What To Watch This Week 26.08.25

High & Low: John Galliano, Netflix

Now available for streaming, Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) serves up an unflinching look at fashion legend John Galliano: the dizzying highs of runway glory, the ignominious fall and a fragile, fraught path toward redemption. The talking heads line-up includes Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Anna Wintour, each helping illuminate what happens when genius collides with scandal. Sharp, stylish and morally measured, this is a fashion doc that refuses to glamorise its subject.
 
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With Love, Meghan, Netflix 

Meghan Markle is back with a second instalment of her Netflix venture, and it's a Pinterest board come to life. It’s all endless florals, glossy kitchen set-ups and “acts of kindness”. Expect cooking demos, crafting hacks and pastel-hued domestic bliss, all presented with the Duchess’s trademark earnestness and a whole host of celebrity friends. 

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Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey, Disney +

In 2023, Bruce Willis stepped away from Hollywood following his diagnosis with frontotemporal dementia. This moving special focuses on his wife Emma Heming Willis, who speaks to Diane Sawyer about navigating their new reality. With raw honesty, she shares both the heartbreak and the strength found in love, while highlighting the importance of talking openly about a condition that affects so many. 

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Katrina: Come Hell And High Water, Netflix

Now 20 years after the storm, this powerful new docuseries revisits Hurricane Katrina through the people who lived it, blending first-hand testimony with searing archival footage. Directed by Geeta Gandbhir (When The Levees Broke), Samantha Knowles (Telling Our Stories) and Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing), it is also executive produced by Lee and collaborators Sam Pollard (Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered) and Alisa Payne (When the Levees Broke). Clear-eyed and humane, it interrogates institutional failures while foregrounding resilience – the definitive retelling for a generation that knows Katrina only in headlines.

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My Life With The Walter Boys, Netflix

Netflix’s swoony small-town saga returns as Jackie navigates SATs, first love and the fall-out of last season’s cliffhangers. Expect triangle turbulence and more ranch-house drama with Jackie played by Nikki Rodriguez (On My Block), opposite Cole and Alex – plus grown-ups who actually steal scenes: Sarah Rafferty (Suits) and Marc Blucas (Buffy The Vampire Slayer). It’s earnest, bingeable comfort TV; if you devoured the first season in a weekend, clear Thursday night. 

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The Thursday Murder Club, Netflix

Out on streaming after a brief UK cinema run, Richard Osman’s mega-selling cosy-crime gets the starry treatment – and the tone exactly right. In a leafy retirement village, four amateur sleuths poke their noses into a very real killing, cue delightful caper. The A-list quartet? Helen Mirren (The Queen), Pierce Brosnan (GoldenEye), Ben Kingsley (Gandhi) and Celia Imrie (Calendar Girls), with support from Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes). Expect gentle wit, twisty plotting and proper Sunday-afternoon vibes.

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Caught Stealing

Darren Aronofsky loosens his collar for a darkly comic NYC crime caper set in 1998: a washed-up ex-ballplayer lands in very hot water after… cat-sitting. Austin Butler (Elvis) leads with a live-wire turn, opposite Zoë Kravitz (The Batman), Matt Smith (The Crown), Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan), Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) and Bad Bunny (Grammy-winning artist). Expect bruising set-pieces, neon grime and Aronofsky’s propulsive flair – with a feline named Tonic threatening to steal the show.

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The Roses

Jay Roach and writer Tony McNamara reimagine The War Of The Roses for 2025 – a barbed marital meltdown led by Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) and Olivia Colman (The Favourite), with scene-stealers Andy Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live). It’s all razor dialogue, glamorous production design and escalating warfare that’s equal parts savage and delicious. 

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Kpopped, Apple TV+

Who better than Psy – the man who sent Gangnam Style global – to host Apple’s boldest new music show? KPOPPED pairs K-pop idols with Western pop royalty for dazzling collaborations and high-energy showdowns. The line-up is stacked: Spice Girls, Kylie, Jess Glynne, Kesha… even Megan Thee Stallion versus Patti LaBelle, backed by halves of girl group Billie, in episode one. 

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Dogtooth

Before Poor Things and The Favourite there was Dogtooth – Yorgos Lanthimos’s transgressive breakout about three siblings raised in captivity by deluded parents. Newly restored in 4K, it’s as unsettling – and wickedly funny – as ever, starring Angeliki Papoulia (The Lobster) and Christos Stergioglou (Pity). If you’ve only discovered Lanthimos recently, this is essential; if you know it by heart, the restoration is a must-see on the big screen. 

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