What to watch?

📌Best movies to rent right now

Here is a selection of movies, TV shows and streaming services that might help you find something to watch.

Recent Movies

1. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: This prequel to The Hunger Games series features Coriolanus Snow, 64 years before he becomes the villainous President of Panem. The story revolves around his interactions with District 12 songstress Lucy Gray Baird.

2. Godzilla Minus One: Set during the end of World War II, the film follows kamikaze pilot Kōichi Shikishima who lands on a Japanese base on Odo Island. The plot thickens when Godzilla, a dinosaur-like creature, attacks the garrison.

3. Wish: This animated musical fantasy film tells the story of Asha, a 17-year-old girl in the Kingdom of Rosas, who makes a passionate plea to the stars in a moment of need. This leads her to meet a living, magic star fallen from the sky.

4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: The Guardians must save Rocket’s life and protect him from the High Evolutionary. The film explores Rocket’s origins and his traumatic past.

5. Killers of the Flower Moon: This historical nonfiction book by David Grann is about the Osage murders. In the 1920s, members of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma had access to great wealth due to the oil on their lands. A number of Osage people were murdered by perpetrators hoping to access their wealth.

6. The Creator: The film tells the story of a battle between humans and AI, with the AI simulants fleeing to “New Asia” from their American oppressors. The only hope of ending this bloody conflict lies in a new AI creation, Alfie, a simulant child with the ability to shut down any technology with her mind.

7. The Super Mario Bros. Movie: A Brooklyn plumber named Mario travels through the Mushroom Kingdom with a princess named Peach and an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad to find Mario’s brother, Luigi, and to save the world from a ruthless fire-breathing Koopa named Bowser.

TV Shows

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Season 1: The series is based on the book series of the same name by Rick Riordan. It stars Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson, a 12-year-old demigod accused by the Greek god Zeus of stealing his thunderbolt. Percy races to find it and restore order to Olympus.

• Reacher: Season 2: The season follows Jack Reacher, a former U.S. Army Military Police Major, who is contacted by a former member of his defunct MP unit from New York City when one of their own is murdered under mysterious circumstances. He reassembles his old team to find the murderers and avenge their friend.

• What If…?: Season 2: The second season of this American animated anthology series explores alternate timelines in the multiverse that show what would happen if major moments from the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) occurred differently.

• Dr. Death: Season 2: The season delves into the story of Paolo Macchiarini, a charismatic neurosurgeon whose questionable practices are exposed by journalist Benita Alexander, turning the real-life drama into a dramatic mystery of deception and fraud.

• A Murder at the End of the World: The series is set in a secluded location with nothing but snow around. The plot focuses on a Gen Z amateur detective named Darby Hart who joins another eight guests for an exclusive retreat hosted by a billionaire. The retreat turns into a crime scene when one of the guests is found dead on the property.

• Fargo: Season 5: The season is set in Minnesota and North Dakota in the fall of 2019. It stars Juno Temple as Dorothy “Dot” Lyon, a seemingly typical Midwestern housewife living in Scandia, Minnesota, whose mysterious past comes back to haunt her after she lands in hot water with the authorities.

• Slow Horses: Season 3: In this season, a romantic liaison in Istanbul threatens to expose a buried MI5 secret in London. When Jackson Lamb and his team of misfits are dragged into the fight, they find themselves caught in a conspiracy that threatens the future not just of Slough House but of MI5 itself.

• Gyeongseong Creature: Season 1: Set in Gyeongseong (the old name for Seoul) in 1945, during the Japanese occupation of Korea, the series depicts the story of people who fight fiercely at the border between life and death.

Streaming Services

Sure, here are some of the most popular movie streaming services along with a brief introduction for each:

1. Netflix: Known for its impressive selection of content and original programming, Netflix is a standard-bearer for streaming video services.

2. Hulu: Hulu offers a wide variety of movies and is known for its extensive library of TV shows and original content.

3. Peacock: Peacock is a streaming service from NBCUniversal. It offers a mix of TV shows, movies, and original programming.

4. Amazon Prime Video: Amazon Prime Video offers a vast library of movies and TV shows. It also produces original content and provides access to add-on cable networks.

5. Disney+: Disney+ is a family-friendly streaming service that includes movies and TV shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic.

6. Max: Max is a streaming service from WarnerMedia. It offers a wide range of movies, TV shows, and original programming from the WarnerMedia library.

7. KweliTV: KweliTV is a streaming service that focuses on delivering content from the global black community.

8. Tubi: Tubi is a free, ad-supported streaming service that offers a large library of movies and TV shows.

9. Amazon Freevee: Amazon Freevee is a free, ad-supported streaming service that offers a selection of popular movies and family titles.

10. The Criterion Channel: The Criterion Channel is a streaming service that offers a curated selection of classic and contemporary films.