Happy New Year! I hope you had an exquisite and stress-free festive season, even if you happen to weren’t celebrating and/or observing a spiritual vacation, reminiscent of Christmas.
The holidays are within the rear view mirror now however, fortunately, you may cope with the truth that you are again in work by watching one of many following new films and TV exhibits on the world’s greatest streaming providers. There’s a lot to get pleasure from, together with the long-awaited return of British animated icons in Wallace and Gromit, in addition to the primary awards ceremony of 2025. So, learn on to study extra! – Tom Power, senior leisure reporter
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix)
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20 years on from their final huge journey (sure, Curse of the Were-Rabbit got here out in 2005!), Wallace and Gromit are again on our screens of their newest claymation caper Vengeance Most Fowl. This time, the mild-mannered inventor and his favourite pooch are pressured to cope with the return of iconic villain Feathers McGraw, who makes use of Wallace’s newest creation – a robotic backyard gnome known as Norbot – to attempt to steal the notorious Blue Diamond as soon as extra.
Vengeance Most Fowl makes its worldwide debut on Netflix at this time (January 3), however it aired on BBC One within the UK on Christmas Day, so I’ve already seen it and may vouch for the way totally sensible it’s. It’s chuckle out loud humorous, splendidly animated as standard, and would not outstay its welcome with its completely paced 80-minute runtime. One greatest loved with a aspect of Wensleydale and a few crackers, and one so as to add to our greatest Netflix films checklist sooner or later. – TP
The Rig season 2 (Prime Video)
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Supernatural thriller The Rig turned a worldwide hit after its January 2023 debut. Now, the Prime Video drama is again for a second season because it continues the story of the Kinloch Bravo crew, who had been attributable to return to the mainland when a mysterious fog descends and supernatural forces take maintain.
In The Rig season 2, the survivors (now on a brand new high-tech rig deep within the Arctic Circle) tackle a harmful mission that sends them throughout the perilous frozen sea and in the direction of darkish threats hidden beneath it. While The Rig will not be top-of-the-line Prime Video exhibits, it tackles vital themes about the way forward for the planet and has plenty of gripping motion. Also, it stars Martin Compston, who’s sensible in Line of Duty, in order that’s one motive why I’ll be tuning into this Amazon TV Original. – Grace Morris, leisure author
The Front Room (Max)
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With Robert Egger’s highly-anticipated Nosferatu remake in theaters, chances are you’ll be itching for extra horrors to sink your enamel into. If that is the case, there is a new A24 film streaming on Max in The Front Room this weekend that simply so occurs to be a directorial debut from Robert’s twin brothers Max and Sam.
Unlike this month’s different Max horror releases, it takes a extra psychological thriller tone with its plot centered round a pregnant girl (Brandy Norwood) coping with an in-law from hell (Kathryn Hunter). Reviews had been decidedly combined upon its theatrical launch, so I do not anticipate it to affix our greatest Max films checklist, however many agree that Hunter is a standout and contemplating the trailer terrified TechRadar’s macabre professional Lucy Buglass with its creepy mom-in-law vibes, I’d say you have been warned. – Amelia Schwanke, senior leisure editor
Missing You (Netflix)
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Having binged Netflix’s different Harlan Coben TV variations, I used to be excited to study that the streaming titan could be turning two extra Coben novels into sequence and now his subsequent thriller hit has lastly arrived within the type of Missing You. It follows detective Kat Donovan (Rosalind Eleazar), whose life is turned the wrong way up when she finds her estranged fiancé Josh (Ashley Walters) on a relationship app after he vanished 11 years in the past. This surprising reappearance leads Kat to reopen the unsolved thriller surrounding her father’s homicide, and see if there is a connection between her fiancé’s disappearance and her father’s demise.
During my interview with Missing You’s creator Victoria Asare-Archer, she advised me it is essentially the most emotional Harlan Coben adaptation but, however we are able to additionally anticipate the signature twists and turns of a Coben sequence that all of us love essentially the most. Coben’s mystery-thriller novels have been the keystone for plenty of the very best Netflix exhibits, so we’ll have to attend and see if Missing You additionally makes it onto the checklist. – GW
Lockerbie (Peacock/Sky)
A brand new restricted five-episode sequence based mostly on the real-life bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 over the Scottish city of Lockerbie is now out there on Peacock within the US, and Sky Atlantic and NOW within the UK.
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth tells the story of one of many world’s worst terrorist assaults by way of the attitude of a grieving father Dr Jim Swire (Colin Firth) and mom Jane (Catherine McCormack) as they and their household mount a three-decade lengthy marketing campaign for reality and justice. Part political thriller, half grieving drama, it is a heart-breaking story stuffed with tragedy and stress. – AS
The Fall Guy (Prime Video)
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Having missed it in theaters final May, The Fall Guy is one among three new Prime Video films I’m excited to look at in January 2025. Inspired by the Nineteen Eighties TV sequence of the identical identify, it tells the story of stuntman Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling), who by chance turns into embroiled in a harmful prison conspiracy after the actor he performs stunts for is kidnapped.
While I sadly did not get to expertise this loopy popcorn motion film on the massive display, I’m certain The Fall Guy remains to be going to be a enjoyable watch and excellent for some at-home weekend leisure. It’s already top-of-the-line Prime Video films based mostly on its Rotten Tomatoes rating, so I am unable to wait to tuck in to some foolish comedy capers. – GW
The Golden Globes 2025 (Paramount Plus)
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We’re lower than per week into 2025, however the first glitzy awards ceremony of the yr is already right here. That’s proper, the 2025 Golden Globes are upon us – and you’ll catch the entire motion because it occurs stay on CBS (US) and Paramount Plus (internationally).
If you missed them earlier than the festive season acquired underway, you may learn up on the entire nominees in our 2025 Golden Globe nominations information (or relive the bulletins through the near-30-minute video above). I’m already doing my greatest to look at as most of the nominated movies and TV exhibits earlier than the occasion takes place on January 5, so be part of me in frantically streaming as many as potential earlier than the massive day arrives! – TP
For extra streaming protection, learn our guides on the very best Disney Plus films, greatest Max exhibits, greatest Apple TV Plus exhibits, and greatest Hulu films.
