Welcome to What to Watch Right Now, our weekly rundown of the best things to watch right now. The constant stream of shows, videos, and films to watch online can be a sludge to wade through. So, here are a few things you can watch courtesy of the Rolling Stone Philippines team. Whether it’s a new film, a video essay, or even a home release you should own (physical media is now!), we hope our picks can ease the burden of selecting a streaming platform, and set you on a new path of discovery.
This week, Weapons had us heading to cinemas for director Zach Cregger’s latest missing-children horror show, while YouTuber Reignbot’s video essay on the internet mystery of Paranormal Paranoids and Shelby Oaks provides a horror of a different kind. Happy Gilmore 2 is out, featuring Adam Sandler stepping into his golf spikes 30 years later.
That Thing Called Tadhana deserved another rewatch after Sunshine announced it would be extending its theatrical run, and The Summer That Hikaru Died had us rooting for the anime’s devoted, albeit ambiguous, two leads.
Barry Lyndon got a 4K upgrade courtesy of the Criterion Collection, Chappell Roan’s Subway music video has awakened the hopeless romantic in us, and the Las Culturistas Culture Awards 2025 have set the bar even higher for award ceremonies and the categories that they should definitely be including.
‘That Thing Called Tadhana’
As the hype around director Antoinette Jadaone’s Sunshine continues to swirl across the nation, I revisited the director’s earlier, and arguably timeless, classic, That Thing Called Tadhana.
First released in 2014 and jokingly described by fans as “Filipino Before Sunrise” (which it really is), That Thing Called Tadhana is more than a romantic drama. It follows Mace, played by an endearing and all too relatable Angelica Panganiban, who finds herself heartbroken and sobbing over John Lloyd Cruz movies after a nasty breakup. She meets Anthony, played by an ever-calm JM de Guzman, who seems to know just how to balance out her moments of melodrama and steer her away from a romance-induced nervous breakdown.
That Thing Called Tadhana is a slow build, and not necessarily for viewers who have yet to feel the world crashing down around them after a relationship gone wrong (when I first watched this movie at 15, I couldn’t relate at all). But it’s the type of movie that honors quiet meditation, giving space for both of its leads to feel their grief, while balancing it out with charming (and kilig-inducing) moments of banter between the two of them. —Mel Wang
‘Happy Gilmore 2’
Watching Adam Sandler return to the golf green with Bad Bunny tailing behind him as his caddy wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card, but it was a delight nonetheless.
Nearly 30 years after Sandler starred in his angry-hockey-player-turned-angry-golfer comedy classic Happy Gilmore, Saturday Night Live’s son is back with a hilarious potty humor sequel full of fart jokes, callbacks to the first movie, and so, so, so many celebrity cameos. Happy Gilmore 2 opens with Happy hitting rock bottom after a golf-induced accident forces him into retirement. But when his daughter Vienna (Sunny Sandler) wants to go to Paris for ballet school, Happy must make his way back to the championships to save the day.
Is this Sandler’s finest? God no. But that doesn’t make it any less entertaining to watch, and for the comedy connoisseur who enjoys jokes about villains with vomit-level bad breath and bits about golf shoes rammed up someone’s ass, this movie’s for you. —Mel Wang
Chappell Roan, ‘The Subway’ Music Video
My bob-haired queen. My rat-infested delight. While it looks like Miss Chappell’s next album isn’t dropping anytime soon (it’s at least a five-year wait time), that doesn’t mean that Your Favorite Artist’s Favorite Artist isn’t trickling out a few singles here and there to keep her rabid fans (me) at bay.
The Subway is one of these standalone hits, and thankfully, the pop star’s also released a dreamy and wonderfully sapphic music video (MV) to go along with it. Highlights of the MV include Chappell getting her floor-length hair caught in the doors of a New York yellow taxi, the diva taking a questionable bath in the Washington Square Park fountain (gross!), and her green-haired beauty jumping the subway turnstile, in heels no less! —Mel Wang
‘The Summer Hikaru Died’
“Is The Summer Hikaru Died BL” is my first Google search after watching the anime adaptation of Mokumokuren’s manga.
Curiously, it has been described as a slice-of-life horror, chronicling the everyday struggles of small-town boy Yoshiki, who is coming to terms with the death of his best friend Hikaru, whose body is now inhabited by a supernatural entity. This “Hikaru” possesses his host body’s memories and is eager to experience life in a physical body and the earthly plane. Though, as seen in the opening scene of the first episode, he is willing to spend this newfound life with Yoshiki, with whom he has developed deep emotional ties. In comes the BL question.
With longing glances and declarations of devotion, the show hasn’t been exactly explicit about the relationship developing between the two close friends. The Summer Hikaru Died so far is skilled at carving out a place for blending eldritch horror with the complexities of grief, growing up, and goofball shenanigans. It’s warm, terrifying, and fascinating all at the same time. Episodes drop every Sunday. —Don Jaucian
‘Weapons’
Barbarian director Zach Cregger returns with another horror freakout, the vaguely titled Weapons (you’ll know why when you watch it). Ozark and Fantastic 4: The First Steps’ Silver Surfer, Julia Garner plays Justine, a third-grade teacher whose students vanish in the middle of the night — all but one. As parents go ballistic in the wake of their missing kids, we discover Justine’s sketchy behavior and, in turn, what ails the community at a larger scale.
The mystery unravels through the perspective of six characters, where each segment plays off with a different vibe: Justine’s chapter is the alcoholic teacher who does whatever she wants; Archer’s (Josh Brolin) is gloomy chapter about a grieving father who dreams that there’s a spectre of a giant firearm looming over their house; the dopey, incompetent Paul (Alden Ehrenreich) — whose moustache is a tribute to John C. Reiley’s in Magnolia, one of Cregger’s influences for Weapons — is a comedy of errors; etc.
Expect bloody carnage and punches of comedy to undercut tension and scares, as Cregger has done in Barbarian. Weapons is a damn good time, so don’t miss it. —Don Jaucian
‘Barry Lyndon in 4K’
Already one of the most masterful films of an already masterful auteur, Barry Lyndon scales up in 4K in this new Criterion Collection’s transfer. The film has already established quite a reputation in cinephile circles: that these painterly sets bring to life an otherwise ordinary life, that director Stanley Kubrick and cinematographer John Alcott painstakingly brought these 18th-century set pieces using a blend of natural light (candles and daylight) and artificial light, or that NASA created the f/0.7 lenses for the film.
In its review of the new restoration, Slant Magazine’s Eric Henderson wrote, “the famed candle-lit card games are impressive showpieces, with an astonishing luminosity amid inky darks. But even more impressive are the exteriors, where the shadows of clouds slicing across the countryside are flawlessly represented.” While still considered an outlier in Kubrick’s majestic body of work — 2001: A Space Odyssey in itself is already worthy of ascending to the pantheon of cinema — Barry Lyndon in 4K, together with the 5.1 surround soundtrack, is an unforgettable experience.
This latest edition from Criterion comes with three discs containing a 4K UHD disc of the film in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-ray discs with the film and special features. Get a copy on Amazon, but make sure your player can play Region A discs. —Don Jaucian
Las Culturistas Culture Awards 2025
Whether you managed to catch a full livestream of Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ insane award ceremony, or watched most of it as TikTok clips, Las Culturistas Culture Awards 2025 has definitely generated more than enough viral, meme-worthy content to last us the next five years.
What first started as a joke on Yang and Rogers’ podcast Las Culturistas, has evolved into a beautiful, fantastical, and extravagant celebration of what Rolling Stone described as “the glory and stupidity of pop culture.” The ceremony’s categories cast a wide net, giving out awards like the Eva Longoria Award for Tiny Woman, Big Impact (this went to Quinta Brunson, who stands at a proud 4’11), the Reneé Rapp Award for Power in Lesbianism (winner: Probably Your Grandma Even Though She Was Married To Your Grandpa for Fifty Years), and my personal favorite, the Creatine Award for Straight Man Excellence (Andy Samberg – various). —Mel Wang
The Shelby Oaks Lore Video
The history of Shelby Oaks, the crowdfunded debut of YouTuber and film critic Chris Stuckman, is well-documented, from its initial hype (another YouTuber on its way to horror film success!), worldwide premiere at the 2024 Fantasia Film Festival, until it eventually disappeared from the film festival rounds.
In March 2025, news of reshoots and reedit came around, as ordered by the film’s distributor Neon, who acquired Shelby Oaks while they’re riding high on the success of the (actually mid film) Longlegs. More gore and violence were ordered. Finally, Stuckmann and Neon premiered the trailer in time for its October release, and the product appears promising and intriguing.
In the wake of this revitalized hype, someone pointed out that YouTuber ReignBot, whose channel specializes in supernatural mysteries, has already put out an hour-long video demystifying the lore of one of the film’s inspirations, the Paranormal Paranoids, a team of ghost hunters who released a few videos on YouTube and then suddenly went missing. ReignBot’s “A New Internet Mystery: Paranormal Paranoids and the Shelby Oaks Analysis” provides a comprehensive coverage of the group, their spooky findings, as well as how the whole internet lore went down on Twitter. It’s up to you whether you think it’s real or not. —Don Jaucian
