Here is a full list of new tv and movie releases to watch this week and weekend. The list includes new projects that were released the week of Jan 23, 2023 (unless noted). Check them out below and add them to your watch list.
READ: New TV and Movie Trailers + Releases That Dropped This Week [Jan 23]
Fear
A weekend vacation turns sinister when a group of friends must confront their worst fears one by one.
Director: Deon Taylor
Writer: Deon Taylor, John Ferry
Starring: TI, Joseph Sikora, Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor, Terrence J, Ruby Modine, Annie Ilonzeh, Jessica Allain, and Iddo Goldberg
Where to Watch: In Theaters
You People
It follows a new couple (Hill and London) and their families, who find themselves examining modern love and family dynamics amidst clashing cultures, societal expectations and generational differences. Murphy and Hill will find themselves on opposite sides of some of those divides.
Director: Kenya Barris
Writer: Kenya Barris, Jonah Hill
Starring: Lauren London, Eddie Murphy, Jonah Hill, Nia Long, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Where to Watch: Netflix
The 1619 Project
The six-part limited docu-series is an expansion of Nikole Hannah-Jones’s The New York Times No. 1 bestseller The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story which examines how the legacy of slavery shapes different aspects of contemporary American life.
Where to Watch: Hulu
Shotgun Wedding
Darcy and Tom gather their families for a destination wedding, but the ceremony gets put on hold when gunmen take everyone hostage. Now, they must do everything they can to save their loved ones — if they don’t wind up killing each other first.
Director: Jason Moore
Writer: Mark Hammer
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel, Jennifer Coolidge, Lenny Kravitz
Where to Watch: Prime Video
Aurora: A Love Story
Kenny and Giselle are set to marry on a beach in Puerto Rico. Giselle disappears on the day of the ceremony, setting off a wild chain of events that unearths secrets, lies and betrayal, and threatens to destroy the fairy-tale love story.
Director: Noel Calloway
Writer: Darrel Bristow-Bovey
Starring: Marc John Jefferies, Julito McCullum, Wakeema Hollis, Tobias Truvillion
Where to Watch: In Theaters/VOD | Rent Here
Shrinking (S1)
Shrinking follows a grieving therapist (played by Segel) who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives…including his own.
Creator: Bill Lawrence &; Jason Segel &; Brett Goldstein
Starring: Jessica Williams, Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, Christa Miller, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, and Lukita Maxwell.
Where to Watch: Apple TV+
Kings Of Jo’burg (S2)
The Masire brothers rule Johannesburg’s criminal underworld, but a supernatural family curse threatens to destroy them.
Director: Shona Ferguson
Starring: Zolisa Xluva, Shona Ferguson, Sello Sebotsane, Tsholofelo Matshaba, Connie Ferguson, Cindy Mahlangu, Tk Sebothoma, Enyinna Nwigwe
Where to Watch: Netflix
The Lazarus Project
An affecting exploration of modernity and the desire and ability to take charge of one’s future. George thinks he is beginning to lose touch with reality when he finds himself living the same day, over and over again. A chance encounter with a man called Archie reveals that George is very much in touch with reality, but that reality can be stranger than fiction. With George’s newfound understanding of his power and perception of space-time, he is forced to choose between loyalty to an organisation trying to save the world and the ability to rewrite the past for a friend.
Creator: Joe Barton
Starring: Paapa Essiedu, Anjli Mohindra, Charly Clive, Rudi Dharmalingam
Where to Watch: TNT
The Snow Girl (S1)
When a little girl goes missing during a parade in Málaga, a young newspaper journalist becomes fiercely determined to help Amaya’s parents find her.
Created By: Jesús Mesas Silva and Javier Andrés Roig based on the novel by Javier Castillo.
Starring: Milena Smit, José Coronado, Aixa Villagrán, Cecilia Freire
Where to Watch: Netflix
All American (S5 Pt 2)
When a rising high school football player from South L.A. is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High, the wins, losses and struggles of two families from vastly different worlds – Crenshaw and Beverly Hills – begin to collide. Inspired by the life of pro football player Spencer Paysinger.
Director: April Blair
Writer: Various
Starring: Daniel Ezra, Samantha Logan, Greta Onieogou, Michael Evans Behling, Taye Diggs, Bre-Z
Where to Watch: The CW
All American Homecoming (S2 Pt 2)
All American: Homecoming follows a young tennis hopeful from Beverly Hills and an elite baseball player from Chicago as they contend with the high stakes of college sports, while also navigating the highs, lows and sexiness of unsupervised early adulthood at a prestigious Historically Black College.
Director: April Blair
Writer: Various
Starring: Geffri Maya, Camille Hyde, Cory Hardrict, Kelly Jenrette, Netta Walker, Peyton Alex Smith, Sylverser Powell
Where to Watch: The CW
American Auto (S2)
Set at the headquarters of a major American automotive company in Detroit where a floundering group of executives try to rediscover the company identity amidst a rapidly changing industry.
Director: April Blair
Writer: Various
Starring: Ana Gasteyer, Katherine Hastings, Tye White, X Mayo, Michael Benjamin, Harriet Dyer, Jon Barinholtz, Humphrey Ker
Where to Watch: NBC, Peacock
Brotherhood
The movie tells the story of twin brothers who find themselves in opposite directions of the law after the tragic death of their parents when they were young.
One becomes a police officer while the second becomes an armed robber. The former has to hunt down the latter and bring him to justice.
Director:Loukman Ali
Starring: OC Ukeje, Falz, Sam Dede, Boma Akpore, Toni Tones, Tobi Bakare,
Where to Watch: Prime Video
Pokerface (S1)
Poker Face is a 10-episode “mystery-of-the-week” series following Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but solve.
Creator: Rian Johnson
Starring: Natasha Lyonne, Benjamin Bratt, Adrien Brody, Stephanie Hsu, Chloë Sevigny, Dascha Polanco, Judith Light
Where to Watch:
Maybe I Do
With their relationship at a crossroads, Michelle and Allen invite their parents to finally meet. As it turns out, their parents already know each other, maybe a little too well.
Director: Michael Jacobs
Starring: Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Emma Roberts, Luke Bracey William H. Macy
Where to Watch: In theaters
Extraordinary (S1)
Adrift in a big, confusing world and armed with nothing but a bit of hope and a lot of desperation, Jen begins her journey to find her maybe-superpower; in doing so, she might discover the joy of being just kind of ok.
Director:
Starring: Máiréad Tyers, Sofia Oxenham, Luke Rollason, Bilal Hasna, Siobhán McSweeney, Safia Oakley-Green, Ned Porteous
Where to Watch: Disney+ and Hulu