What to Watch on TV and at the Movies This Week

Your Netflix Watch of the Week is here!

Virgin River, Season 7

Netflix’s take on Robyn Carr’s popular book series is back. Set in the charming Northern California town of the title, the long-running romantic drama finds nurse Mel (Alexandra Breckenridge) and bar owner Jack (Martin Henderson, 51) discovering what happens after you’ve found your happily ever after. (You can be sure it’s not all flowers and chocolate.) For starters, the newlywed couple wrestles with starting a family while we finally find out what Jack’s gasp-inducing Season 6 cliff-hanger finale was all about. Costarring Tim Matheson, 78, and Annette O’Toole, 73.

Watch it: Virgin River, March 12 on Netflix

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Your Prime Video Watch of the Week is here!

​NWSL on Prime

Prime Video kicks off its 27-game coverage of the new National Women’s Soccer League season with an 8 p.m. ET matchup between the Portland Thorns and the Washington Spirit (the runners-up to Gotham FC in last season’s championship). Look for some of the sport’s top players to hone their skills ahead of the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil.

Watch it: NWSL, March 13 on Prime Video

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New at the movies this week

⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ André Is an Idiot, NR

I once nagged my husband — to life. When he turned 50, I insisted he get a colonoscopy, as his family history is rampant with cancer. Since then, the recommended screening age has been lowered to 45, but André Ricciardi, the real-life star of this funny, sad, life-and-death affirming documentary, procrastinated (hence the wry film title). When he had the procedure at age 52, doctors discovered stage 4 cancer (Ricciardi died in 2023). A husband, father and boon companion with an idiosyncratic sense of humor, the shaggy San Franciscan reacted to the grim prognosis by filming his experience. What emerges in this remarkable documentary is a man who was a real mensch surrounded by good eggs, which makes the resulting footage funny, profane and endearing. André Is an Idiot serves as both a PSA for colonoscopies and a recipe for how to live and how to die, while expanding emotionally rather than shrinking in fear from the Big C. As colorectal cancer strikes ever-younger adults, this is a movie that can save lives without sacrificing laughter and warmth. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: André Is an Idiot in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ Undertone, R

Hurrah for genuinely scary movies without a scrap of gore. Podcaster Evy Babitch (The Handmaid Tale’s Nina Kiri, who carries the movie with subtlety and restraint) and her cohost Justin (The White Lotus’ Adam DiMarco, whom we only hear) have a popular podcast exploring and debunking supernatural events. She’s the voice of reason. He’s the believer. But then the mystery of their latest investigation — 10 audio clips of a woman talking in her sleep — begins seeping into Evy’s life. As she gives end-of-life care to her religious, nearly comatose mother (Michèle Duquet, 66), Evy begins to hear voices, nursery rhymes and babies crying even when she’s hung up her headphones. Madness? Drink? Devilry? With well-timed jump scares and minimalist production values, this thriller recalls The Blair Witch Project in its simplicity and scariness. There’s also a parallel in Undertone’s use of our current embrace of true-crime-podcast amateur investigators, much like how Blair Witch mined the moment of handheld-camera amateur filmmakers. Here, the sounds hold the key, so go see (and hear) Undertone in a theater with a top-notch sound system, and bring a buddy to cling to when the going gets scary. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Undertone, (Friday) March 13 in theaters

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Bride!, R

Actor, director and writer Maggie Gyllenhaal’s brilliant reimagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is told largely from the bride’s perspective. It begins in gangster-riddled 1930s Chicago with the desperately lonely Frankenstein's Monster (a magnetic Christian Bale, 52) approaching an eccentric doctor (Annette Bening, 67) to make him a wife. She tempts fate and complies by resuscitating wild party girl Ida (a wonderfully outrageous Jessie Buckley). The dark, violent and feminist rom-com generates heat between the scarred, broken pair as they run from the law, Bonnie and Clyde–style. Along the way, there’s no shortage of monster-movie references, stitched together and remade like Frankie himself. To see the pair dancing to “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” a snippet of genius echoing Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, is pure bliss. The costumes, design and music choices, along with a dynamo supporting cast including Penélope Cruz, 51, Gyllenhaal’s spouse, Peter Sarsgaard, 54, and her brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, combine to deliver an electric shock of a movie. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: The Bride!, in theaters

⭐⭐⭐☆☆ Heel, PG-13

Set in a mansion straight out of Wuthering Heights, this horror film has an outlier quality, evolving in unexpected and often peculiar ways. Nineteen-year-old urban hooligan Tommy (ferocious Anson Boon, who previously played Johnny Rotten in the 2022 limited series Pistol) has never met a drug he doesn’t like, a nightclub he can’t shut down or a brawl he won’t start. One night while blitzed, he’s kidnapped and secreted away to the aforementioned remote manse, where he’s chained by the neck and forced to watch anti-addiction propaganda. His kidnappers are odd ducks with their own dark secrets. As played by the excellent Stephen Graham, 52, and a whispery Andrea Riseborough, their bizarre mix of creepiness and compassion takes the movie to strange heights. Whether Heel advocates for or indicts troubled-teen reprogramming is never clarified, but its despair at the societal decline caused by teens’ pervasive drug and social media abuse — and adults’ apparent helplessness at bringing them to heel — resonates. —Thelma M. Adams

Watch it: Heel, in theaters