{"id":106650,"date":"2025-08-30T00:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106650\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T00:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:48:07","slug":"best-movies-tv-aug-29-sept-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106650\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Movies, TV (Aug 29\u2013Sept 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Clockwise from top: Caught Stealing, Jaws, The Toxic Avenger, and Love Island USA reunion.
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Summer is winding down, which accounts for the lack of blockbusters this weekend. No superheroes, just Benedict Cumberbatch trading his Doctor Strange cape for some loafers and some play-bickering with Olivia Colman. That sounds like a great use of time to me. No Batman or House of the Dragon, just Zo\u00eb Kravitz and Matt Smith orbiting Austin Butler as he runs around New York severely beaten up in a new Darren Aronofsky flick. But if you did want to spend your time off watching a blockbuster, there\u2019s always the original blockbuster from 50 years ago, out again this weekend. And here\u2019s everything else.<\/p>\n

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Austin Butler is charged with babysitting a cat, and then his life goes to shit. Not the cat\u2019s fault though! Based on Charlie Huston\u2019s novel of the same name, Darren Aronofsky\u2019s latest film, Caught Stealing, is a \u201990s-set crime thriller with Butler as a bartender\/former baseball player named Hank who gets wrapped up in his neighbor\u2019s (Matt Smith) drug ring. What really makes Caught Stealing sing, though, is its incredible ensemble of characters played by the likes of Regina King, Zo\u00eb Kravitz, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D\u2019Onofrio, Bad Bunny, and Griffin Dunne.<\/p>\n

Almost two full years after The Toxic Avenger first premiered at Austin\u2019s Fantastic Fest, the remake of one of the ultimate cult classics is getting a wide release. Peter Dinklage stars as Winston Gooze, a janitor who gets transformed into a grotesque mutant after a bizarre accident. Now, he\u2019s taking on criminals and the true inhuman freaks of the world: CEOs. If it\u2019s anything like the original \u201980s splatter film, it\u2019ll be pretty disgusting and gross (complimentary). \u2014James Grebey<\/p>\n

A remake of the 1989 film The War of the Roses, Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman star as the increasingly volatile couple at the center of this black comedy. It\u2019s a slightly odd pairing with an even odder cast, including Andy Samberg and Kate McKinnon as a couple with raging sexual chemistry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

British author (and Taskmaster contestant<\/a>) Richard Osman\u2019s best-selling series is getting a movie adaptation. Starring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie, the Netflix release centers on a group of bored retirees who get together to solve cases. They end up pulled into a current mystery, and their past careers (psychiatrist, spy, nurse, union activist) inform their investigation. \u2014Roxana Hadadi <\/p>\n

Jaws has really been milking its 50th anniversary, but if you\u2019re Jaws you can do that. You might as well honor the end of summer with the quintessential summer blockbuster in theaters. No shark movie has done it better in a half-century, after all. (A few have come close<\/a>, though!)<\/p>\n

\u201cWinners are: Y2K updos, shirtless blazers, men falling asleep, Jeremiah\u2019s reactions, the reality TV publicist industrial complex \u2026 And the phrase \u201cstanding on business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vulture staff watched and detailed every single important moment from the Love Island reunion, which you can read here<\/a>, while writer Caroline Framke reported from behind the scenes of the reunion here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thunderbolts* is kinda the best Marvel movie of the year. Fantastic Four is a close second, sure, but Florence Pugh leading a group of depressed villain castaways<\/a> was the film that really felt like more of a return to form for the MCU. Too bad for Disney that Thunderbolts* didn\u2019t exactly bring Marvel back to its box-office glory days. Still, a fun movie to check out, especially since this group is now the New Avengers. Whatever that means \u2026<\/p>\n

\u27bd\u00a0Plus, have a scary double-feature night with the I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot and Alison Brie and Dave Franco\u2019s codependent body-horror film Together, now out on VOD. <\/p>\n

Did you know that Thomas Vinterberg, the Danish director behind Another Round<\/a> and early Dogme 95 classic The Celebration, recently made an entire TV show? And that all seven episodes of the miniseries \u2014 a handsomely shot reverse-refugee-crisis drama about the entire nation of Denmark being forced to leave behind their country due to climate change \u2014 have been on Netflix this whole summer? Well, it\u2019s not your fault if you missed it (there\u2019s been little to no discussion of it here on American shores), but now that you know about it, you have no one to blame but yourself if you skip what might be one of the best shows of the year. \u2014Ray Rahman<\/p>\n

Want more? Read our recommendations from the\u00a0weekend of August 22<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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