The 3 best Paramount+ movies to watch this week (September 28 - October 4)

Credit: Lucas Gouveia/How-To Geek Published Sep 28, 2026, 6:30 PM EDT Derek Malcolm has been covering the worlds of tech and entertainment for more than two decades. Before coming to How-To Geek in 2025, Derek was a contributing editor and writer for the A/V and Home Theater section at Digital Trends, where he wrangled and wrote everything from what to watch on Netflix to reviews, explainers, and guides on the latest Bluetooth speakers, turntables, projectors, and other A/V gear. Based in Toronto, Derek graduated from Humber College's Journalism program in 1999, after which he started covering the worlds of music, movies, TV, and celebrity for publications such as TV Guide, Hello! magazine, and Inside Entertainment. He then got the bug for covering tech and gadgets in 2006, when he served as editor-in-chief of Canadian tech magazine Connected for more than a decade. An avid skier, when all the snow's gone Derek can be found at home spinning vinyl with his daughter or cheering on his favorite F1 team, McLaren. Sign in to your How-To Geek account If you took last week's Paramount+ movie recommendations for a spin, you might be interested to know that Tuner and The Get Out are still holding at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, on Paramount+ for U.S. subscribers. But, sitting in the top spot during this last week of September is a ridiculously hilarious gang of idiots who've made a long career out of doing really, really dumb stuff. Jackass: Best and Last is their swan song, and it's my top pick this week. Balancing out all that glorious stupidity are two Oscar winners with a lot more on their minds. One is a dark, brooding classic with a famous scene about a milkshake. The other is a psychological thriller from South Korea that doesn't arrive until Thursday. 3 There Will Be Blood Daniel Day-Lewis is an oilman with a very long straw Paul Thomas Anderson may have won his first-ever Oscar earlier this year for One Battle After Another, but while the political crime thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn is a bona fide hit, many PTA fans still call There Will Be Blood his masterpiece. Adapted from Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!, the epic 2007 period drama stars Daniel Day-Lewis in one of the most mesmerizing and disturbing performances of his career, earning him the second of his three Best Actor Oscars. Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) is an early-1900s oilman, you see, whose greed and obsession with oil know no bounds. Even if that means using his young adopted son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier), as a prop to charm wary landowners into thinking he's a family man—right before he drinks their land dry of all the crude bubbling beneath it. When Daniel learns of a jackpot of oil on the California property of Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), a showboating and equally opportunistic faith healer, the two enter a mutually beneficial agreement—Daniel can drill if he bankrolls Eli's church. What follows is a brutal and bitter war between greed and faith that includes the greatest maniacal speech about one man slurping up another man's milkshake—the metaphor obviously being about oil—ever put to film, and one of the harshest, most satisfying endings ever, as well. There Will Be Blood Release Date December 26, 2007 Cast Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, Dillon Freasier, Hope Elizabeth Reeves, Colleen Foy, Barry Del Sherman, David Willis, Hans Howes, Sydney McCallister, Paul F. Tompkins, Kevin Breznahan, Jim Meskimen, Erica Sullivan, Randall Carver, Coco Leigh, James Downey, David Warshofsky, Charles Thomas Doyle, Russell Harvard, Brad Carr, Mary Elizabeth Barrett, Beau Smith Runtime 158 minutes Director Paul Thomas Anderson Writers Paul Thomas Anderson Producers Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson Main Genre Drama Budget $25 million Studio(s) MiraMax Distributor(s) MiraMax Executive Producer(s) Eric Schlosser, Scott Rudin 2 Parasite A flawless con job and a house with secrets Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho spent two decades refusing to stay in one lane. Prior to his major success with 2019's groundbreaking Parasite, he made a serial killer procedural (Memories of Murder), a box-office-hit monster movie (The Host), and two English-language sci-fi swings (Snowpiercer and Okja). But it was Parasite, the first non-English-language film to win a Best Picture Oscar, that would launch Bong into the stratosphere. Critically adored and brilliantly unique, Parasite is a black comedy that slowly seeps into a thriller. It follows the poor Kim family—father Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho), mother Chung-sook (Jang Hye-jin), son Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik), and daughter Ki-jung (Park So-dam)—who are crammed in a small basement apartment in Seoul, folding pizza boxes for pennies. When Ki-woo scams his way into a sweet tutoring job at the swanky home of the wealthy Park family, it doesn't take long before all the Kims are working there (chauffeur, "art therapist," housekeeper) on bogus credentials. They're living the life for once, until they discover a secret lurking in the house that threatens to expose the whole ruse, forcing the Kims to take some drastic measures to protect it. The film is a revelation that sits at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes. The less you know going in, the better it is. It comes to Paramount+ on October 1. Parasite Release Date May 30, 2019 Cast Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Lee Jung-eun, Jang Hye-jin, Park Myung-hoon, Jung Ji-so, Jung Hyeon-jun, Park Keun-rok, Jung Yi-seo, Cho Jae-myung, Jeong Ik-han, Kim Kyu-baek, Ahn Seong-bong, Yoon Young-woo, Park Jae-wook, Lee Dong-yong, Jeon Eun-mi, Kim Geon, Lee Joo-hyung, Lee Ji-hye, Kim Bo-ryeong, Park Hye-sook Runtime 133 minutes Director Bong Joon Ho Writers Han Jin-won, Bong Joon Ho Producers Jang Young-hwan, Kwak Sin-ae, Moon Yang-kwon Main Genre Drama Budget $11.36 million Studio(s) Barunson E&A Distributor(s) CJ Entertainment Executive Producer(s) Miky Lee 1 Jackass: Best and Last Johnny Knoxville and crew take one last ride What a career Johnny Knoxville and his band of bear-for-punishment buffoons have had. I remember watching the early MTV episodes of Jackass on repeat (my friends and I shared VHS tapes of them) on Fridays before heading out for the night. Their shocking, sidesplitting pranks and antics were a great mood setter. Then, of course, came the movies, which were even better—Jackass 3D's infamous Steve-O porta-potty stunt is still one of the craziest, grossest, and funniest things I have ever seen. Well, all good and stupid things must come to an end, I suppose, and this year's Jackass: Best and Last is it—a swan song for the ages. The fifth main film in the franchise (after 2022's Jackass Forever) is a send-off done right, cutting together classics from the MTV show and earlier films with new stunts and cast interviews. Johnny, Chris Pontius, Dave England, and Wee Man are all back, and they've still got it—although they're more painfully aware than usual of the consequences that now come with the often dangerous stunts. Highlights include Steve-O letting a robot give him a prostate exam (with an apropos message to their aging core demo to get checked) and Johnny sticking Zach Holmes and Poopies inside a pitch-black room where they think there are snakes. All the Jackass movies, and the newly restored MTV episodes, are available on Paramount+. Jackass: Best and Last Release Date June 26, 2026 Cast Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña, Dave England, Preston Lacy, Ehren McGhehey, Bam Margera, Sean McInerney, Jasper Dolphin, Zach Holmes, Jeff Tremaine, Lance Bangs, Sean Cliver, Dimitry Elyashkevich, Greg Iguchi, Rick Kosick, Eric Manaka, Trip Taylor, Compston Wilson, Rachel Wolfson, Spike Jonze Director Jeff Tremaine Writers Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña, Dave England, Ehren McGhehey, Preston Lacy, Trip Taylor, Eric Manaka, Zach Holmes, Rachel Wolfson, Jasper Dolphin, Tory Belleci, J.P. Blackmon, Sean Cliver, Dimitry Elyashkevich, Johnny Knoxville, Knate Lee, Sean McInerney, Chris Pontius, Steve-O, Jeff Tremaine, Davon Wilson Producers Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze, Jeff Tremaine Prequel(s) Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number Two, Jackass 2.5, Jackass Presents: Mat Hoffman's Tribute to Evel Knievel, Jackass 3D, Jackass 3.5, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa.5, Jackass Forever, Jackass 4.5 Franchise(s) Jackass Main Genre Comedy Executive Producer(s) Pete Chiappetta, Greg Iguchi, Andrew Lary, Shanna Zablow Newton High drama to portapotty humor Paramount+ certainly has all its bases covered when it comes to movie options, and it doesn't get much more far apart than Paul Thomas Anderson and Steve-O. Throw a prestigious South Korean thriller in there later in the week and you've got yourself a fine-looking movie week. 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