Lifestyle of a Fashionista

January 2026

Movies In Theaters

From The Hollywood Reporter: The Most Anticipated Movies of 2026

From Purewow: The 8 Most Anticipated Movies of 2026 (6 of Them Have Something in Common…)

From The New York Times: 65 Movies to See This Winter (November and December) *Includes streaming movies

Visit Fandango to see all the movies in theaters. See the full list of 2026 releases: https://www.firstshowing.net/schedule2025/

The Best of 2025 and award season:

Awards season has begun with the Critics’ Choice Awards this past weekend. Next: ⭐️Golden Globes on CBS/Paramount+ on January 11th. Nominations

If you enjoy watching award-nominated movies, this is the time to catch up on movies you might have missed in 2025. The best-of lists tend to match the award-nomination lists. Read more in the links below.

From The New York Times: Best Movies of 2025

From The Guardian: The best films of 2025 … you may not have seen and ‘A total knockout!’ The best television you never watched in 2025

From Mashable: The 25 best movies of 2025, and where to stream them

From NBC: Oscars 2026: How to watch the movies getting the most awards buzz

From lehighvalleylive: These were the 10 hottest shows of the year — how many did you watch?

From NPR: A top-10 list can’t contain all the great TV of 2025

From W: The Best TV Shows of 2025, According to W Editors

Streaming: Movies and Series

I started this newsletter because there were too many shows and streaming services to keep track of. I wanted to organize the lists and recommendations. I’ve just discovered there are apps to help people like me!

Read from Wired: How to Quickly Find Out What’s Streaming on Multiple Services at Once and from PC Where Is That Streaming? The Best Apps to Help You Find What You Want to Watch

The Lists: January releases by streaming service.

Amazon Prime: See the full list from Amazon.

Apple TV+: New Apple TV from Apple TV Press

Disney+: See the full list from Vulture

Hulu: See the full list from Vulture

Max (HBO): See the full list from Vulture

Netflix: See the full list Tulum and from Vulture.

Paramount+: New On Paramount+. From Vulture

Peacock: See the full list from Vulture and Peacock.

Movies: New and Noteworthy

From USA Today: From ‘One Battle After Another’ to ‘Bugonia,’ 25 movies to stream now

Movies and series with a ⭐️ have won an award, or were nominated for an award. 🚨indicates a thriller, mystery 🕵🏼‍♂️, or police procedural. 🎥is a classic worth rewatching, 🔥indicates a movie or series that will be trending.

⭐️Bugonia (2025 film on Peacock)

⭐️Sinners (2025 film on Max)

⭐️One Battle After Another (2025 film on Max)

Tron: Ares (2025 film on Disney+ January 7th)

🔥People We Meet on Vacation — Netflix Film on January 9th, based on the book by Emily Henry. Poppy wants to explore the world and Alex prefers to stay home with a good book, but somehow they are the best of friends. They live far apart, but for a decade they have spent one week of summer vacation together.

🔥🚨The Rip (crime/thriller on Netflix January 16th), Upon discovering millions in cash in a derelict stash house, trust among a team of Miami cops begins to fray. As outside forces learn about the size of the seizure, everything is called into question — including who they can rely on. 

Twinless (2025 film on Hulu January 16th)

⭐️The Smashing Machine (A24 film on Max January 23rd)

🚨The Wrecking Crew (2026 comedy/action film on Prime Video January 28th), In this action comedy, two estranged half brothers, Jonny (Jason Momoa) and James (Dave Bautista), are forced to reunite after their father’s mysterious death. As they set out to uncover the truth, buried secrets resurface and loyalties are tested, unveiling a conspiracy that can tear their family apart.

⭐️If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025 on Max January 30th)

Series: New and Returning

New:

🔥🕵🏼‍♂️HIS & HERS — (Netflix Series on January 8th), based on the book by Alice Feeney. Two estranged spouses — one a cop, the other a news reporter — compete to solve a murder case in which each believes the other is a prime suspect.

🔥Girl Taken (series premiere on Paramount+ January 8th), following the story of twin sisters Lily and Abby, whose lives are shattered when Lily is abducted from their quiet rural English town by beloved local teacher Rick Hansen. based on the novel Baby Doll by Hollie Overton.

Coldwater | Showtime Original Series premieres January 10th on Showtime /Paramount+ (new episodes weekly), An unhappy middle-aged man who has moved to an isolated Scottish village strikes up a friendship with his oddball next door neighbor despite his wife’s protestations and suspicions.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, two-episode premiere (Paramount+ Original on January 15th), A young group of cadets come together to pursue a common dream; under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate friendships, rivalries, first loves and a new enemy.

🕵🏼‍♂️🔥Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials — Netflix Series on January 15th), When a lavish country house party ends in murder, a witty young aristocrat sets out to solve the mystery in this adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel.

🕵🏼‍♂️iPonies – Premiere, All Episodes, 8 Episodes, 60 min (Peacock Original) on January 15th, In 1977 Moscow, two “PONIES” (“persons of no interest” in intelligence speak) work‬‭ anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is, until their husbands die under‬‭ mysterious circumstances in the Soviet Union, and they are thrust into the CIA. Bea Grant is‬‭ sharp, over-educated and fluent in Russian — a child of Russian immigrants, trying to make‬‭ sense of a life that hasn’t turned out the way she expected. Twila Hasbeck is a small-town‬‭ firecracker: abrasive, bold and more fearless than she should be. Thrown together by grief and‬‭ circumstance, the two dig into the vast conspiracy their husbands were killed for.

🔥A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (drama series premieres on Max January 18th, weekly release on Sundays), A century before the events of “Game of Thrones,” two unlikely heroes wander Westeros. In an adaption of George R. R. Martin’s novella “The Hedge Knight,” a young and naive but courageous knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, and his diminutive squire, Egg, face a series of dangerous exploits. Set in an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne and images of the last dragon have not yet passed from living memory, great destinies and powerful foes await these improbable and incomparable friends.

FX’s The Beauty, (three-episode series premiere on Hulu January 21st), Partners Drew Foster and Kara Vaughn investigate the Beauty STD causing aesthetic effects but proving lethal; they try to evade corrupt officials and a mercenary targeting them amidst a suspected government conspiracy. A Ryan Murphy show.

🚨🔥Steal (thriller series on Prime Video on January 21st),  In this high-octane thriller, a typical workday at a pension-fund investment company is upended when a gang of violent thieves burst in and force Zara (Sophie Turner) and her best mate Luke (Archie Madekwe) to execute their demands. But who would steal billions of pounds of ordinary people’s pensions and why?

🔥Wonder Man (action series all episodes on Hulu January 27th), Hollywood actor Simon Williams is thrust into the world of superheroes as he gets powers of his own and becomes the new superhero Wonder Man.

Returning scripted series

Weekly series that are coming to a close in January, or have just wrapped up.

• Palm Royale (season finale on Wed, January 28th on Apple TV+)
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians (season finale January 21st on Disney+)
• Stranger Things season 5 ended on Netflix December 31st

🔥Tell Me Lies, (two-episode season 3 premiere Hulu Original on January 13th), Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will permanently alter their lives and the lives of everyone around them; a tumultuous and intoxicating relationship unfolds over eight years.

The Boyfriend, season 2 — Netflix Series on January 13th

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Season 2) – finale on January 21st on Disney+

Tehran (season 3 on Apple TV+ January 9th, weekly releases on Fridays)

🔥⭐️The Pitt, season 2 premiere (Max Original on January 8th, weekly releases on Thursdays)

🔥Industry, Season 4 premiere (HBO Original on January 11th, weekly releases on Sundays)

🔥The Night Manager (season 2 on Prime Video January 11th, weekly releases on Sundays),  Season 2 returns with Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston), now living as Alex Goodwin, thinking he’s buried his past. Then one night, a chance sighting of an old mercenary prompts a call to action and leads Pine to a violent encounter with a new player: Colombian businessman Teddy Dos Santos (Diego Calva).

🔥🚨Hijack (season 2 on Apple TV+ on January 14th, weekly releases on Wednesdays)

The Upshaws: Part 7 — Netflix Series on January 15th

Drops of God (season 2 on Apple TV+ on January 21st, weekly releases on Wednesdays)

Shrinking (season 3 on Apple TV+ January 28th, weekly releases on Wednesdays)

Palm Royale (season finale on Wed, January 28th on Apple TV+)

School Spirits, season 3 premiere (Paramount+ Original) January 28th

🔥Bridgerton, season 4 part 1 — Netflix Series on January 30th

Reality and Award Shows

⭐️31st Annual Critics Choice Awards on Peacock January 5th

Marcello Hernández: American Boy — Netflix Comedy Special on January 7th

Beast Games (Season 2 on Prime Video on January 7th), On January 7, Beast Games is back after a record-shattering first season. MrBeast has assembled 100 of the planet’s strongest competitors and 100 of the world’s smartest minds: “Strong vs. Smart” will battle for an eye-watering $5 million prize.

⭐️Golden Globes on CBS/Paramount+ on January 11th. Nominations

Fear Factor: House of Fear (Series Premiere on Hulu January 15th), Dropped into an unforgiving, remote location, a group of strangers live together under one roof, and face mind-blowing stunts, harrowing challenges and a twisted game of social strategy where trust is fleeting — and fear is a weapon. Only one contestant conquers all their fears and walks away with the massive grand prize. Hosted by Johnny Knoxville.

Star Search — Netflix Live Event on January 20th, Bigger talent. Higher stakes. Your vote. The iconic competition series returns for a new generation — live. The search is on. World-famous free solo climber Alex Honnold attempts to ascend one of the planet’s tallest skyscrapers in a high-stakes live event from Taipei. Anthony Anderson hosts

The Traitors, Season 4 – New Episode, 60 min (Peacock Original) January 22nd

Skyscraper Live — Netflix Live Event on January 23rd, World-famous free solo climber Alex Honnold attempts to ascend one of the planet’s tallest skyscrapers in a high-stakes live event from Taipei.

Documentary

Harlan Coben’s Final Twist (true crime documentary series, premieres on CBS January 7th, streams on Paramount+), Harlan Coben, the best-selling author who has built a global reputation for twist-laden murder mysteries, brings his signature storytelling to real-life cases. Driven by finding out what makes a killer cross the line, Coben steps into these cases himself, following threads that expose the hidden lives of seemingly ordinary people. Each episode is a new mystery, exploring hidden motives, buried secrets and unanswered questions. Coben focuses on uncovering shocking revelations where nothing is what it seems, and reveals that truth is often stranger than fiction.

Pole to Pole with Will Smith (series on Disney on January 14th), Five years in the making, the series follows Will across all seven continents, taking him from the icefields of Antarctica to the jungles of the Amazon, the mountains of the Himalayas, the deserts of Africa, the islands of the Pacific and the icebergs of the Arctic. 

Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart — Netflix Documentary on January 21st

Vietnam: The War That Changed America (documentary series on Apple TV+ on January 31st)

I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not (CNN Films on Max January 31st)