NormalWhatās it rated? RWhen? 2025Whereās it showing? HBO Max Directed by Ben Wheatley (Meg 2: The Trench, Free Fire, Kill List) from Derek Kolstadās script based on a story co-written with star Bob Odenkirk, Normal follows an interim sheriff, Ulysses (Odenkirk), of the fictional town of Normal, Minnesota. After a botched bank robbery, Ulysses discovers […]
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The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare examines a chilling quadruple homicide
The Idaho Murders: College NightmareWhatās it rated? TV-MAWhen? 2026Whereās it showing? NetflixĀ Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Madison Mogen were Idaho State students whose lives were cut short by a Washington State student in 2022 in an off-campus home while they slept. This series blends memories shared from those who loved them most, […]
The End of Oak Street tries to channel Spielberg
David Robert Mitchell (It Follows, Under Silver Lake) wrote and directed this sci-fi dinosaur thriller about the Platt familyāaspiring novelist Denise (Anne Hathaway), husband Greg (Ewan McGregor), and children Audrey (Maisy Stella) and Brian (Christian Convery)āwho after some kind of cosmic event discovers their suburban neighborhood has been transplanted to a strange and dangerous place. […]
A Toxic Love Story is twisted, stranger-than-fiction true crime
A Toxic Love StoryWhatās it rated? TV-MA When? 2026 Whereās it showing? NetflixĀ Michelle Hadley was facing the possibility of decades in prison for the violent and malicious acts she was accused of by her ex, Ian, and his wife, Angela. Angela began receiving threatening emails from an account called āLilithistruth,ā a nod to the […]
The Dink gives pickleball the sports comedy treatment
The DinkWhatās it rated? PG-13 When? 2026 Whereās it showing? Apple TV Josh Greenbaum (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, Strays, Will & Harper) directs Sean Clementsā script about Dustin āThe Hammerā Boyd (Jake Johnson), a former tennis prodigy trained by his domineering father, Chuck (Ed Harris, at his most taciturn). Tragically, Dustin […]
One Night Only offers a charming romcom within a ridiculous premise
Will Gluck (Easy A, Friends with Benefits, Anyone But You) directs Travis Braunās rom-com script set in a dystopian future America where premarital sex is outlawed under a āchastity mandateā except for one night a year. Two New Yorkers searching for loveāOwen (Callum Turner), a pizza shop owner, and Allie (Monica Barbaro), a commercial jingles […]
The Last House is claustrophobic survivalist horror story
The Last HouseWhatās it rated? PG-13 When? 2026 Whereās it showing? NetflixĀ Weird rain has come to attack both the suburban neighborhood and apparently the entire world that Ann (Greta Lee) and Jasonās (Wagner Moura) family lives in. Kids Ruth (Riley Chung) and Graham (Noah Alexander Snosnowski) must navigate their new world as well, and […]
Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story examines a cable TV trailblazer
Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd StoryWhatās it rated? TV-MA When? 2026 Whereās it showing? HBO Max Do you remember āleased accessā cable television? The FCC mandated that cable operators must offer independent cable creators and producers rentable airtime. An example of a local cable access show was the fishing parody program Fishmasters, which aired […]
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is all about the importance of friends
Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) directs this fourth installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universeās Spider-Man series. After Dr. Stephen Strangeās spell at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), no one remembers Peter Parker (Tom Holland)ānot his best friend, Ned (Jacob Batalon), and not even his girlfriend, MJ […]
Miss You, Love You is bittersweet dramedy about grief and loss
Miss You, Love YouWhatās it rated? TV-MA When? 2026 Whereās it showing? HBO Max Grieving widow Diane Patterson (Allison Janney) is forced to plan her husbandās funeral with her estranged sonās assistant, Jamie Simms (Andrew Rannells), after her globetrotting son is unwilling to return home, in writer-director Jim Rashās (The Way Way Back, Downhill) bittersweet […]
Voicemails for Isabelle is a tearjerking rom com about grief and healing
Voicemails for IsabelleWhatās it rated? TV-14 When? 2026 Whereās it showing? NetflixĀ Jill (Zoey Deutch) is a young woman navigating her life and career as a baker in San Francisco and coping with the death of her younger sister, Isabelle (Ciaro Bravo), from cystic fibrosis. With intense pressure from her boss, Chef Bastien (Nick Offerman), […]
The Hawk follows a former golf championās comeback
Created by Will Ferrell, Harper Steele, and Chris Henchy, The Hawk follows Lonnie āThe Hawkā Hawkins (Ferrell), a former No. 1 ranked golfer who years ago exited the pro ranks in disgrace, as he attempts a return to pro golf by working his way up to play the U.S. Open. If he wins, heāll complete […]

