News What to Watch What to Watch and Read This Weekend: Sound the Bryan Fuller Klaxon! Dust Bunny Is Streaming on HBO Max Plus: Mother Mary, and a surprisingly wholesome connection between Fight Club and dogs By Molly Templeton | Published on April 24, 2026 Image: Lionsgate Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Lionsgate Somehow, Friday came around again. Felt like it took a minute, though. Somehow, it is also almost May, but I’m not going to think about that just yet. There’s just so much to do, and to read, and to watch, and everything this week is just a little bit creepy. We’re not venturing into full-on horror territory, at least not so far as I can tell—just going places that are off somehow. A little askew. A little out of the realm of our world. Or, well, maybe just terrible, at least in the case of Widow’s Bay. I just feel pretty strongly that any small town that loudly insists it’s done no cannibalism is probably lying about something. May there be no small-town (or mall) (or monster) horrors in your weekend. Soak up some sun, hug your friends, and call your reps before you settle in for your watching and/or reading! Sometimes Mads Mikkelsen Is the Monster Under the Bed, and Sometimes He Hunts the Monster Under the Bed Late last year, Bryan Fuller’s feature film debut Dust Bunny was in theaters for what felt like about five minutes. I missed it. Probably a lot of people missed it. But our time is now: Dust Bunny is now on HBO Max. The movie is about a little girl who hires Mads Mikkelsen to kill the monster under her bed. It is, of course, about a lot more than that, but the premise—at least in the hands of Pushing Daisies and Hannibal creator Fuller—is almost enough for me as-is. “Fairy tale—the old kind with blood and death and dread—is pretty firmly where Dust Bunny resides,” wrote Emmet Asher-Perrin in the second of two pieces about the film. (This one probably has spoilers, so I only read the first two paragraphs. Just a warning.) The trailer looks cool and perfect in a perfectly cool Bryan Fuller way. I am confident that I will see something in this movie that I’ve never seen before—beyond the already-fantastic image of Mikkelsen in a yellow tracksuit. I’m going to make a date with myself to watch this as soon as humanly possible, and I’m going to love it. What Is It About Small Towns, Though: Widow’s Bay HBO Max has a lot going on this week, or at least a couple of things. On the 29th, the new series Widow’s Bay premieres. I do not know what to make of the one trailer for this series, which is vague, maybe sort of funny, and also very threatening. The show begins in five days, and there has only been the one little teaser. That feels very sneaky! But it has a couple of things on its sneaky little side: Matthew Rhys, perpetually excellent in everything for a couple of decades now (including The Americans and Perry Mason), and creator Katie Dippold, whose background is mostly in funny things, like Parks and Recreation and the movie The Heat. The synopsis explains that Rhys plays the mayor, who the locals sneer at for being soft. But I’m suspicious. I think his face looks a little … untrustworthy. I think there might be more going on there. Next week, we’ll all get to find out.   But Also About Malls. And Sometimes Plants? Speaking of familiar spaces and uneasy relationships between longtime tenants and newcomers, Sarah Maria Griffin’s excellent novel Eat the Ones You Love is now out in paperback. Come for the quarter-life crisis; stay for the precision-crafted portrait of a dying mall; get wrapped up in the needs of a very hungry plant. Said plant lives at the heart of the mall and has viny tendrils in absolutely everything, but especially the heart of the woman who runs the flower shop. Her new employee, Shell Pine, has recently moved home to reinvent herself after a breakup. Shell is a bit lost, a bit vulnerable, and totally unprepared for Baby, the plant at the center of the mall. But who could be prepared for a towering, hungry, human-eating plant? Yes, the premise says Little Shop of Horrors, but there’s so much more going on here, and Griffin draws the relationships among the mall’s remaining employees with love and familiarity. It’s such a good read.  Mother Mary: Mother May I? To return to the theme of “I don’t exactly know what’s going on here, but I think I like it?” we have Mother Mary, the latest film from The Green Knight director David Lowery. That movie was green; this one is all gothic gray and blue before it leans into red. (At least in the trailer.) The story is something about a fraught friendship between Anne Hathaway’s pop star and Micaela Coel’s designer. The draw is Lowery’s lush imagery (red! RED) and the crackling tension between the two women. And also the fact that I have watched every trailer for this movie and I have no idea what it’s about. How refreshing! Reviews, perhaps unsurprisingly, are all over the place. It’s lush! It’s empty! It’s familiar! It’s weird! It’s too glossy! I’m intrigued by what Brian Tallerico wrote at RogerEbert.com: “It is another story about the intersection of fame and art, but it’s not like one you’ve seen before, a two-hander that owes as much to The Exorcist as it does to Lady Gaga.” Does this not appeal? Will it not entertain? I’m betting it will. The First Rule of Fight Club Is… My personal first rule of Fight Club is that I am generally wary of discussing Fight Club. You just don’t know which kind of Fight Club people you’re going to get: the ones who take it at face value or the ones who think there’s a lot going on under the surface, that it’s really necessary not to take it at face value. But I do feel strongly that of the two big, attention-grabbing films of 1999, Fight Club is superior to American Beauty. And I went to see it on the big screen last night, here in Portland, because it was showing as a fundraiser for a local theater, and author Chuck Palahniuk did a Q&A afterward. The movie holds up. It’s gross, it’s funny, it’s not even that violent by modern standards; it’s mean, it’s sly, and it’s pretty incredible to watch once you understand what’s really going on with the characters. I thought a lot about my beloved Mr. Robot, and how deeply it walks in Fight Club‘s footsteps—something I never thought about while that show was on, just because I hadn’t seen this movie in so very, very long. And it also grows more interesting when you hear Palahniuk talk about it, and about his work in general, and his avoidance of victimizing characters. Listening to him talk is very interesting because the man is a master of answering questions without actually answering the question that was asked. One of his elusive-but-revealing answers involved telling a story about his dog, who died recently, and about how expensive emergency pet care is. Palahniuk has set up a living trust that means that all the money from his work will, eventually, go to a program called the Velvet Assistance Fund, which pays for treatment of sick pets. So whenever you see Fight Club, or read a Palahniuk book, you are, in a way, contributing to that fund. I think that’s beautiful, so I wanted you to know about it.[end-mark] The post What to Watch and Read This Weekend: Sound the Bryan Fuller Klaxon! <i>Dust Bunny</i> Is Streaming on HBO Max appeared first on Reactor.

News The Legend of Vox Machina There Will Be Ducks in The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4 Trailer Don’t f— a duck By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 23, 2026 Screenshot: Prime Video Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Prime Video The fourth season of The Legend of Vox Machina is almost upon us, and Prime Video released a trailer today to give us a tease of what’s in store for our favorite ragtag heroes. The upcoming episodes take place a year after season three’s Chroma Conclave. The group has separated, searching for their respective needs and wants. Luckily for us (and perhaps unluckily for them), however, a long-slumbering evil has awoken and threatens the entire realm. The gang must get back together to vanquish it. We perhaps see some of that foe in today’s trailer. At the very least, it’s clear the crew is facing a lot of challenges given by the amount of swearing going on. We also see a little bit more of the new character (new to the animated series, at least) Taryon Darrington, voiced by Wayne Brady. The trailer ends, in fact, with these words spoken to Taryon: “In the span of 24 hours, you’ve caused unfathomable amounts of property damage and confronted a lifetime of internalized parental issues. Welcome to Vox Machina.” We’ll be able to welcome Taryon ourselves when the first three episodes of season four premiere on Prime Video on June 3, 2026, with three new episodes dropping each consecutive week after that. Brady joins show stars Laura Bailey (The Last of Us: Part II), Taliesin Jaffe (World of Warcraft), Ashley Johnson (The Last of Us), Matthew Mercer (Baldur’s Gate 3), Liam O’Brien (Marvel’s Avengers), Marisha Ray (Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft), Sam Riegel (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), and Travis Willingham (Dispatch). In addition to Brady, the cast for season four also features Kevin Michael Richardson (Lilo & Stitch), Debra Wilson (Star Wars: Survivor), and Tom Cardy. Check out today’s trailer for season four of The Legend of Vox Machina below. [end-mark] The post There Will Be Ducks in <i>The Legend of Vox Machina</i> Season 4 Trailer appeared first on Reactor.

News Battlestar Galactica Battlestar Galactica Is Finally Back on Streaming! It will even have its own dedicated channel, giving us BSG all day, every day! By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 23, 2026 Courtesy of NBCUniversal Comment 0 Share New Share Courtesy of NBCUniversal It’s been a minute (a minute too long), but we’ll once again be able to stream the entirety of Battlestar Galactica, including Caprica! Starting on May 1, Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries, seasons one through four of Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, and the prequel spinoff Caprica will all be available on Paramount+. (Caprica, ironically, is currently available on Peacock, if you wanted to catch the prequel this week before BSG proper starts streaming.) All those shows, with the exception to Caprica will also be on Pluto TV. (Caprica, it seems, will continue to get short shrift. Is it a perfect show? Absolutely not! But even though I haven’t watched it since it was on air, that single season has stuck with me in a disturbing way. I imagine watching in now, given the AI of it all, will cause it to hit differently, and that alone might make it worth a rewatch.) But wait, there’s more: Want to watch some BSG but don’t want to figure out which episode to revisit? Don’t worry, Pluto has got you: There will be a dedicated channel on the platform that plays these BSG titles all day, every day. One thing that seems to be missing from this deal is Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, the web series that was meant to be the pilot for a prequel spinoff centered on a young William Adama. It didn’t get picked up for series and it wasn’t included in this Paramount+/Pluto TV deal… and if you’ve seen it, you might agree that that’s okay—there’s lots of other BSG available for us to watch. Get ready to start streaming! So say we all.[end-mark] The post <i>Battlestar Galactica</i> Is Finally Back on Streaming! appeared first on Reactor.

News Star City Everybody’s Paranoid in the Trailer for For All Mankind Spinoff Star City I don’t think you can actually know what someone is thinking before they think it, but okay. By Molly Templeton | Published on April 23, 2026 Image: Apple TV Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Apple TV The basic premise of the alternate history series For All Mankind is that the Soviet Union beat the U.S. to the moon, and the subsequent space race just kept racing. But as the trailer for the spinoff series Star City makes clear, that didn’t exactly lead to a nice, relaxing time for said Russians. Somewhere in Star City, there’s a traitor. And Lyudmilla (Anna Maxwell Martin) is going to root them out, one way or the other. Apple TV’s synopsis keeps its cards close to its chest: Star City is a propulsive, paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humankind forward. Rhys Ifans (House of the Dragon) stars as what seems like the one man more interested in keeping their cosmonauts safe than punishing whoever might be leaking trade secrets. The rest of the cast includes Agnes O’Casey (Black Doves), Alice Englert (Dangerous Liaisons), Solly McLeod (House of the Dragon), Adam Nagaitis (The Agency), Ruby Ashbourne Serkis (Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man), Josef Davies (Andor), and Priya Kansara (Polite Society). Showrunners Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi have said that Star City will be notably different from their previous show (which they also created alongside Ronald D. Moore); for one thing, it won’t have time jumps. Star City premieres with two episodes on Friday, May 29—the same day as For All Mankind’s fifth season finale. For All Mankind has already been renewed for a sixth and final season, but it’s unknown whether Star City will continue.[end-mark] The post Everybody’s Paranoid in the Trailer for <i>For All Mankind</i> Spinoff <i>Star City</i> appeared first on Reactor.

News epic With the Animated Epic, More Than One Version of the Odyssey Is Headed to Movie Theaters Face that launched a thousand ships? Nah, tale that launched a billion views. By Molly Templeton | Published on April 23, 2026 Screenshot: Epic Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Epic Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is coming, whether you like the helmets or not. But there is another. The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Epic, the viral hit created by Jorge Rivera-Herrans in his dorm room, is headed to big screens courtesy of producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Atlantic Records. Rivera-Herrans’ Epic is a nine-part musical version of Homer’s classic tale, released between 2022 and 2024. It began life as his senior thesis; he posted about the process on TikTok, then began releasing the “sagas” as musicals. (Casting also took place on TikTok.) THR says, “The self-released EPs began hitting the no. 1 spot on iTunes and then no. 1 on the soundtrack charts, where at one point Epic occupied nine out of the top 10 listings.” At one point, The Guardian noted, Epic nudged Taylor Swift out of the top spot on iTunes. The project has literal billions of streams and views. According to THR, “The serialized music format, re-envisioning the classic tale of the war hero’s gods and monsters-filled decades-long journey home to his wife and son through a modern, immersive lens, struck a chord with millennials and Gen Zers, who fell for the influences of musicals, anime and video games. They even got to participate in the worldwide casting process. Fans also created animatics to go with the songs, showcasing a range of styles and genres.” And now it’s evolving into a new form. Epic, the movie, will be animated, and that’s about all that there is to know about it at this point. No director or animation studio has been announced. The project is in “nascent stages,” but with Bruckheimer on board and a huge existing fanbase, it’ll probably begin its next epic journey soon.[end-mark] The post With the Animated <i>Epic</i>, More Than One Version of the <i>Odyssey</i> Is Headed to Movie Theaters appeared first on Reactor.