Updated April 10, 2026, 10:07 a.m. ET
- Frankie Muniz, now 40, returns to the world of “Malcolm in the Middle” with new revival.
- Keanu Reeves plays a beloved A-lister in Hollywood satire “Outcome.”
- “Faces of Death” is back with “Euphoria star Barbie Ferreira facing the horrors.
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Want to feel old? Frankie Muniz is now 40. Which means it’s time for a “Malcolm in the Middle” reboot.
Decades after becoming a household name as a popular child star, Muniz headlines Hulu’s new “Malcolm” sitcom sequel, with Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek also returning as his on-screen parents. It’s actually a big week for TV fans between that, the final season premiere of “Hacks,” Dan Levy’s new Netflix series “Big Mistakes” and the return of “Euphoria.” Keanu Reeves is also back in the streaming movie “Outcome,” but if you need a date for the cinema, there’s the rom-com “You, Me & Tuscany” or the horror movie “Faces of Death,” with Barbie Ferreira in a redo of a controversial ’70s flick.
Now on to the good stuff:
See Frankie Muniz’s grown-up return in ‘Malcolm and the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair’
Once upon a time – in the early 2000s – Frankie Muniz became a household name as the smart-alecky, exasperated teen of Fox’s hit sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle.” A lot has happened since then – he’s now a race car driver and is a dad to 5-year-old son Mauz – but he’s back home in a way with the revival “Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair” (streaming now on Hulu). My LA colleague KiMi Robinson caught up with Muniz to talk about revisiting his character at 40, memories from the show and being a parent. “I want my son to just like me,” Muniz says. “We have a good relationship, but I want him to not be spoiled and I want him to listen.”
TV reporter Bryan Alexander interviewed Muniz’s “Malcolm” parents, Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek, about the reboot. “We’re very proud of it,” Cranston says. And TV critic Kelly Lawler writes in her ★★½ review that the four-episode series “does exactly what it’s supposed to: Pull on our nostalgic heartstrings and remind us of own misspent youth.”
Stream Keanu Reeves and Cameron Diaz’s on-screen reunion in ‘Outcome’
Keanu Reeves finds himself in somewhat familiar territory, with the beloved A-lister playing a mega-popular movie star in the Hollywood satire “Outcome” (streaming now on Apple TV). When he gets blackmailed by a mystery man, Reeves’ character gets help from his high school besties, played by Cameron Diaz and Matt Bomer. My pal Brendan Morrow talked with the costars about the “price” of being famous plus Reeves and Diaz reuniting on screen for the first time since playing lovers in 1996’s “Feeling Minnesota.” “Keanu still has a sick 3-point throw,” she says. “I was so impressed! Back in the day, we used to go to the gym, and he’d just do free throws, and he always hit it. And still, 30 years later!”
Also starring and directed by Jonah Hill, “Outcome” is one of several new movies on streaming this week, a list that also includes the Netflix shark movie “Thrash” and the Sydney Sweeney boxing biopic “Christy.”
Catch Barbie Ferreira in scary-movie mode with ‘Faces of Death’
Barbie Ferreira was born nearly 20 years after the controversial “Faces of Death” ruffled cultural feathers, and she stars in the new remake as an internet content moderator who thinks viral videos re-creating moments from the original “Faces” are actual murders. Ferreira stopped by our New York City studio for a photo shoot and interview, and she talked with my bud Ralphie Aversa about costarring with her close friend Charli XCX and how the new “Death” reflects the age of social media. “In 2026, what is in ‘Faces of Death,’ you see on Twitter all day,” she says. “To me, it was always just really interesting having this movie come out now because we already desensitized to this amount of violence and death.”
Ferreira had her breakthough role in the HBO drama “Euphoria” but isn’t in the new third season. However, Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney and Jacob Elordi are all back for the next chapter (streaming Sundays on HBO Max), and Kelly Lawler writes in her ★★ review that the show’s “better than it’s ever been” in some ways while also still “oversexed and under plotted, with characters that are more Abercrombie cardboard cutouts than realized people.”
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