What to Stream: Brad Pitt, 'Spinal Tap II,' Percy Jackson and lots and lots of Taylor Swift

A six-episode, behind-the-scenes Disney+ docuseries astir Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour and Rian Johnson’s 3rd “Knives Out” movie, “Wake Up Dead Man,” are immoderate of the caller television, films, euphony and games headed to a instrumentality adjacent you.

Also among the streaming offerings worthy your clip this week, arsenic selected by The Associated Press’ amusement journalists: Chip and Joanna Gaines instrumentality connected a large occupation revamping a tiny location successful the mountains of Colorado, video gamers tin skateboard done hellhole successful Sam Eng's Skate Story and Rob Reiner gets the set backmost unneurotic for “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.”

— Rian Johnson’s 3rd “Knives Out” movie, “Wake Up Dead Man” arrives connected Netflix connected Dec. 12. Religion is astatine the bosom of this installment, which finds Daniel Craig’s dapper detective Benoit Blanc trying to lick the “locked room” execution of Josh Brolin’s Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, a charismatic and terrifying religion person with a devoted acceptable of followers. The ample ensemble formed includes Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Renner and Kerry Washington. Some were little than delighted by this outing, however. In his reappraisal for The Associated Press, Mark Kennedy called it, “a gloomy and clunky outing that whitethorn trial fans’ religion successful the filmmaker.”

— Brad Pitt plays a washed-up operator looking for glory connected the racetrack successful the Formula One movie “F1,” streaming connected Apple TV Friday, Dec. 12. Filmmaker Joseph Kosinski wanted to marque it consciousness arsenic breathtaking and authentic arsenic possible: In galore scenes, it truly is Pitt and Damson Idris driving those cars astatine 180 mph. Film Writer Jake Coyle wrote successful his reappraisal that it’s, “a fine-tuned instrumentality of a movie that, successful its astir riveting racing scenes, approaches a benignant of high-speed splendor.”

— Rob Reiner got the set backmost unneurotic for “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” which begins streaming connected HBO Max connected Friday, Dec. 12. Was it a mistake to revisit the large 1984 mockumentary, though? Mark Kennedy wrote successful his reappraisal that, “Despite immoderate large starry cameos — Paul McCartney’s is easy the champion — ‘Spinal Tap II’ leans into the aged favourite bits excessively needily and is suffocated by the perpetually looming beingness of death, a downer. The improv-based drama is forced and the laughs hardly register. This is simply a movie lone for die-hard Tappers.”

— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr

— It is Taylor Swift’s satellite and we’re conscionable surviving successful it. Prepare yourself for 2 caller projects astatine Disney+. That’s a six-episode, behind-the-scenes docuseries astir her landmark “Eras Tour” titled “Taylor Swift ' The Eras Tour ' The End of an Era” — the archetypal 2 episodes volition premiere Friday. And that is not to beryllium confused with the second, titled “Taylor Swift ' The Eras Tour ' The Final Show,” a performance movie present with the inclusion of “The Tortured Poets Department” section. The 2024 medium was incorporated into her three-and-a-half-hour show pursuing its release. It was filmed successful Vancouver. (That differs from 2023’s “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” film, which was compiled from respective Swift shows astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood, a suburb of Los Angeles and arrived up of “The Tortured Poets Department.”) Swifties, rise!

— It has been a large twelvemonth for collaborative rap records (looking astatine you, Clipse) and that continues into 2025’s 11th hr with “Light-Years,” a caller merchandise from rapper Nas and grounds shaper DJ Premier. They’re greats for a reason.

— The Grammy-award winning producer, DJ and physics instrumentalist Fred Again volition merchandise the adjacent iteration of his USB series, the 16-track “USB002,” connected Friday. Expect the unexpected: The archetypal opus released from the postulation is “you’re a star,” which features Australian punky-pop set Amyl and The Sniffers. The nine sounds a small antithetic this clip around.

— AP Music Writer Maria Sherman

— Chip and Joanna Gaines person agelong said they would not bash immoderate fixer uppers extracurricular of cardinal Texas. Until now. The mates has taken connected a large occupation revamping a tiny 1960s location successful the mountains of Colorado. “ Fixer Upper: Colorado Mountain House ” premieres Tuesday connected Magnolia Network and HGTV and streams aforesaid time connected HBO Max and Discovery+.

— Percy Jackson, the lad of Poseidon, returns to TV Wednesday with Season 2 of “ Percy Jackson and the Olympians. ” The series, starring Walker Scobell successful the rubric role, adapts “The Sea of Monsters,” the 2nd caller successful a publication bid by Rick Riordan. A two-hour play premiere volition watercourse connected Disney+ and Hulu.

— He helped to motorboat “American Idol” and created “America's Got Talent” and the radical One Direction. Now, cameras travel Simon Cowell arsenic helium seeks to signifier a caller lad set successful “Simon Cowell: The Next Act.” The docuseries, retired Wednesday, is astir some his hunt and Cowell himself. He prides himself connected discovering an “it” factor. “When you're putting a set together, it's similar mining for diamonds,” helium said successful the trailer. “If this goes wrong, it volition beryllium ‘Simon Cowell has mislaid it.’”

— Diane Kruger stars successful a caller play for Paramount+ called “ Little Disasters ” arsenic Jess, a parent who takes her lad to the infirmary for a caput injury. The doctor, who is besides a friend, becomes suspicious of Jess' statement of what happened and calls the authorities. It's based connected a caller of the aforesaid name. All six-episodes driblet Thursday.

— Alicia Rancilio

— I’ve skateboarded each implicit the satellite successful assorted video games, but 1 determination remains untouched by my deck: hell. Solo decorator Sam Eng aims to close that omission with Skate Story. You are a skateboarder made of solid successful an underworld filled with demons, who tin lone beryllium defeated by unleashing your gnarliest tricks. The lone mode to flight is to swallow the moon. If you emotion classics similar Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater but privation they were much hallucinatory, this mightiness beryllium the thrust for you. Kick disconnected Monday connected PlayStation 5, Switch 2 oregon PC.

— Lou Kesten