Clockwise from top: Lucky, Ride or Die, Heartstopper Forever, and The Odyssey.Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Apple TV, Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures, Samuel Dore/Netflix, Prime
This is the rare weekend where we’re telling you what you already know: You’re most likely already planning to watch The Odyssey or the World Cup final or The Odyssey and the final Totally fair. The World Cup felt a bit like its own odyssey for us new and old soccer fans, so the two splashing onto screens on the same weekend feels like a natural conclusion. Here’s everything else in case you find some extra free time.
Three years after his Best Picture–winning epic, Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan tackles another epic. Matt Damon stars as Odysseus, the ruler of Ithaca who leaves behind his wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway, in another round with Nolan), and son, Telemachus (Tom Holland), to fight in the Trojan War. Like the poem, Nolan’s drama spans 20 years as it flits between Odysseus’s treacherous journey back home and Penelope and Telemachus tango with a mess of unruly suitors (including a smarmy Robert Pattinson) back in Ithaca. It’s an incredible spectacle with a plethora of appearances by Himesh Patel, Elliot Page, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, and John Leguizamo.
➽ Should you take kids to this R-rated smash? Maybe! Also worth reading: Nolan on the behind-the-scenes feats that went into it.
Anya Taylor-Joy stars as a con artist on the run from both a crime boss and the FBI after a major job goes bad; Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Drew Starkey round out the cast from writer and co-showrunner Jonathan Tropper (whom you might know from his other crime show, Your Friends & Neighbors)
Streaming on Apple TV
Apple TV
The saccharine series adapted from Alice Oseman’s graphic novels has since seen its two stars, Joe Locke and Kit Connor, off on to bigger projects. But the two are return for a send-off film following the high-school sweethearts Charlie and Nick as they prepare to close the chapter on school.
You can’t escape the opposites-attract trope, can you? Hannah Waddingham and Octa share a major secret: Judith’s an assassin. Once Debbie learns the truth about her friend and Judith messes up a job, the two go on the run across Europe
Streaming on Prime Video
Prime Video
The third season of the best (gay) vampire show on TV has been as messy, devastating, and deliriously fun, as its lead Lestat (played brilliantly by Sam Reid) and his lover Louis de Pointe du Lac (an equally mesmerizing Jacob Anderson). It helps that the season has also been bolstered by its ensemble. Catch up before its Sunday finale:
➽ Akasha!!
➽ Delainey Hayles on Claudia vs. Regina.
➽ A chat with the gremlin Armand himself.
➽ Eric Bogosian doesn’t get why y’all love Daniel.
➽ A peek behind the curtain.
➽ Loustat forever.
Streaming on AMC Plus
AMC Plus
It’s all been building toward this. The 2026 FIFA World Cup final will see Spain and Argentina face off to claim the trophy after a month of relentless fútbol. Apparently, Justin Bieber’s playing the halftime show? The action starts at 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Care to sample another adaptation? There’s a Coens-directed one (O, Brother, Where Art Thou?on VOD), a Kubrick-directed one (2001: A Space Odyssey, free on Philo) a Ralph Fiennes–starring one (The Return, on Paramount+), an eerie haunted-house one (Keyhole, free on Plex), a spaghetti-western one (The Return of Ringo, free on The Roku Channel), and — yes!!! — a Ducktales one (“Home Sweet Homer,” on Disney+), to name just a few. No shade to Mr. Nolan’s Imax-ready efforts, but who wouldn’t spend time on Ithaquack with Huey, Dewey, and Louie? —Eric Vilas-Boas
Why stop the party? Premiering between seasons, this is a spinoff featuring the hunt for the next professional dancer to assist the newest batch of celebrities looking to increase their stock valuefresh off his Traitors run, and his mother, Shirley Ballas
Summer means brainlessness, and this year TV gives us celebs like Hilaria Baldwin and Steve-O on a new show where everyone competes to be eliminated so they don’t get crowned as the dumbest contestant. No one could say that Hilaria does not know her brand
Audiences couldn’t get enough of Obsession, one of the surprise hits of the summer. Now you can find Curry Barker’s horror film on streaming. Hopefully that comes with less disastrous results than Bear’s wish.
Director Chandler Levack’s second feature of the year is on Netflix (also the home of her first, Roommates). In Mile End Kicks, Barbie Ferreira stars as a music writer who gets entangled with a local Montreal band.
➽ Plus,Backroomsand Stop! That! Train!hit VOD.
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