Weekend Picks: What Kind of Weekend Are You Having?
Five movies and shows on Tubi are ready for whatever version of you clocked in for the weekend.
Friday has arrived. Now comes the harder question: what version of you is clocking in for the weekend? The one canceling every plan? The one who said they were staying home and is somehow getting ready at 9 p.m.? The one who needs a good cry for reasons we don't need to unpack here?
No judgment. We brought options.
Because here's the thing about weekends: the person who was counting down to Friday on Monday isn't necessarily the same person making plans when Friday finally arrives. Your social battery has opinions. Your attention span has its own agenda. And whatever sounded fun three days ago might now require an unreasonable amount of convincing.
This week's Weekend Picks are less about choosing one genre and more about finding something that fits whatever mood actually showed up. Tubi's Top Picks collection has plenty of ways to switch things up, but we're narrowing the options to five personalities that might feel suspiciously familiar.
One weekend. Five moods. Absolutely no pressure to commit to just one.
Do Not Disturb — Uptown Girls
Your phone is on DND. The blanket has been acquired. Any plan requiring real pants has been respectfully declined. Sounds like an Uptown Girls weekend.
Brittany Murphy stars as Molly Gunn, a carefree young woman whose privileged life gets an abrupt reality check, eventually landing her a job as nanny to Dakota Fanning's extremely mature eight-year-old Ray. Molly could use more responsibility. Ray could probably use a little less. Somewhere between the two, they start balancing each other out.
Early-2000s nostalgia does plenty of heavy lifting here, but the real comfort comes from watching two people who seem completely wrong for each other become exactly what the other needs. Murphy gives Molly an infectious openness, while Fanning makes Ray's tiny-adult seriousness a perfect counterweight. Neither is quite interested in admitting how much they need the other, which is exactly the kind of emotional labor we're willing to outsource to a comfort movie this weekend.
Available until
We're Going Out — Think Like a Man Too
You weren't going out tonight, but then somebody texted the group chat. Now there's an outfit on the bed, music playing, and approximately 40 minutes missing from the getting-ready schedule.
Vegas has entered the chat.
A wedding reunites the couples from Think Like a Man Too, sending the entire crew to Las Vegas for a celebration that quickly develops more complications than anyone put on the itinerary. Separate bachelor and bachelorette plans turn into relationship drama, questionable decisions, and a weekend that refuses to follow the schedule. The relationship warfare started long before Vegas, and we revisited the original Think Like a Man in our guide to the best romance movies on Tubi.
Kevin Hart, Taraji P. Henson, Michael Ealy, Gabrielle Union, and the ensemble give this pick the energy we need here. Everybody has somewhere to be, somebody has a problem, and Vegas is not exactly encouraging responsible conflict resolution. Consider this your pregame. What happens after the credits is between you and the group chat.
Available until
I Need to Feel Something — The Color Purple
Maybe you're not looking for background noise this weekend. Maybe you want to sit down and actually feel something. Celie's story has a way of making that decision feel much bigger than simply choosing a movie.
Across decades of hardship, separation, love, and friendship, The Color Purple traces Celie's journey toward independence and recognizing her own worth. Whoopi Goldberg gives Celie a performance built as much around what she can't initially say as what she eventually learns to express, while Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery bring very different forms of strength into her world.
This isn't the pick we're going to dress up with a cute weekend joke. Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's novel asks more from its audience than that, confronting painful experiences while making room for resilience, sisterhood, and the possibility of reclaiming a life other people have spent years controlling. You wanted to feel something. Make room.
Available until
My Brain Is Off — The Mask
Your workweek received the last coherent thought. Weekend brain has different priorities.
Stanley Ipkiss has spent enough time being the ordinary guy. One mysterious mask is about to make that everybody else's problem. Jim Carrey goes full cartoon tornado in The Mask, transforming a mild-mannered bank clerk into a green-faced force of chaos who treats the laws of physics like polite suggestions.
We're all for Carrey operating at approximately 700% capacity, Cameron Diaz making her film debut as Tina Carlyle, impossible facial expressions, cartoon logic invading live action, and a magical artifact that should probably come with more warning labels. This is not the weekend for intellectual labor. Somebody yell “Sssssmokin'!” and let the brain cells rest.
Available until
One More Episode — The First 48
You're only watching one. Very mature. Very responsible. See you in four episodes.
Every investigation begins with a new set of questions, and the clock is already running. The First 48 takes viewers inside real homicide investigations during their critical early hours, following detectives as they gather evidence, interview witnesses, and work to establish leads while information is still fresh.
There's a built-in momentum to the format: every detail can change the direction of an investigation, and every new case resets the questions just as you've finished following the last one. The real people and cases deserve seriousness, but that investigative structure makes it easy to understand how one episode becomes another.
Available until
