5 things worth watching this weekend

Whether you are on the lookout for family fun or a scary Friday night, there’s plenty to look at on screens big and small.

Challengers

Zendaya stars in this film from director Luca Guadagnino as Tashi, a former tennis star who has been in a love triangle along with her husband and ex for a very long time. Prepare to see the actress flexing muscles you’ve got never seen before in this unexpected, incredibly comic story.

Knuckles

If you are on the lookout for family fun this weekend, Paramount+ has “Knuckles,” the most recent film within the “Sonic the Hedgehog Cinematic World.” The recent live-action series follows Knuckles (Idris Elba) on a fun and action-packed journey of self-discovery as he agrees to coach Wade Whipple (Adam Pally) as his protégé and teach him the ways of the Echidna warrior.

Them: Fear

The second season of the anthology series created by Little Marvin encompasses a recent all-star forged, including Luke James and Pam Grier, in addition to one familiar favorite, Deborah Ayorinde. Set in Los Angeles in 1991, this installment is filled with terrifying moments and killer performances.

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Breathe

This star-studded thriller takes place in a future where Earth is uninhabitable resulting from a scarcity of oxygen. Maya (Jennifer Hudson) and her daughter Zora (Quvenzhané Wallis) are forced to live underground, with transient trips to the surface only possible because of a coveted, state-of-the-art oxygen suit made by Maya’s husband, Darius (Common), whom she believes to be dead. When a mysterious couple arrives who claim to know Darius and his fate, Maya tentatively agrees to allow them to into their bunker. But these guys usually are not who they appear, leaving mother and daughter struggling to survive.

(*5*)Diarra from Detroit

If you have not had a probability to envision out this recent series from BET+, now’s the right time to accomplish that. The dark comedy, created by its star, Diarra Kilpatrick, is a couple of teacher in search of a divorce who refuses to consider that he was the ghost of his reflection. The seek for a missing man draws her right into a decades-long mystery related to the Detroit criminal world. As the case unfolds, her colleagues, friends and lovers change into unlikely allies as she falls down a dangerous rabbit hole.