Entertainment news for October 27, 2026
A face on the television can become familiar enough that we stop looking closely. An old game can sit untouched with a whole town still inside it. Today’s stories offer a few reasons to look again: a Matthew Perry documentary built around people who knew him, Minecraft arriving on new hardware, and a Jimmy Stewart film approaching theaters.
The One About Matthew Perry premieres on Netflix
The One About Matthew Perry, a three-part documentary directed by Mary Robertson, premiered on Netflix on October 27. Netflix’s release-day overview describes a series drawing on previously unreleased family photos and videos, alongside testimony from Perry’s sister, Mia Perry Bowick, and longtime friends. His five Friends co-stars appear in archival footage rather than new interviews.
The family archive is the detail worth pausing on. We can learn a performer’s expressions through repetition. The pause before the joke. The look across a room. Watch enough reruns and recognition can start to feel like knowledge. A person becomes someone we expect to find waiting when we turn on the television.
A family photograph comes from a different relationship. Someone was there holding the camera. The picture belonged to a day that kept going after it was taken.
Netflix’s description places the recollections of close family and friends at the center. That choice makes room for memories that do not have to begin with a character audiences recognize. A sister can remember a brother. A friend can remember an ordinary afternoon.
There is a limit to what familiarity gives us, even when the affection is real. The promise of this approach is that viewers can listen without needing every memory to confirm the person they already imagined. The photographs have other people behind them, with stories of their own.
Minecraft arrives on Switch 2, with old worlds coming along
Minecraft launched for Nintendo Switch 2 on October 27, with Nintendo’s U.S. listing confirming that worlds from the Switch version can carry over. The edition supports Vibrant Visuals and includes the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack. The visual upgrade has limits: it is unavailable in split-screen and with certain Marketplace content.
There is also an upgrade offer to check before buying again. According to Minecraft’s launch announcement, owners of the digital Switch version can get the digital Switch 2 Standard Edition free through Nintendo eShop in most regions until January 31, 2027, at 9 a.m. Pacific. Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand have small upgrade fees. Physical-copy owners have a separate discounted Ultimate Collection offer, accessed by launching the Switch game on Switch 2 during the offer period.
The part that interests me is the world transfer. A new console arrives in a clean box. An old Minecraft save is usually a less orderly proposition. Imagine the house that was supposed to be temporary, the road that ends halfway up a hill, the room somebody built for a purpose nobody can remember.
Those unfinished things give a world its particular shape. They also leave somewhere to begin again. You can return with a plan, abandon it immediately, and spend the evening adding a window to a building that has survived perfectly well without one.
In my piece on Rememorex, I looked at how a game gives players room to change a story together. An old Minecraft world can hold a visible record of those decisions. A staircase. A farm. Something enormous that seemed reasonable at the time.
Better lighting has an appeal. So does being able to keep the ridiculous house.
JIMMY adds early U.S. screenings ahead of November 6
Fathom Entertainment announced on October 27 that JIMMY, starring KJ Apa as Jimmy Stewart, will have early screenings in limited U.S. theaters beginning November 1, ahead of its nationwide November 6 release. The distributor’s announcement identifies Aaron Burns as director and describes a story following Stewart’s World War II service and return to acting, leading toward It’s a Wonderful Life.
That framing gives the familiar holiday image somewhere else to begin. Before George Bailey, the film places a man returning from war. It asks viewers to approach a performance through what its actor has carried back to the set. That is the biopic’s proposed connection, rather than a conclusion a release announcement can prove.
There is something useful in approaching a seasonal fixture from outside the season. A movie can become part of the furniture when it returns every year. We recognize the face, the voice, the title. The ease of recognizing them can let us stop paying attention.
Whether JIMMY earns that new perspective remains for the film to show. The interesting possibility is arriving at an old performance with a different question.
For more on films, games, and the details that stay with us, find me on Instagram at @joeypedras. There is usually something left in the frame.