The It List is Yahoo’s weekly take a look at one of the best in popular culture, together with motion pictures, music, TV, streaming, video games, books, podcasts and extra. Here are our picks for Feb. 20-26, together with one of the best offers we may discover for every. (Yahoo Entertainment might obtain a share from purchases made by way of hyperlinks on this web page.)
WATCH IT: Kelsey Grammer will get religious in the brand new drama Jesus Revolution
He’s 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. Emerging from the wilderness on the peak of SoCal’s hippie period, the preacher man launched the Calvary Chapel with the help of long-haired evangelist Lonnie Frisbee (performed by Jonathan Roumie). Together, the duo hoped to discover a center floor between old-fashioned Christians and a brand new era represented by the film’s central character, Greg Laurie, performed by Kissing Booth franchise star Joel Courtney. You can see the fictionalized first assembly between Chuck and Lonnie in 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 lifestyle.” — Ethan Alter
Jesus Revolution premieres Friday, Feb. 24 in theaters; go to Fandango for showtimes and ticket info.
STREAM IT: Murdaugh Murders recounts the autumn of a household dynasty
Talk about ripped from the headlines. As the stunning story of Alex Murdaugh, the patriarch of a distinguished South Carolina household, plays out in court docket, Netflix is analyzing simply what occurred, an unlikely saga that ultimately led to the lawyer being accused not solely of economic crimes, together with stealing cash from his shoppers, however of killing his spouse and son to cowl up his different crimes. (He has denied it.) Drugs and rumored secret relationships are among the many many different twists and turns explored in 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 smart that Schitt’s Creek star Eugene Levy would need to see extra of the world. But because the title of his new journey sequence implies, the 76-year-old comic and actor can also 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 attempting new issues… like helicopter rides and ice fishing. Hopefully he made certain 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 motion pictures, 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 plays a double position, starring as Cameron Edwin, a small city host of an area youngsters’s science present, and Kent Armstrong, the “younger, better looking” 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 film additionally comes with one Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul), and that’s all we’d like. Check out an unique clip above. — Kevin Polowy
Linoleum opens in choose theaters Friday, Feb. 24; go to Fandango for showtimes and ticket info.
WATCH IT: Party Down picks up (nearly) the place it left off
As Henry Pollard, performed by Adam Scott, says in the revival of Starz’s darkish comedy a couple of Los Angeles catering crew, whose members aspire to a extra artistic life, “This is not 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) still discover themselves partying — properly, 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 Trouble. 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 forged members. Quinta Brunson, James Marsden, Judy Reyes and Nick Offerman are among the many visitor stars. — R.S.
Party 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 ultimately turned Queen’s new frontman. So, it’s a full-circle second as he releases the aptly titled High Drama, a glammy covers assortment with ties to his Idol and Queen eras, to his theater roots, and to at least one groundbreaking queer artist, Jobriath, that paved the best way 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 Culture Club; soul scorchers like Ann Peebles’s “I Can’t 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 Entertainment interview, Lambert defined, “I think with this album, even though they’re covers, we’ve managed to make them sound and feel original enough, so they’re like my kind of records. … I think that’s one of the things over the past couple years that I’ve gotten really clear on: I think I know what my brand is now, more than ever.” — Lyndsey Parker
High 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 e-book, 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 artistic group from labor points. Schulman additionally chronicles extra up to date examples of Oscar drama, together with the nasty Shakespeare in Love vs. Saving Private Ryan battle for Best Picture that left Steven Spielberg fuming and Envelopegate — the legendary 2016 catastrophe the place Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty incorrectly handed the Best Picture statue to La La Land as an alternative of Moonlight. — E.A.
Oscar Wars: A History 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’
Every Gorillaz album is an all-star occasion, and their newest, Cracker Island, isn’t any exception. The flesh-and-blood particular friends becoming a member of Damon Albarn and his troupe of two-dimensional merrymakers this time round are witchy lady Stevie Nicks, Latin celebrity Bad 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.
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