What to Watch This Week

Pixar is back. Hoppers opened to $45.3M domestic and $87.3M worldwide — the biggest original Pixar debut since Coco in 2017. No sequel, no built-in fanbase, just a completely original story about a girl named Mabel whose consciousness gets transferred into a robotic beaver. It should not work. It works beautifully.

Director Daniel Chong (creator of We Bare Bears) brought an edge that Pixar's recent output has been missing. Early screening audiences on Reddit called it "the funniest Pixar movie in years" with "the right amount of edge" and noted it had "early-Pixar magic that tugs at your heartstrings." The review thread hit 965 engagement with a 95% upvote ratio — near-unanimous praise, which is rare for any Pixar release these days.

The animation is inventive in ways that reward the big screen. The set pieces push the physics engine into territory Pixar hasn't explored before, and the emotional beats land without feeling manipulative. One Redditor who saw the early screening put it simply: "I was surprised by how much heart it had — something Pixar films have been missing for some time." Their daughter loved it. Adults will cry in public and pretend they didn't. See it in theaters while you can.

War Machine dropped on Netflix and immediately racked up 80M views. Alan Ritchson plays a combat engineer on one last Army Ranger training mission that goes sideways when a giant alien killing machine starts hunting his unit. The r/movies discussion thread pulled 915 engagement, with the top comment perfectly summarizing the film: "A movie that dares ask the question: how much more PTSD can we give this guy?"

Ritchson delivers a quieter, more fractured performance than his Reacher work. The alien design drew comparisons to Metal Gear and Iron Giant. The characters are thin, the ending is debatable, and the logic gets shaky — but as Friday night action goes, it fills the slot. Reddit's consensus: "Enjoyed it far more than I had expected." The 7.25 on TMDB backs that up. Not art, but honest entertainment.

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man started its limited theatrical run on March 5, carrying a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes and a massive AMA thread where Cillian Murphy, Tim Roth, and Steven Knight fielded questions (2,875 engagement, 95% ratio). It hits Netflix on March 20. If you want Tommy Shelby's final ride on a big screen, the window is closing fast.

Maggie Gyllenhaal's feminist reimagining of the Bride of Frankenstein opened to $7.3M domestic against a $90M production budget. That's a catastrophe by any measure. The Bride! is 2026's first unambiguous bomb.

The review thread tells the story: 1,042 engagement, but the comments are a battlefield. "The spread on these reviews is crazy — from 0/5 to 8/10," wrote one commenter to 1,257 upvotes. Critics who loved it praised Jessie Buckley's performance and the film's visual ambition. Critics who hated it compared it to Joker 2. Multiple threads noted the "here comes the motherf***ing bride" tagline set the wrong tone before anyone bought a ticket.

Christian Bale is doing capital-A Acting. Buckley is magnetic. The 1930s Chicago setting looks expensive because it was. But the feminist overtones "veer into girlboss territory," according to one Redditor, and the film fights itself scene to scene. Gyllenhaal swung huge. The studio bet $90M on a second-time director's vision of a classic monster movie as a meditation on female autonomy. That's a brave greenlight. It's also dead on arrival.

Scream 7 opened to a franchise-best $63.6M domestic and $96.7M worldwide on February 27, and in its second weekend it held enough to push past $150M global. This despite carrying the franchise's worst critics score at 34% on RT. The gap between what critics think and what audiences will pay for has never been wider.

The official discussion thread hit 1,721 engagement — massive — but at a telling 79% upvote ratio. Even the fans who paid to see it are split. The top comment (1,138 upvotes) roasted a deepfake cameo scene as "so cringe, it reminds me of the multiverse scene from The Flash." Another summed up the killer's motivation across 837 upvotes of disbelief. Kevin Williamson, who created the franchise, directed this one. "Kevin Williamson started this franchise," wrote one commenter. "It only makes sense he kills it."

None of that matters at the box office. Neve Campbell's return, franchise loyalty, and a February horror window did the work. Expect it to clear $200M worldwide before it's done.

The Good Boy sits at 7.8 on TMDB — the highest-rated new release this week — and almost nobody is talking about it. A volatile 19-year-old gets abducted and wakes up imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house inhabited by a deeply strange family. What follows is not what you expect.

Opening the same week as Pixar's biggest original debut in a decade and a $90M Frankenstein movie that consumed all available discourse is bad luck. Bad timing buried a good film. The Reddit engagement is minimal, which itself is the point: this is the kind of movie that slips through the cracks and shows up on year-end lists from the critics who actually found it.

If you've already seen Hoppers and you want something that demands more from you, seek this one out. The 7.8 TMDB score doesn't lie. The people who saw it aren't shutting up about it.

Bruce Campbell — Ash Williams, the chin, the king — announced a cancer diagnosis and cancelled all future fan events. The r/movies thread hit 9,657 engagement at a 97% upvote ratio. The r/television mirror pulled another 3,995. Combined, it was one of the biggest entertainment stories of the week by raw numbers, and the comment sections were exactly what you'd expect: sincere, warm, and full of Evil Dead quotes.

Campbell has been a constant presence at conventions and in genre spaces for four decades. The outpouring was immediate and massive. No jokes here. Just hoping for good news down the road.

Crime 101 (TMDB 7.0) continues its run as a tight mid-range heist thriller set along the LA 101 freeway. It doesn't reinvent anything, but the execution earns your time if you've caught up on the bigger releases this week.

Greenland 2: Migration (TMDB 6.4) is holding steady as a solid mid-budget disaster sequel. Not setting records, but Gerard Butler fans know exactly what they're signing up for.

Cold Storage (TMDB 6.8) — a mutating fungus escapes a sealed facility, two employees and a grizzled bioterror operative try to survive the night shift. Functional, competent, forgettable by Wednesday. The kind of movie that fills the gap when you've ruled out everything else.

Paramount posted a $573M Q4 loss. Netflix pulled out of the Warner Bros. Discovery bidding war. Paramount's offer won. The entertainment industry continues to eat itself.

Another Wuthering Heights adaptation. TMDB sits at 6.4. The novel has been adapted over a dozen times, and this version doesn't answer the one question it needed to: why does this story need telling again, right now? The moors look expensive. The engagement numbers are nonexistent. Keep scrolling.