One other week, one other surplus of sizzling new movies and TV exhibits which might be being launched onto streaming.
The fourth week of October is especially nice, with some implausible movies from 2025 lastly inside arm's attain, a returning rom-com sequence and a model new true crime restricted sequence based mostly on a surprising homicide.
Watch With Us highlights embrace Netflix‘s A Home of Dynamite — the brand new film from The Damage Locker's Kathryn Bigelow — season 2 of No one Needs This starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody and extra.
Learn on to see our picks!
Are you shivering with anticipation for the following huge thriller? In case you're determined for a suspenseful new film to obsess over, you're in luck. With each Hulu and Netflix dropping twist-laden premieres this month, October 2025 is shaping as much as be a implausible season for thriller followers. The Watch With Us group is very excited […]
‘No one Needs This' Season 2
An atheist intercourse podcaster (Kristen Bell) and a single rabbi (Adam Brody) discover themselves falling in love towards the chances on this candy, hilarious romantic comedy sequence. Season 2 brings again characters Joanne Williams and Noah Roklov as they proceed to navigate the melting pot of their relationship, juggling their extraordinarily completely different lives and prying members of the family. Season 1 ended with their romantic entanglement on one thing of a cliffhanger.
The sequence has been praised for its dealing with of interfaith romance and for the implausible chemistry between Bell and Brody. The comedic moments are sometimes pleasantly unpredictable whereas the narrative is infused with real emotional stakes that hold you locked in alongside the characters.
Stream season 2 of No one Needs This on October 23 on Netflix.
‘A Home of Dynamite' (2025)
This non-linear thriller particulars a number of completely different views of presidency officers coping with the truth of a missile heading in direction of Earth. When an unattributed object is tracked through radar and decided to be heading straight for Chicago, it's a race to determine the place it's come from and the best way to reply. We comply with individuals just like the senior officer within the White Home Scenario Romo (Rebecca Ferguson), the Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor (Gabriel Basso), and the President himself (Idris Elba) as they every reply to the second.
Centered on the specter of a nuclear missile, A Home of Dynamite manages to be scarier than any fantastical horror story. With gripping performances from its stellar ensemble forged, the non-linear narrative provides a compelling layer to a narrative which may in any other case be one other run-of-the-mill political thriller. As an alternative, A Home of Dynamite is a terrifying stress cooker ready to boil over.
Stream A Home of Dynamite on October 24 on Netflix.
‘Companion' (2025)
Iris (Sophie Thatcher) and Josh (Jack Quaid) appear to have the right, loving relationship, and the pair takes a weekend getaway at a woodland retreat with some buddies. There, it turns into clear that Josh's buddies harbor some unusual misgivings about Iris — and it's as a result of she's truly a subservient android. When Iris is hooked up by one of many different company and defends herself violently, her actions trigger issues to devolve into chaos.
Companion is a humorous, wildly entertaining sci-fi thriller movie about real-life anxieties surrounding synthetic intelligence and its capability to actually exchange human connection. Whereas the premise alone is partaking, there are a number of twists and turns that you just doubtless received't expect. Beautiful to take a look at with eye-popping colours, Companion additionally boasts two nice lead performances from Thatcher and Quaid.
Stream Companion now on Amazon Prime Video.
‘Weapons' (2025)
Sooner or later, Justine Gandy's (Julia Garner) third grade class all depart house in the course of the night time and by no means return — all of them, apart from one scholar. Confused, grieving and searching for somebody in charge, the dad and mom of the suburban neighborhood of Maybrook, PA all need to blame Justine, however the reality is way darker than an elementary faculty instructor with a ingesting downside. Informed by way of non-linear, overlapping views from the important thing gamers, the horror hidden in Maybrook is progressively revealed.
Director Zach Cregger's follow-up to Barbarian has been hailed as a serious enchancment upon a directorial debut that already had audiences and critics impressed. Stylistically, narratively, and emotionally, Weapons ups its ambitions, producing a genre-bending horror epic that many have in comparison with Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (which Cregger was brazenly impressed by). After all, when you're watching, you would possibly simply be too scared to be so impressed.
Stream Weapons on HBO Max on October 24.
‘Murdaugh: Demise within the Household' Season 1
On June 7, 2021, Richard Alexander “Alex” Murdaugh murdered his spouse, Maggie, and their son, Paul. Alex was sentenced to 2 consecutive life sentences with out the opportunity of parole — how did this pristine, rich household recognized to many in South Carolina finish in tragedy? Their patriarch, Alex, led a second lifetime of profound corruption. This restricted sequence takes a have a look at the household and the occasions that led to the tragic homicide and is predicated on the Murdaugh Murders Podcast, which investigated and blogged the case because it unfolded.
Alex and Maggie Murdaugh are performed by Patricia Arquette and Jason Clarke, respectively, and their performances have been rightly praised. For against the law that's been given the documentary and podcast therapies already, you could be questioning why we want a restricted narrative sequence as effectively. Properly, as a result of it's actually entertaining to observe implausible actors convey sordid crime to life, and Murdaugh: Demise within the Household does that in spades.
