October is always a tough month to catch up on your watchlists. Football season is in full swing. The autumn leaves start to change colors—and you need to see that before it gets too cold.
Then before you know it, there’s a Halloween party and you don’t have a costume yet. But if you’re looking for something scary to watch, or just need to save a little time scrolling through the tiles on your TV, here are ten movies and TV shows we recommend checking out this weekend. If I told you a new Street Fighter reboot is actually a ton of fun, would you believe me?
Sure-you-can! (Sorry.) Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, and newcomer Callina Liang star in this hard-hitting, high-energy rendition of Capcom’s arcade phenomenon. Koji and Centineo star as fighters Ryu and Ken, respectively, who enter a martial arts tournament—hosted by the evil M. Bison (David Dastmalchian)—while secret agent Chun-Li (Liang) works to topple Bison’s operation.
Street Fighter is a bombastic bash that feels like Bloodsport meets Kung Fu Hustle in the best way possible. You really can’t ask for much more than Cody Rhodes, as Guile, yelling “Flash Kick!” while doing, well, a flashy kick. It’s been an amazing year for horror movies, but nothing will scare you more than a movie where one poor bastard gets caught in a whale’s throat.
Whalefall stars Austin Abrams as a deep-sea diver who is swallowed up by a massive sperm whale and races against time—his dwindling oxygen tank—to make it out alive. Whalefall is a sadder movie than you might assume going in, but it’s still one of the gnarliest survival thrillers in recent memory. What, you don’t think the ocean is scary?
Let Whalefall show you the real terror lurking in the deep. Those lucky enough to see Nathan Fielder’s documentary about Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes during its festival circuit run last month hailed it as a Best Picture contender with zero hesitation. That’s rare for a documentary—as in, the Academy has yet to nominate one for Best Picture in its nearly 100-year history.
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