Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 8/29/25

August 29, 2025

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Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.

Movies
–Caught Stealing (Theaters)
–Jaws 50th Anniversary Re-Release (Theaters)
–The Toxic Avenger Unrated (Theaters) – A reboot of the original, not an unrated version of the original.

TV
–Beavis and Butt-Head Season 11 Premiere (September 3 on Comedy Central) – Note that this season is originally airing on the basic cable channel Comedy Central, as opposed to the streamer Paramount+, which was the case for the previous two seasons.
–The Paper Season 1 (September 4 on Peacock) – A sort of spinoff of The Office.
–Pokémon Concierge Episodes 4-8 (September 4 on Netflix)

Music
-The Beaches, No Hard Feelings
-Blood Orange, Essex Honey
-Belinda Carlisle, Once Upon a Time in California
-Sabrina Carpenter, Man’s Best Friend
-The Hives, The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
-Margo Price, Hard Headed Woman

Podcasts
–What’s Our Podcast? – Hosted by Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney.

‘Caught Stealing’ and ‘The Roses’ Invite Us to Reflect at the Cinema This Labor Day Weekend

August 27, 2025

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A Collage of Two Movies Coming Out in Theaters in Late Summer 2025 (CREDIT: Niko Tavernise/Columbia Pictures; Searchlight Pictures/Screenshot)

Caught Stealing

Starring: Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, Benito A Martínez Ocasio, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Nikita Kukushkin, Carol Kane, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Running Time: 107 Minutes

Rating: R for Reckless Violence, Some Drunken Debauchery, and a Little Bit of Sex

Release Date: August 29, 2025 (Theaters)

The Roses

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, Andy Samberg, Kate McKinnon, Sunita Mani, Ncuti Gatwa, Jamie Demetriou, Zoë Chao, Hala Finley, Wells Rapaport, Delaney Quinn, Ollie Robinson, Belinda Bromilow, Allison Janney

Director: Jay Roach

Running Time: 105 Minutes

Rating: R for Rather Colorful Language

Release Date: August 29, 2025 (Theaters)

Labor Day is typically known as the unofficial end of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, even though technically autumn doesn’t really arrive until the final third of September. Either way, it’s a time for altering routines and reflecting upon what you’ve been up to the past few months. In that spirit of looking back, we’ve got a couple of new releases for Labor Day Weekend 2025 that are both throwbacks in their own particular ways.

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