Avatar: Fire and Ash is now available to watch at home, at last.
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It was a little quiet out there on the video-on-demand front in March, as the few remaining films from 2025 still unavailable at home filtered onto services like Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home, while a few early 2026 hits try to crash the party. This small assembly of flicks new to PVOD includes one of the funniest movies you’ll see all year, a smash-hit Canadian comedy, and an Oscar winner.
Luc Besson, 129 minutes
People can’t get enough of classic monsters lately with Lee Cronin’s upcoming The Mummy, last year’s Wolf Man, and multiple vampire tales, including Nosferatu and Radu Jude’s playful variation on Dracula. Perhaps the least buzzed of the bunch was this offering from the half-canceled Luc Besson, a director once adored for films like The Fifth Element and The Professional. This one stars the excellent Caleb Landry Jones as the title character, acting alongside double Oscar winner Christoph Waltz. It’s also got a pretty great Danny Elfman score. Available on VOD.
Gore Verbinski, 134 minutes
The visionary director of Rango and The Cure for Wellness finally returned in 2026 with this sci-fi comedy about a time traveler (a perfectly cast Sam Rockwell) who comes back to save the world from a Terminator-esque future in which the machines have won. Dropping into a diner in L.A., he assembles a ragtag crew of saviors, ordinary people whose lives have been disrupted by the technology of the 2020s. It’s funny, smart, and unlike anything else you could watch this weekend. Available on VOD.
Matt Johnson, 100 minutes
One of the funniest movies of its era, this is technically a reboot of the 2000s web series Nirvana the Band the Show and the subsequent 2017 TV version. Using footage from the original series, Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol play loose versions of themselves that end up going back in time when they try to get a gig at the famous Toronto venue Rivoli. A commentary on art, friendship, and aging, this is a hysterical, fearless piece of filmmaking. Available on VOD.
Sam Raimi, 113 minutes
Rachel McAdams stars in this banger of a survival flick as an ordinary woman who ends up stranded on a deserted island with her asshole of a boss, played by Dylan O’Brien. It’s so wonderful to see the director of Evil Dead and Drag Me to Hell back in prime form, shattering expectations of traditional January blockbuster flicks. It’s also nice that this was a pretty sizable hit, making way more than its budget. Don’t wait so long for another one, Sam. Available on VOD.
Olivier Laxe, 114 minutes
One of the best foreign films of 2025, this stunner tells the story of a father (Sergi Lopez) who searches the raves in Southern Morocco for his missing daughter. With his son along for the ride, Luis shows strangers photos of the missing girl, joining a few of them on a convoy to the next party. When unimaginable tragedy strikes, the tone of Laxe’s film shifts to become an existential horror film, one of the most unforgettable of last year. It’s far from an easy watch, but don’t miss this one. Available on VOD.
James Cameron, 197 minutes
An Oscar winner for Best Visual Effects, this third chapter in the Avatar franchise was arguably the most mildly received (it was the first not nominated for Best Picture), but it still made almost $1.5 billion. Despite the criticism about the perceived lack of a cultural footprint for this series, people go to see these films in droves, and some of those people presumably want to watch it again on PVOD before its inevitable Disney+ drop. Now is the time to do that. Available on VOD.
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