Sigmund and Devon discuss what the future of the theatrical experience could look like and look back at Apple Original French culinary drama Carême.

The Future of Cinema

• 28 Years Later
• Martin Scorsese no longer watches films in cinemas due to audience bad behaviour | The Guardian
• Apple Granted 34 Patents Today Covering an Advanced Infrared Camera System that could work with Apple Pay & Much More | Patently Apple
• Apple won a Wild patent for an Augmented Reality Light System that projects AR content onto tables, walls+ without a Headset | Patently Apple
• Apple Just Patented an Image Sensor With 20 Stops of Dynamic Range | Y.M.Cinema Magazine

Releases

• ‎Angry Birds Bounce
• ‎Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+
• ‎Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD+
• ‎Suika Game+

Extras

• What's Coming in July 2025 | Foundation, Acapulco & More
• Apple Fitness+ Workouts ‎Inspired by F1: The Movie
• Smoke — An Inside Look
• Foundation — Actually Helpful Recap: Fast Forward to Season 3
• Shrinking — Celebrating Pride with Michael Urie
• Inside the high-speed production of ‘F1 The Movie’ | Apple News In Conversation
• Jerry Bruckheimer: On Working with Apple Films, Lewis Hamilton, and F1 | The Zane Lowe Show
• Stick’s Ultimate Guide to Golf Hot Spots | Apple Maps
• Owen Wilson on Hot Ones
• The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott

Recap

• Carême

TV App Highlights

• The Instigators
• Ballerina: From the World of John Wick
• Thunderbolts*
• The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
• Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted
• Tornado
• The Luckiest Man in America
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
• Sinners

Up Next

• Bring Her Back
• Snow White

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Sigmund and Devon are joined by special guests Jonathan Reed and Benjamin Mayo to highlight the theatrical debut of F1: The Movie. Then, they discuss this Friday’s premiere of Apple Original thriller series Smoke.

Theatrical Highlight

• F1
• Jonathan Reed
• Benjamin Mayo
• How Apple Created a Custom iPhone Camera for ‘F1’ | Wired

Releases

• The Instigators
• Yo Gabba Gabba!

Extras

• Hold That Train! | Apple Arcade
• Shot on iPhone 16 Pro | Big Man - Starring Stormzy
• Shot on iPhone 16 Pro | Big Man - Behind The Scenes
• Stick — Opening Title Sequence
• Echo Valley — Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney Master Kintsugi
• Severance — Dichen's Casting Tape

Streaming Highlight

• Smoke

TV App Highlights

• The Bear
• Squid Game

Up Next

• Ironheart
• Pavements

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Sigmund and Devon highlight the return of The Buccaneers, explore how haptics and other metadata could enhance media experiences on Apple’s platforms, and recap the first season of Your Friends & Neighbors.

Highlight

• The Buccaneers

Enhanced Media Experiences

• Haptic Trailer for F1

Trailer Talk

• Foundation — Season 3

Releases

• Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story

Extras

• F1 The Movie World Premiere Red Carpet Live Stream
• Government Cheese — Behind Paul Hunter’s Creative Vision
• Murderbot — Get Your Own SecUnit Today!
• Bono: Stories of Surrender, U2 & Rock Music | Zane Lowe Interview
• Ben Stiller: Severance, The Knicks & Meet the Parents 4 | Zane Lowe Interview
• Severance — The Ballad of Burt & Irving
• Long Way Home — Guess the Bike with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
• Apple Maps Guide: Tour Europe with Long Way Home
• Chief of War — Casting King Kamehameha
• The Cast of Slow Horses on The Late Show
• Tim Cook Reveals Apple’s Vision for Movies and TV: Why Spending Millions on Blockbusters Like ‘F1’ Is About More Than Selling iPhones | Variety

Recap

• Your Friends & Neighbors

TV App Highlights

• Final Destination Bloodlines
• Friendship
• Sally

Up Next

• A Minecraft Movie
• 28 Years Later

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Show Notes

tvOS 26’s Reveal and Echo Valley

Sigmund and Devon break down Apple’s tvOS and visionOS announcements from WWDC25, grade their predictions, and highlight Apple Original film Echo Valley.

WWDC25

• MacStories’ WWDC25 Coverage
• What's Coming | Foundation, Chief of War & More

Trailer Talk

• The Wild Ones
• The Lost Bus

Apple Original News

• First Look at Slow Horses Season Five
• Ben Stiller and Adam Scott on ‘Severance’ Season 3, Stiller’s Scrapped Character and Potential Spinoffs: ‘There Are Two Specific Ideas’ | Variety

Releases

• Not a Box

Extras

• Stick — The Cast on Their Love For Golf
• Long Way Home — Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on Their Friendship | Origin Story
• Fountain of Youth — Natalie Portman and John Krasinski Speak French
• Apple Maps Collection: Around the World with Fountain of Youth
• The Buccaneers — Outsider's Intro to Season 1 with Leighton Meester
• Murderbot — The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon Opening Title Sequence
• Murderbot — Alexander Skarsgård Plays Human or SecUnit

Highlight

• Echo Valley

Up Next

• Phineas and Ferb
• Deep Cover

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Sigmund and Devon highlight the premiere of Apple Original comedy series Stick starring Owen Wilson. Then, they compete to predict what’s in store for Apple TV at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

Highlight

• Stick

Releases

• ‎UNO: Arcade Edition
• ‎LEGO Hill Climb Adventures+
• ‎Lost in Play+
• ‎Helix Jump+
• WWDC 2025

TV App Highlights

• The Surfer
• Predator: Killer of Killers
• Magic Farm

Up Next

• Sinners

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Sigmund and Devon share their thoughts on the first full-length Apple Immersive film, Bono: Stories of Surrender, and look back on the first season of The Studio.

Pre-Roll

• F1 Popcorn Bucket at Regal

Highlight

• Bono: Stories of Surrender
• Bono: Stories of Surrender (Immersive)

Apple TV News

• ‎Word of the Day

Trailer Talk

• The Buccaneers
• Smoke
• Chief of War

Apple Original News

• First Look at The Morning Show S4

Releases

• Lulu is a Rhinoceros

Extras

• What's Coming in June 2025 | Stick, The Buccaneers & More
• Stick — Inside Look
• Fountain of Youth — Natalie Wraps
• Fountain of Youth — Rick Steves Searches for the Fountain of Youth
• Fountain of Youth — Junket of Youth
• Severance Season 2 Finale Script “Cold Harbor” with Foreword By Dan Erickson | Deadline

Recap

• The Studio
• Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg on The Town with Matthew Belloni

TV App Highlights

• The Better Sister
• Good Boy
• Fight or Flight
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig
• Dog Man
• Captain America: Brave New World

Up Next

• The Quiz With Balls
• Mountainhead

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Sigmund and Devon highlight Apple Original film Fountain of Youth from Guy Ritchie, break down the new features of CarPlay Ultra, and revisit feature documentary Deaf President Now! upon its streaming release.

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Highlight

• Fountain of Youth

CarPlay Ultra

• After Years in the Lab, CarPlay Ultra Emerges
• New Apple CarPlay Ultra: Apple Just Took Over Your Car! | Top Gear
• Apple CarPlay Ultra First Look: It Takes Over the Entire Dashboard | Motor Trend

Apple TV News

• Hands-On with Sound Therapy on Apple Music

Trailer Talk

• Lulu Is A Rhinoceros

Apple Original News

• F1 Tickets
• First Look at Platonic Season Two
• Denzel Washington Films and Shows | Apple TV

Releases

• Wolfs

Extras

• Deadline Sound and Screen Interview with Theodore Shapiro
• Iconic Tracks in the Movie F1—and Beyond | Apple Maps
• F1 25
• Murderbot — Opening Title Sequence
• Highest 2 Lowest - Rang I - VO - Cannes 2025
• Bono: Stories of Surrender - Rang I - VO - Cannes 2025
• Highest 2 Lowest Press Conference at Cannes 2025

Recap

• Deaf President Now!
• Learning American Sign Language | National Association of the Deaf
• Learning British Sign Language | National Deaf Children’s Society

TV App Highlights

• Peacock’s Emerging Artist Series Collection
• Pee-wee as Himself
• Diane Warren: Relentless
• Nine Perfect Strangers
• Sirens
• Forget You Not
• Not Her First Rodeo
• Mickey 17
• Sarah Silverman: PostMortem

Up Next

• Friendship
• Lilo & Stitch

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Sigmund and Devon highlight the premiere of sci-fi series Murderbot, discuss the potential impact of U.S. tariffs on international film productions, and catch up on tons of Apple Original trailers.

Highlight

• Murderbot

Apple TV News

• Apple Previews a Wide Range of Upcoming Accessibility Features to Mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day
• Music Haptics Playlists | Apple Music
• ‎⁨Dance with Ben • Feat. Dancer Chelsie Hill⁩ | Apple Fitness+
• Deaf President Now! — An Inside Look
• Universal Music Group and Apple Music announce Sound Therapy
• ‎PXPlay
• Apple introduces the 2025 Pride Collection

Trailer Talk

• What's Coming in May 2025
• Bono: Stories of Surrender
• Stick
• Echo Valley
• F1
• Foundation
• Highest 2 Lowest

Apple Original News

• Preorder Wolfs on PVOD
• First Look at Acapulco Season 4
• Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy
• F1: The Album on Vinyl, CD, and Casette
• Bad Monkey - Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack on Vinyl

Releases

• Deaf President Now!
• Long Way Home
• ‎MLS Match in EA SPORTS FC Mobile Soccer

Extras

• There's More Than One Way to Mother
• A Gift for Mom | Shot on iPhone in Spatial Video | Experienced on Apple Vision Pro
• Shot on iPhone 16 Pro | "Last Scene" A Film by Kore-eda Hirokazu
• Shot on iPhone 16 Pro | Behind the Last Scene
• Behind the Scenes with Blackmagic Camera and KoЯn

TV App Highlights

• Wick Is Pain
• Queen of the Ring
• Nonnas
• Poker Face
• A Minecraft Movie
• The Wedding Banquet
• Duster
• Overcompensating
• Bet
• The Brutalist

Up Next

• Sunrise City by Sub-Radio
• Turnstile - Never Enough (Live Debut)
• Stutz

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Sigmund and Devon highlight the premiere of French-language Apple Original series Carême, discuss the Apple Watch’s tenth anniversary and how the device plays into their TV-viewing, and recap Dope Thief.

Pre-Roll

• Meet NEBULA X1: The World's First Cinema-Grade Outdoor Entertainment System

Highlight

• Carême

Apple TV News

• Snapshot on Apple

Trailer Talk

• Fountain of Youth

Releases

• Adventure: Hill Climb
• Don Toliver - Lose My Mind (feat. Doja Cat) [From F1]
• ‎WHAT THE CLASH?
• ‎with My Buddy
• ‎Words of Wonders: Search+
• ‎LEGO Friends Heartlake Rush+
• ‎SUMI SUMI

Extras

• WondLa — World of WondLa Atmospheric Ambiance
• Murderbot — An Inside Look
• Alexander Skarsgård: The Empire Interview

Recap

• Dope Thief
• Ante Up
• M.O.P. – Ante Up Remix
• Anna Kendrick Raps and Takes Over Ellen's Twitter Account

TV App Highlights

• The Four Seasons
• Another Simple Favor
• Bob Trevino Likes It
• Warfare
• The Ballad of Wallis Island
• Black Bag
• Inheritance
• La Cocina

Up Next

• Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life
• The Luckiest Man in America

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Sigmund and Devon share their hopes for the next Siri Remote and recap Apple Original medical drama Berlin ER.

Pre-Roll

• Apple Trade In

Apple TV News

• Beats Cables
• Pill People Have the Power I Beats Cables

Apple Original News

• First Look at Smoke
• First Look at The Wild Ones
• First Look at Margo’s Got Money Troubles
• First Look at Lulu Is a Rhinoceros
• First Look at Chief of War
• MDR Dasher Keyboard Sign Up | Atomic Keyboard

Releases

• WondLa

Extras

• Meet four emerging filmmakers bending cultural and creative lines with iPhone 16 Pro Max | Apple
• Seth Rogen: The Studio, Comedy & Filmmaking | Zane Lowe Interview
• A Day Off in LA with David Oyelowo
• Your Friends & Neighbors — "Friendly Fire"
• Carême — First Look

Recap

• Berlin ER

TV App Highlights

• You
• Freaky Tales
• Neighborhood Watch
• Winter Spring Summer or Fall
• Death of a Unicorn
• The Friend
• Sacramento
• iHostage
• Drop

Up Next

• Adolescence
• Sinners

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