The Weekend Binge: Melissa McCarthy Grants Wishes, Kidman & Jackman Reunite With Baz Luhrmann For An Epic Adventure, A Pinot Noir🍷 to Pair With Thanksgiving Leftovers + NYC Movies To Stream
It's the weekend, let's binge!
Are you ready for the next course? I love a good after-Thanksgiving binge that includes plenty of end-of-month premieres that pair perfect with wine and Black Friday sales.
Whether you are looking for some thrills and chills this weekend (head to Netflix and Prime Video) or epic adventures set in the Australian Outback (hello Hulu!), this weekend is filled with all the festive cheer, horror, and drama you need to keep your streaming tank filled. ⛽️
What’s on Your Watchlist this weekend?
Here’s Everything New Streaming This Weekend…
A Nearly Normal Family
A limited series from Sweden - The world of a seemingly perfect family shatters when a shocking murder proves that they’re willing to take desperate measures to protect each other. Now Streaming. Stream Time: 6 episodes. Forecast: ☀️
Also New On Netflix: Love Island USA: Season 3, My Daemon: Anime, I Don’t Expect Anyone To Believe Me, Doi Boy: Film, Last Call For Istanbul: Film, My Demon: Series, Wedding Game: Film, Young Sheldon: All Seasons, Squid Game: The Challenge, Minari, Frybread Face and Me
Ranked: Top TV Shows In The U.S. (Netflix)
Squid Game: The Challenge
Young Sheldon
The Crown
A Nearly Normal Family
Matt Rife: Natural Selection
First Wives Club
My Demon
The Old Man & The Poet
All The Light We Cannot See
The Great British Baking Show
Faraway Downs: Limited Series
Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman star in this limited series from director Baz Luhrmann about Lady Sarah Ashley, an English aristocrat who has a cattle ranch known as Faraway Downs in Australia. Following the death of her husband, a baron plots to take her land, but she joins forces with cattle drover Jackman to protect her ranch. Streaming Sunday. Stream Time: 6 episodes. Forecast: ☀️
Also New On Hulu: Consecration
Evil Dead Rise
This horror movie straight from the theaters tells the twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable. Now Streaming, Streaming Time: 1 hour, 36 minutes. Forecast: ⛅️
Also New On Prime Video: LOL: Season 3, Elf Me, Fantasy Football
Genie: Movie Premiere
Melissa McCarthy stars in this comedy about a workaholic man who enlists the help of a magical genie (McCarthy) to help win his family back before Christmas. Now Streaming. Streaming Time: 1 hour, 33 minutes. Forecast: ⛅️
Also New On Peacock: A Season For Family, A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving Special, Catch Me If You Claus, Holiday Road, Letters To Santa, Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up
A Charlie Brown Christmas 🎄
The classic Christmas story of a boy who, depressed at the lack of genuine spirit during the holiday, tries to find the true meaning of Christmas. Now Streaming. Streaming Time: 25 minutes. Forecast: ☀️
Little Richard: I Am Everything
In partnership with CNN, this documentary chronicles the life and career of Little Richard, the one-of-a-kind rock n’roll icon who shaped the world of music. Streaming time: 1 hour, 41 minutes. Forecast: ☀️
Also New On MAX: Let Us Prey: Season 1, The Lives of Felix
Ranked: MAX’s Top 10 Streams
The Gilded Age
Julia: Season 2
Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God
Rap Sh!t
Hard Knocks: A Season With the Miami Dolphins
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Fixer Upper: The Hotel
Lost Women of Highway 20
90 Day Fiancé
Scavengers Reign
What Comes Around
Summer Phoenix and Grace Van Dien star in this mystery thriller about a young love affair that becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse where nothing and no one is who they seem. Now Streaming. Total Episodes: 1 hour, 25 minutes: Forecast: ⛅️
Also New On AMC+: The Flight Attendant Murders (SundanceTV)
The Naughty Nine
When Andy finds out he’s on Santa’s naughty list, he pulls together a group of other naughty list kids to get the presents they think they deserve. Streaming Time: 1 hour, 23 minutes. Forecast: ☁️
Also New On Disney+: Doctor Who: Special 1, Christmas With Walt Disney, Dashing Through the Snow
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
During the 90s, a new faction of Transformers, the Maximals, join the Autobots as allies in the battle for Earth. Now Streaming. Streaming Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes.
Also New On MGM+: Surrounded
Top Kid Streams
Velveteen Rabbit (Apple TV+)
My Little Pony: Make Your Mark - Chapter 6 (Netflix)
Christmas Eve On Sesame Street (MAX)
Elmo Saves Christmas (MAX)
Once Upon A Sesame Street Christmas (MAX)
A Sesame Street Christmas Carol (MAX)
Sip & Stream: Flowers ~ Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast + The Thomas Crown Affair
Here’s a genre of films I low-key love — films set in New York City. I’ve visited a lot of major cities in the world and New York City still ranks as one of my personal favorites. The energy there is like nothing else — the fashion, the food, the Broadway shows…I love it all. The Thomas Crown Affair (I love both film versions, but I’ll revisit the 1999 Pierce Brosnan/Rene Russo version) is a stylish thriller about thrill-seeking billionaire Thomas Crown who pulls off an art heist in broad daylight from one of Manhattan’s most heavily guarded museums. Now streaming on MAX.
Other films set in New York City to stream:
The Thomas Crown Affair, 1968 starring Steve McQueen (MAX)
The Devil Wears Prada (MAX)
Sex and the City (MAX)
Saturday Night Fever (Paramount+ with Showtime)
The Godfather Part Two (Paramount+ with Showtime)
Gangs of New York (MAX)
Baby Boom (Paramount+ with Showtime)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Netflix, Paramount+ with Showtime)
When Harry Met Sally (Paramount+ with Showtime)
Moonstruck (Paramount+ with Showtime)
Thomas Crown Affair, 1999 Fun Facts:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art refused permission to allow their interior to be used for filming so the filmmakers used the New York Public Library, just a few block away, for many of the interior scenes
The painting featured in the film depicting a man in a suit with an apple covering his face is “Son of Man” by Rene Magritte.
The house used as Crown’s Caribbean getaway is owned by one of the thirty original families who settled in Martinique in the 1600s.
Crown’s watch is a Jaeger-Lecoultre Reverso, but the logo doesn’t appear because at the time, Pierce Brosnan had an exclusive deal with Omega watches.
The dark green Shelby Mustang that Crown drives in Martinique was originally intended to be used for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character in The Last Action Hero (1993) and belongs to the director of both films, John McTiernan.
Flowers Pinot Noir is a fragrant wine with fresh aromas of coastal evergreens and wildflowers. I love the dance of the light fruits and dark spices that take center stage on your palate. You’ll taste the zest of the orange peel and the layers of warm spices like anise, allspice, and cardamom. It’s the perfect wine to drink alone or with those two-day old wine leftover Thanksgiving dishes.
Happy Streaming! 📺 🍷