Something For The Weekend

Winter is here, and January means all the decent television starts to roll. They know you aren’t outside and living life like in a tampon commercial, roller-blading and sky-diving, and adventure hiking in white trousers. Instead, you are wearing a nice new ass groove in your couch, moving off it only to get more booze or to visit the bathroom. This is the time for televisual feasting, until the weather starts to turn.

Apologies to those of you in the Southern hemisphere, where everything is backwards.

Planning out my evening’s viewing made me consider why cinema is dying. Tonight, I will watch another episode of Landman season 2 (Paramount+), then another of The Night Manager season 2 (BBC iPlayer). I will follow that up with the debut episode of the second season of Hijack (Apple TV) before taking in Joe Carnahan’s latest effort, starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, The Rip (Netflix).

For all of this, the costs are already sunk, and I will not have to deal with other human beings or even leave my house. Why would anyone ever need to go to the theater again? This makes me sad, because in my late teens and early twenties, going to the movies was basically a weekly occurrence. Even in my 30,s I went to almost every major summer blockbuster and everything else that looked interesting.

Still, let’s not get too maudlin. It is the weekend. Freedom beckons. A break from the drudgery of the weekly grind. So to help inspire you with some potential viewing choices, here is what we at the Last Movie Outpost have been watching recently:

Death Spa (1988) – Movie – supernatural slasher lunacy that is exactly as you expect.
Hobbs & Shaw (2019) – Movie – big, dumb fun and tremendously silly and entertaining.
Harvey (1950) – Movie – Jimmy Stewart at his absolute best.
Tron: Ares (2025) – Movie – Stark maintains it’s not bad, and great with a massive TV and cranked up sound system.
Fever Pitch (1997) – Movie – Colin Firth in a Nick Hornby adaptation about proper football.
Scum (1979) – Movie – dark, gritty British drama in a young offenders institute. Don’t go in the potting shed!
League Of Gentlemen (1999 to 2002) – Series – British, dark, weird, and absolutely hilarious.