What to Watch This Week: Feb 10-16, 2025

Pradhana Vizha: The 20th Edition (mewatch, Mediacorp Entertainment on YouTube, Vasantham, Feb 15, 9pm)

Mediacorp’s local Indian entertainment award show returns! The 20th edition will be handing out 20 awards (Richard Low is up for Best Performance in an Antagonist Performance, aka Best Villain, in the WWII drama 1943). With Jaenani Netra, Saravanan Ayyavoo, G Selva, Thavanesan Sivananthan, and Malene Waters as hosts. Before the main show kicks off live from The Theatre at Mediacorp, catch the red-carpet special A Golden Walk to Stardom at 6.30pm.

Say it Right!, Season 2 (mewatch, Channel 8, Feb 11, 8pm)

Influencers Xixi Lim and Thomas K brush up their Chinese in a series of linguistic challenges. First, they have to put a team together. Who will Xixi and Thomas choose to join them, respectively — Benjamin Toh, Randy Toh, Samantha Tan or Isabelle Quek?

Surviving Black Hawk Down (Netflix, Feb 10)

Featuring first-hand accounts, this three-part documentary revisits the events of the 1993 battle between the US and Somalian militia in the Battle of Mogadishu, which inspired Ridley Scott’s 2001 film Black Hawk Down. That film featured a cast of then-up-and-comers — including Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Hugh Dancy, Orlando Bloom and Tom Hardy — and was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Director, winning two for Best Sound and Best Film Editing.

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The Gorge (Apple TV+, Feb 14)

Doctor Strange and The Black Phone helmer Scott Derrickson is behind this sci-fi thriller starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller as elite snipers assigned to guard posts on opposite sides of a deep, highly-classified gorge that protects the world from something evil lurking below. Spoiler alert: it’s a freaking monster! Sigourney Weaver co-stars.

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Broken Rage (Prime Video, Feb 14)

‘Beat’ Takeshi Kitano’s latest is a genre-hybrid project — an “experimental endeavour” — split into two halves: the first is a gritty crime thriller about a hitman on the run from the law and the Yakuza, while the second reimagines the same narrative as a comedy. The ensemble include Tadanobu Asano (Shogun) and Shidô Nakamura (Monster).  

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I Am Married…But!  (Netflix, Feb 14)

This 12-part Taiwanese dramedy stars Ko Chia-yen (Copycat Killer) as a woman contemplating splitting from her mummy’s boy of a husband (More than Blue’s Jasper Liu) — after meeting another man on a dating app. Is she going to follow through with the divorce or is she going through a phase? Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Melo Movie (Netflix, Feb 14)

More VD programming! Parasite’s Choi Woo-sik plays a movie critic trying to rekindle his relationship with his ex-girlfriend (Light Shop’s Park Bo-young), now an up-and-coming filmmaker. Meanwhile, his struggling songwriter pal (The Impossible Heir’s Lee Jun-young) wants to reconcile with his former squeeze (Parasyte: The Grey’s Jeon So-nee), a screenwriter. 

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SNL 50: The Homecoming Concert (Rock Entertainment Channel, StarHub Ch 509 & Singtel TV Ch 318, Feb 15, 9am)

Mark Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary with this epic three-hour concert livestreamed from Radio City Music Hall. Hosted by Jimmy Fallon, the line-up includes Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny, Miley Cyrus, Backstreet Boys and Post Malone. Mumford & Sons, Jack White, David Byrne, Robyn, Eddie Vedder, DEVO, Brittany Howard, Chris Martin, Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Jelly Roll, the B-52s, Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Roots will also perform, with more artists to be announced. Crank up the cowbell!

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Cuckoo (Max, Feb 15)

Weird horror flick starring Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer as a wayward (surprise, surprise) teen who moves to a remote resort community in the German Alps with her estranged parents (Marton Csokas and Jessica Henwick). There, they encounter a creepy scientist (Dan Stevens)… and a killer humanoid bird. Like I said, expect weirdness.

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