Marvel fans are getting lucky this Friday the 13th as Avengers: Endgame Encore debuts on Disney+ today. We also have the Nicolas Cage/Christian Bale-led Madden biopic, the VOD debut of horror hit Resident Evil, and much more!
SERIES
12 12 12
13 November 2026 – Apple TV
If there’s one criticism I have of Apple TV, is that the service will often just drop titles without much fanfare, despite the potential for that title to be a banger. Case in point: 12 12 12, a new high-concept heist thriller that I literally only heard about due to looking at the release schedules for this article. Starring Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan, the eight-episode miniseries is based around a lucrative heist in Zurich. Paul Galvin (Dornan) is the criminal mastermind staging the daring bank robbery, while Jack Strickland (Mackie) is a relentless FBI agent pursuing his quarry all across Europe. What makes 12 12 12 different to other heist tales though is that the show is divided into three separate timelines revealed in parallel to the audience: The 12 months of planning leading up to the heist, the 12 hours during the heist itself, and the 12 days following the heist.
Cunk on Cinema
15 November 2026 – Netflix
After a brief, perfectly cast stint on Marvel’s VisionQuest, Diane Morgan is back as everybody’s favourity mockumentary investigator Philomena Cunk! And she’s going to the movies! Cunk on Cinema sees the intrepid journalist digging deep into the history of cinema, from the invention of the camera all the way to the potential AI-powered future of filmmaking. In her words, Cunk will attempt to “demystify it all while sitting in lumpy seats with stale popcorn, asking herself where did cinema come from? And why? What does it want? And why can’t it tell us?”
The Altruists S1
19 November 2026 – Netflix
“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” That quote may have been from a comic book movie about PTSD sufferer who dresses up as a flying rodent and beats people up every night instead of going to therapy, but it’s surprisingly apt in many instances. For example, look at the real-life story of Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison, two hyper-smart, ambitious young idealists who tried to upend the global financial system with a brand-new cryptocurrency that actually gave back to the people instead of just enriching a select few. And then they enriched themselves and things started going very wonky. The Altruists is a new limited series starring Anthony Boyle and Julia Garner as the would-be Gen Z Bonnie & Clyde whose entire dream fell apart when they were accused of stealing $8 billion in 2024, a crime that would be later described by a US District Judge as the “greatest financial fraud ever perpetrated in this country.” Inspired by New York magazine’s reporting on the collapse of Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange and hedge fund, FTX, The Altruists is the entire sordid story of what went wrong.
MOVIES
Avengers: Endgame Encore
13 November 2026 – Disney+
If you’ve been mainlining your MCU rewatch in anticipation of the Avengers: Doomsday next month, well then a rather big addition has been made to your watchlist today. Hitting cinemas in late September, Avengers: Endgame Encore was the second re-release of the record-shattering 2019 blockbuster, this time with new footage added in specifically to tie into Doomsday. All of these come in the form of additional post-credit scenes, so don’t go into this one expected a fully reworked film with some dramatic retcon. It is still the same Endgame we all know and loved originally, now with just about six minutes of extra stuff. And extra money! When it hit cinemas, Encore earned $142.9 million which pushed Avengers: Endgame above Avatar to once again become the highest-grossing film of all time with a total gross of $2.94 billion.
Being Heumann
13 November 2026 – Apple TV+
Please see my message above about Apple TV just not hyping up their own releases as it also applies here. Siân Heder took home the Oscar for Best Picture in 2021 with the brilliant drama CODA, so you would think that her next film – which once again shines the spotlight on a particular disability – would get more attention. Well, promotional push or not, Being Heumann is out today, telling the true story of disability rights activist Judy Heumann (Ruth Madeley) and her remarkable fight against federal authority. In 1977, Heumann and a group of likeminded disabled people decide that they’ve had enough of being treated like second class citizens by federal government. When an impulsive protest act turns into the longest occupation of a federal building in American history, Heumann is inadvertently thrust into the role becoming the leader of a movement. Alongside Madeley, the cast also includes Mark Ruffalo, Madeline Delp, Dylan O’Brien, Rob Delaney, Daniel Durant and an ensemble of the largest assortment of Disabled actors ever for a feature film.
Normal
13 November 2025 – Prime Video
Bob Odenkirk has thoroughly followed the Liam Neeson path to career reinvention. Known for award-winning dramatic character roles in productions like Better Call Saul, the veteran has instead pivoted to action-man mode following the breakout success of Nobody. And the latest genre entry for the 64-year-old actor is Normal, a new action thriller from cilt-favourite British filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High Rise, Free Fire) that sees Odenkirk star as Ulysses, the new interim sheriff of fictional town Normal, Minnesota. Ulyssess finds most of his days filled with nothing more than petty nuisance reports until a botched bank robbery shatters the sleepy silence of the town. As Ulysses investigates the incident though, he inadvertently discovers a town-wide conspiracy with deep ties to the Japanese yakuza crime syndicate and they are not happy about being exposed! Henry Winkler and Lena Headey co-star.
Heartland
13 November 2026 – Netflix
Country music has a reputation for drama, so it’s rather surprising we don’t get many dramas set in the world of country music. Netflix’s Heartland is looking to correct that oversight. Oscar-winner Jessica Chastain stars as Misty Jones, a former country superstar once dubbed “the queen of mean” for her volatile nature, now living a life of seclusion. Misty has to step back into the public eye though when her 22-year-old niece, a rising young country star herself, goes missing. Investigating her niece’s disappearance on her own when local police don’t yield any results, Misty’s search forces her to retrace her own past steps through Nashville’s seedy underbelly, unearthing shocking truth about herself and the music world that she one grew up in.
Guarding Stars
18 November 2026 – Netflix
It’s barely mid-November, but it seems that Netflix has just cracked the seal on the inevitable rush of Christmas themed romcoms. Based on Katherine Center’s bestselling novel The Bodyguard (not to be confused with the Kevin Costener/Whitney Houston classic), Guarding Stars stars fan-favourites Leighton Meester and Jared Padalecki but not in the roles you may be expecting. Padalecki is Jack Stapleton, an action movie megastar who is returning home for the holiday season, while Meester is Hanna Brooks, the new no-nonsense bodyguard assigned to protect him. With Jack not wanting his family to get spooked by the presence of a protection detail, he hatches the plan for Hanna to pretend to be his girlfriend to give her an excuse to stay close to him over the Christmas period. Hanna reluctantly agrees, but soon… Well, if you can’t figure out where this one goes from there, then you’ve clearly never watched a romcom before.
Madden
18 November 2026 – Prime Video
Directed by five-time Oscar nominee David O. Russell, Madden is a new biopic starring Oscar winner Nicolas Cage as titular American football icon John Madden alongside Oscar winner Christian Bale as Madden’s best friend and coaching partner Al Davis. The pair took a Super Bowl-winning partnership and used it as a stepping stone to transforming Madden into American football’s most prominent voice, and then used that platform to help launch the Madden NFL video game series, one of the biggest gaming franchises in history. Russell’s film is billed as the “celebration of a brilliant mind whose once in a century spirit and personality, partnership with his daring wife Virginia, lifelong friendships, and infectious love of people and football transcended the world of sports.” Kathryn Hahn, Sienna Miller, John Mulaney, and Shane Gillis co-star.
RENTALS/PURCHASES
The following movies have recently become available for digital purchase/rental:
Resident Evil
Rental: Apple TV – R150
Purchase: Apple TV – R180
When it was announced that Zach Cregger, the breakout horror wunderkind behind Barbarian and Weapons, would be writing and directing a new movie adaptation of video game franchise Resident Evil, most fans immediately thought this could be something special. And for once, we were right. A clean slate for Resident Evil on-screen following a string of adaptation misfires (the rather trashy Milla Jovovich-led movies were commercially successful for a time but they were very far removed from the source material), Cregger made the decision to not really try to adapt any story or characters from the video games. Instead, he created his own story in that world. following medical courier Brian (Austin Abrams) whose last-minute gig on snowed in night turns into a horrific race for survival. And this creative freedom paid off massively, as Resident Evil is an absolute blast! As Noelle noted in her 8.5 review, while hardcore fans “[won’t] see their favourite Resident Evil characters and storylines on the big screen, Zach Cregger’s reboot successfully captures the spirit, the rules, the essence, of the game franchise that spawned it.”
Mutiny
Rental: Apple TV – R45
Purchase: Apple TV – R150
At this point in his career, it feels almost a waste to write up a synopsis for a Jason Statham movie. We all know he is going to be an ex-something (military/special forces/government agent/spy) who is now living a more peaceful life thanks to the altruism of somebody who took him under their wing. And when that good Samaritan gets killed by nefarious thugs, Statham uses all his skills to make the perpetrators pay in the most explosive way possible. And that’s exactly what happens in Mutiny. Statham is now Cole Reed, security right-hand man an actual moral billionaire (no, seriously) who ends up on the wrong end of a hostile takeover of his shipping empire, forcing Cole to board one of the fleet’s cargo ships a one-man crusade to avenge his boss’ death. You know the rest!