The 13 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend

A week later and Streamliner is back to tell you Danny Boyle’s weird-as-hell 28 Years Later is finally here. Our theme this week is Creatures vs. Gowns: You can pick between the creatures from the zombie sequel and Pixar’s new sci-fi movie or choose the addictive pettiness of The Buccaneers and The Gilded Age. Here’s everything.

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28 Years Later

If Danny Boyle and Alex Garland had waited five more years, the title would’ve been accurate. It has been about 23 years since the pair’s horrifying thriller rocked audiences, kicked off a zombie resurgence, and produced another sequel in 28 Weeks Later. Now, in 28 Years Later, a group of survivors has lived under quarantine for decades in the safety of its fortified island, but things get weird and scary when a father (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) takes his son (Alfie Williams) on a mission to the dangerous mainland.

The Gilded Age, season three

One of Vulture’s favorite shows, The Gilded Age is returning to fill the Sunday HBO hole in our calendar. People (like Carrie Coon, Taissa Farmiga, and Christine Baranski) in beautiful gowns fussing over money and love — it’s got the vibe you wish And Just Like That … had, but at least this also has Cynthia Nixon.

The Buccaneers, season two

The debut season performed a delicate balancing act with relative confidence, pulling in Edith Wharton–flavored class consciousness while doing plenty with the soapier side of the original novel. But it ended with an unnecessarily dramatic cliffhanger. Thankfully, a second season now exists, so everyone can resume running around in Victorian ball gowns to the tune of Brandi Carlile needle drops. —Kathryn VanArendonk

The Waterfront

Can the streamer make a show about a family that doesn’t include a surprise turn into organized crime or drug dealing? This series, from Dawson’s Creek creator Kevin Williamson, follows the Buckleys, who at one time practically ruled their small North Carolina waterfront town. Now, the younger generation must step up to defend its various businesses. Holt McCallany (Mindhunter) stars as the patriarch in a role that feels tailor-made for his particular grizzled affect and lovable grumpiness. —Roxana Hadadi

We Were Liars

The logline for this adaptation of E. Lockhart’s best-selling YA thriller: Megawealthy family is actually damaged plus teen-amnesia mystery. You may have seen other shows in this genre, but this one has a Gummer (Mamie) in it. —K.V.A.

Hell Motel

True crime doesn’t pay in this anthology series in which ten genre fiends stay at a motel where a mass murder occurred 30 years ago. It’s now renovated and open for business, and the fans and influencers have been invited to hype it up — until they start getting murdered in ways even more gruesome than the satanic killings all those years ago. The cast is led by a campy Eric McCormack. —R.H.

Back in Theaters

Brokeback Mountain

Ang Lee’s cowboy romance still has a grip on us. Thankfully, there’s no reason to quit Brokeback Mountain. For its 20th anniversary, you’ll get a chance to see Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal back on the big screen again for two days, June 22 and 25.

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Miss Juneteenth

“Nicole Beharie shows us what we need to know. In the dip of her hand and the constitution of her face, we understand what’s on Turquoise’s mind — the hardships of being a single mother, the desperate yearning to give her daughter a different path than the one she’s had to walk, and the neediness of reaching toward something more in life. Miss Juneteenth is full of moments such as this, which rely on the deftness of Peoples’s direction and Beharie’s performance to craft a simple yet beguiling portrait of Black life in Fort Worth, Texas.”

Read more of Angelica Jade Bastién’s review here on Miss Juneteenth, the moving feature film debut from Texas filmmaker Channing Godfrey Peoples.

Happy Birthday, Bruce

Jaws

Great white sharks can live to be over 70 years old, but mechanical movie sharks might be forever. June 20 marks the 50th anniversary of Jaws, Steven Spielberg’s killer blockbuster that hasn’t lost its bite since it premiered in 1975. If you’re gonna need a bigger screen to get the full experience, Jaws is returning to theaters in August, but for those fans who are birthday purists, the original and its sequels just began swimming streaming on Peacock. —Tolly Wright

Finally Streaming

A Minecraft Movie

You can chicken-jockey to your heart’s content. The movie that sort of became Gen Z’s Rocky Horror Picture Show experience is now out on Max so you can get rowdy in your own homes. Congrats, theater workers, but sorry, rents.

Plane

In his review, Bilge Ebiri said, “Plane is a movie for your lizard brain — the part of you that craves basic sensations. The part that expresses itself in grunts. The part that wants to paw anxiously at a theater screen while muttering ‘Plane …’ This is a good thing.” The 2023 thriller is streaming for the first time, on Netflix — where it rightfully landed atop the Top 10 movies list. It may be time to finally flip it on.

➽ Plus, I heard there’s a new A24 out on digital.

Want more? Read our recommendations from the weekend of June 13.

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