This week on What The Hell Should I Watch, the slate is all over the place — which usually makes for the best conversations.
I kick things off with Fresh For Your Eyeballs, starting with Primate, a survival horror film built around a tropical getaway that goes violently wrong when a chimpanzee becomes a lethal threat. It’s a stripped-down, pressure-driven genre piece, and I dig into how well it sustains tension once the premise is fully on the table. From there, I pivot to The Choral, a World War I–set British drama that uses music and community as a way of processing loss, and then into Dead Man’s Wire, a true-crime–inspired thriller centered on a real hostage standoff, where performances and restraint matter as much as the story itself.
I wrap the segment with No Other Choice, Park Chan-wook’s latest, which carries a bit more weight than the rest. It’s a film Chloe and I first saw at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and it also happens to be her number-one film of 2025. That context shapes the conversation, especially when expectations are already sky-high and the film invites deeper discussion around control, consequence, and inevitability.
In the Streaming Pile, I spend time with Die My Love, focusing on Lynne Ramsay’s approach and Jennifer Lawrence’s performance at the center of it. Ramsay builds the film around emotional abrasion and instability, using Lawrence to explore postpartum depression in a way that’s deliberately raw and often uncomfortable. I dig into where that intensity feels purposeful, where it risks becoming exhausting, and whether the performance ultimately justifies how far the film pushes the audience.
Chloe jumps in for Butting In, taking on The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants and Sisu, two films that couldn’t be further apart in tone, intent, or audience — and that contrast alone makes the segment worth digging into.
Steve Stebbing 