Movies Week 22: Spider-Noir Leads a Stacked Week on Screen
Movies week 22 is stacked: Spider-Noir, The Boys' final-season finale, The Mandalorian and Grogu, and Goat — the cinema animation now on Netflix.
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🕸️ A Stacked Week — And One We’ve Been Counting Down To
📰 This deep-dive is part of Dadnology Week 22/2026 – the whole week’s tech, gaming and movie news for dads in one read.
Some weeks you scrape for something to watch. Week 22 of 2026 is the opposite problem: there is too much, and the hard part is deciding where a tired dad’s limited evening goes. The headliner, for us at least, is personal — Spider-Noir has been top of the watchlist for weeks. As Marvel fans, and specifically as people who think the Into the Spider-Verse and Across the Spider-Verse films are among the best superhero movies ever made, a new corner of that world is a non-negotiable.
But it is not the only thing landing. The Boys closes out its final season, The Mandalorian and Grogu is in cinemas now, and Goat — the animated film that just played cinemas — lands on Netflix. Here is the honest breakdown of what is worth your time — and, just as importantly, what to watch first.
None of these has a full Dadnology review yet — Spider-Noir included, since we have not pressed play on it ourselves. So this is a curator’s heads-up, not a set of verdicts. We will follow up once we have actually watched.
🕸️ Spider-Noir — The One We’ve Been Waiting For
Of everything this week, Spider-Noir is the release we have been most excited about, and it is not close. The Spider-Verse films earned that anticipation: Into the Spider-Verse reinvented what an animated superhero movie could look like, and Across the Spider-Verse doubled down with the most ambitious visual storytelling the genre has seen. A noir-soaked, black-and-white Spider-Man — all rain-slicked streets, hard shadows, and a detective’s growl — is exactly the kind of swing that universe was built for.
We have not watched it yet, so we are deliberately holding the verdict. What we can say is that if you have not seen the two films, this week is the perfect excuse to fix that first — they are the table-setting, and they hold up brilliantly on a rewatch with the kids or solo after bedtime.
Our take: the most anticipated watch of our week — a full review will follow once we have seen it. Warm up with Into the Spider-Verse and Across the Spider-Verse.
AdSpider-Man: Into / Across the Spider-Verse (4K UHD) (opens in a new tab)
The two films that built the Spider-Verse on screen — the perfect warm-up before Spider-Noir.
🩸 The Boys — A Final-Season Finale That Sticks the Landing (We Hope)
The Boys has spent years being the most gleefully unhinged show on streaming — a savage, blood-soaked satire of superhero culture that somehow also had something real to say. Now it closes out its final season, and a finale carries the weight of every escalation that came before. For a series that has never once flinched, the question is whether it can land the ending without either pulling its punches or collapsing into pure shock.
We are not reviewing it here — and certainly not spoiling it — but if you have followed Butcher, Hughie, and Homelander this far, this is appointment viewing. It is also emphatically a after-the-kids-are-in-bed show: the content is as extreme as television gets.
Our take: the must-watch of the week for anyone who has stuck with it. Strictly a grown-up, headphones-on, late-night watch.
👶 The Mandalorian and Grogu — Family Star Wars, In Cinemas Now
It has been on screens a little while already, but The Mandalorian and Grogu earns its spot this week because it is still the big-screen family outing on offer — in cinemas and IMAX now, with no home-streaming date yet. The appeal is unchanged and undimmed: it is the most family-accessible corner of Star Wars, built on a wordless father-son bond that lands harder the more time you have spent being a dad yourself. Worth the popcorn and the ticket logistics if your kids are old enough to sit through a feature.
No review from us yet, but the pitch writes itself — a story about a reluctant guardian and the small, demanding creature who reorganises his entire life. Sound familiar?
Our take: the family cinema trip of the week — catch it on the big screen while it is there.
🐐 Goat — The Cinema Animation Comes Home
Rounding out the week, Goat makes the jump from cinema to Netflix — and that move is exactly what puts it on a family’s radar. It is the animated film that had a recent theatrical run, and for most households a streaming arrival is the real release: no tickets, no nap-schedule logistics, just press play on a wet Saturday afternoon. Animation that earns a cinema run and then lands on Netflix is usually worth a family slot, and this is the week it became an easy one.
We have not reviewed it yet, so we are flagging rather than scoring — but as a daytime, kids-on-the-sofa option, it is the gentlest watch of an otherwise grown-up-heavy week.
Our take: the daytime family animation of the week, now a couch away. A full review may follow.
🥃 Bonus: A Bond Rewatch, To Ride the 007 Mood
If none of the new arrivals fit your night, there is a neat tie-in to the gaming side of the week. 007 First Light launched to a 9/10 (see our Gaming Week 22 roundup), and the Daniel Craig films are the natural way to ride that mood home. Casino Royale (8/10) is where to start; Skyfall (7/10) is the visual peak; No Time to Die (7/10) is the bold, flawed goodbye. Run them in release order and the era tells one continuous story.
AdJames Bond: The Daniel Craig 5-Film Collection (4K UHD) (opens in a new tab)
All five Craig-era Bond films in 4K — the right way to ride the 007 First Light mood.
🎯 Who Should Watch What
The practical breakdown for a single evening this week:
| You are… | Your watch is… |
|---|---|
| A Marvel / Spider-Verse fan | Spider-Noir — the headline event (warm up with the films) |
| Caught up on The Boys | The Boys finale — appointment viewing, headphones on |
| Up for a family cinema trip | The Mandalorian and Grogu — in cinemas / IMAX now |
| Watching with younger kids at home | Goat — the cinema animation, now on Netflix |
| In a 007 mood | A Daniel Craig rewatch — start with Casino Royale |
The honest bottom line: there is no wrong answer this week, only too many right ones. If you can watch one thing, make it Spider-Noir — but do the two films first if you have not.
Dadnology Take
This is the good kind of problem: a week with more worth watching than time to watch it. Spider-Noir is the one we have been counting down to, and the Spider-Verse films earned every bit of that anticipation — so even if you only do the homework this week, you win. The Boys closes a era of television that never once played it safe, The Mandalorian and Grogu is the big-screen family outing if you fancy a cinema trip, and Goat gives the younger kids their own at-home slot now that the cinema animation has come to Netflix. We have not reviewed any of them yet — but we know exactly where our own evenings are going.
❓ FAQ
Is Spider-Noir connected to the Spider-Verse movies?
Do I need to have watched The Boys before the final-season finale?
Where can I watch The Mandalorian and Grogu, and Goat?
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