You might think that there’s already too many things to watch. The water-cooler chat about the appointment view has become like a collectable-stickers trade of films and TV shows on too numerous streaming platforms – got this, want that, don’t have it. But there is a way through. A guide to the new releases that really matter. The ones that deserve your time. MR PORTER may be the men’s luxury style destination, but we’re not just interested in how you look. We have thoughts on what you should see, too.

Nothing to see here. Just a sleepy Midwestern town called Normal. Only, as transplant cop Sheriff Ulysses (Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk) discovers, not all is as it appears. Especially with the director Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Sightseers, High-Rise) at the helm and Derek Kolstad (John Wick, Nobody) on writing duties.

In cinemas 17 April

There’s a case to be made that the TV series could’ve ended after two seasons. (If millions of voices were crying out for a third, they were suddenly silenced by Jack Black and Lizzo’s arrival in the Star Wars universe.) That said, the movie spin-off (of the TV spin-off of the original movies) pulls us in like a Star Destroyer tractor beam. This time, Sigourney Weaver and a Jeremy Allen White-voiced son of Jabba the Hutt are joining Pedro Pascal’s beskar-clad bounty hunter and his “Baby Yoda” apprentice. This is the way.

In cinemas 22 May

“People have a right to know the truth, it belongs to seven billion people,” as Josh O’Connor puts it in the trailer. Exact details of Steven Spielberg’s return to extraterrestrial matters are harder to gain access to than Area 51, but rumours are swirling. We are promised “old-school Spielberg”, as well as “a very emotional experience”. Whatever awaits, we’re bracing ourselves for abduction.

In cinemas 12 June

The irony of the bad guy in the latest instalment of Toy Story is likely to hit with parents once it finally arrives on streamers. But for now, let’s enjoy our reformed gang, including Woody, Buzz, Jessie, Rex, Hamm and fan-favourite Forky, pitched against their latest foe, screentime, in the battle for the attention of an eight-year-old girl.

In cinemas in 19 June

Forget Prince Of Thieves. This is the darker A24 reimagining of Robin Hood as more of a folk antihero. Hugh Jackman in grizzled Logan mode plays the outlaw archer, facing up to his criminal past. Bill Skarsgård, Jodie Comer and Murray Barlett also feature. As merry men? It seems unlikely.

In cinemas 19 June

The first chunk of Beef began with a road-rage incident and ended with a transcendental moment of human connection. So hopes are high for season two. Taking the form of an anthology series, an entirely new cast has been drafted in, including Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and Oscar-winner Youn Yuh-jung, with a new conflict set to kick proceedings off.

On Netflix now

Where Baby Reindeer was billed as a “true story”, fuelling Netflix’s later legal wranglings, what its creator and star Richard Gadd did next is firmly fictional. Which isn’t to say that the strained bond between Glaswegians Niall (Jamie Bell) and Ruben (Gadd) doesn’t feel real. It does. Rawly so, in fact. This knotty six-part series tackles modern masculinity – and doesn’t pull any punches.

On HBO 23 April; BBC iPlayer 24 April

It might not be the Spider-Man spin-off that we were really hoping for – trotters crossed for Spider-Ham – but we’ll take it. The predictably unpredictable Nicolas Cage makes his TV lead debut as Ben Reilly, a jaded investigator (and superhero) in a monochromatic 1930s New York. Cage has said his performance is “70 per cent Humphrey Bogart and 30 per cent Bugs Bunny”, with the web-slinging detective banging heads with a mob boss played by Brendan Gleeson.

On Prime Video 27 May

Yes, fine, we may have found ourselves distracted by the many hats worn by Colman Domingo in the first season of this college-friends-of-a-certain-age show. But the cosy comedy also offered good company. Domingo, Tina Fey and Will Forte return with eight more seasonal and surprisingly tender vignettes on growing up, or at least getting older.

On Netflix 28 May