May is just around the corner, and it’s time to see what three of the biggest streaming services will add to their catalogs in the coming month.
The most high-profile titles coming to Apple TV Plus in May include Murderbot, a sci-fi thriller/comedy with Alexander Skarsgård as a security robot. You can also watch Jim Carrey’s Oscar-winning romantic sci-fi movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Check out our full list below!
What’s Coming to Apple TV Plus in May 2025
May 16, 2025
Murderbot (2025) – Season One
Starring: Maroc Rey, David Dastmalchian, Tattiawna Jones, and Akshay Khanna
Synopsis: “Based on the award-winning, best-selling series by Martha Wells, Murderbot follows a rogue security unit as it searches for the meaning of life. In a high-tech future, a rogue security robot (Alexander Skarsgård) secretly gains free will. To stay hidden, it reluctantly joins a new mission protecting scientists on a dangerous planet…even though it just wants to binge soap operas.”
What’s Coming to MAX in May 2025
May 1, 2025
Chronicle (2012)
Directed by: Josh Trank
Starring: Dane DeHaan, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly, Ashley Hinshaw, Bo Petersen
Synopsis: “Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.”
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Directed by: Michel Gondry
Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood
Synopsis: “Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend, Clementine (Kate Winslet), has had their tumultuous relationship erased from her mind. Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), to get the same treatment. But as his memories of Clementine begin to fade, Joel suddenly realizes how much he still loves her.”
Inception (2010)
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page
Synopsis: “Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief with the rare ability to enter people’s dreams and steal their secrets from their subconscious. His skill has made him a hot commodity in the world of corporate espionage but has also cost him everything he loves. Cobb gets a chance at redemption when he is offered a seemingly impossible task: Plant an idea in someone’s mind. If he succeeds, it will be the perfect crime, but a dangerous enemy anticipates Cobb’s every move.”
Son of the Mask (2005)
Directed by: Lawrence Guterman
Starring: Jamie Kennedy, Alan Cumming, Liam Falconer, Ryan Falconer, Traylor Howard
Synopsis: “A decade after the legendary Mask of Loki wreaked havoc on the life of an unsuspecting adult, the magical mask finds its way into the possession of a child in the family comedy Son of the Mask. (New Line Cinema)”
May 3, 2025
Ready Player One (2018)
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen
Synopsis: “The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) decides to join the contest, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger.”
May 20, 2025
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Directed by: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Jing Tian
Synopsis: This compelling original adventure tells the story of a diverse team of scientists, soldiers and adventurers uniting to explore a mythical, uncharted island in the Pacific, as dangerous as it is beautiful. Cut off from everything they know, the team ventures into the domain of the mighty Kong, igniting the ultimate battle between man and nature. As their mission of discovery becomes one of survival, they must fight to escape a primal Eden in which humanity does not belong.”
What’s Coming to Paramount+ in May 2025
May 1, 2025
Aeon Flux (2005)
Directed by: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Pete Postlethwaite
Synopsis: “Academy Award -winner* Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, the underground operative fighting totalitarian rule in 25th-century Earth’s last living city. Aeon is the rebels’ best hope of overthrowing the oppressively sterile, “perfect” society. But while on assignment to gun down the government’s leader, Aeon uncovers a web of startling secrets that could completely change the world’s future in this gripping sci-fi action thriller based on the ground-breaking MTV animated series.”
Sin City (2005)
Directed by: Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel, Powers Boothe, Cara D. Briggs
Synopsis: “Robert Rodriguez and comic book icon Frank Miller co-direct Sin City, based on the series of graphic novels created, written and illustrated by Miller. The film is infested with criminals, crooked cops and sexy dames, some searching for vengeance, some for redemption and others, both. “
Monster Trucks (2017)
Directed by: Chris Wedge
Starring: Lucas Till, Jane Levy, Thomas Lennon, Barry Pepper, Rob Lowe
Synopsis: “All motor head high schooler Tripp Coley (Lucas Till) wanted was to experience life beyond his dead-end refinery town. He’d get his wish after over drilling drove a gelatinous subterranean monster to the surface… and the creature decided to inhabit-and animate-his half-finished junker truck! “Creech” provides plenty of mileage, as well as action and laughs, in this throwback live-action/CGI family adventure co-starring Amy Ryan, Jane Levy, Barry Pepper, Rob Lowe, and Danny Glover.”
Paycheck (2003)
Directed by: John Woo
Starring: Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman, Paul Giamatti, Colm Feore, Joe Morton
Synopsis: “Michael Jennings is a genius who’s hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he’s incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he’s told he isn’t getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn’t paid – and why he’s now in hot water.”
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Directed by: Tim Miller
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis, Linda Hamilton, Diego Boneta, Brett Azar
Synopsis: Linda Hamilton (“Sarah Connor”) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (“T-800”) return in their iconic roles in Terminator: Dark Fate, directed by Tim Miller (Deadpool) and produced by visionary filmmaker James Cameron and David Ellison. Following the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator: Dark Fate also stars Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, and Diego Boneta.”
The Last Airbender (2010)
Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Toub
Synopsis: Experience the thrilling live-action adventure based on the hit Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Join Aang, an extraordinary boy with incredible “bending” powers, as he journeys through an exotic land filled with magical creatures and powerful friends. As the Avatar, he is the only one who can end the age-old conflict between the four nations: Air, Water, Earth and Fire.”
What are you watching on Apple Plus, Max, and Paramount Plus next month? Let us know in the comments below!
