October is here which means that the nights are getting longer, the weather is getting colder and we will definitely be spending more time inside.
So that means that we’ll need plenty of new things to watch.
Take a look at what’s coming to our TVs and to the cinema this October.
Lazarus
Based on an original story idea and written by the New York Times best-selling author Harlan Coben and BAFTA-winner Danny Brocklehurst, Harlan Coben’s Lazarus follows Joel Lazarus (Sam Claflin) who returns home after his father Dr Jonathan Lazarus (Bill Nighy) dies by suicide.
He begins to have disturbing experiences that can’t be explained.
He quickly becomes entangled in a series of cold-case murders as he grapples with the mystery of his father’s death and his sister’s murder 25 years ago.
Prime Video, 22nd October
The Smashing Machine
Dwayne Johnson is set to step into the world of serious films.
This is a powerful biopic of pioneering mixed martial arts/UFC fighter Mark Kerr. Kerr helped grow the sport’s popularity in its early days, but the fights’ brutal demands took a toll, eventually leading to painkiller addiction.
Johnson is known for the humour he brings to action films and he perfectly captures Kerr’s soft-spoken manner. He was gigantic, but his gentle demeanour challenged the intense brutality of the sport.
In Cinemas Now
The Celebrity Traitors
We just finished the first season of The Traitors Ireland, and we are looking for our next fix!
Well, worry not because we can head back to the UK for their Celebrity version of The Traitors. The series features the likes of Alan Carr, Charlotte Church, Paloma Faith, Tom Daly and Irish actor Ruth Codd.
And it’s set to be absolutely brilliant!
BBC One, Wednesday and Thursday nights at 9pm
Steve
Cillian Murphy’s latest flick is not one to miss!
Set in the mid-90s, Steve is a reimagining of Max Porter’s Sunday Times bestseller Shy. The film follows a pivotal day in the life of headteacher Steve and his students at a last-chance reform school amidst a world that has forsaken them.
As Steve fights to protect the school’s integrity and impending closure, we witness him grappling with his own mental health. In parallel to Steve’s struggles, we meet Shy (Jay Lycurgo), a troubled teen caught between his past and what lies ahead as he tries to reconcile his inner fragility with his impulse for self-destruction and violence.
Netflix, Out Now
Victoria Beckham
After David Beckham’s extremely successful documentary, we’re heading back to the Beckham family.
This time the documentary will focus on Spice Girls star and fashion designer, Victoria.
We can’t wait to watch this one!
Netflix, Out Now
HIM
Cameron Cade is a rising-star quarterback who has devoted his life, and identity to football. On the eve of professional football’s annual scouting Combine, Cam is attacked by an unhinged fan and suffers a potentially career-ending brain trauma.
Just when all seems lost, Cam receives a lifeline when his hero, Isaiah White, a legendary eight-time Championship quarterback and cultural megastar, offers to train Cam at Isaiah’s isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife, Elsie White.
But as Cam’s training accelerates, Isaiah’s charisma begins to curdle into something darker, sending his protégé down a disorienting rabbit hole that may cost him more than he ever bargained for.
In Cinemas Now
The Iris Affair
When enigmatic genius Iris Nixon (Niamh Algar) cracks a string of complex online puzzles, she’s led to a piazza in Florence where she meets charismatic entrepreneur Cameron Beck (Tom Hollander).
He invites her to come and work for him to unlock a powerful and top-secret piece of technology. Her curiosity piqued, she accepts. But when Iris discovers its dangerous potential, she steals the journal containing the device’s activation sequence—and vanishes.
What follows is a relentless pursuit, from a remote cabin in Sardinia through the bustling streets of Rome, as Cameron races to find Iris in a high-stakes game where trust is dangerous and failure could be catastrophic.
Sky Atlantic & NOW, 16th October 9pm
Ballad of a Small Player
Lord Doyle (Colin Farrell) is laying low in Macau – spending his days and nights on the casino floors, drinking heavily and gambling what little money he has left. Struggling to keep up with his fast-rising debts, he is offered a lifeline by the mysterious Dao Ming (Fala Chen), a casino employee with secrets of her own.
However, in hot pursuit is Cynthia Blithe (Tilda Swinton) – a private investigator ready to confront Doyle with what he is running from.
As Doyle tries to climb to salvation, the confines of reality start to close in.
Cinemas, October 17th/On Netflix, October 29th
Nobody Wants This
The last time we saw agnostic podcast host Joanne and unconventional rabbi Noah, their unmatched chemistry surprised everyone in their lives, including her sister Morgan, his brother Sasha and sister-in-law Esther, and even themselves.
Their spark proved stronger than all of the obstacles trying to keep them apart. Now, they’re back and fully committed to merging their lives – and loved ones — together.
But their differences still exist and can’t be ignored. The challenge now is not just falling in love against all odds, but staying together in spite of them.
Netflix, October 23rd
After the Hunt
From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, After the Hunt is a gripping psychological drama.
We follow a college professor played by Julia Roberts who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield).
This leads to a dark secret from her own past that threatens to come into the light.
In Cinemas, October 17th
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Serial killer. Grave robber. Psycho. In the frozen fields of 1950s rural Wisconsin, a friendly, mild-mannered recluse named Eddie Gein lived quietly on a decaying farm – hiding a house of horrors so gruesome it would redefine the American nightmare.
Driven by isolation, psychosis, and an all-consuming obsession with his mother, Gein’s perverse crimes birthed a new kind of monster that would haunt Hollywood for decades.
From Psycho to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to The Silence of the Lambs, Gein’s macabre legacy gave birth to fictional monsters born in his image and ignited a cultural obsession with the criminally deviant. Ed Gein didn’t just influence a genre, he became the blueprint for modern horror.
Netflix, Out Now
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
This biopic chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 Nebraska album when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.
Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works, a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe.
The Bear star Jeremy Allen White will step into The Boss’ shoes for this new flick.
In Cinemas, October 24th