Movies: Every New Movie This Weekend Is Awful (Here's Why You Should Skip Them)

Weekend movie reviews deliver bad news: you're looking at three theatrical releases that aren't worth your time. You check showtimes hoping for something decent, but The Strangers Chapter 3 turned a solid 2008 horror film into "stretched out taffy with nothing in the middle." You scan for alternatives and find Whistle, an Aztec artifact thriller that "ties its shoelace together and tries to run," falling on its face repeatedly. Your last option is Dracula from Luc Besson, where Christoph Waltz looks so bored in the final shot "he's walking to grab his paycheck."

Three horror releases. Three directors who had something good to work with. All three failed spectacularly.

Your weekend deserves better than phoned-in performances and poorly executed concepts. The theater can wait. This is the week streaming wins.

Topics: weekend movie reviews, horror films 2025, theatrical releases February, movie recommendations, streaming alternatives

Streaming: (These are Good!) The Muppets Are Back and They Need Your View Count to Survive

Streaming recommendations rescue your weekend after theatrical releases fail completely. You need something worth watching, and three options deliver: a documentary directed by RFK Jr's sister about "the greatest female chess player to date," a Muppet Show revival that brings back "the introducing of the guest, the theme song, all of it," and Dave Foley hunting down hockey diehards across Canada. You're choosing between a Hungarian chess prodigy story, Kermit hosting Sabrina Carpenter, or celebrity hockey fanatics in Montreal and Toronto.

The Muppet Show matters most right now because it "serves as the pilot for a new Muppet show," which means view counts determine if more episodes get made. Sabrina Carpenter is "the perfect person because she has such a dry comedy along with this kind of a cutesy filter over it." Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg produce through Point Grey. Statler and Waldorf are back. The Queen of Chess comes from Rory Kennedy and profiles Judith Polgar, who was "commanded into being an incredible chess player by her very driven father." Hockey Fanatics sends Dave Foley city to city exploring "the deep fandom and the lore and the history."

Topics: streaming recommendations, weekend watch list, The Muppet Show reboot, chess documentaries, hockey fans Canada

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Originally aired on 2026-02-06