What To Watch This Weekend: 'The Drama,' 'The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,' 'A Great Awakening' And More

HOLLYWOOD, CA — This week’s watchlist stretches across galaxies, centuries and the moments that connect the spectacular to the intimate.

“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” blasts the Mushroom Kingdom into deep space, while “A Great Awakening” pulls us back into the charged, formative days of early America.

On the more intimate side, “The Drama” follows a couple in the tense days leading up to their wedding, and “XO, Kitty” returns with another swirl of teen romance, identity shifts and international‑school chaos.

Then there’s “Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice,” a time‑looping crime caper that spirals into delirious sci‑fi absurdity, and “Your Friends & Neighbors,” back for a second season that sharpens its suburban‑noir edge as secrets, lies and shifting alliances collide.

Collectively, it's a slate that moves between the spectacular and the deeply personal. Each title offers its own way of escaping, confronting or reimagining the world we inhabit.

Ready to dive in? Scroll down for the full lineup, with deeper explorations below that unpack performances, themes and craft in greater detail.

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What To Watch This Weekend

“The Drama”

Zendaya, Robert Pattinson; directed by Kristoffer Borgli

Kristoffer Borgli’s dramedy “The Drama” follows Emma and Charlie in the final days before their wedding, a stretch of time when a single revelation begins to burst at the seams of the life they’ve planned together. What should be a celebratory countdown instead becomes a tightening corridor of doubt, as private fears and family expectations converge in the hours leading up to the ceremony.

Zendaya plays Emma with a quiet, searching intensity, treating her as someone negotiating the emotional cost of honesty and the fragile safety nets people build in the name of unconditional love. Robert Pattinson meets her with a performance shaped by unease and raw bewilderment, capturing Charlie as a man absorbing the shock of a truth that reshapes his understanding of the relationship. Together, they create a portrait of two people trying to reconcile love with the pure honesty that threatens to undo them.

Borgli leans into the film’s emotional volatility, shaping a narrative that’s as intimate as it is unsettling. The film embraces discomfort and invites debate about where conviction ends and control begins, tracing the messy, delicate edges of modern relationships with the same sharp, destabilizing precision that defines his earlier work.

“The Super Mario Galaxy Movie”

Voices by Chris Pratt, Charlie Day, Anya Taylor‑Joy, Brie Larson; directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic

Illumination and Nintendo expand their animated universe with “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” sending Mario (Chris Pratt), Luigi (Charlie Day), Princess Peach (Anya Taylor‑Joy) and Toad (Keegan‑Michael Key) beyond the Mushroom Kingdom for the first time. Inspired by the galaxy‑spanning games, the film introduces Princess Rosalina (Brie Larson) and the Lumas as the heroes travel through new worlds while confronting Bowser (Jack Black) and Bowser Jr. (Benny Safdie). Yoshi (Donald Glover) also joins the ensemble as the story widens its scope.

The film continues Illumination’s collaboration with Nintendo, with Shigeru Miyamoto again serving as a producer. With its focus on interstellar exploration and evolving character dynamics, the movie positions itself as the next chapter in Nintendo’s growing cinematic universe, shifting the action from familiar terrain to a broader, more fantastical setting.

“A Great Awakening”

Jonathan Blair, John Paul Sneed; directed by Joshua Enck

Sight & Sound Films turns to early American history with “A Great Awakening,” a drama centered on the unlikely friendship between the Reverend George Whitefield (Jonathan Blair) and Benjamin Franklin (John Paul Sneed). Set against the backdrop of the first Great Awakening, the film traces how Whitefield’s preaching ignited a religious movement that reshaped the colonies and influenced Franklin’s evolving understanding of faith.

The story follows Whitefield’s rise as a firebrand orator whose message of spiritual liberty galvanized a generation, even as the colonies edged toward crisis. Franklin, initially drawn to Whitefield’s charisma, becomes one of his closest allies, discovering that the idea of liberty must be awakened in the hearts of the people as much as written into law.

Enck approaches the material with an emphasis on historical detail, emotional clarity and the flawed humanity of its central figures, blending theatrical scale with message‑driven storytelling.

“Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice”

Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, Eiza González; directed by BenDavid Grabinski

BenDavid Grabinski’s “Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice” blends crime‑thriller tension, sci‑fi mechanics and a streak of R‑rated absurdity into a single night that keeps folding in on itself.

At the center is a trio of small‑time criminals — loan shark Nick (Vince Vaughn), his wife Alice (Eiza González) and their partner‑in‑chaos Mike (James Marsden) — bound together by a job gone sideways. Their already volatile evening is thrown further off course by the sudden appearance of a time machine and, even stranger, a second Nick from the future. As the night resets and rewinds, the trio scrambles to make sense of the looping chaos.

Grabinski leans into the mayhem with a genre‑bending sensibility, layering in pop‑culture flourishes and time‑travel paradoxes. The result is a film that revels in its own unpredictability, embracing tonal whiplash and a spiraling energy that keeps the whole thing humming.

“XO, Kitty” — Season 3

Anna Cathcart, Choi Min yeong, Anthony Keyvan; created by Jenny Han

Netflix’s “XO, Kitty” returns for a third season of teen‑romance chaos, identity crises and the kind of heartfelt melodrama that only international school life can deliver. Kitty Song Covey (Anna Cathcart) is still navigating the fallout of last season’s tangled love geometry — exes, almost‑exes, crushes and complications that seem to multiply faster than she can keep track of them.

Determined to get her life back on track, Kitty throws herself into a fresh semester at KISS, but the universe has other plans. New friendships, shifting loyalties and a new wave of romantic misfires keep her spinning, even as she tries to figure out who she is and what — or who — she really wants. Every choice sparks another ripple of drama, turning the school year into a test of heart, courage and emotional stamina.

The season leans into the show’s signature blend of sweetness and chaos, delivering big feelings, bigger messes and the kind of YA angst that’s impossible not to binge.

“Your Friends & Neighbors” — Season 2

Jon Hamm, Amanda Peet; created by Jonathan Tropper

The dramedy‑crime series “Your Friends & Neighbors” returns to Apple TV+ with Season 2 following Andrew “Coop” Cooper (Jon Hamm), a recently divorced hedge‑fund manager whose slide into suburban theft has become a full‑blown double life. After clearing his name in the death of Paul Levitt — revealed to be an insurance scam staged as a suicide — Coop is offered his old job back, but instead doubles down on the illicit thrill that first pulled him off course.

Now fully committed to his secret criminal streak, Coop tries to maintain the lifestyle his family expects while keeping his ex‑wife Mel (Amanda Peet) and their children in the dark. But the arrival of a new neighbor, played by James Marsden, threatens to expose everything, placing Coop’s carefully compartmentalized world at risk.

Season 2 raises the stakes across Westmont Village as shifting alliances, buried secrets and escalating heists push Coop deeper into dangerous territory, testing how long he can outrun the consequences of the life he’s chosen.