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Tom's Guide
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
5 best movies you missed in theaters in 2025 (so far), that you can stream right now
Every year, at least a few quality movies don't get the attention they deserve. While I was delighted to see the likes of 'Sinners' break out and find a larger audience, plenty of other flicks weren't so fortunate and didn't get their equally deserved moment in the spotlight. We're now almost halfway through 2025, and this year is proving no exception. For all the great films that have earned critical plaudits and audience adulation, off to the side in the shadows, you'll find some must-watch movies that struggled to break into the mainstream. The good news is that, thanks to streaming, these movies have a second shot at gaining some deserved attention, so even if you missed them in theatres, you can still circle back to watch them in the comfort of your own home. I've been to the cinema more than 40 times in 2025 already, and of all the flicks I've seen on the big screen, these are the five that you (probably) missed but can stream right now. 'Restless' is an utterly rage-inducing watch as you witness protagonist Nicky (Lyndsey Marshal) spiral further and further as she attempts to deal with a nightmare neighbor. A salt-of-the-earth care worker, Nicky's quiet life is upended when a party animal, with a highly questionable circle of friends, moves in next door and disrupts her peace. With the authorities disinterested in helping resolve the matter, this typically mid-mannered woman is forced to take matters into her own hands as a lack of sleep sees her start to lose her grip on reality. Lyndsey Marshal is electric in the leading role, and Nicky's arc is seriously sympathetic, especially when the new neighbor, Deano (Aston McAuley), becomes increasingly aggressive after Nicky begs him to turn his music down so she can get some much-needed rest. Playing on Nicky's sense of powerlessness, 'Restless' will have you almost shaking with anger as much of its runtime is dedicated to watching the likeable lead beaten down and intimidated by the, unfortunately, realistic situation. The ending attempts to bring a sense of catharsis, but it goes a little too far into slapstick territory, but at least it closes things on a more hopeful note. Buy or rent on Prime Video now 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' earned my affection from its very first scene. This overlooked comedy-drama is consistently chuckle-worthy, largely thanks to the sharp comedic spirit of Tim Key, but underneath the gentle gags is an emotionally impactful tale with a melancholic edge. Charles Heath (Key) is a lottery winner living on the remote Wallis Island, who opts to spend his winnings on convincing his musician heroes, Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) and Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan), to reunite and play a special one-off concert just for him. McGwyer Mortimer, a fictional folk duo with more than a little bit of Fleetwood Mac about them, were once surging up the charts, but a decade prior disbanded in acrimony, and haven't played together since. Once on the Welsh island, they begin to reminisce on the past, and before long, old romantic tensions have sparked up, with Charles very much trying to play peacemaker. Those craving high-stakes drama or fiery confrontations won't find them here, but instead 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' offers something much richer, a genuine soul. It's wonderfully warming, with just the right amount of wistfulness. Plus, the McGwyer Mortimer tunes performed by Basden and Mulligan are fantastic. Watch on Peacock now 'Drop' is probably as close to a modern-day Alfred Hitchcock movie as you could possibly get, and as any fan of the Master of Suspense will tell you, that is a massive compliment. Violet Gates (Meghann Fahy) is a widowed mother, reluctantly leaving her young son at home, to meet a singleton at a swanky restaurant at the insistence of her sister (Violett Beane). Her date is the handsome and extremely charming Henry (Brandon Sklenar), and just when Violet is considering letting her defenses down, she receives a mysterious text message. The unidentified messenger informs her that sinister figures have taken her son and sister hostage, and will murder them unless Violet does exactly what they instruct and kills Henry. Thrust into a nightmare date, Violet attempts to protect her family while unmasking those behind the murderous plot. Director Christopher Landon expertly builds tension throughout, and each new plot wrinkle is dished out at a well-considered clip. Sure, you might be able to guess the big reveal (the killer's identity is a little obvious), but even if you figure out the destination, the road to get there is a complete blast. Buy or rent on Prime Video now Nicolas Cage continues to pick interesting projects, and 'The Surfer' is another wild entry in his filmography that lets the veteran actor go completely off the rails. It's perhaps his most unhinged role since 2018's 'Mandy,' and presents an increasingly surreal descent into madness. Cage plays an unnamed man who brings his son to a stunning beach for a spot of surfing. The oceanside setting is where the man grew up, and where he plans to buy a plush home just a stone's throw away from the glittering sand. However, their attempts to catch some waves are ruined when the residents rebuff them and declare that surfing on the beach is for 'locals only.' Refusing to walk away from the conflict, the man sticks around and endures several days of sheer torment as his life falls apart around him, and even his own identity is called into question. Finding great success in the thick sense of mystery — you'll soon wonder as to why the locals are being so cruel to Cage's character — 'The Surfer' is a movie where you need to embrace the chaos. Sadly, its narrative ambitions prove to be overstretched, with an ending that fails to bring things to a truly satisfying conclusion. Nevertheless, at its peak, 'The Surfer' is mesmerizing. Buy or rent on Prime Video now Your enjoyment of 'Presence' will most likely come down to how much you can appreciate a movie for trying something new. On the surface, this supernatural horror-thriller appears fairly cookie-cutter, but its unique element comes in the way Steven Soderbergh opts to frame proceedings. See, 'Presence' is a haunted-house movie told from the perspective of the unseen entity that is watching the Payne family, who have just moved into a large new suburban house, unaware of its ghostly occupant. Rather than the spectre being a mystery to viewers, they are literally the POV character. I suspect some viewers will find 'Presence' unbearably slow, but I enjoyed the family drama and the increasing sense of unease that builds up to a sombre finale. Much of what works about "Presence" is also a credit to the cast, which is anchored by Callina Liang, Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan and Eddy Maday. Even if the movie's narrative credentials come up a little short on occasion, at a trim 85 minutes, there's no time to get bored, and Soderbergh plays up the movie's original perspective in some creative ways. The general sense of dread in the air also adds to the stakes and keeps you invested throughout. Watch on Hulu now
CTV News
a day ago
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Fleetwood Mac's music featured in tribute concert
Northern Ontario Watch YES Theatre is back with another outdoor summer concert with the music of Fleetwood Mac at The Refettorio in downtown Sudbury.
Extra.ie
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
5 weird and wonderful facts about Glastonbury Festival
It's that time of year again, where everyone and there mother attempts to hide their seething jealousy at all those attending Glastonbury. Every summer, a quiet corner of Somerset transforms into a sprawling, vibrant city of music, mud, and magic, with a select few managing to nab the highly coveted tickets. Glastonbury Festival isn't just the UK's most iconic music event, it's a cultural phenomenon with decades of quirky history, star-studded surprises, and unexpected traditions. Whether you're a first-timer or a seasoned camper, here are five fun facts about Glasto that prove it's more than just a music festival. It's that time of year again, where everyone and there mother attempts to hide their seething jealousy at all those attending Glastonbury. Pic: Samir Hussein/WireImage The first festival at Worthy Farm was actually called the Pilton Pop, Folk and Blues Festival and took place in late Summer 1970, just ONE DAY after Jimi Hendrix died. The inaugural event was attended by 1,500 people and admission was £1, which included free camping and free milk (?!) It's believed that Michael Eavis, the founder of Glastonbury, was in debt at the time and thought putting on a festival would clear his financial woes. Well…he wasn't wrong. Pic: Samir Hussein/WireImage You think you manage to get lost after trekking to the mainstage at Electric Picnic? God help you if you go to Glasto! It's no surprise that a massive outdoor space is needed to accommodate the nearly 200,000 people set to attend, but do you really know just how big the site is? Compared to London, Glastonbury covers the distance from Waterloo to Tottenham Court Road, while Oxford's whole city centre would fit into the Glastonbury Festival map. Christ! Glastonbury actually becomes the 7th biggest city in the south of England for one weekend out of the year. Pic:Yep, you heard that right. In 1971, the first year the pyramid stage was introduced and the second year of the festival, admission was entirely free. I'd say something if it was a tiny grass roots festival, but do you know who headlined in 1971? None other than David Bowie. Cost of living crisis who? Pic: Jim Dyson/Redferns You'd think being the creator of one of the biggest festivals in the world would be able to get just about anyone to perform, but you'd be wrong! Glastonbury has been in chats with Fleetwood Mac nearly every year, but it hasn't worked out yet for festival organisers. Michael Eavis has said it's his 'one wish' to have them take to the stage. We're holding out hope Michael! Pic: Jim Dyson/Redferns In a mammoth sanitary feat, there are over 3,300 and over 700 metres of urinals across the site. Glastonbury reports having over 2,000 long-drop seats; over 1,300 compost toilets; plus additional portable and disabled toilets. Look, at the end of the day it makes for great compost!
CTV News
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Cast of Never Break the Chain sings Fleetwood Mac's Dreams
A sneak peek at the song Dreams performed by the cast of Never Break the Chain: The Music of Fleetwood Mac. (YES Theatre)
Spectator
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Spectator
Spectator Competition: Who's who?
For Competition 3405 you were invited to submit a scene in which Doctor Who has regenerated into someone very unexpected. Plenty of interesting transformations resulted, featuring among others Paddington Bear, Mary Berry and two Jacob Rees-Moggs, but the winners of the £25 vouchers are below. The Doctor, regenerating as a tall, meaty-faced man in jeans, a plaid shirt and his mid-sixties, soon got clumsily busy for comic effect with screwdrivers, sonic and otherwise, setting about the Tardis console and causing Fleetwood Mac to play at excessive volume before sending us zagzigging erratically across spacetime on a far from grand tour. 'What could possibly go wrong?' he bellowed, overemphasising every word in apparent exoneration of his haphazard driving skills. When finally we materialised, it was in a sodden wheat field near Chipping Norton and Daleks were massing. 'I've seen off South Oxfordshire Council,' The Doctor chuntered, 'so this lot should be an absolute doddle.' Utilising the element of surprise, The Doctor whipped off the top of each Dalek to reveal inside a startled, black-clad gay ballet dancer. They fled, The Doctor pursuing them for the damage they'd done to what turned out to be his durum wheat. Adrian Fry Jax watched helplessly from behind the containment field as The Doctor melted and reformed. She was astonished to see a middle-aged, portly, bald white man in a blue suit, with a mauve tie that overlapped his name tag on its lanyard. Only the letters 'Ric H' were visible. 'Help, Doctor, get me out!' she yelled. 'Alas, Jax, a writ of habeas corpus does not run on Chagos. Although some Time Lords hold that Gallifreyan law is 'grandfathered' from the colonial period, the better view is that, absent positive Xiblaxian law –' 'Then use the sonic screwdriver!' 'It's a Level 5 quantum-electric emitter, not lic-ensed here, I'm afraid.' 'But we have to stop the Xiblaxians invading Earth!' 'Their not being signatories to the Galactic Sentient Rights Treaty, whereas Earth is, makes that intricately tricky.' In desperation, Jax transformed herself into a co-elenterate and oozed through a gap in the field… Frank Upton The Tardis, looking strangely like a muddy Range Rover, came crashing Earthwards into an armour-strewn wheat field. Out stepped a man in red corduroy trousers and a chequered jacket. 'All right, then, Ange,' he said, 'where are we?' A flame-haired Deputy Time Lord in high-vis vest and golden training shoes read from her chart: 'Well, Doctor –' 'Hang about. Just call me Nige when the cameras aren't watching. I'm so thirsty after all that warp speed stuff. Got a fag, by the way?' 'Yiss, Nige, but they 'aven't been invented yet. We're in medieval France, right near't'end o't'Undred Years' War wi' England.' 'Right, so we've got three immediate ishoos for this latest series. One, how do I introduce tobacco to 15th-century Europe? Two, at least one episode must be called 'Daleks in Best Bitter Battle'. And three, why stop after only 100 years? This English/French stuff could run and run!' Nicholas Lee Regenerated, The Doctor proved a conservatively dressed, fogeyishly fastidious old Etonian whose preferred method of communication was the newspaper article. He immediately set about having the Tardis refurbished after the manner of a Georgian rectory, particularly concerned not to own a television, for all that he would be pursued across spacetime for a licence. Said Tardis, reliably unreliable, haphazardly materialised on alien worlds or at historical periods beset by extraterrestrial incursions unrecorded even in Macaulay. This new Doctor, rising above such nonsenses, tarried onlywhere anecdotes about Margaret Thatcher might be authenticated or country sports freely engaged in. If his forthright, witty arguments failed to convince the Daleks of the folly of authoritarianism, it can only have been that they did not number among his readers. His symposium in a disused quarry with Walter Bagehot and T.E. Utley on constitutional democracy will be published here, culminating in the traditional cliffhanger. Russell Clifton Their time had come at last. For millennia the Time Lords had thwarted the Daleks' universe-conquering ambitions. Now the Lords were tired and predictable, their clock was running down. This time they had failed to find their human stooge. Ha! The invincible Daleks would rumble forwards, exterminating everything in their path. Their Doctors had always been ridiculous figures – a hammy old man, a TV scarecrow, lots of boring white Englishmen. There was even a Scotch one. As for the woman and the black African! – woke Time Lords: what a joke! Things were hotting up on Planet Earth; the next encounter would be Armageddon for those feeble poseurs. The familiar screeching sound approached, the Daleks awaited their moment of triumph. The door opened and a giant lettuce appeared, screaming, 'I was right all along. We have ten years to save the West!' Basil Ransome-Davies The Tardis slowly stopped spinning, teeter–tottered for a moment, then fell on its side. The front door (now the roof) was pushed open and a portly middle–aged man awkwardly clambered out. He was wearing a dark blue suit and matching tie, charmingly paired with a bright yellow life-jacket. He ran his hands over himself, noting the bulging belly, balding pate and thick jowls. He looked horrified. 'No,' he gasped. 'Surely not. Can I really have regenerated as… Ed Davey?' At that moment a Dalek materialised, making vague robotic threats. Doctor Davey-Who fumbled in his jacket for his sonic screwdriver, dropped it, tripped over his trouser legs and fell in a pond where, bobbing gently, he felt grateful for his lifejacket. A passing canoeist tried to help. Doctor Davey-Who somehow upended the vessel and both men were now floundering. The Dalek, watching from the sidelines, said: 'Ex…traordinary. What an idiot.' Joseph Houlihan No. 3408: Some like it hot You are invited to submit a poem about heatwaves (16 lines maximum). Please email entries to competition@ by midday on 9 July.
