fleishman Is in Bother. The Paul Rudd co-created present has added just a few new (very humorous) faces, too, together with Jennifer Garner, Zoë Chao and Tyrel Jackson Williams as solid members. Quinta Brunson, James Marsden, Judy Reyes and Nick Offerman are among the many visitor stars. — R.S.
Occasion Down premieres Friday, Feb. 24 on Starz.
HEAR IT: Queen’s Adam Lambert is a Drama king
Adam Lambert got here to fame doing rocked-up remakes on American Idol, quickly incomes the nickname “Glambert,” and finally grew to become Queen’s new frontman. So, it’s a full-circle second as he releases the aptly titled Excessive Drama, a glammy covers assortment with ties to his Idol and Queen eras, to his theater roots, and to 1 groundbreaking queer artist, Jobriath, that paved the way in which for proudly out artists like Lambert. There are additionally songs initially recorded by fashionable feminine pop stars (Sia’s “Chandelier,” Billie Eilish’s “Getting Older,” Lana Del Rey’s “West Coast,” Pink’s “My Attic”); hits by ’80s New Romantic icons Duran Duran and Tradition Membership; soul scorchers like Ann Peebles’s “I Cannot Stand the Rain”; and a glitter-rockin’ rendition of Bonnie Tyler’s Jim Steinman-penned Footloose energy ballad “Holding Out for Hero.” In a latest Yahoo Leisure interview, Lambert defined, “I feel with this album, regardless that they’re covers, we have managed to make them sound and really feel authentic sufficient, so that they’re like my type of data. … I feel that is one of many issues over the previous couple years that I’ve gotten actually clear on: I feel I do know what my model is now, greater than ever.” — Lyndsey Parker
Excessive Drama by Adam Lambert is on the market Friday, Feb. 24 to obtain/stream on Apple Music.
READ IT: Oscar Wars chronicles among the greatest behind-the-scenes battles over Hollywood’s little gold males
Even earlier than Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, the Oscar stage had seen some wild and loopy sights. Michael Schulman’s new ebook, Oscar Wars, dives deep into among the greatest controversies in Academy Awards historical past, courting again to the ceremony’s very beginnings as an try by then-all highly effective studio bosses like Louis B. Mayer to distract the inventive group from labor points. Schulman additionally chronicles extra modern examples of Oscar drama, together with the nasty Shakespeare in Love vs. Saving Non-public Ryan battle for Greatest Image that left Steven Spielberg fuming and Envelopegate — the legendary 2016 catastrophe the place Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty incorrectly handed the Greatest Image statue to La La Land as a substitute of Moonlight. — E.A.
Oscar Wars: A Historical past of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat and Tears is on the market Tuesday, Feb. 21 at most main booksellers.
HEAR IT: Gorillaz and pals get it crackin’
Each Gorillaz album is an all-star occasion, and their newest, Cracker Island, isn’t any exception. The flesh-and-blood particular company becoming a member of Damon Albarn and his troupe of two-dimensional merrymakers this time round are witchy lady Stevie Nicks, Latin celebrity Unhealthy Bunny, Australian psych-rockers Tame Impala, space-bass-man Thundercat and previous Gorillaz collaborators De La Soul, Beck, Bootie Brown of the Pharcyde and Adeleye Omotayo. — L.P.
Cracker Island by Gorillaz is on the market Friday, Feb. 24 to obtain/stream on Apple Music.
