When To Stream’s January 2026 Preview

AMERICANA (Starz)

Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Paul Walter Hauser, Halsey, Simon Rex, with Eric Dane, and Zahn McClarnon

Synopsis: A gallery of dynamic characters clash over the possession of a rare Native American artifact in this wildly entertaining modern-day western. After the artifact falls onto the black market, a shy waitress with big dreams (Sweeney) teams up with a lovelorn military veteran (Hauser) to gain possession of it, putting them in the crosshairs of a ruthless criminal (Dane) working on behalf of a Western antiquities dealer (Rex). Bloodshed ensues when others join the battle, including the leader of an indigenous group (McClarnon) and a desperate woman fleeing her mysterious past (Halsey).

THE HOME (Starz)

Cast: Pete Davidson, Marilee Talkington, Matthew Miniero, Jagger Nelson, Jimmy Gary Jr.

Synopsis: A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and upbringing as a foster child.

THE LONG WALK (Starz)

Cast: Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill

Synopsis: In a dystopian near-future, 100 teenage boys must embark on an annual competitive test known as “The Long Walk”. The rules are simple: maintain a speed above 4 miles per hour. Receive three warnings in an hour and you’re shot dead. The last one walking gets whatever he wants for the rest of his life. Under these grim circumstances the boys develop deep friendships despite knowing that each of their friends’ survival is a threat to their own.

THE UNBREAKABLE BOY (Starz)

Cast: Zachary Levi, Meghann Fahy, Jacob Laval, Drew Powell, Gavin Warren, and Patricia Heaton.

Synopsis: Austin is a boy with both a rare brittle-bone disease and autism. But what makes Austin truly unique is his joyous, funny, life-affirming worldview that transforms and unites everyone around him.

DRACULA (VOD/Digital)

Cast: Adonis Tanța, Oana Maria Zaharia, Gabriel Spahiu, Ilinca Manolache, Alexandru Dabija, Andrada Balea, Doru Talos, Serban Pavlu, Lukas Miko, Alexandra Harapu

Synopsis: A frustrated filmmaker, facing creative paralysis, turns to an A.I. chatbot in order to make his latest movie a hit. The result: a Dracula film made in Transylvania. What does it contain? A vampire hunt. Zombies and Dracula crashing a strike. A science-fiction story about Vlad the Impaler coming back. An adaptation of the first Romanian vampire novella. A love story. A montage reusing a classic vampire film. A vulgar folktale. AI-generated kitsch stories. And many delights in a film dealing with this cinema myth.

HALLOW ROAD (VOD/Digital)

Cast: Rosamund Pike, Matthew Rhys, Megan McDonnell

Synopsis: Two parents receive a distressing late-night call from their teenage daughter, who has just accidentally hit a pedestrian. They jump in their car, racing to get there before anyone else stumbles across the scene. As they head deeper into the night, disturbing revelations threaten to tear the family apart as they soon realise they might not be the only ones driving down Hallow Road.

PETER HUJAR’S DAY (VOD/Digital)

Cast: Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall

Synopsis: A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 reveals a glimpse into New York City’s downtown art scene and the personal struggles and epiphanies that define an artist’s life.

ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT (VOD/Digital)

Cast: Charlie Shackleton

Synopsis: Against the backdrop of deserted spaces, a filmmaker explores his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary, delving into the true crime genre’s inner workings at a saturation point.

GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK: LIVE FROM BROADWAY (Netflix)

Cast: George Clooney, Mac Brandt, Will Dagger, Christopher Denham, R. Ward Duffy, Glenn Fleshler, Joe Forbrich, Ilana Glazer, Clark Gregg, Paul Gross, Georgia Heers, Fran Kranz, Jennifer Morris, Michael Nathanson, Andrew Polk, Imani Rousselle, Greg Stuhr, JD Taylor, Sophia Tzougros, Aaron Roman Weiner.

Synopsis: George Clooney’s Tony-nominated, box-office record-breaking Broadway play chronicling a time in American history when legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow took an on-air stand against a growing tide of fearmongering and disinformation—and won.

TRON: ARES (Disney+)

Cast: Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan, Gillian Anderson, Sarah Desjardins, and Jeff Bridges

Synopsis: A highly sophisticated Program called Ares is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings.

SOUL ON FIRE (Netflix)

Cast: Joel Courtney, John Corbett, Stephanie Szostak, Masey McLain with DeVon Franklin and William H. Macy

Synopsis: After a horrific accident leaves his body scarred, a young boy strives to live and show everyone what is possible with the help of his family, his faith, his community, his longtime idol’s kindness, and the entire city of St. Louis.

CHAIN REACTIONS (Shudder)

Cast: Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama, Takashi Miike, and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Synopsis: Fifty years after Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE shocked the world and forever changed the face of global cinema and popular culture, CHAIN REACTIONS charts the film’s profound impact and lasting influence.

PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION (Netflix)

Cast: Emily Bader, Tom Blyth, Lukas Gage, Jameela Jamil, Alan Ruck, and Molly Shannon

Synopsis: Free-spirited Poppy and routine-loving Alex have been unlikely best friends for a decade, living in different cities but spending every summer vacation together. The careful balance of their friendship is put to the test when they begin to question what has been obvious to everyone else — could they actually be the perfect romantic match?

DUST BUNNY (VOD/Digital)

Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver, Sophie Sloan, Rebecca Henderson, Sheila Atim and David Dastmalchian

Synopsis: An eight-year-old girl asks her scheming neighbor for help in killing the monster under her bed that she thinks ate her family.

BONE LAKE (Netflix)

Cast: Maddie Hasson, Alex Roe, Andra Nechita, and Marco Pigossi

Synopsis: A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze of sex, lies, and manipulation, bringing terrifying secrets to light and triggering a bloody battle for survival.

BEAST OF WAR (Shudder)

Cast: Mark Coles Smith, Joel Nankervis, Maximillian Johnson, Lee Tiger Halley, Sam Parsonson, Tristan McKinnon, and Sam Delich

Synopsis: When their boat is sunk while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a young troop of Australian soldiers must find a way to survive the harsh seas on a quickly shrinking life raft. Hundreds of miles from anywhere, they must confront interpersonal conflicts, enemy attacks, and the advances of one very large, very hungry great white shark.

KILLER WHALE (VOD/Digital)

Cast: Virginia Gardner, Melanie Jarnson, Mitchell Hope, Isaac Crawley, Scott James George

Synopsis: Best friends Maddie and Trish find themselves trapped in a remote lagoon with a dangerous killer whale named Ceto.

THE RIP (Netflix)

Cast: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Sasha Calle, Néstor Carbonell, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Kyle Chandler, Scott Adkins, and Lina Esco

Synopsis: Upon discovering millions in cash in a derelict stash house, trust among a team of Miami cops begins to fray. As outside forces learn about the size of the seizure, everything is called into question — including who they can rely on.

TWINLESS (Hulu)

Cast: Dylan O’Brien, James Sweeney, Aisling Franciosi, Lauren Graham, Tasha Smith, Chris Perfetti, François Arnaud, Susan Park and Cree Cicchino.

Synopsis: Two young men meet in a twin bereavement support group and form an unlikely bromance.

THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS (PVOD)

Cast: Tom Kenney, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Fagerbakke, Carolyn Lawrence, Mark Hamill, Regina Hall, Sherry Cola, Arturo Castro, George Lopez, and Ice Spice. 

Synopsis: SpongeBob travels to the depths of the ocean and faces off against the ghost of the Flying Dutchman.

GABBY’S DOLLHOUSE: THE MOVIE (Peacock)

Cast: Laila Lockhart Kraner, Gloria Estefan, Maria Bamford, Mimi Webb and Kristen Wiig

Synopsis: Gabby heads out on a road trip with her Grandma Gigi to the urban wonderland of Cat Francisco. But when Gabby’s dollhouse, her most prized possession, ends up in the hands of an eccentric cat lady named Vera, Gabby sets off on an adventure through the real world to get the Gabby Cats back together and save the dollhouse before it’s too late.

LA GRAZIA (MUBI)

Cast: Toni Servillo, Anna Ferzetti, Orlando Cinque, Massimo Venturiello, Milvia Marigliano, Giuseppe Gaiani, Giovanna Guida, Alessia Giuliani, Roberto Zibetti, Vasco Mirandola, Linda Messerklinger, Rufin Doh Zeyenouin

Synopsis: President Mariano De Santis’ term is coming to an end. Disparagingly nicknamed ‘Cemento armato’ (reinforced concrete) for his intractable nature and overly careful approach to politics, he has grown lonely in the echoing halls of the presidential palace, mourning the loss of his wife and listening to hip-hop. Before returning to civilian life, De Santis must make a series of bold decisions – a pair of presidential pardons and a groundbreaking policy bill – that will cement his legacy.

MOTHER OF FLIES (Shudder)

Cast: John Adams, Lulu Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser

Synopsis: When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods – but every cure has costs.

THE SMASHING MACHINE (HBO Max)

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Lyndsey Gavin, Oleksandr Usyk, Bas Rutten, Ryan Bader, Satoshi Ishii, James Moontasri, Yoko Hamamura

Synopsis: MMA fighter Mark Kerr struggles with addiction, winning and love during his peak era in the UFC.

UNTITLED HOME INVASION ROMANCE (VOD)

Cast: Jason Biggs, Justin H. Min, Meaghan Rath, Arturo Castro, and Anna Konkle

Synopsis: With his marriage on the rocks, Kevin (Jason Biggs) whisks his wife Suzie (Meaghan Rath) away on a romantic getaway with a wildly misguided plan: fake a break-in and play the hero. But when things spiral and someone turns up dead, Kevin finds himself at the center of a murder investigation, with lies piling up faster than the alibis.

THE WRECKING CREW (Prime Video)

Cast: Jason Momoa, Dave Bautista, Claes Bang, Temuera Morrison, Jacob Batalon, Frankie Adams, Miyavi, Maia Kealoha, Stephen Root, and Morena Baccarin

Synopsis: Two half-brothers, a loose cannon cop (Momoa) and a disciplined Navy SEAL (Bautista), must work together to unravel a conspiracy behind their father’s murder in Hawaii.

IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU (HBO Max)

Cast: Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Christian Slater, A$AP Rocky

Synopsis: With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

MUZZLE 2: CITY OF WOLVES (AMC+)

Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Tanya van Graan

Synopsis: LAPD officer Jake Rosser endeavors to lead a peaceful life with his family and retired K-9 officer, Socks. However, tranquility dissolves into chaos when a gang targets them in a brutal attack. Alongside his new K-9 partner Argos, Jake launches into a relentless pursuit of justice, determined to protect his loved ones.

TIN SOLDIER (Hulu)

Cast: Scott Eastwood, Jamie Foxx, Robert De Niro, John Leguizamo

Synopsis: When the leader of a dangerous cult triggers a standoff with authorities, a former soldier returns to the compound he left many years prior to face down the man he used to follow and search for his missing wife.