Weekend Watchlist, 5/8: Get some sun
What to watch this weekend
Happy Friday, PV Guide readers! I hope you have a great weekend ahead of you.
It’s been a busy week – I published the April edition of my Back in Action 1991 series, Sophie Bee joined us for a guest post on the history of live-action fighting game movies, and I joined the Action for Everyone podcast for a fun episode, talking action movies new and old.
I’m also running a 20% discount on annual memberships through the end of May!
Now, for this week’s picks.
Send Help
Where to watch: Hulu
Here’s the “what I’m watching this weekend” pick for the week. I was sad to miss Send Help in theaters, and I’ve been anxiously waiting for its streaming premiere. I’m very excited to see Sam Raimi and Rachel McAdams both back in gonzo mode, and I was really taken with Dylan O’Brien’s performance in Twinless last year. Hoping for a campy good time!
Vengeance
Where to watch: Prime Video
One of the best surprises of the action genre so far in 2026, Vengeance announces the arrival of an exciting new action filmmaker on the block – Rodrigo Valdes, a commercial director who also shot the second unit on 2024’s Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. The movie is a pretty straightforward vengeance plot, following a Mexican special forces soldier (Omar Chaparro) who vows to investigate corruption in the highest levels of the Mexican military only to face drastic personal consequences. Vengeance sports strong, brutal action design that is full of surprises and cleverly uses the environments, and joins a crop of recent standout Mexican action or action-adjacent movies, alongside 2025’s Counterstrike and 2021’s A Cop Movie.
The Giro!
Where to watch: HBO Max
Regular PV Guide readers (or anyone who has talked to me over the past year) know that I’ve gotten really into cycling recently. I love the pacing and how narratives develop over time, the beautiful locations it travels to, and it has the most complex and interesting social dynamics of any sport out there.
The first of cycling’s three major Grand Tours starts Friday morning – the Giro d’Italia, the gorgeous Grand Tour of Italy. This year’s Giro will start in Bulgaria before heading into Italy and Switzerland for some intense climbs, and will be on nearly every day for the rest of May.
Most of the S-tier riders are staying home and preparing for July’s Tour de France, which means Danish star Jonas Vingegaard is the clear favorite to win the three-week Giro. But it should be a legitimately very exciting race for the other two spots of the podium, with a bunch of A- and B-tier guys battling it out for second and third. I’m particularly excited for rising Italian star Giulio Pellizzari, competing in his third Giro and hoping to best his sixth-place finish in 2025, and Norwegian/Danish underdogs Uno-X (my team of choice), who can actually make a real impact in a Giro field with reduced strength.
