Fans already knew the consequences. What remained untold was the trauma itself. Available since October 6, 2026, Gears of War: E-Day returns to the moment the Locust emerged from underground. Beyond the spectacle of a monstrous invasion, The Coalition is exploring how Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago became the inseparable figures at the heart of the franchise.

Excellent grades can get a young doctor through medical school. They cannot make an emergency room wait while that doctor figures out what comes next. Miracles of the ER, now dated for November 12 on Netflix, builds its eight episodes around that gap between academic promise, practical experience and the responsibility of making decisions when somebody else’s time is running out.

Making a table shake on command is one thing. Knowing what to do when the house starts answering back is apparently another. Anything But Ghosts, Curry Barker and Cooper Tomlinson’s horror comedy about fraudulent paranormal investigators meeting the real thing, now has a theatrical date.

The rescue mission at the center of Confabulation sounds straightforward until the man attempting it becomes the least reliable source of information in the room. Tyler Perry’s next Netflix thriller follows a firefighter determined to save a former love, only for his own fractured memories to begin challenging the story he believes he is living.

Avengers: Doomsday does not reach Australian cinemas until December 17, but Disney already has its first seven-figure talking point. More than A$1 million in tickets were sold during the first 24 hours of the latest presale launch. It is a notable measure of committed demand. It is not, however, a miniature version of the final box office.

LEGO ONE PIECE already lets Usopp retell two seasons of adventures with considerably more plastic involved. Netflix has now added another layer to the experiment: two short extras in which the live-action cast meets the LEGO side of the franchise both on the table and inside the recording booth.

Black Mirror has never needed much encouragement to reference itself. New photographs from the Season 8 production now provide an unusually concentrated batch of callbacks, with Emma Laird filming near material invoking Striking Vipers, Arkangel, Bandersnatch and more. The clues are real. The grand unified theory is not — at least not yet.

There is no mystery about who the monster is in Nocturne. Stephen Graham's Jurek Walter is right there, separated from his pursuers by prison glass. The tension in Apple TV's new trailer comes from a nastier question: how close will Liev Schreiber's Jonah Lynn and Zazie Beetz's Saga Bauer have to get before he gives them what they need?

Telling Matthew Perry's story comes with an obvious problem: Chandler Bing is almost impossible to keep out of the frame. The trailer for Netflix's The One About Matthew Perry suggests the documentary will confront that problem directly, using the memories of the people closest to Perry to look past one of television's most recognizable characters.

Choosing a streaming service on a tight budget once looked simple: compare four monthly prices. That no longer works in 2026. Netflix operates in more than 190 countries, Prime Video says it is available across more than 240 countries and territories, while HBO Max has expanded beyond 100 countries. Prices, catalogues and even the availability of ad-supported plans change from one market to another. For a small budget, the more useful question is which service manages to preserve its value across very different parts of the world.