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Everything old is new again. After killing the pre-TikTok short-form video platform Vine in 2017, Twitter is using its new overhaul as X to relaunch its video initiative. That includes a smart TV app, according to X CEO Linda Yaccarino.
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In a post on her personal X account yesterday, Yaccarino previewed the app’s UI and laid out some of its earliest features. The result looks like something of a cross between TikTok and YouTube.
On the more YouTube side of things, the app looks like it’ll be structured around various tabs that users scroll through horizontally, with their account info resting in a left hand sidebar. Also in line with YouTube is the length of videos. Despite X’s current association with short videos, some of the examples in Yaccarino’s post are multiple hours long.
But to compete with TikTok (which is facing its own problems), X is also placing a greater emphasis on algorithms and AI. The trending tab is right at the top of the app’s UI, and while YouTube’s TV app does something similar when users aren’t logged in, X is also promising to supplement its algorithm with “AI-Powered Topics” and “Enhanced Video Search.”
It’s unclear how exactly these promises will play out in reality. The announcement follows Yaccarino’s earlier promise that X will become “a video first platform,” as platform owner Elon Musk continues to secure deals with content providers like WWE.
Notable among Musk’s deals is the platform’s spotlight on controversial figures including Tulsi Gabbard and Tucker Carlson, the latter of whom appears in Yaccarino’s preview of the app’s UI.
X is fighting an uphill battle to establish itself as a video platform, especially as its more traditional text-based business is currently being overrun with malware and spam. To help with the transition, X won’t have ads in its app at launch, according to a note to corporate partners seen by The Hollywood Reporter. A release date has not been specified.
Netflix's May lineup is heavy on comedy—headlined by a six-part live event from John Mulaney—coinciding with the 2024 Netflix Is A Joke Fest that runs from May 2–12 in Los Angeles. John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s In L.A will air in installments beginning on May 3 and wrapping up on May 10. Also streaming live are Katt Williams: Woke Foke (May 4) and Roast of Tom Brady (May 5) with an award show special featuring Kevin Hart (Mark Twain Prize Award: Kevin Hart, May 11). Other comedy specials dropping in May are from Udom Taephanich (Deaw Special: Soft Super Power, May 1) and Rachel Feinstein (Big Guy, May 21).
The true crime documentary slate includes The Final: Attack on Wembley (May 8), chronicling the violence that took place at the Euro 2020 final held in July 2021 when ticketless fans stormed the stadium; Cooking Up Murder: Uncovering the Story of César Román (May 10), a docuseries about a murder case involving a Spanish chef; and Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal (May 15) about the data hack of the infamous dating site. Later in the month, three-part docuseries Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult (May 29) covers the TikTok dancers trapped in a cult fronted by management company 7M.
Other May highlights include part one of season 3 of Bridgerton (May 16) and Unfrosted (May 3), a comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Seinfeld (along with Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant, and Amy Schumer) that loosely tells the Pop-Tarts creation story.
Here’s everything else coming to (and leaving) Netflix in May.
Buying London—Netflix Series
The Life You Wanted—Netflix Series
Monster—Netflix Film
Deaw Special: Super Soft Power—Netflix Comedy
Down The Rabbit Hole—Netflix Film
Frankly Speaking—Netflix Series
Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar—Netflix Series
Airport
Airport '77
Airport 1975
The Best Man Holiday
Blended
Blue Mountain State: Season 1
Blue Mountain State: Season 2
Blue Mountain State: Season 3
Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland
Eat Pray Love
The Edge of Seventeen
The Equalizer
The Gentlemen
Hellboy (2019)
Hulk
Jumanji (1995)
Liar Liar
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
The Matrix Resurrections
Mortal Kombat (2021)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
The Nutty Professor
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Outlander: Season 6
Patriots Day
Public Enemies
Ride Along
Shrek
Shrek Forever After
Starship Troopers
Traffic
The Wedding Planner
White House Down
Woody Woodpecker
The Young Victoria
A Man in Full—Netflix Series
Beautiful Rebel—Netflix Film
Lola
Secrets of the Neanderthals—Netflix Documentary
T・P BON—Netflix Anime
2 Hearts
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s In L.A—Netflix Comedy Special (Live Event)
Postcards—Netflix Series
Selling the OC: Season 3—Netflix Series
The Unbroken Voice: Season 2—Netflix Series
Unfrosted—Netflix Film
The Atypical Family—Netflix Series
Katt Williams: Woke Foke—Netflix Comedy Special (Live Event)
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Roast of Tom Brady—Netflix Comedy Special (Live Event)
30 for 30: Broke
30 for 30: Deion's Double Play
30 for 30: The Two Escobars
Reba: Seasons 1-6
Super Rich in Korea—Netflix Series
The Final: Attack on Wembley—Netflix Documentary
War Dogs
Bodkin—Netflix Series
The Guardian of the Monarchs—Netflix Documentary
Mother of The Bride—Netflix Film
Sing Street
Thank You, Next—Netflix Series
Cooking Up Murder: Uncovering the Story of César Román—Netflix Documentary
Living with Leopards—Netflix Documentary
Pokémon Horizons: The Series Part 2—Netflix Family
The Ultimatum: South Africa—Netflix Series
Mark Twain Prize Award: Kevin Hart—Netflix Comedy Special
Archer: Seasons 1-13
Princess Power: Season 3—Netflix Family
Married at First Sight: Season 15
Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal—Netflix Documentary
The Clovehitch Killer
Bridgerton: Season 3 Part 1—Netflix Series
Dumb and Dumber To
Maestro in Blue: Season 2—Netflix Series
Upgrade
The 8 Show—Netflix Series
Power—Netflix Documentary
Thelma the Unicorn—Netflix Family
A Simple Favor
Golden Kamuy—Netflix Film
The Parisian Agency: Exclusive Properties: Season 4—Netflix Series
Rachel Feinstein: Big Guy—Netflix Comedy
Wildfire: Seasons 1-4
Act Your Age: Season 1
Toughest Forces on Earth
El vendedor de ilusiones: El caso Generación Zoe—Netflix Documentary
Franco Escamilla: Ladies' Man—Netflix Comedy
Garouden: The Way of the Lone Wolf—Netflix Anime
In Good Hands 2—Netflix Film
Tires—Netflix Series
Atlas—Netflix Film
Butterfly in the Sky: The Story of Reading Rainbow
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory—Netflix Family
Mulligan: Part 2—Netflix Series
My Oni Girl—Netflix Film
Burnt
Bionic—Netflix Film
Colors of Evil: Red—Netflix Film
Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult—Netflix Documentary
Patrick Melrose
Eric—Netflix Series
Geek Girl—Netflix Series
A Part of You—Netflix Film
Chola Chabuca
How to Ruin Love: The Proposal—Netflix Series
Raising Voices—Netflix Series
Tòkunbọ̀—Netflix Film
Bennett's War
Magic Mike's Last Dance
Survive the Night
Arctic Dogs
Uncut Gems
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
St. Vincent
Where the Crawdads Sing
Sam Smith: Love Goes - Live at Abbey Road Studios
Fifty Shades of Black
Rosario Tijeras (Mexico): Seasons 1-3
The Boxtrolls
Mako Mermaids: An H2O Adventure: Seasons 3-4
2012
Boyz n the Hood
Burlesque
The Choice
The Disaster Artist
Forever My Girl
The Great Gatsby
Happy Gilmore
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
The Impossible
Insidious
L.A. Confidential
Lakeview Terrace
The Mick: Seasons 1-2
Noah
Oh, Ramona!
The Other Guys
Silent Hill
Skyscraper
Split
Think Like a Man
Think Like a Man Too
You've Got Mail
It’s hard to imagine a time when hotels didn’t have smart TVs. Not all that long ago, some even made their TVs a selling point, plastering “free HBO” all over their roadside signs. These days, guests are more likely to stick to their phones, sacrificing their room’s beautiful 48-inch flatscreen on the altar of TikTok and YouTube. But with just a little extra work, you can get the best of both worlds, as cast whatever is on your phone to your hotel room's smart TV.
There’s official and unofficial options to send what's on your iPhone to a TV. Let’s start with the most legit.
Beginning today, iPhones can now use AirPlay to stream content from their phone directly to a TV at select hotels. The feature is launching at “more than 60” IHG Hotels & Resorts locations across the US, Canada, and Mexico, so give it a try the next time you’re staying at a Holiday Inn or Candlewood Suites.
The process is pretty painless: Upon turning your TV on, you should notice a QR code on the welcome screen. Simply scan it with a compatible Apple device to both connect to wifi and authorize AirPlay to that screen.
And that’s it—because the QR code is unique to your hotel room, you shouldn’t find yourself accidentally streaming to other guests' sets, or vice-versa. Apple says more locations will be added “in the coming months,” which makes sense–the limited rollout probably has something to do with the special LG TVs required for the setup.
But what if you’re not staying at an IHG property? This is where the hacks come in.
There’s plenty of dongles, like Roku and Fire TV sticks, that work with AirPlay right out of the box. The problem is getting a hotel TV to accept them.
Hotel TVs tend to be a bit strict about which devices they’ll let you plug in. That’s thanks to special control boxes that lock them down. Luckily, if you can physically get to your TV’s hookups, you can (carefully) remove these boxes. Lifehacker has covered it before, but the gist is to look for an ethernet cable (or possibly an HDMI cable), gently remove it, and restart the TV before hooking up your accessories. Depending on your hotel, you might also want to disconnect the control box from power if you’re able.
Once your device is plugged in, try swapping the TV input to your dongle and seeing if it works. If it does, simply connect it to wifi (you might need to open a browser page to do it, depending on your hotel) and you’re good to go. If using the hotel's wifi isn’t an option, don’t worry—AirPlay can work without it, and you can always fall back on a mobile hotspot.
(Just be sure to hook your TV’s control box up again before checking out!)
Streaming an Android phone, like a Pixel 8 Pro or Galaxy S24 Ultra, to a hotel TV is much like streaming an iPhone, but with a few extra quirks, some of which can work in your favor. For instance, hotel chains like Wyndham and Hyatt already have Chromecasts built into their TVs, letting you cast from your phone, or at least log into your streaming services, depending on how locked down they are. If you’re lucky enough to have a Chromecast officially set up from the start, just follow your hotel’s instructions and you should be good to go.
For everyone else, you’re probably going to want to bring your own dongle, like a Fire TV Stick or Chromecast. While it’s possible to stream content from an Android phone to a TV without a dongle, it’s probably not going to be easy in a hotel environment, since these workarounds usually require accessing specific smart TV apps or functions that you can’t depend on your hotel to have or allow you to access.
For the most seamless experience, I recommend a Chromecast, as certain other dongles can only mirror your screen, rather than cast content across devices. With casting, you’ll ensure you get the best resolution, and generally have a more intuitive experience. (Note, though, that Chromecasts do require wifi when they boot.)
Once you’re in your hotel room with your dongle, you’ll want to connect it to your TV following the same steps outlined in the iPhone section above: gently remove the hotel control box’s connection to the TV, restart the TV, plug your Chromecast in, and swap to the proper input to test that everything worked.
If it did, try to connect your dongle to wifi (again, you may need to open a browser page). If the hotel’s wifi isn’t working, you can either use a mobile hotspot to try casting, or you can screen mirror without using wifi at all, depending on your dongle (the Fire TV Stick is a good choice if this is a concern).
Apple is finally loosening its strict stance towards video game emulation, meaning iPhone users can now play retro video games right on their phones, even if those games don’t have official mobile apps yet. All it takes is a simple download from the App Store and some setup within the emulator, and your iPhone will be one step closer to being the best gaming phone around. And one of the first emulators to get the official Apple sanction, Delta, makes the whole process surprisingly easy.
First: What is a game emulator, and how could it possibly be legal to play Super Mario World or Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on your phone? Well, as devices like the Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis age, it becomes easier for programmers to reverse engineer them and make apps that can mimic all of their hardware and software interactions, but this time entirely through software.
Basically, an emulator can run a virtual Super Nintendo inside your iPhone, which can then run Super Nintendo games as usual. It can be a taxing and sometimes glitchy process, since your device doesn’t just have to run the game, but also a whole console at the same time. Modern computers are powerful enough, though, that plenty of emulators still eclipse original hardware in some respects, being able to play games at higher-than-usual resolutions or speeds and even save them at a moment’s notice—perfect for portable play.
Thanks to an old U.S. Court case, emulators are also legal, so long as the emulator just mimics the consoles themselves rather than distributing any games or operating systems.
Which brings us to how to actually use Delta to play retro games on your phone. Delta is actually a fairly mature app, and using it is pretty intuitive. It’s been available to sideload for almost half a decade now, with today simply being its first day Apple has allowed it on the App Store.
Delta can run games from the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super Nintendo, the Nintendo 64, all Game Boy systems, the Nintendo DS, and even the Sega Genesis. The catch is that you’ll need to provide the game files yourselves.
Delta’s site tells you which file formats it supports, but as for where to get your games, you’re on your own. Emulation enthusiasts assure players that U.S. law allows them to make digital backups of games they own, and there are plenty of devices and techniques for doing just that, although the practice has yet to face much legal scrutiny.
Once you have a compatible game file on your phone, you simply need to tap the “+” button in the top right corner of the app, select the file, and you’re good to start playing. Delta will automatically find box art and sort your systems for you.
Note that for Nintendo DS games, you’ll also need to add a bios file to Delta, which you’ll also need to get on your own. Once you have one, just tap on the gear icon in the app’s top left corner, scroll down until you see “Nintendo DS” under “Core Settings,” then add your files under “DS BIOS FILES.”
This is where things get fun. Because of its age, Delta is a robust app with support for touch controls, Bluetooth controllers, haptic feedback, fast forward, cheats, save states, and even cloud backups. You can connect anything from a PS5 controller to Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons to play games on Delta.
When you first load up a game, things will probably look pretty normal. You’ll see the gameplay either up top or in the middle of your screen (depending on whether you’re holding your phone vertically or horizontally). Below or to the sides of your game will be your controls, done up in a snazzy pre-made skin (which you can also swap for custom imported skins later). But hidden among the standard controls should be the menu button. Here, you can enable cheat codes, alter the game speed, set a certain button to be held down, and manage your save states.
Save states are maybe the most convenient feature an emulator can have. They allow you to save a game at absolutely any point, separate from the game’s own save system. It’s a neat trick enabled by the virtual nature of the setup—the program just remembers how it was operating at any point in time, and can recall it later.
Now you don’t need to worry about finishing a level before your bus arrives, and if you’re feeling nefarious, you can save right before a tough boss fight so you can retry right away if you lose without having to replay the whole level again. Your call.
To adjust more settings than the in-game menu button will allow, just navigate back to the Delta main menu (your game will pause) and click the gear icon in the top left corner, where you’ll be able to set up controls for all your players, home screen shortcuts, and optionally link your files and saves to a Dropbox or Google Drive account.
More emulators are likely going to hit the App Store soon, but Delta is the first to stay, as well as the most robust and likely to stick around. Previously, a Game Boy Advance emulator called iGBA was pulled by Apple for violating its spam and copyright rules, which might have something to do with the code’s alleged connection to Delta’s predecessor, according to a statement Delta developer Riley Testut gave to The Verge. A Nintendo Entertainment System emulator called Bimmy was also pulled by its developer “out of fear.”
While emulators are legal, having to fight large companies like Nintendo in court can still be a daunting task, as evidenced by the recent shutdown of Switch emulator Yuzu. Delta's team, however, has been at this for a while, and doesn't show any signs of stopping soon.
Allowing Delta to hit the App Store is also smart on Apple's part, since Google already allows emulators on the Android Play Store. The app's presence will help Apple's ecosystem shore up its retro coverage while the iPhone maker works with larger developers like Capcom to continue to bring recent big budget releases like Resident Evil 4 to its devices.
Touch controls work well, but a Bluetooth controller makes retro gaming on iPhone even better. Here are some great options:
Backbone One (USB-C): $99
8BitDoPro 2: $49.99
8BitDo SN30 Pro: $44.99
Amazon’s TV adaptation of Fallout is among the best game-to-screen adaptations ever made; it's so good, even people who’ve never played a Fallout game, or any game, are hungry for more of the franchise's unique vibe. If that’s you, and you want to dive into the Fallout game universe but don’t know where to start, read on for a list of which games to play first, and what to know about Fallout before you begin.
There are a lot of games in the Fallout universe, between six and nine, depending on how you count them, but Amazon’s Fallout isn’t a direct adaptation of any of them. The series is an original, standalone story set within the larger Fallout universe, as is each of the individual Fallout games, so you could play any title and not miss important information. That said, all Fallout games aren't created equally, especially if you're a fan of the series, so choose wisely.
While the first two games birthed much of the franchise's unique style, Fallout 3, the first “modern” Fallout game, crafted the raw material of alternative history, atomic-core design, and over-the-top black humor into a masterpiece. Unlike the first two Fallout games, Fallout 3 features action-rich first-person shooter gameplay that has the same whacked-out, so-violent-it-feels-like-a-cartoon style as the series. In other words: It's fun.
Fallout 3's story shares broad strokes with show's as well. Like Lucy in the series, Fallout 3's central character, The Lone Wanderer, was born in a Vault-Tech vault generations after the bombs destroyed earth. The game’s introductory section lets you experience peaceful underground life, like episode one of the series, then thrusts you into the unforgiving wasteland of Washington, D.C. in 2277, like episode 2 in Los Angeles circa 2296. Also like Lucy, The Lone Wanderer is on a quest to find their father and will meet ghouls, the Brotherhood of Steel, mutated creatures, and other familiar delights and horrors in the above-world. You’ll also learn more than you want to know about “The Enclave,” a faction shown briefly in the series during Dr. Siggi Wilzig's escape, and be introduced to Deathclaws and Super-Mutants, both of which, I'm sure, will play prominent roles in Season 2 of the series.
Fallout 4 is also a great starting point for new players. Released in 2015, during the Xbox One and PS 4 era, Fallout 4 took advantage of the extra power of those new-at-the-time consoles to expand and refine the Fallout universe. Fallout 4’s New England is a bigger, more varied world than the settings of previous Fallout games. It's a more colorful, detailed game too, that looks uncannily like the series. Fallout 4’s opening chapter takes place in a shiny pre-apocalypse suburb in 2077 reminiscent of Cooper Howard's flashback adventures in pre-bomb Hollywood. When you end up in 2287, the contrast is a lot like the series flashing forward to 2296. I won't spoil anything, but Fallout 4's starting vault makes a lot more sense when you know what happened in the show's Vault 31. On the negative side, in contrast to the fast-as-charging-Yao Guai pace of Fallout: The Show, Fallout 4 puts a heavy focus on exploration, discovery, side-quests, and colony building, so the story can feel a little slack at times and it’s easy to get side-tracked. A free Fallout 4 next-gen update for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 is scheduled to come out on April 25, so it's a great time to give it spin.
Set in the American west in 2281, Fallout: New Vegas is a great choice if you are a fan of the dusty cowboy vibe of The Ghoul, you want to learn more about the New California Republic, the faction lead by mysterious revolutionary Moldaver in the Fallout series, or you want to dig into the likely setting of Season 2 of the Amazon show.
New Vegas is widely regarded as the overall best Fallout game by hardcore fans of the franchise. It’s heavier on role-playing than the other modern Fallout games, so it’s a more open-ended experience and it allows players to create more varied characters and overcome challenges in different ways than either Fallout 3 or 4.
While New Vegas is definitely a great game, I didn’t connect with the characters and the extra-gritty setting as strongly as I did with the other games. Story-wise, it feels the least like the series of the modern games to me. But that's probably just a taste thing; it's still a solid introduction to the franchise.
If you want a super-casual Fallout experience, check out Fallout Shelter. This free game can be played on consoles, but it’s really designed for wasting a few minutes on your iPhone or Android. Shelter casts you as the overseer of a Vault-Tech vault. You’re in charge of expanding your home/prison, attracting new residents, and keeping everyone inside safe, sane, and radiation-free until it’s safe to return to the surface (like that will ever happen).
It may be a silly mobile game, but Fallout: Shelter is the only Fallout title that features the characters from the show. A recent update added Lucy MacLean, Maximus, The Ghoul, and (for some reason) Ma June as “legendary dwellers,” who might show up to live in your vault if you’re lucky enough to open the right lunchboxes. You can't play as them, but you can see them, and that's something I guess.
"The beginning" might seem like the most logical place to start a series, but 1997’s Fallout and its sequel Fallout 2 are bad jumping off points for most people, particularly non-gamers. Both are punishingly difficult, hardcore role-playing games with turn-based combat and confusing, antique controls—fun for some, but torturous for most. They're groundbreaking, fascinating titles to be sure, but even if you manage to suffer through the deadly beginning of each game, they don't provide the same feel as the series; the run-and-gun gameplay of Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 4 is way closer to the series than the slow-but-deadly vibe of the early games. Also 3, 4, and New Vegas have a “Very Easy” difficulty setting, so your rip-roaring Fallout adventure won't end in frustration.
While it won't be as deadly as the first two games, Fallout 76 is not a great place to jump into Fallout world either. Released in 2018 and set in Appalachia in 2102, Fallout 76 is an online multiplayer game with a steep learning curve, MMO-style grinding and crafting, and a different overall vibe than the TV show and the other games. It tries to provide a Fallout-like experience, but the addition of other players means you’re not really the main character, and MMO-specific mechanics don't translate well to Fallout. All that plus second-tier writing and voice-acting make Fallout 76 the least Fallout-y modern Fallout game.
I’m a completist, so I’m including these two obscure, non-canonical Fallout games at the bottom of the list. I haven’t played them, but that's OK; according to Todd Howard, director and executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios and executive producer of the Fallout series, “neither Fallout Tactics nor Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel happened." Howard is the God of all things Fallout, so if he says they don't count, they don't count. Skip 'em.
Movies can reaffirm or further our faith. For decades, they've been used to spread the Almighty's message, whether through epic productions like The Ten Commandments or Ben-Hur or low-budget indie dramas targeted toward church-goers, like Fireproof or Left Behind.
There are other films that, while not overtly Christian, have a subtle, positive message that can be equally inspiring. Here are 12 (one for each apostle) for you to choose from.
One could argue that the writer of Taxi Driver has been making Christian-themed movies all of his life, but Paul Schrader's faith (he is a graduate of Calvin College) is most apparent in this A24 film. It stars Ethan Hawke as a reverend looking for hope as the religious world becomes increasingly corrupt, but his existential journey leads him down a violent path.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Kanopy, Cinemax
Not quite as cynical as First Reformed, M. Night Shyamalan's horror film about an alien invasion has a faithless former priest as its protagonist. The movie's central theme—does the Almighty have a grand plan?—becomes fairly obvious as the plot's secrets become known.
Where to stream: Digital rental
Made at the height of Al Pacino's "shouting" period of his career, this legal thriller/horror hybrid revolves around a young lawyer (Keanu Reeves) whose spotless legal record takes him to a prestigious New York law firm where he is slowly corrupted by his boss (Pacino). The film's excessive nudity and crude language make it inappropriate for family film night, but it does touch on Christian themes such as the seven deadly sins and Lucifer's fall from heaven.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Tubi
When this big-budget adaptation of Madeline L'Engle's novel hit the screens, there were concerns about omitting its Christian elements. However, the film stays true to the book's core themes: There is meaning in our chaotic universe, and our weaknesses can be our greatest strengths.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Disney+
Speaking of young adult fantasy adaptations, this blockbuster about "two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve" who find a magical land inside a closet delves deep into Christian themes. They become undeniable when Aslan, the wise titular lion, returns to life after sacrificing himself for one of the children at the story's center, much like a certain Christian did for the world.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Disney+
Just like C.S. Lewis, the author of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, writer and devout Catholic J.R.R. Tolkien (also a friend of Lewis) did not shy away from the fact that his novels, upon which these award-winning films are based, are founded on religious themes. A simple Google search will reveal any number of interpretations, from the ring representing temptation to the wizard Gandalf's resurrection after his death.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Max
Between the epic car crash scenes, musical cameos, and classic soundtrack, the plot of this hilarious film, which revolves around a pair of brothers (Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi) who get their band back together to put on a fundraiser for the orphanage they grew up in, has religious undertones. Much like Joan of Arc, the titular characters see a heavenly vision that sets them out on "a mission from God," though it's doubtful He asked them to drive through a shopping mall to escape the police.
Where to stream: Digital rental
Ryan Gosling is having a moment right now, so it wouldn't be prudent not to include one of his films on this list. At first blush, this dramedy about a shy soul who becomes (chaste) friends with a sex doll doesn't seem like a movie that reflects Christian values. However, quite unexpectedly, its themes of tolerance, faith, and love have prompted churches to use the film as an instructional tool.
Where to stream: Fubo, MGM+, Hoople, Tubi, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Digital rental
One runs to overcome intolerance; the other runs to bring God glory. The true story of British sprinters Harold Abrahams, an English Jew, and Eric Liddell, a Christian missionary, at the 1924 Olympics was awarded the Oscar for Best Picture in 1982. What sets this inspirational film apart from other sports dramas is that both men firmly believe their athletic abilities are part of a higher purpose. They each find strength in remaining true to their beliefs.
Where to stream: Digital rental
Frank Capra's film about redemption and life is everyone's favorite holiday film for a reason. It also touches on faith, purpose, and family—many of the touchstones of Christianity.
Where to stream: The Roku Channel, Freevee, Plex, Hoopla, Digital rental
The recent drama between the real-life Michael Oher and his adoptive family aside, this inspirational sports drama wears its themes of charity and faith on its metaphorical sleeve. The Tuohy family openly talks about their Christian beliefs and believes that their faith in God makes everything possible.
Where to stream: Digital rental
This dramedy looks like a typical Steve Martin movie, with the comedian exchanging quips with the likes of Liam Neeson and Debra Winger. The film is about a traveling preacher/con man who performs “miracles” every night at his revivals, but when actual divine events occur, he doesn’t understand why. While the film begins by framing Christianity as a get-rich-quick scheme, it becomes a profound meditation on faith and God's plan.
Where to stream: Max, Digital rental
May on Hulu feels like déjà vu: A big title coming early in the month is the season three premiere of Emmy Award-winning docuseries Welcome to Wrexham (May 3), originally set to launch in April. The show goes behind the scenes of the Welsh pro football club owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, which recently received a second promotion after a run of wins.
Other documentary highlights include The Contestant (May 2), which tells the story of a man trapped in a small room whose life was broadcast on national TV in Japan over 15 months, and Black Twitter: A People's History (May 9), a three-part series based on Jason Parham's WIRED article about the influence of Black Twitter in American politics and culture.
For literature-inspired drama, catch season one of Shardlake (May 1), a Hulu original based on C.J. Sansom's Tudor mystery series and set in 16th century England, or The Killing Kind (May 14), a thriller series based on Jane Casey's book of the same name.
Finally, for those who like game shows and/or reality TV, there's the season five premiere of The Kardashians (May 23), the season two premiere of Jeopardy! Masters (May 2), and the series premiere of The Quiz with Balls (May 29), a high-stakes quiz show hosted by actor and comedian Jay Pharoah.
Here’s everything else coming to (and leaving) Hulu in May.
Life Below Zero: First Alaskans: Complete Season 3
Jujutsu Kaisen 0, 2021
Naruto Shippuden: Complete Season 8 (Dubbed)
Shardlake: Complete Season 1
Pokemon Sun & Moon: Complete Season 20
Pokemon Ultra Adventures: Complete Season 21
Pokemon Ultra Legends: Complete Season 22
The Beach, 2000
Big, 1988
Big Daddy, 1999
Black Hawk Down, 2001
The Bounty Hunter, 2010
Cast Away, 2000
The Chronicles of Riddick, 2004
Come See The Paradise, 1990
The Darjeeling Limited, 2007
The Divergent Series: Insurgent, 2015
The Divergent Series: Allegiant, 2016
Elvis, 2022
Fantastic Mr. Fox, 2009
Free State of Jones, 2016
Good Boys, 2019
The Joy Luck Club, 1993
The King's Man, 2021
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, 2004
Love, Gilda, 2018
The Mask, 1994
Meet the Spartans, 2008
Mr. Turner, 2014
Money Monster, 2016
My Name Is Khan, 2010
The Negotiator, 1998
Night School, 2018
Ocean's 8, 2018
Once, 2007
Once Upon a Time in America, 1984
Rushmore, 1999
The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001
The Rundown, 2003
School For Scoundrels, 2006
Sideways, 2004
Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion, 2006
That Thing You Do!, 1996
Those Who Wish Me Dead, 2021
Walk The Line, 2005
The Wedding Ringer, 2015
White Chicks, 2004
White House Down, 2013
13 Going On 30, 2004
300, 2007
The Contestant: Documentary Premiere
Jeopardy! Masters: Season 2 Premiere
Customer Wars: Complete Season 2
The Proof Is Out There: Complete Season 3
Bad Reputation, 2018
Mad Money, 2008
Prom Dates, 2024
Welcome to Wrexham: Season 3 Premiere
The Flood, 2023
3 Days in Malay, 2023
Die Hard, 1988
Die Hard 2, 1990
Die Hard With A Vengeance, 1995
A Good Day To Die Hard, 2013
Live Free Or Die Hard, 2007
12 Hour Shift, 2020
Bad Boys for Life, 2020
Reminiscence, 2021
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story: Special Premiere
In Limbo: Complete Season 1
Bloodshot, 2020
Black Twitter: A People's History: Complete Docuseries
Kings of BBQ: Complete Season 1
The Mother/Daughter Experiment: Celebrity Edition: Complete Season 1
Stove Tots: Complete Season 1
Witness to Murder: Digital Evidence: Complete Season 1
Past Lies: Complete Season 1 (Subbed)
Biosphere, 2022
Wanted Man, 2024
Eileen, 2023
Where the Crawdads Sing, 2022
The Killing Kind: Complete Season 1
Uncle Samsik: Complete Season 1
Cutthroat Kitchen: Complete Season 5, 12 and 13
Extreme Homes: Complete Season 4
Flea Market Flip: Complete Season 1
Man vs. Wild: Complete Season 5
My 600-lb Life: Complete Season 6
My 600-lb Life: Complete Season 7
My Strange Addiction: Complete Season 6
Naked and Afraid : Complete Season 12, 14 and 15
NASA's Unexplained Files: Complete Season 4
Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta: Complete Season 8
Say Yes to the Nest: Complete Season 1
Unusual Suspects: Complete Seasons 6 and 8
Worst Cooks in America: Complete Season 16 and 24
Tanked: Complete Season 1
Torn from the Headlines: New York Post Reports: Complete Season 1
1000-lb Sisters: Complete Season 4
I Am Not Your Negro, 2016
My Scientology Movie, 2015
Royal Rules of Ohio: Season 1 Premiere
Living Smaller: Complete Season 1
Women on Death Row: Complete Season 1
Paddington, 2015
Birth/Rebirth, 2023
He Went That Way, 2023
The Sweet East, 2023
Chief Detective 1958: Complete Season 1
The Kardashians: Season 5 Premiere
Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars Season 2 Premiere
The Ape Star, 2021
The Seeding, 2023
Ferrari, 2023
Sentinel, 2024
Fantasy Island, 2020
Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted: Complete Season 4
Camden: Complete Season 1
Lainey Wilson: Bell Bottom Country: Doc-Style Special Premiere
Beat Shazam: Season 7 Premiere
The Quiz With Balls: Complete Season 1
MasterChef: Season 14 Premiere
The Promised Land, 2023
Sympathy for the Devil, 2023
T.I.M., 2023
Apollo 18, 2011
The Libertine, 2004
War Dogs, 2016
The Last Unicorn, 1982
Empire of Light, 2022
The Brass Teapot, 2012
The Cleaner, 2021
Dior and I, 2014
Dramarama, 2020
Elena Undone, 2010
Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, 2005
The Etruscan Smile, 2018
Hurricane Bianca, 2016
One Last Thing ..., 2005
Pit Stop, 2013
Sordid Lives, 2000
We The Animals, 2018
The Fabulous Filipino Brothers, 2021
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, 2016
The Tiger Rising, 2021
Under the Eiffel Tower, 2018
Sophie's Choice, 1982
How to Please a Woman, 2022
Elvis, 2022
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, 2007
Ali, 2001
Bad Teacher, 2011
Beasts of the Southern Wild, 2012
Bend It Like Beckham, 2003
The Big Lebowski, 1998
Blockers, 2018
Dangerous Beauty, 1998
The Descendants, 2011
Divergent, 2014
The Divergent Series: Insurgent, 2015
The Divergent Series: Allegiant, 2016
Don't Worry Darling, 2022
Dune, 2021
Drive Angry 3D, 2011
Epic, 2011
Ever After, 1998
Firehouse Dog, 2007
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 2005
The Huntsman: Winter's War, 2016
Ice Age: Continental Drift, 2012
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, 2018
Kingdom Come, 2001
L.A. Confidential, 1997
The Little Hours, 2017
Life of Pi, 2012
Masterminds, 2016
Melancholia, 2011
Night School, 2018
No Good Deed, 2014
Ocean's Eleven, 2001
Ocean's Twelve, 2004
Ocean's Thirteen, 2007
Pokemon Detective Pikachu, 2019
Salt, 2010
Scarface, 1983
Sexy Beast, 2001
Shark Tale, 2004
Street Kings, 2008
Taken, 2009
Takers, 2010
Thank You for Smoking, 2006
Thirteen, 2003
The Tree of Life, 2011
Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family, 2011
Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail, 2009
A Walk in the Woods, 2015
The Upside, 2017
Win Win, 2011
The Wrestler, 2008
21 & Over, 2013
Xbox Game Pass is hands-down one of the best services that PC and Xbox gamers can subscribe to, and Microsoft just revealed a new batch of games that Game Pass holders will be able access with their subscriptions this month.
Starting April 16, Microsoft says the newly released Harold Halibut will be available as a day-one release for PC, Xbox, and Xbox Cloud gaming. It will be followed by Orcs Must Die! 3 on April 17, which will be available to subscribers on PC, Xbox, and the cloud, as well as EA Sports NHL 24 for console subscribers on April 18.
A few days later, on April 23, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes will debut on Game Pass as a day-one launch for cloud, console, and PC subscribers. Two days later, on April 25, Aggro Crab Games’ soulslike Another Crab’s Treasure will debut as a day-one release on Xbox Game Pass for cloud, console, and PC subscribers.
April 26 will also see the release-day arrival of the current top wishlisted game on Steam, Manor Lords, which will be released on Xbox Game Preview for PC. This city-building game is easily one of the most anticipated of the year, and it currently ranks above other highly anticipated PC releases like Hades 2 and Hollow Knight: Silksong on Valve’s PC gaming platform.
On April 30, Microsoft will round out the April Game Pass releases with Have a Nice Death, which will be available for cloud, console, and PC Game Pass subscribers.
The unfortunate thing about Game Pass, though, is that sometimes games also leave the subscription service, and this month, six games will depart, including 7 Days to Die, Besiege, EA Sports NHL 22, Loot River, Pikuniku, and Ravenlok. You’ll be able to get 20 percent off your purchase of these games to keep them in your library, though. You can subscribe to Xbox Game Pass to take advantage of these free titles, plus hundreds more.
The biggest title coming to Disney+ in May is the premiere of the next installment of Dr. Who—three episodes will be available on May 10, with new episodes dropping every Friday after that. This is the first season of the BBC show to launch on Disney+, and features the adventures of the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson).
In the Star Wars universe, you can catch the final episode of season three of Star Wars: The Bad Batch (May 1) and the premiere of Star Wars: Tales of the Empire (May 4), a six-episode Disney original series following Morgan Elsbeth and former Jedi Barriss Offee on their journey into the empire.
Weekly episodes of X-Men '97 will continue on Wednesdays along with the premiere of Marvel Studios' Assembled: The Making of X-Men '97 (May 22).
On the documentary side, there's also The Beach Boys (May 24), which goes behind the scenes with the history of the legendary pop band, and Jim Henson Idea Man (May 31), a Ron Howard film about the creator of classics Sesame Street and The Muppet Show.
Here’s everything coming to Disney+ in May 2024.
X-Men '97—Wednesdays
Doctor Who—Fridays starting May 10
Life Below Zero: First Alaskans (S3, 20 episodes)
Marvel’s Daredevil (2003)
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Season 3, episode 315)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
How Not to Draw Shorts (Special R2D2 Episode) (S2, 4 Episodes)
Star Wars: Tales of the Empire—Disney+ Originals premiere
Monsters at Work (Season 2)
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story
Me & Winnie the Pooh (S1, 7 episodes)
Playdate with Winnie the Pooh
Let It Be
Big City Greens (S4, 4 episodes)
Dino Ranch (S3, 5 episodes)
Mickey Mouse Funhouse (S3, 5 episodes)
Chip 'n' Dale: Park Life (Season 2)—Disney+ Originals premiere
Marvel Studios' Assembled: The Making of X-Men '97—Disney+ Originals premiere
The Beach Boys—Disney+ Originals premiere
Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted (S4, 6 episodes)
Jim Henson Idea Man—Disney+ Originals premiere
In this complex world, it’s easy to believe that the future is out of our hands. But there are some who understand that the future doesn’t just happen — it’s made. Among these are the TED Fellows: innovators, activists, artists, inventors and dreamers. The TED Fellows program, now celebrating its fifteenth year, provides communication training, professional tools, network-building opportunities and amplification on the global stage to early-stage innovators working across multiple disciplines in over 100 countries.
We are thrilled to announce the 2024 cohort of TED Fellows, whose work spans five continents and represents 11 countries — including, for the first time, Georgia. This year’s TED Fellows include an entrepreneur who is reshaping health care in conflict zones, an engineer who created a cold chain solution saving lives in rural African communities and a scientist pioneering new, safer AI technologies — to name just a few.
Each TED Fellow was selected for their remarkable achievements, the potential impact of their work and their commitment to community building. TED is honored to welcome these new Fellows into this dynamic global network of 500+ Fellows creating meaningful change in their communities and the world.
Mohamed Aburawi
Health systems entrepreneur | Libya + Canada
Mohamed Aburawi is a surgeon and founder of Speetar, a digital health platform reshaping health care in conflict zones across the Middle East and Africa, especially his native Libya. Through this work, Speetar is helping to dismantle barriers to quality care and advocate for health care as a fundamental human right.
Sahba Aminikia
Composer, artistic director | Iran + US
Iranian-born composer, pianist and educator Sahba Aminikia is the founder and artistic director of Flying Carpet Children Festival, an annual mobile arts festival and artist residency for refugee children escaping conflict zones.
Joel Bervell
Medical mythbuster | Ghana + US
Joel Bervell is a medical student educating people about health care disparities and biases through viral social media content. By sharing stories and studies with his audience of more than one million about the neglect of marginalized groups, he advocates for change in the health care system.
Lehua Kamalu
Ocean navigator | Hawaii + US
Lehua Kamalu is a captain and navigator of traditional Hawaiian ocean-voyaging canoes. She preserves and teaches these ancient sustainable navigation practices by integrating them into digital storytelling and daily life for future generations.
Huiyi Lin is an economic policy researcher and half of Chow and Lin, an artist duo addressing food insecurity and poverty. This photo is from Chow and Lin’s series, The Poverty Line, which shows what people can afford to eat at the poverty line in countries around the world.
Huiyi Lin
Visual artist, poverty researcher | Singapore + China
Huiyi Lin is an economic policy researcher and one half of Chow and Lin, an artist duo using statistical, mathematical and computational techniques to address food insecurity and poverty. Chow and Lin combine research, design and photography to raise awareness about global inequality in visually arresting ways.
Ramin Hasani
AI scientist, entrepreneur | US, Austria + Iran
Ramin Hasani is cofounder and CEO of Liquid AI, where he helped invent liquid neural networks: a new AI technology inspired by living brains and physics. These revolutionary networks are more flexible and efficient than current AI solutions, shaping the future of machine learning and artificial intelligence research.
Paule Joseph
Chemosensory researcher, nurse | Venezuela + US
Taste and smell researcher Paule Joseph explores how conditions such as COVID-19, obesity, neurodegenerative disorders and substance abuse affect the chemical senses. Her lab combines clinical research, behavioral neuroscience, genomics and molecular biology, offering insights on how taste and smell affect our daily lives.
VacciBox (pictured here) is a cold chain solution saving lives in rural African communities. It was created by mechanical engineer Norah Magero.
Norah Magero
Mechanical engineer | Kenya
Norah Magero is a mechanical engineer and creator of VacciBox, a cold chain solution saving lives in rural communities. She is working to build an Africa that manufactures and produces its own climate-health care technology.
Royal Ramey
Wildland firefighter | US
Royal Ramey is the cofounder of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program (FFRP), a nonprofit providing career opportunities to formerly incarcerated firefighters in California. A 12-year wildland firefighter veteran, Ramey draws on his own lived experience, rethinking job training for the formerly incarcerated and addressing the challenges they face re-entering the workforce.
The Enguri River in western Georgia is a local swimming spot — but it’s also an illegal route into the de facto region of Abkhazia. Photojournalist Daro Sulakauri documents the impact of Russian occupation in her native Georgia, defending against the erasure of Georgian culture, history and borders.
Daro Sulakauri
Photojournalist, visual artist | Georgia
Photojournalist Daro Sulakauri chronicles social and political issues in the Caucasus. By focusing on issues that are considered taboo, such as early marriages and the impact of Russian occupation, she defends against the erasure of Georgian culture, history and borders.
Erika Moore Taylor
Equity bioengineer | US
Biomedical engineer Erika Moore Taylor researches how ancestry and sociocultural data affect disease development. Unlike many researchers, she accounts for diverse populations when building regenerative tissue models to create more equitable disease models.
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Watching movies and smoking weed go hand in hand, so much so that there is an entire sub-genre of film known as the stoner comedy—usually movies about potheads under the influence or on the hunt for their next high, and getting caught up in surreal adventures along the way. (My favorite entry: Gregg Araki's Smiley Face, in which Anna Faris gives an Oscar-worthy stoner turn.)
Those films are totally fine—nothing at all wrong with watching Half Baked while fully baked—but sometimes you want to feed your cannabis-inebriated brain something a little more challenging. In the spirit of the 1960s hippies who turned Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey into a head-tripping classic, here are 50 unconventional choices of movies to watch when you’re stoned (and not in the mood for video games).
Danish director Carl Theodore Dryer’s first sound film plays out almost without dialogue, a disorienting dark fable that was produced contemporaneously with Tod Browning’s Dracula but offers a far creepier, chillingly atmospheric take on the gothic fable. Shrouded in mist and dreamlike imagery, its pull is hypnotic.
Where to stream: Max, The Criterion Channel, ScreamBox
The best film of the classic Disney era is heartwarming and harrowing in equal measure; it’s wild that every frame was hand-drawn. It’s also way more messed up than you remember.
Where to stream: Disney+
The screwball comedy sub-genre’s frantic energy and rat-a-tat dialogue make it perfect fare for giggling stoners, and this frenetic romance about warring newspaper editors/ex-lovers played by Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell may be one of the quickest, wittiest movies ever made.
Where to stream: Prime Video, The Roku Channel, Tubi, basically all the places
Hmm, basically everything I said about Vampyr, but transposed onto Beauty and the Beast. This 1946 treasure from French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau follows the same basic story beats as the Disney cartoon, but weirder, with impressionistic sets (a hall lined with candelabras made of real, reaching human arms), lavish costumes, and dreamlike imagery.
Where to stream: Max, The Criterion Channel,Tubi
Co-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, collectively known as the Archers, are generally regarded to have made some of the most ravishingly beautiful technicolor films ever, and this behind-the-scenes ballet drama about a ballerina prodigy and the obsessive, power-mad impresario whose push for perfection drives her mad is their crowning achievement—particularly their impressionistic, 17-minute staging of a ballet based on the titular fairytale.
Where to stream: Max, The Criterion Channel, The Roku Channel, Tubi, Shout TV, Freevee
Speaking of dreamlike imagery, this story of two children on the run from the fearsome, self-ordained “preacher” on the hunt for their criminal father’s ill-gotten loot is a nightmare come to life: A trip down a river that grows more surreal and dangerous (and their pursuer, more relentless) with every twist and bend. Audiences in 1955 didn’t know what to make of it, but today, it is rightly regarded as an expressionistic masterpiece.
Where to stream: Tubi
A lot of stoners will tell you that Tarkovsky is the way to go when you’re baked, but films like Solaris and Stalker aren’t really trippy so much as they are...boring. Hypnotically boring, but still. Instead, I’ll take the Shakespeare-meets-Star Trek earnestness of Forbidden Planet, a reimagining of The Tempest set on Altair IV.
Where to stream: Vudu Free, Tubi
This anachronistically artful aquatic adventure was filmed in Czechoslovakia in 1958 with all the hottest techniques on display in 1902's A Trip to the Moon.
Where to stream: The Criterion Channel
This Palm d’Or-winning adaptation of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in a Brazilian favela during Carnival, is loaded with arresting imagery and set to a thrumming bossa nova beat.
Where to stream: Max, The Criterion Channel, Kanopy
Nobody fucks with Angela Lansbury in this trippy, hypnotic Cold War espionage thriller.
Where to stream: Tubi, MGM+
Jacques Tati’s third and most celebrated film to feature Monsieur Hulot, a sort of affable everyman in an omnipresent overcoat, PlayTime is nothing less than a kaleidoscopic vision of “modern” Paris circa 1967, a city growing ever more impersonal as the technological innovations meant to make life easier instead push people apart. Filmed in long, expertly choreographed takes and with action unfolding in every corner of the screen and in-between, it’s kind of like sorting through a Where’s Waldo? drawing come alive. If you love to get high and hyper-focus, it’ll definitely keep you busy.
Where to stream: The Criterion Channel, Kanopy
“I am examining ancient Rome as if this were a documentary about the customs and habits of the Martians,” director Federico Fellini said of this phantasmagoric, hedonistic portrait of the past—a nightmarish tour of a decadent republic, based on a play penned during the reign of Emperor Nero, unfolding in episodic, dream-logic narratives. (Not recommended if you are prone to bad trips.)
Where to stream: Nowhere officially, but you can find the whole movie (with subtitles) on YouTube
French director Jacques Demy made any number of rainbow hued musical delights that you'll love to drink in while under the influence, but my bid goes to this lurid adaptation of the Charles Perrault fairy tale about a king who wants to marry his own daughter (probably because she's played by Catherine Deneuve). The visual design is worth your strongest gummies all on its own—check out the dress made of the same material as a movie screen onto which a sky filled with clouds is projected.
Where to stream: The Criterion Channel
This experimental animated art film, a French/Czech co-production, is set on an alien world inhabited by giants who treat humans like mindless animals. The plot is sort of an afterthought, but the animation is spare, eerie, surreal, and unforgettable—especially if you experience it with your brain marinating in THC.
Where to stream: Max, The Criterion Channel, The Roku Channel
I’m not one for watching horror while high, but this garish, blood-soaked farce, produced by pop artist Andy Warhol, edges closer to comedy in telling the story of an aging succubus (Udo Kier) seeking virgin blood to preserve his immortality and coming up short on virgins in early 20th century Italy. The stilted acting and low-budget charms are doubly endearing when baked.
Where to stream: The Criterion Channel, Vudu Free, Night Flight Plus, Tubi
This legendary misfire is a post-apocalyptic, Wizard of Oz-inspired sci-fi allegory in which an orange diaper-clad Sean Connery is in thrall to a giant floating stone head that eats people. Or something. Director John Boorman cashed in his Deliverance blank check to make this thing, and it's hard to figure out why, but you'll never be bored watching it (or trying to parse its muddled message).
Where to stream: Digital rental
Before Brian De Palma dived deep into modern Hitchcock thrillers like Sisters and Body Double, he made this super weird rock opera pastiche, based on The Phantom of the Opera, but subbing in '70s glam rock and adding a hearty dose of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Where to stream: Digital rental
The Who and Ken Russell’s Tommy is the rock opera ne plus cannabis...
Where to stream: Digital rental
...but if you don't like The Who's music, go ahead and watch Rocky Horror. It's best with a crowd, but if you don't have a crowd, some THC will do.
Where to stream: Digital rental
I'd say I don't want to say anything that would spoil the inexplicable surprises on offer in this Japanese cult classic, but I have no idea how to describe this movie anyway. Aside from saying that “legendarily weird Japanese haunted house movie” only scratches the surface.
Where to stream: Max, The Criterion Channel
Look it was really hard to choose just one Kubrick OK? This is where I landed.
Where to stream: Digital rental
There’s no story to follow here, just slow-motion and time-lapse footage of American cities and natural landscapes set against a driving score from Philip Glass. Probably should come with a warning about not watching it while operating heavy machinery.
Where to stream: The Roku Channel, Kanopy, Hoopla
Listening to music while high is great. Watching movies while high is great. So it only follows that watching what is generally agreed upon to be the best concert film ever made—Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme’s recording of a Speaking in Tongues-era Talking Heads tour—is doubly great. That’s just math. (If you can’t catch it this year, you’ll at least be primed for A24's upcoming 4K rerelease.)
Where to stream: Digital purchase
Griffin Dunne is having a very strange night in this mid-career Martin Scorsese romp, which was originally going to be directed by Tim Burton, if that tells you anything. Dunne plays an office drone who encounters the weirdest nightlife Manhattan had on offer in 1985 as he attempts to make his way home from SoHo. New York used to be cool.
Where to stream: The Roku Channel, The Criterion Channel, Tubi
Juzo Itami’s “ramen western” translates familiar tropes of bandits and heroes into the story of a woman who doesn’t know how to cook but seeks the perfect noodle recipe that will keep her struggling restaurant afloat. It’s a giddy, episodic, fourth-wall-breaking satire that caters to the stoner’s attention span, and nary a scene goes by without a delicious-looking meal onscreen, so keep munchies on hand. (But watch out for the part with the raw egg.)
Where to stream: Max, The Criterion Channel
A preference for heightened, melodramatic plotting and candy-colored visuals makes pretty much any Pedro Almodovar film a delightful experience while stoned, so I chose this one, his most frantic and funniest: a screwball romantic farce filled with broad characters making one very bad decision after another.
Where to stream: Digital rental
In his plotless, endearing, aimlessly philosophical debut, Richard Linklater follows a bunch of one-of-a-kind esoterics doing their best to Keep Austin Weird in 1991. (Or, if you prefer, cartoon Slacker.)
Where to stream: Max, The Criterion Channel
Like Almodovar, Wong Kar-wai is a director whose filmography is a stoner’s paradise, and my pick from his accomplished oeuvre is this oddball romantic comedy about two cops looking for love, set in an around an all-night diner in Hong Kong. You’ll laugh; you’ll cry; you’ll swoon; you’ll have this Cantonese version of The Cranberries’ “Dreams” stuck in your head for days.
Where to stream: Max, The Criterion Channel
Warren Beatty’s garish ode to a comic strip no one cared about anymore even 33 years ago, Dick Tracy is ludicrously over-the-top in every way, from the film noir-meets-Hollywood musical tone (with tunes by Stephen Fucking Sondheim), to the performances (Al Pacino earned an Oscar nod for Doing All the Things as villain Big Boy Caprice), to the absurd prosthetics, to cinematographer Vittorio Storaro’s four-color visuals, to the presence of onetime Beatty beau Madonna in full-on Jessica Rabbit mode. It’s definitely the weirdest movie to ever get a McDonald’s tie-in.
Where to stream: Digital rental
The Coen brothers’ most underrated film is a parody of screwball comedies (no mean feat) about a good-natured inventor who brings about his own downfall in his quixotic quest to invent the hula-hoop (you know, for kids!). I’ve chosen this one instead of the more obvious The Big Lebowski because I’m just that cool.
Where to stream: The Roku Channel, Kanopy
There’s nothing like getting stoned to make you begin to pick at the seams of reality, and also, video games are great, so what better choice than this Matrix-era David Cronenberg thriller about characters who may or may not be trapped within the narrative of a goopy, fleshy video game?
Where to stream: Kanopy, Pluto TV
Lots of people would put Sofia Coppola’s award-magnet followup Lost in Translation on this list. Not me though. I favor this sun-drenched, slow-burn nostalgia thriller about a group of doomed sisters and the boys who grow up haunted by their memory. The summery haze of the score (by dream pop duo Air) will hypnotize you.
Where to stream: The Criterion Channel, Pluto TV
I had to have a David Lynch film on here. I chose this one because it’s my favorite: A L.A. noir in which nothing makes sense and nothing can be trusted, because that’s Hollywood, baby.
Where to stream: The Criterion Channel
Everyone has a favorite Ghibli and this one is mine.
Where to stream: Max
Awash in the anachronistic tricks of silent cinema, the films of Canadian director Guy Maddin are as visually trippy as they are narratively weird. Take, for instance, this morose comedy about an international competition to determine which country has the most depressing music—a sort of suicide hotline version of Eurovision. Judging the contest is widowed beer baroness Helen Port-Huntley, who lost her legs in an erotic car accident (go with me on this) and now walks around on glass prosthetics filled with beer.
Where to stream: AMC+
I love twisty stories of fractured psyches even when I’m not stoned, but this Hungarian comedy-thriller, about a group of ticket officers who patrol Budapest’s labyrinthine subway system after dark and must contend with a shadowy killer pushing victims onto the tracks, definitely plays better with all of your senses heightened.
Where to stream: Tubi, Pluto TV, Shout TV, Fandor
I’ve seen this movie four times but never sober, which probably explains why I can never quite remember the plot. Which is somehow appropriate, considering it takes place inside the mind of a man who is having his memories of a bad relationship erased via questionably scientific means.
Where to stream: Digital rental
I almost choose the South Korean cult classic Oldboy, but I decided to spotlight another film in director Park Chan-wook’s so-called Vengeance trilogy. Lady Vengeance (also released as Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) follows Lee Geum-ja, a wrongly accused ex-convict who gets out of prison and proceeds to act as a sort of Archangel Amélie to a group of grieving parents, bringing them all together to arrange the kidnapping and murder of the man who did terrible things to their children (things for which Lee Geum-ja took the blame). It’s a knife-edged, contemplative revenge thriller filmed with the exacting precision of tiered wedding cake constructed by a master baker.
Where to stream: Tubi, Kanopy, Pluto TV
Director Darren Aronofsky’s sci-fi mind-bender concerns a man (Hugh Jackman) seeking the source of immortality across lifetimes, centuries, and spacetime, and its lush cinematography and metaphysical narrative flourishes are enough to give you a buzz even when experienced sober.
Where to stream: Digital rental
This romantic ode to sex positivity and New York City from John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) includes real fucking; it’s like watching porn and a Miranda July movie at the same time.
Where to stream: Mubi, Pluto TV, Night Flight
Is it a dream? A nightmare? Or a fantasy? This story of a girl fighting to escape her abusive father in Fascist-era Spain unfolds like a surreal fairytale, populated by monsters both horrifying and enchanting. It may be writer/director Guillermo del Toro’s most bewitching, beautiful film, and it plays all the better when you slow down time to drink in the details.
Where to stream: Digital rental
Danny Boyle's Trainspotting is always fun, but if you're in a more meditative, existential mood, try this neglected sci-fi flop featuring a pre-Oppenheimer Cillian Murphy as a crew member on a ship that's making a last-ditch effort to drop a bomp into our dying sun, thereby reigniting it and saving the human race. The plot is a mix of rigorous pseudo-science and space thriller, but the vibes—the elegiac score by the electronica band Underworld and composer John Murphy, the trippy sun-bleached visuals—will melt your brain.
Where to stream: Digital rental
Detractors like to say Wes Anderson treats his actors like puppets, but what about the movie in which they’re actually puppets? You’ll be mesmerized watching George Clooney’s stop motion fur undulating through every scene.
Where to stream: Max
This stop motion marvel is kind of like what you’d get if you fed your 9-year-old nephew a pound of Pixy Stix, set him loose with the contents of a vintage toy box, and filmed the results. A cowboy and an “Indian” (named Cowboy and Indian) realize they have forgotten their friend Horse’s (name: Horse) birthday and set off on a series of slapstick adventures as they attempt to build him the perfect present.
Where to stream: Kanopy, OVID.tv
Terrance Malick is known for making movies that eschew plot in favor of imagery; he never met a drop of dew collecting on a blade of sunlit grass that he didn’t find more enthralling than a standard dialogue scene. It’s this quality that makes his films especially choice when you’re lit, because you don’t have to pay attention to what is happening too closely when basically nothing is happening (but also, everything is happening—there’s a long sequence that depicts the dawn of creation through the downfall of the dinosaurs, like someone slipped in a reel of Fantasia).
Where to stream: Hulu
I kind of don’t want to say anything about this one. You know what, don’t even watch the trailer. Just down an edible, and light it up.
Where to stream: Roku, Vudu, Tubi, Kanopy, basically everywhere
Paul Thomas Anderson is the only person ever foolish enough to attempt to translate a Thomas Pynchon novel to the screen (twice?), and you can kind of see why. Joaquin Phoenix plays a stoner private investigator attempting to locate his missing ex-girlfriend in the L.A. underworld. He spends most of the movie wandering around in an inebriated haze with no idea what is going on, so you might as well join him—it’s not like you’d be able to follow the plot any better sober.
Where to stream: Paramount+
I almost put Black Swan on here, but I already had a Darren Aronofsky movie on the list, and this Luca Guadagnino remake of the (also weed-worthy) 1977 Dario Argento original will fuck you up way harder. Dakota Johnson plays an America dancer who enrolls at an exclusive Berlin dance academy that happens to be run by a coven of murderous witches looking for the next human vessel for their ancient queen. That description actually makes it sound much more normal than it plays out!
Where to stream: Prime Video, Freevee
This visual marvel from director David Lowry is the most obtuse, low-key fantasy epic ever, a meandering, shambolic quest across a medieval landscape populated by immortal warriors, wandering giants, and talking foxes. The ambling pace will allow you plenty of time to drink in the visuals.
Where to stream: Max
I can genuinely say that catching this improbable Best Picture winner in the theater while lightly toasted was an all-timer experience. Who doesn't want to watch Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan hop through infinite, increasingly bizarre universe while too inebriated to keep pace?
Where to stream: Netflix
A surprisingly endearing sitcom about an American football coach moving to the U.K. to coach the other kind of football, Ted Lasso was Apple TV+'s first breakout hit, but it's long over by this point. While few of their other shows have commanded even a fraction of the zeitgeist as ol' Ted, over the past few years Apple's streaming service has built a small, but solid library of other original series that are at least interesting, or pretty good, or occasionally more.
Apple's offerings still can’t quite compare to what you’ll find on Netflix or Hulu, at least in terms of volume, but there’s enough money in the tech company's bank account that they’ve shown a willingness to experiment, particularly when it comes to high-cost genres like science fiction, and that’s not a bad thing.
Here are 35 of Apple’s best original shows so far. I'm highlighting the ones you may not have binged yet, so Ted Lasso isn’t on the list—but consider him mentioned here.
Sugar doesn't try to obscure or downplay its reliance on old-school Hollywood noir tropes: It's characters are driven to emulate the style of antiheroes of old, and clips from old movies even play alongside the action as a means of driving the point home. The central mystery sees detective John Sugar (Colin Farrell) summoned to the mansion of a rich movie producer (James Cromwell), whose granddaughter has gone missing. We're only a couple of episodes in, and rumor has it that there's a big twist coming, but what's occurred so far is intriguing, and even paradoxically unique: Sugar is kind of an anti-anti-hero...he's an actual nice guy in a world where he's expected to play the tough guy. The series comes from writer Mark Protosevich (The Cell, I Am Legend) and smartly directed by City of God's Fernando Meirelles, so it has style to spare.
Pachinko is technically an American production, but its largely South Korean cast and crew place it in very much in the wheelhouse of the K-Dramas that have found success in the U.S. in recent years. The multigenerational saga follows one woman (Youn Yuh-jung and Kim Min-ha) and her family from the Japanese occupation of Korea through the decades of the Korean diaspora. It’s as personal as it is epic, with better location cinematography than most movies—and it’s got an all-time great opening credits sequence. It’s been renewed for a second season, release date TBD.
The comedy murder mystery genre is having a moment, with Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, Apple’s own The Afterparty (to which I’ll return later in this list), and the Knives Out movies all doing brisk business. Bad Sisters is in that same category, but set apart in interesting (and significant) ways. The Dublin setting and the dark comedy stand out, and the show is as much about solving the core murder as it is about rooting for the killer, whoever they may be. Among the title sisters, one has a particularly odious husband. When he turns up dead, each of the sisters (one played by Catastrophe's Sharon Horgan, who co-created) is revealed to have had good reason for doing the job.
Late-stage capitalism encourages “work-life balance” while simultaneously making it impossible, and then makes us feel guilty about it. In Severance, biotechnology giant Lumon Industries has a solution: they split your consciousness between your life at work and your life outside of it. For our lead characters (played by Adam Scott, Jack Cherry, Britt Lower, etc.) the work- and home-based consciousnesses grow apart to the point that they become entirely different people. The show blends the conventions of office-based dark comedies with movies like Brazil and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and dives into the dangers of modern American-style totalitarian capitalism while providing a reminder that technology often promises to improve our lives while only making them worse.
The sassy, revisionist period drama (think Bridgerton) is having a heyday and, with the success of HBO's The Gilded Age (itself an Edith Wharton pastiche), it's only natural things have come back around to the source—in this case, an unfinished Wharton novel telling the story of five American nouveau riche daughters being shuffled off to Europe to unite (in marriage) their family's ready cash with old European titles and lands. It's a fun, women-led show that splits the difference between The Gilded Age's relative faithfulness to history and Bridgerton's joyful anachronisms.
This solid action thriller stars Idris Elba as a business negotiator who finds himself among the passengers on a flight from London to Dubai that's been...well, hijacked. He's the only one onboard with a shot at saving himself and the other passengers, but will have to use his experience, brains, and brawn to do it. The show takes place in real time, more or less, adding to the suspense, and also making the second-season pickup slightly confusing. I'm not sure how a followup series will work, but if 24 could run for nine seasons, I'm sure that Elba's Sam Nelson can sustain at least a couple more.
I love a high concept, but execution is what counts, and For All Mankind makes good on its premise, thanks in large part to the involvement of writer/co-creator Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica). The show runs with a tantalizing what if?—what if Soviet space pioneer Sergei Korolev hadn’t died prematurely in 1966 and instead helped bring his country’s space program to full flower, extending the space race indefinitely? If we’d been forced to continue and expand upon the space program, our past (and present) would look quite different, and this show dramatically imagines how that might go, jumping across decades to reveal our alternate past (and future).
Dickinson is so scrupulously weird that it gets points just for being unexpected. The most surprising thing about it, though, is that it’s good, not merely idiosyncratic. The show imagines the life of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson, with the conceit that she didn’t fit especially well in her own time, a fact the show reflects through the casual use of anachronisms and more modern sensibilities. Think Netflix’s Bridgerton or Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette for similar vibes—but neither of those is about a person nearly as haunting ormysterious as Dickinson. Bonus: It’s also beautifully filmed and acted.
An effective update to The Celluloid Closet that takes us up to date for the Peak TV age, Visible brings that sweet Apple money to bear in gathering animpressive assortment of talking heads. Going back to the earliest days of television, when queer characters and themes were either ignored, heavily coded, or mocked, the docuseries traces the ups and downs of queer representation on TV right up until the present moment. It entertainingly documents how far we’ve come, and makes clear there’s still work to do.
Based on James L. Swanson’s book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, Manhunt reenacts (in detail) not just the night of Abraham Lincoln's assassination by John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle), but the hours, months, and years that followed, examining the political and cultural fallout at the dawn of Reconstruction. The surprising star here is Tobias Menzies' Edwin Stanton, the war secretary who fought to preserve Lincoln's legacy, with mixed results. The show also offers strong parallels, intentional or not, between Booth—violently racist, bombastic, and vainglorious while also somehow a perpetual victim—and modern-day political figures with whom you might be familiar.
Critics and audiences are divided over The Last Thing He Told Me, the crime drama earning only mixed reviews while also ranking as the streamer's most watched limited series ever. Based on the bestseller by Laura Dave, the popularity of the book might have something to do with that, as might Jennifer Garner's sensitive performance. While it scored those impressive numbers as a limited series, the series has subsequently been renewed for a new season, to be based on a forthcoming sequel novel , currently scheduled for release in 2025. Co-starring Angourie Rice, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and David Morse, the series finds Garner's character trying to forge a bond with her stepdaughter in order to help solve the mystery of her missing husband.
Monarch does a rather surprisingly effective job of telling its own story within the universe of all those American Godzilla movies of the past decade or so, bringing those big stories back down to Earth while building out an entire Monsterverse mythology in the process. Anna Sawai stars as a young teacher searching for her father, missing since Godzilla's attack on San Francisco (depicted in the 2014 film), and finds herself drawn into the past and present of a secret government agency. Wyatt and Kurt Russell play the past and present incarnations of the Army colonel who helped set the whole thing in motion.
The pitch meeting for this must’ve been a hoot. “We’ll do ‘The Country of the Blind’... but, you know, in the future!” Just as in that H.G. Wells story, we learn here that being one of the only sighted people among the blind doesn’t necessarily grant you any special privileges.
A few centuries from now, humans have lost their senses of sight, and the few born sighted are hunted and despised—as high concepts go, it’s a little goofy (and the reviews have been a little rough), but the beautifully produced and entertaining show blends Game of Thrones vibes with dystopian sci-fi, and boasts Jason Momoa and the always brilliant Alfre Woodard.
Central Park, from creators Loren Bouchard, Josh Gad, and Nora Smith, retains much of the look and feel of Bouchard’s beloved (and long-running) Bob’s Burgers, which is probably be enough of a recommendation to get many adult-leaning cartoon fans onboard. It differs, though, in its ambition: Unlike Bob’s, this show invests more heavily in serialization to tell the story of a park manager fighting to save the titular Central Park from greedy developers. It’s also a true musical, incorporating big numbers into each and every episode. (The more sporadic musical numbers in Bob’s Burgers are always the best part, so upping that quotient here is all to the good.)
Foundation frequently misses the point of its source material (a series of influential Isaac Asimov novels), but that doesn’t make it any less of an impressively realized science-fiction epic on its own terms. Lou Llobel and Lee Pace lead the centuries-spanning series that sees a group of scholars and rebels working to bring down a galactic empire in order to save it. The first season was pretty great, the second season was even better.
The casts of many of these shows are pretty extraordinary, but this one is at least a small step above: Rebecca Ferguson, Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo, Common, and Tim Robbins are all included in the main cast. The science fiction series, based on High Howey’s self-published sensation Wool, is set in a post-apocalyptic future; the show’s characters live in the 144-story silo of the title, a sealed environment sustaining (and imprisoning?) the last dregs of humanity. Societal politics blend with elements of mystery (nothing in the silo is quite what it seems) in an impressively conceived dystopia.
There’s a big theater-kid vibe to Schmigadoon, no question, with references and in-jokes not everyone is going to get. I’m not sure it matters. When Melissa (Cecily Strong) and Josh (Keegan-Michael Key) set out on a camping trip to strengthen their relationship, they instead stumble into the title town, where everyone sings their feelings, just like characters in a... you get it. The only way out? True love...which Melissa and Josh thought they already shared, but maybe not so much. It’s both a tribute to classic musicals and a satire of the common tropes and the more problematic aspects of those old productions. The second season switches location and eras to “Schmicago,” taking on the darker-tinged musicals of the 1970s.
The Great British Bake Off's Noel Fielding stars in this wildly ahistorical British import involving the real-life highwayman of the title, who lived in the mid-1700s. Truth and legend are impossible to sort out when it comes to Turpin, so the show defers to the legend, adding a bunch of inspired silliness to the mix. It's not quite Our Flag Means Death, but it takes a similarly loose, and fun, approach to history.
A spiritual successor and companion to earlier WWII minis Band of Brothers (2001) and The Pacific (2010), Masters of the Air focuses on the “Bloody Hundredth,” the 100th Bomb Group—pilots tasked with bombing targets inside German-occupied Europe. Austin Butler (Elvis), Barry Keoghan (Saltburn), and Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who) are part of the impressive ensemble.
Severance, Foundation, For All Mankind, and Silo have established Apple TV+ as a home for high-concept, big-ish budget science fiction. Which is cool, given that even the SyFy channel is't filling that niche anymore. This one finds astronaut Noomi Rapace returning to Earth after an accident, and discovering that the reality she's returned to isn't quite the same as the one she left behind.
The apparently IRL delightful Peter Capaldi is one of our most effortlessly menacing actors, imbuing even Doctor Who with an unpredictable inscrutability, so it's no surprise that he excels at playing a hardened police detective with a checkered past. He's joined here by Cush Jumbo's June Lenker, a by-the-book and far more idealistic detective who's as suspicious of Capaldi's DCI Hegarty as she is of the facts involving the cold case the pair are investigating. Think of them like a twisted version of Mulder and Scully (minus the aliens, of course).
Less high-concept than some of Apple’s other originals, The Morning Show still serves as a solid drama led by an out-of-character performance from Jennifer Aniston. She plays Alex Levy, co-host of a major network morning show. Or “co-host,” that is, until Mitch (Steve Carrell), with whom she’s worked for 15 years, is fired due to sexual misconduct shortly before the show goes on the air one morning (a la Matt Lauer), leaving Alex to explain the situation. The resulting shake-ups and power grabs (including by an up-and-comer played by Reese Witherspoon; the star power in this thing!) were inspired by Brian Stelter’s real-life book Top of the Morning, about the (perhaps) surprisingly dramatic and cutthroat world of morning television, so with the TV-ready drama comes an air of verisimilitude.
An Oprah Winfrey/Prince Harry co-production might inspire understandable cynicism, but the effort here is worthwhile: approaching both stars and non-celebrities, the miniseries explores issues related to mental health, particularly the stigma and difficulties in finding care. The celebs are all impressively frank, and the less famous individuals come from a wide array of backgrounds and face a diverse set of issues. Naturally, the presentation is highly polished, but the mere fact that the streamer is putting its money into expanding conversations about mental illness make it worth checking out.
Honestly, they had me at Octavia Spencer. It’s not just her, though: the cast here is uniformly first-rate: Lizzy Caplan, Aaron Paul, Mekhi Phifer, and Kate Hudson also star. The premise is also solid, and timely: Spencer plays a true crime podcaster who condemned a now-convicted killer with her reporting, but who now learns that she might have gotten some crucial details wrong. The execution stumbles a bit in the first season, but picks up in the second and into its concluding third.
At a high school reunion afterparty, a murder occurs that, naturally, sets the series in motion—a scenario rife with possibilities, given the dramas that swirl around any real-life reunion. The spin here on the comedy murder mystery is its Rashomon-like structure: each episode explores the night from the POV of one of the participants, shifting genre styles to suit the character in question. Tiffany Haddish and Sam Richardson are great as the leads.
With a sense of humor, the anthology Little America dramatizes a series of Epic Magazine pieces telling the stories of immigrants in America. Each 30-minute episode plays like a movie in miniature, and each is packed with emotion—sometimes heartbreak, often joy; seriously, they cram a lot of heart into these little episodes. Each one ends with a tag about the real people on which it is based, which serves to ground the emotion in reality.
I love, love, love that this one’s based on a true story. Home Before Dark dramatizes the story of Hilde Lysiak, award-winning crime reporter and the youngest member of the Society of Professional Journalists, who began her career at age 9 (she’s now a whopping 14). Here she’s fictionalized as Hilde Lisko (Brooklynn Prince), who moves with her mother to a Twin Peaks-esque coastal town where she slowly, doggedly, uncovers the truth behind a long-forgotten cold case.
Creepy nanny meets creepy doll in this utterly strange psychological thriller, co-executive-produced by the occasionally brilliant but notoriously inconsistent M. Night Shyamalan (the show was created by Tony Basgallop). The horror here isn’t really overt, but the show plays some interesting and disturbing games centered on the relationship of the lead couple, played by Lauren Ambrose and Toby Kebbell. Following the death of their 13-week-old son, the pair acquires a lifelike doll as a therapeutic tool. Naturally, something’s not quite right with the doll (or Dorothy’s attachment to it), and something’s definitely not right about the young live-in nanny that they hire (rich people, amirite?) to take care of fake baby Jericho.
This new, updated Ghostwriter goes in a different direction than the ‘90s-era original, focusing a little bit less on the mystery elements of the stories and more on reading fundamentals: operating out of a bookstore belonging to the grandfather of two of the main characters, four kids are brought together by a ghost who brings characters from classic and modern literature to life, with CGI that’s sometimes great... and sometimes less so. Where the show really shines is in its depiction of kids who are believably smart and savvy, unlike an awful lot of shows that can’t seem to tell the difference between a 12-year-old and a 5-year-old. It’s definitely for kids, but that’s to its credit.
Based on the book by William Landay, this one’s premise is clever, and harrowing: in an upper-class Massachusetts suburb, Andy (Chris Evans) and Laurie (Michelle Dockery) learn that a classmate of their 14-year-old son has been murdered in a local park. What happens next is even more shocking: theirson is arrested for the murder. The show sometimes leans into melodrama unnecessarily, but the performances are solid and the central mystery is so compelling, it’s hard not to get drawn in.
Novelist Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River) developed the based-on-a-true-story miniseries, and his touch is very evident if you’re familiar with his books, or with the movies they’ve inspired. Taron Egerton plays Jimmy Keene, a former football star given a ten-year prison sentence for drug dealing. Before long, he’s given another shot: his sentence will be erased if he transfers to a much higher security prison for the criminally insane and gathers evidence against a suspected serial killer incarcerated there. That’s a killer premise, and Egerton is great here.
After having difficulty conceiving a child, Nikki and Jason begin the adoption process, and find themselves in a bind. Were they able to conceive, there’d be no other qualifications necessary to have a baby. Adoption, on the other hand, is long process full of screenings, classes, paperwork, home visits, and money. This is one of those rare comedies that’s both genuinely funny and gentle—the show even revisits all of its characters at the end of each episode so that we know how everyone has made out.
It might sound a little (or a lot) niche, but we’ve seen enough headlines about the working conditions at many video game production houses to understand why a workplace comedy set against such a backdrop would make for effectively dark and juicy comedy. Charlotte Nicdao and Rob McElhenney are the leads here, as a brilliant and driven workaholic and an unsociable egomaniac respectively, and the chemistry between their two characters give the show more than enough spark.
Inspired by the 2017 film How to Be a Latin Lover, the ambitious English/Spanish-language comedy spans generations in telling the story of Maximo Gallardo Ramos (Eugenio Derbez), a Malibu mogul who began life as a pool boy at a fancy resort hotel. The sweet, sun-drenched show has a gorgeously retro visual style.
With nods to the great spy dramas of John le Carré, Slow Horses updates the setting without losing either the thrills nor the style of a time-honored genre. The “Slow Horses” of the title are a group of has-been MI5 agents—they’ve all made messes of significant jobs, but are still seen as having some use, if only in dull administrative tasks. Naturally, the group (lead by Gary Oldman and Jack Lowden, with their spymaster played by Kristin Scott Thomas) finds themselves in deeper waters than anyone had expected of them. The show has a sly sense of humor, and balances a cynical tone with a conviction that redemption is more than possible.
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There are plenty of children's books being adapted into movies this year. Some look faithful to their source material, such as Dreamworks' The Wild Robot. Others, like the live-action film Harold and the Purple Crayon, have me already wondering why Hollywood is messing with a good thing.
When compiling this list of movies based on children's books, I wasn't concerned about how closely they followed the books. I just cared if they were good. Here are 13 movies I liked that you can share with your children—and perhaps inspire them to pick up a copy of the corresponding book.
Author Norman Juster wasn't a fan of this live-action/animated adaptation of his beloved book. However, there are plenty of fans of this movie about an indifferent kid who travels to the Kingdom of Wisdom in the Lands Beyond in a toy car with his "watchdog," Tock, who has a large pocket watch for a body. It also features gorgeous animation from Chuck Jones, the artist who animated numerous Looney Tunes cartoons, and the original The Grinch Who Stole Christmas television special.
Where to stream: Digital rental, YouTube
Aaron Blabey's graphic novel series gets the Dreamworks treatment. Oscar-winner Sam Rockwell plays the smooth-talking Big Bad Wolf, who believes society hasn't given him and his team of criminals a chance to be good. Borrowing its style from heist films Oceans 11 and neo-noirs like Pulp Fiction, there's plenty here for kids and parents to love.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Prime Video
There have been plenty of adaptations of Mary Rodger's novel about a mother and daughter switching places for one day. If you have to pick one, choose the 2003 version, which features an unhinged performance by Jamie Lee Curtis that should have snagged her an Oscar nomination before she won the award last year. The original, featuring Jodie Foster and a hilarious Barbara Harris, also has plenty of laughs.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Disney+
Parts of this stop-motion animated film, based on the book by fantasy and horror author Neil Gaiman, might be a little intense for younger viewers. However, if your children can handle it, they'll delight in its story of a girl who finds a parallel universe in her house where all her dreams come true, but her fulfilled wishes come with a price.
Where to stream: Digital rental
With all due respect to Glenn Close and Emma Stone, the original animated take of Dodie Smith's tale of puppies in peril is the best of the litter of remakes and revamps. Walt Disney's classic film also boasts the meanest villain of them all: Cruella de Vil, voiced by the brilliant Betty Lou Gerson.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Disney+
Despite its misleading title, this fantasy film, adapted from Michael Ende's novel, ends around the 90-minute mark because producers chose to adapt the book's first half. Perhaps that is one of the many reasons Ende hated the film. Despite this, the film has delighted many Gen Xers and those who discovered it through the title song's inclusion in Stranger Things.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Hoopla
Dav Pilkey's book series about a duo of grade-schooler comic book writers who turn their tyrannical principal into the titular Wedgie Warrior has many things parents might not like, such as scatological humor and a plot in which almost no one learns a moral lesson. Maybe that's why kids love it so much.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Netflix
Not to be confused with the recent series of horror movies being made now that the willy-nilly silly old bear is in the public domain, this animated film is actually a collection of shorter films Walt Disney made based on A.A. Milne's stories about the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood. Imaginative and whimsical, it's a movie pretty much any child (and adult) would love.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Disney+
While this computer-animated classic may not closely follow Cressida Cowell's series of books, it's still an eye-popping adventure about a young Viking who befriends a dragon and realizes his village's war with the species has been all wrong. The film was such a hit it inspired a franchise that includes two sequels, an upcoming live-action remake, and numerous television shows.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Prime Video
Walt Disney's attempts to obtain the rights to P.L. Travers' beloved book became its own movie. While she was ultimately dissatisfied with the final result, the live-action/animated hybrid about a nanny who changes the lives of a British family became 1964's highest-grossing film and snagged 13 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. I can also confirm that my two boys loved it, proof that the 60-year-old musical still holds up.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Disney+
It is rumored that E.B. White, who wrote the beloved novel on which this animated movie is based, turned down Walt Disney when he tried to adapt his story of a pig saved from the slaughterhouse by a spider. White wasn't a fan of this version either, but in the years since its release, its legions of fans continued to grow, prompting a live-action remake in 2006.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Hoopla
Louis Sachar could only blame himself if he didn't like Disney's adaptation of his young adult novel—he wrote the screenplay. He can relax, though, because this story about a kid sent to a detention camp for a crime he didn't commit has plenty for families to dig into, with its plot touching on themes regarding racism, masculinity, and child labor. It's also a lot of fun for adults and teens.
Where to stream: Digital rental, Disney+
Credit to screenwriter Charlie Kaufman for turning Emma Yarlett's 40-page picture book about an overly timid kid getting over his fear of the dark into a delightful full-length film, and shame on Dreamworks for taking their first attempt into the existential territory that Pixar occupies so well straight to Netflix. It's a bold, hilarious film that deserves to be seen on a big screen.
Where to stream: Netflix
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Madame Web didn't set out to confound the few who saw it. The comic book movie just ended up that way—because of incompetence, lazy filmmaking, or something else, we may never know for sure.
However, many films created by auteurs are intended to confound their audience, begging moviegoers to unravel the plot threads to find the story's real message. More often than not, they are successful. But some movies leave audiences frustrated and still searching for a movie's meaning after the credits roll. Here are a baker's dozen films that have a reputation for baffling and bewildering audiences.
There have been a multitude of blog posts and YouTube videos claiming they can explain the plot of Christopher Nolan's time-travel adventure. While it does boast some eye-popping action set pieces, even the Oscar-winning director admits that this film, which stars John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, is "not all comprehensible," so if you watch this mind-bending thriller, just enjoy the ride.
Where to stream: Digital rental
Honestly, almost any film directed by the surrealist David Lynch would fit on this list, but none of them have required a glossary to explain the world Lynch crafted from Frank Herbert's sci-fi masterpiece. When you also consider that director Denis Villeneuve managed to craft two hit films from the same novel, you start to wonder if Mulholland Drive is really that complicated.
Where to stream: Max, Digital rental
Speaking of Denis Villeneuve, the director's follow-up to the moody Prisoners reunites him with that film's star, Jake Gyllenhaal. This absolute head-scratcher about doppelgängers got little attention upon release, as is the fate for most of A24's non-horror offerings. (Its marketing team doesn't seem to have figured out how to sell films that don't have a cool hook.) It has gained cult status in the decade since its release, while its Canadian-born director has moved into big-budget filmmaking with Arrival and his pair of Dune adaptations.
Where to stream: Kanopy, Cinemax, Digital rental
The Coen Brothers' film about a pretentious screenwriter trying to unlock his creativity took home a slew of awards at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, including its top prize, the Palme d'Or. But why? Is it because it satirizes Hollywood so well, or is it for its metaphorical take on heaven and hell? Chances are it's both, but when you see John Goodman running down a fiery hotel hallway with a shotgun at the film's end, you may wonder what message the directors were actually trying to convey.
Where to stream: Digital rental
Joaquin Phoenix plays an investigator trying to find his missing ex-girlfriend and her wealthy new beau, but that one case grows to three in an entertaining film filled with a great '70s rock soundtrack, puzzling contradictions, and a labyrinthine plot that demands multiple viewings. The good news is that Paul Thomas Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's equally complicated novel is a film you actually want to revisit.
Where to stream: Paramount+ with Showtime, Digital rental
Your favorite director's favorite movie has such an unusual and mysterious ending that you'll have to watch its subpar sequel, 2010: The Year We Made Contact, to understand what it all meant. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, this classic's groundbreaking special effects still (rather amazingly) hold up, making it worth a look.
Where to stream: Max, Digital rental
This film boasts a cast of every great British actor in the last 30 years, but condensing John le Carré's complex, intricate spy novel into something digestible was something the filmmakers could not achieve. Instead, seek out the 1979 BBC adaptation starring Alec Guinness as former spy George Smiley, which tells its story of double agents and betrayal in just over five hours.
Where to stream: Starz, Digital rental
There are plenty of subreddits dedicated to explanations about Oscar-winner Jonathan Glazer's film about an alien (Scarlett Johansson) who seduces and harvests humans (we think) but then begins to sympathize with them (it's a theory). It all boils down to one powerful scene with a baby alone on a beach that, for some, nails the film's theme or, for others, muddles the plot.
Where to stream: Kanopy, Max, Digital rental
Philip Seymour Hoffman portrays an avatar for the film's writer and director, Charlie Kaufman. He struggles to put on a play inside a life-size replica of New York City he's built with the MacArthur Grant he was awarded. As the years go on, the distinction between the play and the real world becomes muddled, leaving the actors (and the movie's viewers) struggling to figure out what's really happening.
Where to stream: Digital rental
As evidenced by the over 20 percent disparity between critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, this visually stunning yet bizarre sci-fi film starring Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac left moviegoers with more questions than answers. It's about a biologist trying to discover what happened to her husband while inside a phenomenon called "The Shimmer," but it's likely the film's ambiguous ending left audiences flummoxed and frustrated.
Where to stream: Pluto TV, Digital rental
It starts as another kitschy Wes Anderson film, this one about aliens making contact with humans in the small titular desert town. As the characters deal with the uncertainty of this development, it suddenly becomes a meta-satire about...storytelling? If you're already a fan of Anderson's style, there's a lot to love here. If not, it's doubtful this disjointed star-studded gem will sway you.
Where to stream: Prime Video, Digital rental
Brad Pitt reportedly dropped out of this film because he found the script Darren Aronofsky co-wrote illogical. Pitt was replaced by Hugh Jackman, who searches for eternal life over three different timelines. The stories never coalesced for the few who saw it, and it's now considered one of the biggest box office flops ever.
Where to stream: Digital rental
Critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert said in their televised review that they admired David Cronenberg's adaptation of William S. Burroughs' novel about paranoia and addiction but couldn't recommend it. It's not hard to see why. Cronenberg integrates elements of the Beat writer's life and work into the screenplay, but the film's mystical elements and talking bugs make the plot almost incomprehensible.
Where to stream: Max
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Traditionally, Discoord has been an ad-free experience, and the social app is the better for it. Unlike Facebook or X (formerly Twitter), you can use Discord to communicate with friends and follow members of your fandom or online community without an influx of pop-ups or user-unfriendly data-scraping policies.
Alas, as you may have read, that's changing: Discord is now rolling out "Sponsored Quests," a new experience developers can opt into that will subtly advertise their games to Discord users. They may not operate quite like traditional internet advertising, but they are ads. Luckily, there is a way to disable them—for now.
As Discord highlights in its announcement, Sponsored Quests are opportunities for PC gamers to earn rewards by live streaming gameplay to friends, or via in-app activities. Developers can set up Quests Discord users can take advantage of. For example, Epic Games and Lucasfilm Games rolled out Quests for the May the 4th Star Wars holiday last year: Fortnite players could earn both an in-game Fortnite Wrap and a Coruscant Pride Wrap by streaming their gameplay to a friend, or by accessing an app within a Fortnite Discord server.
While that might sound harmless enough—don't do the Quest if you don't want the in-game perk—the larger issue with Quests is that Discord is planning to use them as advertisements for games, and to use traditional internet ad tactics to deliver them to gamers. The company will deliver Quest pop-ups to users based on their age and location, as well as their gameplay habits. So when you see a Quest pop-up appear in the bottom-left corner of your Discord window, know the app decided to deliver you this particular Quest based on these data points.
Discord doesn't make it super clear, but there is a way to disable these in-game rewards advertisements, as well as the tracking that goes along with them. To start, open Discord, then head to Settings > Privacy & Safety. Here, disable the toggle next to In-game rewards (aka Quests).
That said, you may still see Quests ads even after opting-out of them. In particular, you may encounter these pop-ups in your Gift Inventory, or whenever a friend is currently engaging with one of them. Luckily, at this time, the Quest experience in general is pretty non-invasive. Let's hope it stays that way—there are already vanishingly few good places to hang out on the internet.
You can get this charging dock for Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons on sale for $16.99 right now (reg. $19.99). Instead of only being able to power two controllers on the sides of your console, this charging station allows you to power up to four at once. Just slide each Joy-Con onto its designated place and watch LED indicator lights change from red (charging) to green (fully charged) in as little as two hours. It includes a 3-foot USB-C cable to power the dock, and it won't take up much space by your entertainment system or gaming desk. It also has protections against overcurrent, overheating, overvoltage, and short-circuiting.
You can get this charging dock for Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons on sale for $16.99 right now (reg. $19.99), though prices can change at any time.
YouTube is always trying out new features for its users, which they call experiments. The latest experimental feature is called Jump Ahead, which purports to skip to the best part of a YouTube video for you.
The new feature works in conjunction with the double tap feature already available in the YouTube app on Android or iOS, which lets you hop forward in a video in 10-second increments until you've reached the portion that interests you.
The Jump Ahead feature will analyze that user watch data and couple it with machine learning algorithms to automatically detect what it believes is the next "best" point in a video that a viewer may be interested in, and offer a prompt to take you to that point via an onscreen Jump Ahead button.
YouTube says the Jump Ahead feature will work for creators when watching their own videos, even if they aren't currently subscribed to YouTube Premium. Otherwise, the Jump Ahead feature is currently being tested with a small group of YouTube Premium subscribers in the U.S. There's no word as to when the feature could roll out more widely.
Previously, YouTube introduced similar functionality in the form of a graph integrated into a video's progress bar that shows you the "most replayed" parts of that video. Initially, the most replayed feature was similarly exclusive to YouTube Premium subscribers, so there's always a chance that, if proven popular and effective, Jump Ahead could become an all-access option in the future. Last year, the company also tested, then removed, then reintroduced the option to watch any video in double speed by pressing and holding on the video player from within the YouTube app.
Paramount+ viewers can start April with the premiere of the fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery (April 4), which will wrap up the 65-episode series that rejuvenated the sci-fi franchise in 2017. There's also season four of The Challenge: All Stars (April 10), the reality competition show that, this time around, brings together former players to go head-to-head in South Africa. There's also CTRL+ALT+DESIRE (April 16), a three-episode docuseries about the manhunt to capture Grant Amato following the murder of his family members.
For Paramount+ With Showtime subscribers, there's Talk to Me (April 1), a supernatural horror film from A24 about a group of friends who use an embalmed hand to communicate with the spirit world.
Paramount+'s live programming kicks off with the CMT Music Awards (streaming on April 7) followed by live coverage of The Masters, which begins on April 8. There's also The 100th: Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden – The Greatest Arena Run of All Time (April 14 at 9 p.m. ET), a livestream of the artist's 100th sold-out concert of his MSG residency.
Here’s everything else coming to the service in April. Note that titles with an asterisk are exclusive to Paramount+ With Showtime; everything else is also available to subscribers on the ad-supported plan. Those with two asterisks are available to Paramount+ With Showtime users streaming live on CBS and to all subscribers the following day.
Talk to Me*
Star Trek: Discovery, season five premiere
CMT Music Awards**
The Challenge: All Stars, season four premiere
DORA, premiere
The 100th: Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden – The Greatest Arena Run of All Time**
CTRL+ALT+DESIRE
Knuckles, premiere
Jeff Dunham: I'm with Cupid
Bubble Guppies (Season 6)
Bubble Guppies: Bubble Puppy’s Fin-tastic Fairy Tale
Bubble Guppies: Guppy Style!
Bubble Guppies: The Puppy and the Ring
CMT Crossroads (Seasons 21-22)
CMT Presents The Judds: Love Is Alive - The Final Concert
NCISVerse: The First 1,000**
Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out (Seasons 19-20)
Mighty Planes (Seasons 1-4)
RENO 911! (Season 8)
The Last Cowboy (Season 4)
Air Disasters (Season 9-10)
How Did They Fix That? (Seasons 1-2)
Arsenal*
B.A.P.S.
Bandslam*
Black Lotus
Blades of Glory
Catch and Release
Chaplin
Cheech & Chong's Still Smokin'*
Cloud Atlas
Cold Mountain
Daddy's Home
Deep Impact
Domestic Disturbance*
Drive Me Crazy
Edge Of Darkness
El Dorado
Emma
Empire Records
Face/Off
First Blood
Galaxy Quest*
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Hotel for Dogs
I Love You, Man
Identity
Inherent Vice
Jacob's Ladder*
Juice
Just Like Heaven
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Last Night*
Life
Like a Boss
Magnolia
Malcolm X
Max Steel*
Mimic
Muriel's Wedding*
My Baby's Daddy
Nebraska
Nick of Time*
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rambo III
Saturday Night Fever
Secret in Their Eyes*
Team America: World Police
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
The Crossing Guard*
The Evening Star*
The Heartbreak Kid
The King of Comedy
The Ring
The Ring Two
The Ring Two (Unrated)
The Score
The Secret Garden
The Station Agent
The Transporter Refueled*
The Uninvited
TMNT
Total Recall
Transformers
Up in Smoke
Vacancy
Varsity Blues
Whip It
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Wild Card*
Wuthering Heights*
School For Scoundrels*
Deliver Us from Evil
The Painter
Mouse and keyboard fans, rejoice: Microsoft is finally rolling out support for these peripherals for Xbox Cloud Gaming, so long as you're a selected Xbox Insider.
The company is rolling out mouse and keyboard support as part of its latest Xbox Update Preview for Alpha Skip-Ahead testers. That means general Xbox Insiders will still need to wait, but for those in the "invite only" testing program, you should be able to hook up your favorite mouse and keyboard to play games that previously required a controller.
Microsoft says mouse and keyboard support works in cloud gaming on Microsoft Edge and Chrome, as well as the Xbox App on PCs (for those enrolled in the PC Gaming Preview). If you're playing in a browser, you'll need to enable Preview features first. You'll find the option on xbox.com/play by clicking your profile picture, choosing Settings, and enabling Preview features.
The program currently supports 14 titles at this time. Not a ton, but enough to get you started with experiencing mouse and keyboard controls on Xbox Cloud Gaming:
Fortnite (browsers only)
ARK Survival Evolved
Sea of Thieves
Grounded
Halo Infinite
Atomic Heart
Sniper Elite 5
Deep Rock Galactic
High on Life
Zombie Army 4 Dead War
Gears Tactics
Pentiment
Doom 64
Age of Empires 2
Microsoft has acknowledged a known issue with Atomic Heart, as there can be issues when swapping from your controller to mouse and keyboard while streaming the game.
You'll also notice that games display controller UI elements until you start to use your mouse and keyboard to interact with the game. If you see "press A to start," for example, trying clicking or moving with WASD to adjust the UI.
Browser users should take note that the stream needs to be in full screen for your mouse and keyboard to work. If you want to exit full screen, hit the Escape key. You also need to click on a game stream element in order for the game to recognize your mouse input. You can also press F9 to exit out of mouse and keyboard controls for the game.
If you're playing a game on your PS5 and can't defeat a particularly challenging boss or figure out how to solve a certain puzzle, you'll soon be able to get help from an anonymous stranger. Sony has announced that later this year, your PS5 will be able to automatically capture game clips from your play sessions and upload them as hints for other players—and clips taken by other players will be available for your reference, too. This addition is called Community Game Help, and it's something you'll have to opt into, offering an interesting way to get help with a game without looking up an online walkthrough.
In the coming months, you will be able to opt in to Community Game Help, which means that videos from your gameplay will help others. Once this feature is rolled out to your PS5, you can go to PS5 settings > Captures & Broadcasts > Captures > Auto Captures > Community Game Help > Participate. This will allow you to opt in to the program.
This settings page, according to Sony, will also let you select how many videos you want to let the console capture every month. When you do certain things in supported games, your PS5 will automatically capture these videos and upload them to Sony's servers. When videos are uploaded, a moderator will review your content and decide if it can be published under Community Game Help. If your video is published, you'll get a notification on your PS5 and it'll appear under the Your Published Videos option on the Community Game Help settings page.
Sony says that your PS5 will automatically delete these clips once they're uploaded, which means that you don't have to worry about running out of storage. The company has also addressed other privacy concerns by confirming that only raw gameplay footage will be uploaded. Sony won't access your webcam feeds, party chat audio, or audio from your mic. According to Sony, this feature will be available "in select games later this year, and [its] goal is to expand it to as many titles as possible in the future."
At the moment, Community Game Help is being rolled out slowly, so it could be a while before it shows up on your PS5. To check if you've got it, you can hit the PS button when you're playing a game, select a card labelled Hints Inside, and select any of the videos under Community Game Help. This will also be available on the PS app.
Like last month, Prime Video has one anticipated original title coming in April. Fallout (April 11)—executive produced and with a few episodes directed by Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan—is a post-apocalyptic drama series adapted from the video game of the same name. The show stars Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, and Walton Goggins.
Also on the list of Amazon originals coming in April is How to Date Billy Walsh (April 5), a teen romance/coming-of-age film starring Sebastian Croft (Heartstopper), Charithra Chandran (Bridgerton), and Tanner Buchanan (Cobra Kai) as well as rom-com Música (April 4) starring Camila Mendes and Friday night streams of the National Women's Soccer League (NSWL) starting April 12.
Here’s everything else coming to Prime Video and Amazon-owned, ad-supported Freevee in April, including every season of House and Eureka (April 1).
Age of Adaline (2015)
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
Batman & Robin (1997)
Batman Forever (1995)
Blaze and the Monster Machines Vol2 S1-S2 (2014)
Blockers (2018)
Boomerang (1992)
Chaplin (1993)
Cheech & Chong Get Out of My Room (1985)
Chinatown (1974)
Cloverfield (2008)
Disturbia (2007)
El Dorado (1967)
Eureka S1-S5 (2006)
Fighting with My Family (2019)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Heist (2015)
Henry Fool (1998)
Hotel for Dogs (2009)
House S1-S8 (2004)
Inside Job (2010)
It's Complicated (2009)
Jarhead (2005)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
Lone Survivor (2013)
Lords Of Dogtown (2005)
Macgruber (2010)
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Mimic (1997)
Money Monster (2016)
Monster Trucks (2017)
Nebraska (2014)
Neighbors (2014)
Ong Bak - The Thai Warrior (2005)
Out of Sight (1998)
Red Eye (2005)
Richard Jewell (2019)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Snatch (2001)
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
The Aviator (2004)
The Big Short (2015)
The Front Page (1931)
The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
The House Bunny (2008)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1998)
The Notebook (2004)
The Ring Two (2005)
The Station Agent (2003)
The Stepford Wives (2004)
The Sweetest Thing (2002)
The Truth About Charlie (2002)
The Way Back (2020)
The Young Messiah (2016)
Titanic (1997)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
To Write Love on Her Arms (2015)
Top Gun (1986)
Total Recall (1990)
Wayne's World (1992)
We Own The Night (2007)
We Were Soldiers (2002)
When The Game Stands Tall (2014)
White Noise (2005)
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023)
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain (2023)
Música (2024)
Hit S3 (2020)
How To Date Billy Walsh (2024)
Unforgotten S5 (2023)
The Exorcist: Believer (2023)
Fallout (2024)
NWSL (2024)
Going Home with Tyler Cameron (2024)
Spectre (2015)
THEM: The Scare (2024)
The Holdovers (2023)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Grown Ups (2010)
Grown Ups 2 (2013)
Jumping the Broom (2011)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Peter Rabbit (2018)
The Croods (2013)
The Equalizer (2014)
The Karate Kid (2010)
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
The Photograph (2020)
Monster Family 2 (2021)
Alex Rider S3 (2024)
Dinner with the Parents (2024)
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