HOLLYWOOD, CA — From Gothic resurrection to animated rebellion, and from wartime reckoning to a sharpened Victorian origin story, this week’s watch list moves across reinvention, spectacle and character-driven tension, streaming now or landing across platforms.

“The Bride!” reimagines the “Bride of Frankenstein” as a fully conscious woman thrust into a world eager to define her. Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale anchor a story woven from romance, rebellion and political fervor, set against a 1930s Chicago brimming with spectacle and danger.

“Hoppers” channels Pixar’s old spark through a bright, freewheeling sci-fi comedy about a girl who can “hop” into a robotic beaver to protect the wildlife she loves. Piper Curda leads a cast that brings warmth and wit to a story about community, environmental stakes and the joy of discovery.

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“Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man” drops Tommy Shelby into 1940, older, haunted and pulled back to Birmingham by a Nazi plot that threatens his estranged son. Cillian Murphy delivers a magnetic, wounded performance in a film that blends the Netflix series’ bravado with a more bruised, introspective edge.

“Young Sherlock” — Season 1 reframes Sherlock Holmes as a brilliant, volatile 19-year-old whose first real case at Oxford spirals into a globe-trotting conspiracy. Hero Fiennes Tiffin leads a caper-leaning, high-energy origin story that sharpens the character’s early instincts while planting the seeds of his rivalry with Moriarty.

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“DTF St. Louis” — Season 1 opens on suburban awkwardness before the story bends into darker, stranger territory. Jason Bateman, David Harbour and Linda Cardellini anchor a mystery built around a middle‑aged love triangle, unfolding with offbeat humor and slow‑burn suspense toward a season‑defining reveal.

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What To Watch This Weekend

“The Bride!”

Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale; directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal

(L-R) Christian Bale as Frank and Jessie Buckley as The Bride in “The Bride!.” (Warner Bros.)

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a Gothic fantasia stitched from romance, rebellion and political fervor, centered on a woman resurrected into a world eager to claim her. Drawing loose inspiration from the 1935 “Bride of Frankenstein” and Mary Shelley’s myth, Gyllenhaal reimagines the Bride not as a briefly seen, voiceless figure but as a fully conscious woman whose awakening drives the story.

Jesse Buckley brings electric intensity to the Bride, her sharp movements and searching gaze giving the character a volatile inner life. Christian Bale’s Frank, a bruised and wandering incarnation of the monster, shifts between tenderness and fury. Together, they form the film’s emotional core.

Gyllenhaal surrounds them with a 1930s Chicago brimming with political machinery and spectacle. Penélope Cruz and Peter Sarsgaard add noirish pressure as detectives closing in on the murderous duo, while Jake Gyllenhaal gleams as a matinee idol who haunts Frank’s imagination.

The film’s genre-hopping ambition can sprawl, but its unruly energy — and its standout performances — mark Gyllenhaal as a filmmaker with a daring, unmistakable voice.

“Hoppers”

Piper Curda, Bobby Moynihan, Jon Hamm; directed by Daniel Chong

“Hoppers.” (Disney/Pixar)

Pixar’s “Hoppers” is a bright, dazzling burst of energy — a science-fiction comedy that taps into the studio’s old spark while pushing into stranger, more playful territory. The film follows Mabel Tanaka, voiced with warmth and quick wit by Piper Curda, a young animal lover who discovers a technology that lets her “hop” her consciousness into a robotic beaver. It opens a portal into the wildlife she’s desperate to protect, a concept that plays like a kid-friendly riff on the “Avatar” films.

Director Daniel Chong blends environmental adventure with a loose, freewheeling sense of humor, grounding the story in Mabel’s fight to save the glade her grandmother once showed her.

The world around her feels alive, populated by creatures with distinct personalities — none more memorable than King George, voiced by Bobby Moynihan with a mix of bluster and charm. Opposing them is a smooth-talking mayor (voiced by Jon Hamn) intent on carving a freeway through their home, giving the film a clear emotional throughline without slowing its momentum.

“Hoppers” plays like a genuine return to form for Pixar: funny, big-hearted and propelled by a belief that community — human or otherwise — is worth fighting for. Its visual wit and spirited momentum make it one of the studio’s most purely enjoyable outings in years.

“Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man”

Cillian Murphy, Rebecca Ferguson; directed by Tom Harper

Cillian Murphy as Tommy in “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.” (Netflix/Robert Viglasky © 2025)

“Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man” drops Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) into 1940 with a weight that feels carved into him. Years after the series’ finale, he’s living in self‑exile, a man trying to outrun ghosts that have only grown louder. The film opens on him walking alone toward the camera, a familiar image now sharpened by age, grief and the shadows of World War II. Murphy plays him as someone half‑myth, half‑wound, still haunted by Flanders and by visions of his daughter Ruby.

The story pulls Tommy back to Birmingham when his estranged son becomes entangled in a Nazi plot, forcing him into a reckoning he can’t sidestep. The movie carries the show’s signature swagger — the slow‑motion menace, the bar‑room detonations, the razor‑brimmed bravado — but it’s more introspective, more bruised. Notably, while the film never quite matches the series’ finale, it still lands as a brutal, bleak farewell shaped by wartime paranoia and Tommy’s unraveling psyche.

What holds it together is Murphy’s performance: magnetic, wounded and impossible to shake. As a final chapter, it’s fierce, stylish and steeped in the cost of being Tommy Shelby.

“Young Sherlock” Season 1

Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Dónal Finn, Natascha McElhone; created by Peter Harness and Guy Ritchie

Dónal Finn and Hero Fiennes Tiffin in “Young Sherlock” Season 1. (Amazon Prime)

“Young Sherlock” reimagines Sherlock Holmes (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) as a brilliant, volatile 19‑year‑old still learning how to control the mind that will one day make him famous. Set in the 1870s, the season begins at Oxford, where a campus murder jolts him into his first real case, and the show leans into that origin‑story charge — all swagger, speed and Guy Ritchie snap. It’s less about the solitary detective of Baker Street and more about a scrappy, improvised team effort, a “Team Sherlock” dynamic that gives the series its momentum.

Across eight episodes, the Amazon Prime mystery series widens into a globe‑trotting conspiracy involving murdered professors, espionage and a Victorian‑era weapon of mass destruction. It doesn’t always feel like traditional Holmes — it’s more caper than chamber puzzle — but it’s rambunctious fun, and the youthful volatility suits this version of the character. The season also plants the seeds of the Holmes‑Moriarty rivalry, reframing both men as prodigies on a collision course.

As a first season, it’s energetic, stylish and occasionally overstuffed, but it captures something essential: the sense of a mind sharpening itself under pressure.

“DTF St. Louis” — Season 1

Jason Bateman, David Harbour, Linda Cardellini; created by Steven Conrad

(L-R) Jason Bateman and David Harbour in “DTF: St. Louis” Season 1. (HBO Max)

“DTF St. Louis” opens with a cornhole party — a fittingly off‑kilter start for an HBO dark‑comedy mystery built around a middle‑aged love triangle that festers into something lethal. The series follows Clark (Jason Bateman), Floyd (David Harbour) and Carol (Linda Cardellini), three people drifting through midlife malaise until a new friendship, an affair and a sudden death snap their lives into a sharper, stranger shape. The tone is deliberately skewed: perverse, deadpan and set against an almost aggressively banal St. Louis backdrop.

Across seven episodes, the show shifts from awkward comedy to a slow‑burn mystery, with investigators Jodie Plumb (Joy Sunday) and Detective Homer (Richard Jenkins) circling the trio’s secrets. The season’s first major reveal centering on the love triangle kicks the story into gear, giving the series its hook and its uneasy momentum.

The season’s mix of sex, betrayal and mundanity subverts the usual erotic‑thriller beats, but the performances — especially Bateman and Harbour — keep it grounded. It’s quirky, bleak and intentionally offbeat, a prestige HBO mystery that leans into its own oddness.

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