Renée Zellweger returning to one among her most indelible roles in “Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy” and Questlove providing the definitive documentary on funk crossover star Sly Stone are among the new tv, movies, music and video games headed to a tool close to you.
Additionally among the many streaming choices value your time as chosen by The Related Press’ leisure journalists: husband-and-wife duo The Struggle and Treaty return with the album “Plus One,” ice skaters of colour and their coaches are the main target of a brand new docuseries known as “Harlem Ice” and the primary two episodes drop of season three of Showtime’s horror sequence “Yellowjackets.”
— Renée Zellweger returns to one among her most indelible roles in “Bridget Jones: Mad Concerning the Boy.” For those who’ve misplaced observe, the movie, streaming Thursday on Peacock, is the fourth “Bridget Jones” film and first since 2016’s “Bridget Jones’ Child.” In “Mad A couple of Boy,” primarily based on Helen Fielding’s 2013 novel, Jones, a widow now in her 50s, is drawn towards two romantic potentialities: a trainer performed by Chiwetel Ejiofor and a 29-year-old performed by Leo Woodall.
— Questlove, the Roots drummer and ubiquitous performer, has changed into a must-watch documentarian. In “Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius),” Questlove follows his Oscar-winning “Summer season of Soul” and the current “Women & Gents… 50 Years of SNL Music” with the definitive documentary on Sly Stone, the funk crossover bandleader of Sly and the Household Stone. The movie, full of archival footage and up to date interviews, and spanning the meteoric rise and tragic fall of Stone, streams Thursday on Hulu.
— Scott Derrickson’s “The Gorge” stars Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Pleasure as a pair of operatives assigned to protect towers on opposing sides of a gorge, inside which a mysterious evil lurks. The movie, which debuts Friday, Feb. 14 on Apple TV+, co-stars Sigourney Weaver.
— It wasn’t that way back that Alessia Cara’s full-hearted pop was unavoidable; it earned her the coveted finest new artist Grammy in 2018 and “Scars to Your Lovely” endures as a 2010s traditional. However a lot has modified in that point, and the Canadian singer-songwriter has lived plenty of life since. Her forthcoming fourth studio album, “Love & Hyperbole,” out on Valentine’s Day, is an expression of that development. “Useless Man” traces the top of a relationship; “(Isn’t It) Apparent” encompasses a guitar solo from John Mayer.
— Giants of nation music with the pipes to again it up, husband-and-wife duo The Struggle and Treaty return with a brand new album, “Plus One.” Like the majority of their discography, it is a assortment meant to encourage love and connection in its listeners (in fact amplified by the Valentine’s Day launch date) with soulful, twang-y songs about household and religion.
— For a lot of, Shygirl is a brand new identify, maybe most instantly related along with her remix of Charli xcx’s “BRAT” hit “365.” However that’s only for now. The forward-thinking English DJ and musician is making waves for her creative method to experimental pop, grime, home and membership music that works on a sweaty dancefloor as a lot because it does behind a browser. Simply check out among the names on her upcoming EP, “Membership Shy Room 2”: Jorja Smith,Saweetie, BAMBII, SadBoi, PinkPantheress, Isabella Lovestory and extra.
— In 1992, Eric Clapton recorded an hour-long efficiency at Bray Studios in Windsor, England, titled “Eric Clapton Unplugged,” one of many best-selling dwell albums of all time. (And naturally it’s — nobody is resistant to the charms of an acoustic “Tears in Heaven.”) On Wednesday, Paramount+ subscribers will get to expertise the magic as soon as extra — now within the type of an prolonged, remixed and remastered 90-minute version titled “Eric Clapton Unplugged… Over 30 Years Later.” It options new interview footage, captured earlier than the efficiency.
— AP Music Author Maria Sherman
— “Muslim Matchmaker” is a brand new Hulu docuseries that follows two matchmakers devoted to serving to Muslim American singles discover love whereas additionally preserving in step with their non secular values. Viewers will see these skilled cupids navigate their shoppers’ expectations in a world of relationship apps and ghosting. The sequence is created by the identical one who introduced “Indian Matchmaking” to Netflix. It premieres Tuesday.
— It could nonetheless be chilly outdoors but it surely’s summertime on Bravo with season 9 of “Summer season Home.” The fact sequence stars a bunch of Manhattanites who share a home on the weekends within the Hamptons. Whereas final season adopted the tumultuous engagement of forged members Lindsay Hubbard and Carl Radke, the brand new episodes have been filmed a few yr later — after their breakup. The 2 could have moved on, but it surely doesn’t take a Magic 8 Ball to imagine they’ll nonetheless have points. We’ll additionally see Hubbard pregnant along with her first baby. “Summer season Home” premieres Wednesday on Bravo and streams on Peacock.
— Ice skaters of colour and their coaches are the main target of a brand new docuseries known as “Harlem Ice.” Viewers will comply with the younger skaters expertise triumphs and challenges as they prepare and compete in a sport that’s historically white. “Good Morning America” host Robin Roberts is an govt producer alongside Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. All 5 episodes drop Wednesday on Disney+.
— The primary two episodes of season three of Showtime’s horror sequence “Yellowjackets” drop Friday, Feb. 14 on Paramount+. When a aircraft carrying a ladies’ highschool soccer crew crashes in the course of nowhere, its survivors are in a combat to outlive. It’s impressed by William Golding’s 1954 traditional, “Lord of the Flies.” “Yellowjackets” unfolds in two timelines: one on the time of the crash and one twenty years later when the women are grownup ladies. Its stars embody Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci and Lauren Ambrose. Oscar winner Hilary Swank joins season three in a recurring position.
— The world right now appears totally chaotic, so what higher time to experiment with beginning the entire thing over from scratch? That’s all the time been the attraction of Firaxis Video games’ long-running Civilization sequence, and Sid Meier’s Civilization VII provides some intriguing new twists to the components. First, every session is split into three eras — Antiquity, Exploration and Trendy — and every period ends with an empire-shattering disaster. You may bounce round between completely different cultures — say, beginning in historical China and winding up in the united statesA. And you’ve got a recent batch of leaders, from Confucius to Machiavelli to Harriet Tubman, to lean on for recommendation and inspiration. As standard, you get to determine whether or not to be peaceable and diplomatic or run round blowing your neighbors to smithereens. The world is yours Tuesday on PlayStation 5/4, Xbox X/S/One, Change or PC.