What's Coming Out This Week (September 29- October 5, 2025)
Here's your one-stop guide to all the films and shows hitting theaters and streaming this week!
What’s arriving in theaters this weekend? What TV shows are launching this week? Any good movies hitting VOD or streaming?
Well, here’s a quick reminder of what’s heading to theaters or landing on streaming platforms over the next couple of days. You just might find something new and exciting to add to your watchlist.
🎥 In Theaters This Week
🎥 The Smashing Machine
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — wide release)
Dwayne Johnson trades blockbuster bravado for bruised vulnerability in a gritty character-driven drama about UFC legend Mark Kerr. Emily Blunt plays the wife holding their fractured life together as addiction and expectation take their toll. After months of early buzz, Johnson’s raw turn is already being called the most powerful performance of his career.
🎥 Good Boy
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — wide release)
A loyal pooch becomes the ultimate guardian in this new spooky thriller told through a dog’s eyes. When his owner moves into a farmhouse plagued by malevolent forces, Indy the dog refuses to heel in the face of evil. With growls, guts, and ghost-sniffing instincts, this “good boy” proves he’s more than man’s best friend—he’s man’s last line of defense from evil spirits.
🎥 Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — special limited release, three days only)
Mega popstar Taylor Swift takes over the big screen this weekend. For three days only, fans can catch the world premiere of her new music video “The Fate of Ophelia,” plus behind-the-scenes footage, fresh lyric videos, and never-before-seen reflections on her 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl.
🎥 Avatar: The Way of Water: 3D
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — re-release)
Audiences can dive back into James Cameron’s breathtaking world as the Oscar-winning sci-fi adventure returns to theaters in an exclusive 3D run, offering a rare chance to relive the groundbreaking visuals, soaring action, and emotional depth of Pandora on the big screen.
🎥 Perfect Blue: 4K Restoration
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — re-release)
The late anime master Satoshi Kon’s debut feature follows a pop idol-turned-actress whose career shift spirals into paranoia, obsession, and murder. As Mima’s life unravels under the gaze of fans, stalkers, and her own fractured psyche, the 1997 anime feature blurs the line between performance and reality in a way that feels eerily ahead of its time. Restored in 4K, this haunting classic is ready to unsettle a new generation.
🎥 Jacob’s Ladder: 4k Restoration
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — re-release)
Director Adrian Lyne’s cult 1990 haunting psychological thriller returns in a stunning 4K restoration, pulling viewers back into the fractured mind of Vietnam vet Jacob Singer. Tim Robbins anchors the descent, surrounded by Elizabeth Peña and Danny Aiello as reality unravels into hallucination, paranoia, and grief-soaked terror.
🎥 Anemone
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — limited release)
After seven years away, Daniel Day-Lewis returns in a haunting, lyrical drama directed by his son Ronan. Playing a former covert soldier in self-exile, he’s pulled back into the shadows of his past by an estranged brother (Sean Bean). Steeped in symbolism, memory, and regret, this could be the kind of searing performance that reminds audiences why Day-Lewis remains one of cinema’s greatest living actors.
🎥 Shell
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — limited release; also on VOD)
Elisabeth Moss stars as a washed-up actress lured into Kate Hudson’s glittering world of her beauty and wellness empire. But behind the juice cleanses and perfect skin lies a sinister secret that turns self-improvement into self-destruction. Sharp, stylish, and sinister, this Hollywood satirical thriller directed by Max Minghella shows just how ugly the pursuit of perfection can get.
🎥 Coyotes
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — limited release)
In this darkly comic horror thriller, a Hollywood Hills family discovers wildfire isn’t the only danger when a ravenous pack of coyotes closes in. Justin Long and Kate Bosworth star as parents fighting tooth, claw, and flame to keep themselves and their teenage daughter safe through the night. Savage, satirical, and claustrophobic, it’s a creature feature that proves suburbia is no match for the feral power of nature unchained.
🎥 Killing Faith
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — limited release)
Guy Pearce stars as a hardened doctor in 1849 Arizona whose disbelief is tested by a child cursed with a lethal touch. Alongside DeWanda Wise’s fierce mother and Bill Pullman’s zealous preacher, survival becomes a battle of faith, fear, and frontier lawlessness. A grim, plague-stained western where the deadliest weapon may be belief itself.
🎥 Bone Lake
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — limited release)
A romantic getaway turns into a bloody nightmare when a couple’s lakeside retreat is crashed by a mysterious pair. Seduction and suspicion quickly spiral out of control. What begins as a darkly funny, alluring encounter descends into sex, lies, and carnage as deadly secrets surface.
🎥 Are We Good?
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — limited release)
Marc Maron turns the spotlight inward in this candid documentary that sifts through grief, regret, and the absurdity of survival. With his trademark mix of bitterness and vulnerability, he reflects on love lost, family scars, and the state of comedy. It’s raw, unfiltered Maron—equal parts self-loathing and consistently honest.
🎥 Peas and Carrots
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — limited release)
A quirky New York teen (Kirrilee Berger) discovers a nightly escape into a world where the only words spoken are “peas and carrots,” all while nudging her washed-up musician parents toward a comeback. This coming-of-age comedy riffs on family, fantasy, and the chaos of growing up weird.
🎥 Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — limited release)
Acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) turns his lens on one of the 20th century’s most prophetic voices: George Orwell. With the full collaboration of the Orwell Estate, Peck blends archival footage, diary entries, cinematic references, and striking contemporary images to craft both a definitive portrait of the author and a bold exploration of his enduring relevance. From 1984 to Animal Farm, Orwell’s warnings against authoritarianism resonate with uncanny force today—making him not just a writer of the past, but a guide for the future.
🎦 Streaming This Week
🎦 The Naked Gun
(Tues, Sept. 30th — streaming on Paramount+)
The Naked Gun franchise is back in all its absurd, lollipop-stabbing, Girl-Scout-uniform-wearing glory, this time with Liam Neeson deadpanning his way through chaos as Detective Frank Drebin Jr. Directed by Popstar’s Akiva Schaffer and produced by Seth MacFarlane, this reboot delivers the slapstick spoof energy we didn’t know we needed. With Paul Walter Hauser, Pamela Anderson, and CCH Pounder joining the crime-fighting circus, expect pratfalls, puns, and police procedural nonsense so dumb it might just prove slapstick is alive and well.
🎦 Play Dirty
(Wed, Oct. 1st — premiering on Prime Video)
This twisty heist romp hands Mark Wahlberg the role of Parker, Donald E. Westlake’s ice-cold antihero, a professional thief chasing billions in sunken Spanish gold. Alongside LaKeith Stanfield, Rosa Salazar, and a ragtag crew, the score quickly spirals into a showdown with mobsters, billionaires, and even an army. With writer-director Shane Black steering the chaos, expect bullets, banter, and botched plans delivered with his trademark blend of sharp quips, double-crosses, and a whole lot of trouble nobody planned for.
🎦 The Lost Bus
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — premiering on Apple TV+)
Trapped in the inferno of the 2018 Camp Fire (one of California’s deadliest wildfires), a school bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) and a determined teacher (America Ferrera) must steer 22 children through smoke-choked chaos and firestorms straight out of hell. Directed by Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips) and written by Brad Ingelsby (creator of Task and Mare of Easttown), this true-story thriller unfolds with nerve-shredding intensity. A gripping portrait of survival, it proves that when every road is blocked by flames, courage is the only way forward.
🎦 Steve
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — premiering on Netflix)
Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy brings a quiet ferocity to this new Netflix original, playing a reform school headteacher in mid-1990s England who faces a day that could break him... or redeem him. Struggling to keep the school from collapsing under chaos, Steve (Murphy) must confront his own fragile state of mind while guiding a troubled teen (Jay Lycurgo) teetering on the edge. From Max Porter’s acclaimed novel Shy and directed by Tim Mielants, the film balances raw intensity with aching humanity. Sometimes the hardest lesson to teach is the one you still need to learn yourself.
🎦 V/H/S/Halloween
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — premiering on Shudder)
This cursed-tape fright fest turns Halloween into a gauntlet of gore, where trick-or-treat bags come stuffed with monsters, mayhem, and midnight terror. Visionary directors like Paco Plaza, Alex Ross Perry, and Anna Zlokovic crank up the chaos with shorts that hit nastier than razor blades in candy. Found-footage fiends, consider this your blood-soaked holiday tradition.
🎦 Honey Don’t!
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — streaming on Peacock)
Ethan Coen tackles B-movie pulp in his latest offbeat caper, the second entry in his so-called “lesbian B-movie trilogy.” Margaret Qualley struts in as Honey O’Donahue, a small-town PI with a taste for trouble, whose latest case—a corpse in a crashed car—spirals into a scandal involving a corrupt preacher, secrets best left buried, and a whole lot of click-clacking heels. With Chris Evans as a reverend who’d rather sin than sermonize, Aubrey Plaza as a plucky cop, and Charlie Day as a baffled detective, this wild, campy romp spins into a playful whirl of sex, scandal, and small-town sleaze.
🎦 Bring Her Back
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — streaming on HBO MAX)
Directed by Danny and Michael Philippou, the twisted minds and brothers behind the hit thriller Talk to Me, this new horror film explores the haunting idea of resurrection. Sally Hawkins stars as a foster mother, still haunted by the tragic death of her daughter, whose new foster children stumble into a nightmare involving a strange boy and a spirit that refuses to stay buried. With the brothers twisting the tension, expect grief, guilt, and ghostly terror to bleed together in the darkest ways possible.
🎦 Werewolves
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — streaming on Hulu/Disney+)
This savage creature feature picks up one year after a supermoon turned humanity into a howling bloodbath, killing nearly a billion overnight. Frank Grillo and Katrina Law lead the charge as they race to stop the next lunar-triggered massacre, only to unleash fresh horrors in the process. When the moon rises again, survival means more than silver bullets—it means outsmarting evolution itself.
✅ On VOD This Week
✅ Caught Stealing
(Tues, Sept. 30th — on VOD/Digital)
New York’s the city that never sleeps... and never forgives. In Darren Aronofsky’s ‘90s-set romp, Austin Butler plays Hank Thompson, a washed-up baseball prodigy whose simple favor for a punk-rock neighbor (Matt Smith) spirals into a survival sprint through the city’s ethnic underworld. With Zoë Kravitz, Regina King, Liev Schreiber, Bad Bunny, and Carol Kane rounding out the chaos, Aronofsky trades his usual doom-and-gloom for a Coen-esque crime caper filled with madcap energy, a house cat, and a whole lot of people Hank really shouldn’t have crossed.
✅ The Toxic Avenger
(Tues, Sept. 30th — on VOD/Digital)
Peter Dinklage trades in his mop bucket for mutant justice in Macon Blair’s gleefully grotesque remake of Lloyd Kaufman’s cult splatterfest. After a toxic dunk transforms meek janitor Winston Gooze into a mutated avenger, he sets out to clean up the corruption of Kevin Bacon’s crooked CEO—one bloody swipe at a time. With Elijah Wood as a ghastly henchman, Jacob Tremblay as Winston’s true-believing son, and gallons of unrated gore, this anarchic revival drags Troma’s trash-cinema legend back into the ooze-soaked spotlight.
✅ Tin Soldier
(Tues, Sept. 30th — on VOD/Digital)
Jamie Foxx dons an afro and a God-complex as a charismatic messiah raising an army of mercenaries in Brad Furman’s gonzo action thriller. Scott Eastwood stars as Nash Cavanaugh, the ex–special ops insider turned would-be assassin, sent on a government-sanctioned mission by none other than Robert De Niro’s mysterious handler. With John Leguizamo, Shamier Anderson, Rita Ora, and Saïd Taghmaoui in the mix, this fires off B-movie energy with big-name heat.
✅ Suspended Time
(Tues, Sept. 30th — on VOD/Digital)
This sharp French comedy turns lockdown into a pressure cooker, trapping a filmmaker, his brother, and their partners in a rural home where health rules spark old resentments and new neuroses. Filmmaker Olivier Assayas spins the pandemic pause into a blend of jagged humor and tender nostalgia.
✅ Affinity
(Tues, Sept. 30th — on VOD/Digital)
This sci-fi action thriller packs a punch as Chilean martial-arts star Marko Zaror takes on the role of Bruno, an ex-SEAL haunted by PTSD who finds solace with a mysterious woman. But when she vanishes, his fight for peace turns into a fight for survival, pulling him back into a violent past and a web of conspiracy.
✅ Primitive War
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — on VOD/Digital)
This gonzo creature feature drops a Vietnam recon squad into a jungle crawling not with enemy troops but with teeth, claws, and Cretaceous nightmares. Ryan Kwanten, Tricia Helfer, and Jeremy Piven suit up for a war movie where M16s meet velociraptors, and strategy goes out the window once the dinosaurs charge.
✅ Spooktacular: Behind the Screams of America’s Original Horror Theme Park
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — on VOD/Digital)
This nostalgic documentary revisits David Bertolino’s SpookyWorld, the 1990s horror theme park that became a mecca for fans and featured legends like Linda Blair, Kane Hodder, and Spencer Charnas. A blood-soaked blast from the past, this doc unearths how SpookyWorld turned haunted houses into full-blown pop culture phenomena—cementing its legacy as the original scream park that defined ‘90s horror fandom.
✅ Twinless
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — on VOD/Digital)
When Roman (Dylan O’Brien) loses his twin, he loses half of himself... and maybe his grip on reality. A grief group introduces him to Dennis (James Sweeney, also the writer-director), another “twinless twin,” and their instant bond soon slides from comforting to consuming. With Marcie (Aisling Franciosi) complicating the mix, this darkly funny drama digs into grief, identity, and the dangerous lines between connection and codependency.
✅ The Threesome
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — on VOD/Digital)
One night. Three lives. Endless complications. This follows Olivia (Zoey Deutch), Connor (Jonah Hauer-King), and Jenny (Ruby Cruz) after a spontaneous hookup sends their lives into a whirlwind of desire, doubt, and emotional fallout. What starts as a bold experiment turns into a deeply personal reckoning as the trio navigates love, identity, and the tangled truths of growing up.
⇯ See Above: Shell (Fri, Oct. 3rd — on VOD/Digital)
📺 On TV This Week
📺 Chad Powers
(Tues, Sept. 30th — on Hulu/Disney+)
This quirky college football comedy lets Glen Powell suit up as a disgraced QB who botched his big moment and now hides behind a mullet, prosthetics, and the name “Chad Powers.” With Steve Zahn barking orders as a head coach and NFL brothers Eli and Peyton Manning serving as EPs, it’s a gridiron farce where second chances come disguised in small-town swagger. Think Mrs. Doubtfire meets Friday Night Lights—because sometimes the only way back into the game is pretending to be someone else entirely.
📺 Nightmares of Nature
(Tues, Sept. 30th — on Netflix)
From creepy New England forests to abandoned Costa Rican jungles, the docuseries spotlights the eerie side of the natural world where every shadow hides a predator. Blumhouse horror meets natural history spectacle in this hauntingly atmospheric documentary that reimagines survival in the wild as a real-life tale of terror.
📺 Abbott Elementary: Season 5
(Wed, Oct. 1st — on ABC/Hulu)
This beloved workplace comedy heads into Season 5 with its crew of overworked Philly teachers still juggling chaos, kids, and a principal who’s more distraction than leader. Quinta Brunson, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Tyler James Williams, and Janelle James keep the laughs flowing while skewering the all-too-real struggles of underfunded schools.
📺 Shifting Gears: Season 2
(Wed, Oct. 1st — on ABC/Hulu)
This family sitcom revs back up for Season 2, with Tim Allen as a gruff car-restoration shop owner whose toughest rebuild is reconnecting with his estranged daughter, played by Kat Dennings. As three generations clash under one roof, this sitcom proves some restorations take more than elbow grease.
📺 Monster: The Ed Gein Story
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — on Netflix)
This chilling true-crime limited drama from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan casts Charlie Hunnam against type as Ed Gein, the reclusive 1950s serial killer whose grisly crimes became the blueprint for horror icons like Norman Bates and Leatherface. With Laurie Metcalf as his domineering mother, the series doesn’t just recount Gein’s atrocities—it dissects how they haunted horror cinema itself. From grave robbing to skin suits, it’s a descent into madness that promises to be Hunnam’s darkest, most transformative role yet.
📺 The Sisters Grimm
(Fri, Oct. 3rd — on Apple TV+)
Based on Michael Buckley’s beloved novels, the animated series follows two sisters (Ariel Winter and Leah Newman) who uncover a town where storybook heroes and villains live side by side while searching for their missing parents. Classic fairy tales get a twist as the Grimm sisters tangle with witches, wolves, and more in a magical mystery that proves the stories we grew up with were just the beginning.
📺 Saturday Night Live: Season 51
(Sat, Oct. 4th — on NBC/Peacock)
Season 51 kicks off with a bang as Bad Bunny takes the stage to host Saturday Night Live, bringing his charisma, comedy chops, and unpredictable energy to Studio 8H. Doja Cat joins as musical guest, promising a high-voltage performance to match the star power. It’s a premiere night stacked with swagger, spectacle, and plenty of surprises.
📺 House of David: Season 2
(Sun, Oct. 5th — on Wonder Project on Prime Video)
This sweeping biblical epic returns with David’s star on the rise just as Saul’s kingdom starts to crumble. From humble shepherd to battlefield hero, his triumphs ignite loyalty and jealousy alike, while forbidden passions and family strife fuel the drama.
📺 Smiling Friends: Season 3
(Sun, Oct. 5th — on Adult Swim/HBO MAX)
This cult-hit cartoon cranks the chaos back up as Pim’s relentless optimism and Charlie’s deadpan cynicism collide in another round of bizarre gigs for the Smiling Friends. From eccentric clients to surreal detours, every job spirals into a kaleidoscope of weirdness only Adult Swim could deliver.
