It's been almost five complete years now since it came in the UK, transforming the streaming game almost overnight, yet if anything it's really tougher today than ever before to know exactly what to watch on Disney+ UK next. Armed with the Infinity Gauntlet of IP — Marvel, Disney, Star Wars, Pixar, and FOX — the House of Mouse has built a real content utopia where there truly is something for everyone. How many other platforms do you know where you can have the bejeezus scared out of you by xenomorphs, the cockles of your heart warmed by some family friendly space opera, follow a couple of Hollywood megastars up to Wrexham's STōK Cae Ras, and find yourself in a world of multiple Jesse Plemonses all without having to switch streamers?
However, when faced with a platform where you can journey to a galaxy far, far away with a Star Wars-y smorgasbord just as easily as you can marathon the entire Walt Disney Animation catalogue, devour the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, or mainline Pixar’s illustrious filmography, it can be hard to know what to watch next. And with the likes of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Daredevil Born Again, and Pixar's first ever TV series, Win Or Lose, all slated to launch on the platform in the coming months, the streamer’s showing no signs of slowing. With that in mind, we here at Empire and Pilot TV HQ have chosen to assist you by bringing up a thorough list to everything you need to view on Disney+.
Alien: Romulus
Alien meets Aliens in Fede Alvarez’ Alien: Romulus, which follows Cailee Spaeny’s Rain, her synthetic brother Andy, and a motley team of criminals as they execute a daring attack on the Renaissance, a not-so-abandoned spacecraft drifting in space. Alvarez leans heavily into Ridley Scott’s brand of sci-fi Gothic throughout his film’s early spasms as Rain and co traverse the Renaissance’s Remus module, before riding an elevator down to hell — called the Romulus module — for an action-heavy, James Cameron aspiring back half. Rib-cracking chestbursters, phallic facehuggers, and a full-sized, acid-dripping xenomorph all come out to play as Alvarez reminds us that his Alien movie is coming from the guy who gave us 2013’s Evil Dead, and we’re quite frankly still struggling to process the sheer visceral horrors of that final 15 minutes even now. (And the Disney+ version has rectified the shoddy Ian Holm CGI – fortunately.)
Skeleton Crew
From Ahsoka to Andor and The Mandalorian to The Acolyte, the Disney+ era of Star Wars has provided us no lack of excursions to that galaxy far, far away as we impatiently anticipate the classic space opera’s big screen return. But Christopher Ford and Jon Watts’ Amblin inspired Skeleton Crew may possibly be the greatest unexpected treat we’ve been handed thus far. Combining elements of The Goonies, Treasure Island, and even The Truman Show into its nevertheless uniquely Star Warsian brew, Ford and Watts’ family friendly series tells the tale of a band of misfit kids who unwittingly find themselves thrust into an intergalactic adventure with a Force-sensitive, space pirate Jude Law. Fun and irreverent in the main but surprisingly subtle in its storytelling as the series goes, this is peak Star Wars for kids — and for the kid inside. And certainly, we would die for Neel.
Music By John Williams
You seldom see his face on screen, but we’d stake a bet that there isn’t a film enthusiast alive who doesn’t recognize the guy, the genius that is John Williams. So culturally omnipresent is the composer of Indiana Jones, Star Wars, E.T., Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters Of The Third sort, and oh so many more legendary cinema soundtracks in fact that it’s sort of astonishing it took this long for him to be given the soup-to-nuts music doc treatment. But now that it is here, it proves more than worth the wait. Featuring contributions from the likes of Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ron Howard, J.J. Abrams, and, er, Chris Martin — not to mention the great man himself — Laurent Bouzereau’s documentary is an elegantly constructed, lovingly made tribute to one of the most significant figures in cinema history.
The First Omen
If you watched Immaculate in 2024, fancied a second helping of old-school nunsploitation, clocked Deliver Us, and then wanted to round off an Unholy Trinity of female fronted horror movies but somehow missed — or indeed skipped — The First Omen, then you can now blessedly rectify that egregious error in judgment. Nell Tiger Free is in spectacular form as Margaret, a young American who, upon arriving in Rome to begin devotion to the sisters, learns dark secrets at the core of her convent that put in motion the events that ultimately lead straight into the original The Omen movie. Ralph Ineson, Bill Nighy, Sonia Braga, and Ishtar Currie-Wilson all help make up a great supporting ensemble for Arkasha Stevenson’s impressive feature directorial debut, a wonderfully terrifying chiller that stands on its own two feet while elegantly dovetailing with the Richard Donner original.
Dream Productions
Less a limited series than a four-part Inside Out 2.5 (or 1.5, if you want to be chronologically correct), Mike Jones’ bright spin-off travels back inside Riley’s mind and directly to the place where dreams are made of – literally. Introducing viewers to fraught Dream Productions director Paula Persimmon (Paula Pell) and her reluctant new co-director, pompous wannabe-auteur Xeni (Richard Ayoade), the series is equal parts The Office style mockumentary, winking film industry metaphor, and welcomely wackadoodle, whipsmart Inside Out world expansion. If you didn’t already believe Pixar’s inner odyssey was the studio’s biggest franchise attraction previously (despite Inside Out 2 being the highest earning animated picture ever created), then you definitely will by the time the credits roll on this high concept, very bingeable little treasure.
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Inside Out 2
A thoughtful continuation of Inside Out’s emotional journey, filmmaker Kelsey Mann's sequel seamlessly slips back inside the mind of a now-teenage Riley (Kensington Tallman), frazzled again by the advent of puberty — and the entrance of numerous new emotions. Chief amongst them is Anxiety (an amazing Maya Hawke), whose disastrous efforts to prepare Riley for high-school life — supported by Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser) — see the teen’s childhood emotions thrown adrift. Sar-chasms, dark secrets, and a recurrent segment featuring a 2D toon from Riley’s favourite childhood show all easily duplicate the original film’s visual innovation and quick-witted hilarity. But, once again, it’s returning authors Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein's nuanced perspectives on the nuances of human emotions — here, a painfully sympathetic deconstruction of social anxiety and self-doubt — that delivers all the feels. And, it must be noted, all the box office, as Inside Out 2 is now the highest-grossing animated movie ever filmed!
Agatha All Along
Having struck a spell on us with her role as Agatha Harkness in WandaVision, Kathryn Hahn is back with her very own deliciously witchy MCU spin-off series Agatha All Along. Set three years after ‘the Westview incident’, Jac Schaeffer’s new show follows Harkness as she, alongside kid familiar Teen (Joe Locke), assembles a coven — including mystic Lilia (Patti LuPone), potion maker Jen (Sasheer Zamata), rockstar’s daughter Alice (Ali Ahn), and the suspiciously ordinary Mrs Hart (Debra Jo Rupp) — to take to the Witches’ Road and reclaim her powers. Riffing on everything from scandi-noir crime movies to centuries-old witch tales, Agatha — with her banger melodies, scary season vibes, and outstanding ensemble — is a riot. Throw in Aubrey Plaza as Harkness’ nemesis/old flame Rio and more mystery boxes than you can throw a broomstick at, and you’ve got yourself the perfect pre-Halloween performance to enjoy.
Kinds Of Kindness
Barely six months since Poor Things came along and blew our heads, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Margaret Qualley are back producing more cinematic mayhem (only now with additional Jesse Plemons!) in triptych oddity Kinds Of Kindness. From the story of a corporate stooge’s attempts to regain control of his life, to one of a policeman whose long since missing-at-sea wife returns somehow changed, to one in which Dafoe plays a cult leader named Omi, Lanthimos’ near-three-hour epic — shot spectacularly by DP Robbie Ryan — is a strikingly human exploration of devotion in all its divine and more destructive forms. Darkly hilarious, unashamedly mature, and totally immersive, this is yet another reminder that Lanthimos is one of the most interesting — and disturbing — directors working today, and that he and Stone are the most ideal coupling of artist and muse imaginable.
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