Streaming highlights this weekend

A new weekend streaming roundup is steering viewers toward four easy home picks: *The Love That Remains* and *undertone* on video on demand, *Magellan* on the Criterion Channel, and *The Running Man* on Prime Video. (thefilmstage.com) The list came from The Film Stage on Friday, April 17, in its weekly “New to Streaming” column covering titles that recently reached U.S. platforms. The piece frames the selections as quick recommendations rather than full reviews. (thefilmstage.com) That means the story here is less about one release than about how a weekend watchlist now mixes three different lanes at once: transactional rentals, subscription-library additions, and studio titles landing on a major retail service. In one scroll, viewers move from Icelandic family drama to Canadian horror to a Lav Diaz historical epic and a Stephen King adaptation. (thefilmstage.com) *The Love That Remains*, directed by Hlynur Pálmason, hit digital platforms on April 14 after a U.S. theatrical opening on January 30. Janus Films’ release follows the movie’s 2025 Cannes premiere, where its dog, Panda, won the Palm Dog prize. (whentostream.com) The film follows a family through a year of separation and memory, with Saga Garðarsdóttir, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, and Sverrir Gudnason in the cast. The Film Stage’s January review called it Pálmason’s fourth feature and noted its U.S. theatrical launch date. (imdb.com) (thefilmstage.com) *undertone*, director Ian Tuason’s debut feature, opened in theaters on March 13 and is now available on Prime Video in the U.S. Amazon lists the film at 1 hour 33 minutes with Nina Kiri, Adam DiMarco, and Michèle Duquet in the cast. (thefilmstage.com) (primevideo.com) The movie is built around a paranormal podcast host receiving anonymous recordings that carry hidden messages. The Film Stage said Tuason staged the feature in his Toronto childhood home with only two on-screen actors, pushing much of the action into sound. (primevideo.com) (thefilmstage.com) *Magellan* reached the Criterion Channel on April 14 at 8 p.m. Eastern, giving subscribers access to Lav Diaz’s 2025 epic without a separate rental. Criterion describes the film as starring Gael García Bernal and says it “rewrites” the Age of Discovery story from an anti-imperial angle. (criterionchannel.com 1) (criterionchannel.com 2) Criterion has also folded *Magellan* into its “Fresh from Theaters” and May 2026 lineup programming, a sign of how the service is using recent festival and art-house releases to supplement its repertory catalog. The movie previously opened in the U.S. on January 9 and hit digital rental platforms on March 17 before the subscription debut. (criterionchannel.com) (criterion.com) (whentostream.com) The most overtly mainstream title in the group is *The Running Man*, now on Prime Video. Amazon’s listing describes Edgar Wright’s 2025 film as a 2-hour-13-minute thriller starring Glen Powell, Josh Brolin, and Colman Domingo about a worker trapped in a televised manhunt. (primevideo.com) The Film Stage had already flagged *The Running Man* in a December 19, 2025 streaming roundup, which shows how these columns function as a rolling discovery tool instead of a one-time release calendar. This week’s list updates that habit with newer arrivals, but the pitch stays the same: a few concrete options for what to watch at home right now. (thefilmstage.com 1) (thefilmstage.com 2)