‘The Bear,’ ‘My Mom Jayne,’ Lorde’s ‘Virgin,’ and the best to stream this weekend: June 27, 2025

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Welcome tothe Gold Ticket, your VIP guide to the best of pop culture for the weekend ahead, curated by the Gold Derby team of experts. (June 27-June 29)

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The main stream

Like clockwork, it's time yet again for another helping of The Bear.

For the queue

However, if you're looking for a more traditional drama, our other prestige picks include:

Smoke: Black Bird's Dennis Lehane returns to Apple TV+ with this new series inspired by true events. Adapted from the Firebug podcast, the series follows a firefighter-turned-arson investigator who wants to be a writer (Taron Egerton, also an executive producer) and a police detective who's made one too many questionable choices (Jurnee Smollett) as they investigate two separate serial arsonists. The supporting cast includes Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Rafe Spall, Greg Kinnear, John Leguizamo, Anna Chlumsky, Hannah Emily Anderson, and Adina Porter. The first two episodes are now streaming on Apple TV+.

Squid Game: Far be it from us to judge Netflix's decision to drop two seasons of its Emmy-winning drama just six months apart (though separate Emmy cycles, of course), but it does feel a bit like "too much of a good thing." Season 3, which also happens to be the South Korean drama's final season, follows Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae's Gi-hun as he attempts to stop the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) and put an end to the deadly game at the heart of the series in the wake of his best friend's shocking death. All episodes are now streaming on Netflix.

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Ironheart: Marvel's latest series was years in the making, having been announced in late 2020 at a time when the MCU was growing mostly because Disney needed more content for its new streaming service. The six-episode series follows the minor character of Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), an engineering prodigy introduced in 2022's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, as she lands back home in Chicago after her experiments get her expelled from MIT. In need of cash to fix the suit of armor she nicked on her way out, Riri teams up with a group of thieves, which goes about as well as you think it does. The first three episodes are now streaming on Disney+.

Home movies

Our top movie streaming pick this week is My Mom Jane, Mariska Hargitay’s documentary about her mother, actress and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield. The film, which is Hargitay’s directorial debut, premiered at Cannes and also screened at the Tribeca Film Festival. After a small theatrical run, it’s now streaming on Max.

The heartfelt and personal documentary follows Law & Order: SVU star Hargitay on a journey to better understand and feel close to her mother, whom Hargitay has no memory of, as she died in a car accident when Hargitay was 3. Through interviews with her older siblings and looking at Mansfield’s archival materials, Hargitay gets a full portrait of her mother in all of her complexity, and explores how being Jayne Mansfield’s daughter shaped her own life and career.

If you’re not into celebrity documentaries, here are some other new releases to watch this weekend on streaming or video on demand:

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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie: Here’s a fairly surprising fact: this is the first fully animated, theatrically released Looney Tunes movie in the franchise’s 95-year history. It’s a rambunctious, gag-filled ode to classic Looney Tunes that finds Daffy Duck and Porky Pig teaming up to try to stop an alien invasion. The film was initially developed for Max, which dropped it during Zaslav’s Purge of 2022, and now, ironically, is back on Max after all.

The Woman in the Yard: Danielle Deadwyler stars in this daylight ghost story that did better than expected in theaters earlier this year. The Bear Season 4 scene-stealer plays Ramona, a mother of two who is grieving the death of her husband in a car accident. One day, a mysterious woman, shrouded in black, appears in the front yard of their house. She sits there and says “today’s the day” in a spooky singsong voice. She’s very menacing. No spoilers, but it’s one of those horror movies that’s very literal about giving a physical form to psychological conditions. Critics praised Deadwyler’s performance, but felt the plot gets too complicated in the third act. Stream in on Peacock and decide for yourself.

Please Don’t Feed the Children: This psychological horror indie is the directorial debut of Destry Allyn Spielberg, youngest biological daughter of Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw. It’s set in a post-apocalyptic America where a plague has wiped out most of the adult population, and follows a group of orphans who get taken in by one of the few remaining adults (Michelle Dockery). She turns out to be insane, and wants one of the teenage kids (Zoe Colletti) to become the daughter she lost. It’s a tough situation for everyone. The film is streaming on Tubi.

I Don’t Understand You: An under-the-radar black comedy starring Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells, I Don’t Understand You finds the humor in an increasingly bad situation. The film follows Dom (Kroll) and Cole (Rannells) on an Italian vacation to celebrate their anniversary and accidentally kill an elderly woman. As they try to cover it up, they keep digging the hole deeper. The cast also includes The Gilded Age star Morgan Spurlock as the woman’s son, and Amanda Seyfried as the mother of a baby Dom and Cole are planning to adopt. It’s now available to rent or buy on VOD platforms including Amazon.

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Praise the Lorde

The banger maker is back with her fourth album, Virgin, and critics are loving it so far! Listen now before all of pop music sounds like this in a year.

Boss music

Bruce Springsteen's sprawling Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set dropped this week to gushing reviews hailing it as a "treasure trove" of unreleased material. If you're a fan, your weekend plans are set.

White Stripes, Red Rain

The erstwhile duo and early aughts indie-rock royalty, the White Stripes, are celebrating the 20th anniversary of Get Behind Me Satan and, as a part of the look back, have released a new video for their track "Red Rain."

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