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 here are our picks for Feb. 21-27, together with one of the best offers we might discover for every. (Yahoo Leisure might obtain a share from purchases made by way of hyperlinks on this web page.)
WATCH IT: Uma Thurman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt workforce up for Tremendous Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Mike Isaac’s 2019 non-fiction e book of the identical identify, documenting the successes and stumbles of Uber beneath co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick, is the premise for the debut season of Showtime’s new anthology collection, which might be narrated by Quentin Tarantino. Joseph Gordon-Levitt performs the hard-partying Kalanick, whereas Kyle Chandler portrays the person who was as soon as his mentor, Texas enterprise capitalist and Uber investor Invoice Gurley. Uma Thurman steps in as businesswoman and creator Arianna Huffington, who served on the automobile service’s board beneath Kalanick. The corporate skilled a flurry of scandals throughout his reign, over the best way it handled sexual harassment inside the firm, the way it evaded authorities in sure markets and extra. In the end, Kalanick was pressured out of the highest put up in June 2017 in a boardroom coup. A federal investigation into whether or not Uber created a tradition rife with sexual harassment and retaliation discovered that it did, and the corporate agreed in December 2019 to pay a $4.4 million settlement. The details are stark, however the collection, created by Billions producers Brian Koppelman and David Levien, guarantees a mashup of that present, The Wolf of Wall Road and Succession. — Raechal Shewfelt
Tremendous Pumped: The Battle for Uber premieres Sunday, Feb. 27 at 10 p.m. on Showtime.
WATCH IT: Home of Gucci heads to house leisure
“To me, artwork, like magnificence, has no value,” Rodolfo Gucci (Jeremy Irons) posits in Ridley Scott’s ripped-from-the-headlines drama Home of Gucci. The movie’s new Blu-ray and DVD launch comes with a really set value, and Gucci wasn’t the Oscars monster it was as soon as predicted (#JusticeforJaredLeto) however that received’t cease its legions of Girl Gaga followers (calling all Little Monsters) from including this one to their assortment. And hey, in case you suppose this film’s a masterpiece however are not sure of the dedication, simply keep in mind what Aldo (Al Pacino) would say, “High quality is remembered lengthy after value is forgotten.” Take a look at an unique clip from the Blu-ray’s extras that includes Salma Hayek above. — Kevin Polowy
Home of Gucci is accessible on Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday, Feb. 22 on Amazon.
WATCH IT: Spend some high quality Zoom time with the all-star solid of Household Squares
Two years into the pandemic, you is perhaps sick of household Zoom classes. However what if your loved ones was performed by Henry Winkler, Judy Greer, Timothy Simons and character actress Margo Martindale? That is the attraction of Household Squares, Stephanie Laing’s shot-on-Zoom dramedy a couple of squabbling clan that reunites nearly following the loss of life of its matriarch (performed by Oscar-nominee June Squibb) and uncovers all types of secrets and techniques and lies that beforehand lay buried. This unique clip from the charming and surprisingly emotional movie contains a Veep reunion with Simons and Sam Richardson, who performs the bumbling funeral house supervisor that has to get the household to place apart their variations and give attention to the enterprise of bereavement. — Ethan Alter
Household Squares premieres Friday, Feb. 25 in theaters and on most VOD companies, together with Vudu.
WATCH IT: Denzel Washington and Michael B. Jordan summon your tears on A Journal for Jordan, now on Blu-ray
One is the regularly ascending star of Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther and Simply Mercy. The opposite is barely one of many best actors alive, who, it seems, is a extremely good filmmaker, too. Denzel Washington directs Michael B. Jordan in A Journal for Jordan (identify connection purely coincidental), the tearjerking drama a couple of U.S. soldier deployed in Iraq who retains a diary meant for his pregnant spouse (Chanté Adams) to share with their unborn son. The weeper lands on DVD and Blu-ray with bonus options together with deleted scenes, one among which you’ll watch solely above. — Ok.P.
A Journal for Jordan is accessible Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday, Feb. 22 on Amazon.
WATCH IT: Megan Fox and Oscar Isaac add weight to Large Gold Brick
Discuss your tough first jobs. After he is injured in a automobile accident by the mysterious Floyd Deveraux (Andy Garcia), novice author Samuel Liston (Emory Cohen) is invited into the eccentric father’s house and tasked with penning his autobiography. However that is simply the jumping-off level for author/director Brian Petsos’s yarn, which retains increasing its Large Lebowski-esque canvas to incorporate different oddball characters — together with Megan Fox as Floyd’s second spouse and Oscar Isaac as an eyepatch-wearing rival. This unique clip options Fox checking in with Samuel, who’s understandably tongue-tied at being in her presence. — E.A.
Large Gold Brick premieres Friday, Feb. 25 in theaters and on most VOD companies, together with Apple TV.
WATCH IT: The waves are alive with the sight of flames within the eco-disaster film The Burning Sea
Roland Emmerich might have made the moon fall, however go away it to Norwegian grasp of catastrophe John Andreas Andersen to set the oceans on hearth. The Burning Sea is the third in a collection of eco-thrillers — together with 2015’s The Wave and 2018’s The Quake — to hail from the identical inventive workforce and as soon as once more delivers its thrills with an environmental message. This time, company underwater drilling is the final word villain, opening a crack within the ocean ground that threatens to unleash a devastating oil spill. The one answer is to set the gasoline on hearth… even when that claims the lives of the few remaining people onboard the oil rigs. This unique clip depicts the precise second when the seas burst into flame, and the survivors have to search out their very own approach to security. — E.A.
The Burning Sea premieres Friday, Feb. 25 in theaters and on most VOD companies, together with Redbox.
WATCH IT: American Idol searches for a twentieth Twenty first-century celebrity
Extremely, this yr marks the twentieth anniversary of when Kelly Clarkson received the very first season of American Idol. The present has launched a number of different superstars and undergone many adjustments since, however the judges who signed on for the ABC reboot — Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan — are all again for Season 20 (or “Season 5,” as ABC insists on calling it), together with O.G. host Ryan Seacrest. They usually’re nonetheless not giving up on the dream of discovering the following Kelly (or the following Carrie, J.Hud, Adam, et al). — Lyndsey Parker
American Idol Season 20 premieres Sunday, Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. on ABC.
WEAR IT: DC Comics celebrates a Milestone with new Black Historical past Month merchandise
Months after asserting The Milestone Initiative at October’s DC FanDome occasion, DC Comics is displaying its dedication to fostering various storytellers with a variety of Black Historical past Month comics, graphic novels and merchandise. Decide up new collections of Milestone Comics mainstays like Static, {Hardware} and Icon and Rocket; various DC titles like John Ridley’s The Different Historical past of the DC Universe and a commemorative celebration of the primary Black superhero, John Stewart; T-shirts and hoodies that includes an array of Black heroes and a candy Static skate deck. — E.A.
DC’s Black Historical past Month merchandise can be found on the DC Store.
WATCH IT: Get your rock ‘n’ roll horror kicks with Studio 666
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has produced two docuseries and two rockumentaries, however his newest display challenge is unquestionably a piece of freaky fiction. Within the bloody-funny horror flick Studio 666, the Nicest Man in Rock morphs right into a possessed demon and goes on a killing spree — decapitating, dismembering and barbecuing his fellow Foos. In keeping with a press launch, Studio 666 was impressed by rock ‘n’ roll cult classics like KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park and the Monkees’ Head, nevertheless it has simply as a lot in frequent with Evil Useless and Evil Useless II. — L.P.
Studio 666 premieres Friday, Feb. 25 in theaters; go to Fandango for showtime and ticket data.
WATCH IT: Oscar winner The Damage Locker feels good on 4K
It’s Oscar season once more, that point of yr once we have a good time a few of our favourite wins and upsets through the years. One in every of them has to belong to The Damage Locker, Kathryn Bigelow’s mesmerizing and taut warfare thriller that defied the percentages by by no means dropping its steam after a midyear launch and driving a wave of buzz all the best way to March when it took down James Cameron’s large blue field workplace behemoth Avatar in 2009. (Even higher, as you would possibly know, Bigelow and Cameron are exes.) The six-time Oscar winner will get a house leisure reboot with a brand new 4K Extremely HD Steelbook launch this week, that includes audio commentary with Bigelow and author Mark Boal, a behind-the-scenes featurette and extra. — Ok.P.
The Damage Locker 4K Steelbook is accessible Tuesday, Feb. 22 solely at Finest Purchase.
HEAR IT: Y’all desire a sequel? Kanye West returns with Donda 2
Say what you’ll about Kanye West’s more and more erratic and problematic habits, however there is no such thing as a doubt that he is likely one of the best recording artists of all time (“of all time!”). And his most up-to-date studio album, Donda, was probably the most critically acclaimed and Grammy-nominated releases of 2021. Now the artist at present referred to as Ye is about to comply with that up with a sequel, Donda 2. The album’s particulars are largely beneath wraps, and the mercurial West is infamous for lacking his release-date deadlines as a consequence of last-minute revisions within the studio. However as of now, the anticipated album drops Tuesday this week. In keeping with a latest Instagram put up, Donda 2 is not going to stream on companies like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music or YouTube, and can solely be accessible on my West’s personal platform, the Stem Participant; the system, accessible to order now, sells for $200. — L.P.
Donda 2 by Ye needs to be accessible Tuesday, Feb. 22 on Kanye West’s Stem Participant.
WATCH IT: America’s Received Expertise get an Excessive spinoff
America’s Received Expertise is again with an excessive model crammed with daredevil stunts. Sure, that is the present that needed to halt manufacturing final yr when a contestant almost misplaced his life. And most of the acts appeared to rank fairly excessive on the hazard scale. Assume motorbike acts, acrobatics at excessive heights and rings of fireplace. WWE celebrity Nikki Bella and motocross and rally automobile driver Travis Pastrana function judges alongside creator and govt producer Simon Cowell, whereas AGT‘s Terry Crews takes on internet hosting duties.
America’s Received Expertise: Excessive premieres Monday, Feb. 21 at 8 p.m. on NBC.
HEAR IT: Avril Lavigne bites again
Canada’s prime punk-pop princess returns together with her seventh studio album, Love Sux, teaming with well-known skater-boys like Machine Gun Kelly, Blackbear, Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus, Marshmello,and Goldfinger’s John Feldmann. Main with the fierce new single “Chunk Me,” the now 37-year-old former teen star lately advised Leisure Weekly that that is the “most various file” she’s “comprised of entrance to again,” and the album she’s “wished to make for [her] entire profession.” — L.P.
Love Sux by Avril Lavigne is accessible Friday, Feb. 25 to obtain/stream on Apple Music.
READ IT: Ringo Starr is a paperback (or hardback) author
Julien’s Auctions has damaged world data with the sale of Beatles memorabilia, together with John Lennon’s acoustic guitar (which offered for a file $2.4 million), Ringo Starr’s Ludwig drum equipment ($2.2 million) and Paul McCartney’s handwritten lyrics to “Hey Jude” ($910,000). Now, for the Beatles fan who has all the things (however maybe has lower than six or seven figures to spend), the world-famous public sale home’s publishing division is releasing Starr’s Lifted: Fab Photos and Recollections in My Life With the Beatles From Throughout the Universe. The hardcover e book options uncommon and unseen images, alongside Starr’s personal tales from his time within the Fab 4. “I’m not penning this e book as a Beatle historian,” the legendary drummer explains in an announcement. “I’m penning this e book as a Beatle — and there is solely a few us who can try this.” —L.P.
Lifted: Fab Photos and Recollections in My Life With the Beatles From Throughout the Universe by Ringo Starr is accessible now on on Juliens Auctions; 500 unique “signature version” copies, personally signed by Starr, are promoting for $495 every.
WATCH IT: The Unknown Story delves into I Love Lucy
In Fifties America, when a lot of the nation was watching the identical factor on the similar time, I Love Lucy was successful. The Emmy winner was a template for the sitcom for many years. And its success propelled main girl and producer Lucille Ball to take a seat on the head of her personal Desilu Productions, marking the primary time a lady had led a significant TV studio. This new episode of Reelz’s The Unknown Story franchise options specialists on the topic, together with Tom Gilbert, the co-author of Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, recounting the basic’s groundbreaking run. They dissect the community’s objections to Ball being visibly pregnant on-screen, how the present invented the rerun, the real-life strain that its success placed on Ball’s marriage (as depicted in Oscar nominee Being the Ricardos) and extra. The peek behind the scenes of I Love Lucy might be adopted by one about ’60s sitcom Gilligan’s Island. — R.S.
I Love Lucy: The Unknown Story premieres Saturday, Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. on Reelz.
PLAY IT: Get larger and badder with the most recent version of Ravensburger’s Disney Villainous tabletop sport
With regards to Disney villains, it is laborious to select a extra Unimaginable up to date miscreant than Syndrome. The Incredibles nemesis is the marquee attraction within the newest version of Ravensburger’s widespread Villainous tabletop franchise, the place gamers get to assist the unhealthy guys win. Becoming a member of Syndrome in Larger and Badder are Lotso Bear from Toy Story 3 and Sword within the Stone sorceress, Madam Mim. The place’s Merlin while you want him? — E.A.
Villainous: Larger and Badder is accessible Sunday, Feb. 27 at Goal.
HEAR IT: Tears for Fears return to the mad world
In 1983, a younger British duo known as Tears for Fears launched their debut full-length, The Hurting, a unfastened idea album specializing in themes of kid abuse and psychological trauma. That masterwork was impressed by the anguish of adolescence, however now Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith return with their first album in 17 years, The Tipping Level, a Hurting companion of types impressed by the anguish of middle-age — together with the loss of life of Orzabal’s spouse of 35 years from alcoholism and his subsequent time in rehab as he grieved. The tragedy drew once-estranged childhood mates Orzabal and Smith nearer, and because of this, they’ve created one among Tears for Fears’ most interesting albums but . — L.P.
The Tipping Level by Tears for Fears is accessible Friday, Feb. 25 to obtain/stream on Apple Music.
— Video produced by Anne Lilburn and edited by Jimmie Rhee
