Weekend Watchlist, 4/3: Troublemakers
What to watch this weekend
Happy Friday everyone!
My latest entry in my Back in Action series, analyzing the new action movie releases from March 1991 and March 2026, is out. Paid subscribers get a bonus at the bottom – my thoughts on each of the individual movies I watched from those months. I’m currently offering a 20% discount on paid annual memberships, if that sounds appealing to you!
A quick bonus cycling watch this week: the banger end of the 2026 men’s Dwars door Vlaanderen:
Here are this week’s picks!
Humint
Where to watch: Netflix
We’ll start again with what I’m watching this weekend. Ryoo Seung-wan is one of Korea’s most exciting action filmmakers – Escape from Mogadishu is one of the standout action thrillers of the decade (it's on pretty much all the "free with ads or library card" services, if you haven't watched it yet). A former assistant director under Park Chan-wook, Ryoo combines the exacting style of his mentor with the action influences of the Hong Kong movies he watched growing up. His new movie, Humint, is a spy thriller that sees North Korean and South Korean officials clash over the same investigation (definitely some overlap with Escape from Mogadishu’s themes, it seems). It came out in Korea in February, and just dropped on Netflix in the US this week – I’m very excited to check it out.
The Testament of Ann Lee
Where to watch: Hulu
One of my favorite movies of 2025 (and one of the Oscars’ most glaring snubs) is now available to stream. As I said in my best of the year round-up, The Testament of Ann Lee is “full of life and energy and all the things that make movies worth watching.”
Tramps, Troublemakers, and Trailblazers: Trans Filmmakers
Where to watch: Criterion Channel
There are quite a few new exciting collections on the Criterion Channel this month, including Tramps, Troublemakers, and Trailblazers: Trans Filmmakers. The collection is curated by film critics (and friends of PV Guide) Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay, who wrote the terrific book “Corpses, Fools, and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema.” There’s tons of great stuff in there worth checking out – my personal recommendations are We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and Lingua Franca. For extra reading, check out this great piece from Willow that I had the pleasure of editing, about the trans-authored cinema of 2024.
