News What to Watch What to Watch and Read This Weekend: We Have Tomb Raider At Home Plus strange little things, superior adaptations, and cursed bunnies. By Molly Templeton | Published on September 5, 2025 Media: Warner Bros. Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Media: Warner Bros. Pictures What day is it? The combination of late-summer vibes and the Labor Day weekend have had me thinking it’s the wrong day for at least the past week. Why do Fridays feel like Tuesdays sometimes? How do days have feels, anyway? I have it on good authority that it is, in fact, Friday—for real—so here, at the end of a weird-shaped week, are some suggestions for your weekend! I hope the days feel like weekend days and not like warped Wednesdays or something. Have you called your reps lately?  But I Wasn’t Done With the Last Version of Tomb Raider Yes, a new Tomb Raider is coming. But I still think we should’ve gotten more of the Alicia Vikander version. Tomb Raider (2018) starred Vikander as an oddly perfect Lara Croft—one who’s working as a bike messenger (alongside Hannah John-Kamen, my favorite Killjoy) and only reluctantly takes up her inheritance and then unwisely goes chasing off after her maybe-dead father’s work.  Yes, the elements in any Tomb Raider are similar, but this one—directed by Roar Uthaug (Troll) and co-written by Captain Marvel’s Geneva Robertson-Dworet—walked a perfect line between playing it straight and yet not taking itself too too seriously. Daniel Wu (Into the Badlands) is the very attractive ship captain who joins forces with Lara; Walton Goggins is the bad guy. I repeat: Walton! Goggins! Is the bad guy! Also Dominic West and Kristin Scott Thomas are in the film, because why not? I watched this movie on an airplane and it was perfect. I firmly believe it will still be very good in a non-airplane setting. Hollow Knight: Silksong and Games to Play If You Like Strange Little Things There is a very passionate Silksong contingent among the Reactor staff, but I am afraid of that game; everything I read about it and its predecessor, Hollow Knight, made me think I would find these games extremely frustrating extremely quickly. But I don’t have a game right now, and I’m sad about it. So I thought about replaying Strange Horticulture, a strange little game in which you identify strange little plants, again. And that’s how I found out that it’s getting a follow-up: Strange Antiquities. Another odd little store full of odd little things! Another whole pile of strange lore to accumulate and understand! Listen, mostly I play Zelda games on repeat, but sometimes a strange little game is just the thing. And to be honest, there’s quite a bit of reading in Strange Horticulture, relatively speaking.  Sometimes the Movie Is Better Than the Book There are so many adaptations coming out this fall. Most of them, alas, are not SFF. But sometimes we read other books and watch other things, right? LitHub has a roundup of forty-nine bookish movie and TV productions you might enjoy as the nights get longer and darker (I’m too jealous of you southern hemisphere people to acknowledge that your nights are doing the opposite). These are not all adaptations, but those that are run quite the gamut. There are a lot of very serious films, some historical, and one very appealing movie starring Ben Whishaw as photographer Peter Hujar. You already know about the big SFF adaptations this fall: the Stephen King(s) (three! of! them!), the second Wicked. Perhaps you’ll find something else in this list? (Personally I have written TALAMASCA in my calendar in all caps. Your mileage may vary.) (And no, I’m not saying any of these movies are better than the book. I haven’t seen them yet. But I will go to bat for Children of Men every time this topic arises.) There’s Bunny and There’s Also Cursed Bunny Sometimes one’s brain makes connections between things that are not all that connected, and that’s why I’m really delighted that the authors of both Bunny and Cursed Bunny, Mona Awad and Bora Chung, have new books out later this month: the Bunny sequel We Love You, Bunny from Awad, and the novel-in-stories Midnight Timetable from Chung. No, you can’t read either of those just yet, but you can go back and read their predecessors. Bunny is the story of a woman who gets wrapped up in the world of her creepily perfect MFA peers, who are all shiny-haired rich girls who call each other “Bunny.” The bunnies, it turns out, have some unusual hobbies. Cursed Bunny is a short story collection (translated by Anton Hur) that begins with “The Head,” a story about a woman and the creature that crawls out of her toilet. It’s made of everything that goes down the toilet. No one seems to find this odd except the woman it speaks to. It calls her “Mother.” Things continue to be unusual and fascinating from there. [end-mark] The post What to Watch and Read This Weekend: We Have <i>Tomb Raider</i> At Home appeared first on Reactor.