All 4 Sci-Fi Movies and Shows You Can Stream This Week at Home or Watch in Theaters, Including ‘Upload’

This week brings a tight mix of futures gone wrong and tech dreams that will not stay in their lane. You can catch a big streaming sendoff and a few fresh theatrical rides that lean into mutants, alien panic, and nocturnal experiments where reality and imagination start to trade places.

Below is a quick guide with clear story notes and the people who made each project happen. You will see when each title arrives and where to watch inside the entries so you can line up your queue and your tickets without guessing.

‘Upload’ (2020–2025)

Created by Greg Daniels, ‘Upload’ follows Nathan Brown after a fatal crash sends him into a luxurious digital afterlife called Lakeview where data plans, corporate control, and black market hacks shape every choice. Robbie Amell stars as Nathan and Andy Allo plays Nora with Allegra Edwards as Ingrid, Kevin Bigley as Luke, Zainab Johnson as Aleesha, and Owen Daniels as A I Guy. The show returns on August 25 on Prime Video as the final run closes the arc that links a murder conspiracy in the real world with glitches and power plays inside the simulated resort.

Greg Daniels developed the series with a writers room that builds its near future tech from concepts like memory uploads, neural interfaces, and monetized afterlives while directors across the seasons balance satire and mystery. Recurring players include Andrea Rosen as Lucy and Josh Banday as Ivan with storylines that connect Lakeview’s rule set to real world activism, corporate sabotage, and the question of what it means to stay human when your body is gone.

‘The Toxic Avenger’ (2025)

Written and directed by Macon Blair, ‘The Toxic Avenger’ reimagines Troma’s cult hero through Winston Gooze, a put upon janitor who suffers a freak accident and mutates into a mop wielding vigilante with super strength and a very public target on his back. Peter Dinklage leads as Winston with Jacob Tremblay as Wade Gooze, Taylour Paige as J J Doherty, Kevin Bacon as Bob Garbinger, Elijah Wood as Fritz Garbinger, Julia Davis in a key supporting role, and Luisa Guerreiro performing the suit work for Toxie. The movie opens in theaters on August 29.

The production comes from Legendary with Troma founders Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz on board as producers, and it draws on the 1984 origin while building a new storyline that centers a father who will do anything to protect his son. The movie keeps the mix of action, comedy, horror, and sci fi while updating the setting to a modern industrial town where corporate crime and environmental collapse make Toxie’s mission bigger than street level justice.

‘Run’ (2025)

‘Run’ is a science fiction thriller from director Chris Stokes with a screenplay by Stokes and Marques Houston. The story follows Melissa who calls off her engagement and heads to a remote cabin with friends where a gruesome discovery lines up with breaking reports of an alien attack and forces the group to decide who to trust. The cast features Annie Ilonzeh with Marques Houston, Erica Mena, Erica Pinkett, and Drew Sidora as the core ensemble. The film opens in theaters on August 29.

The movie is produced by Footage Films and runs one hour and thirty five minutes, landing a PG 13 rating for violent content, bloody images, a sexual reference, and language. The plot shifts between intimate survival choices in the woods and a larger off screen crisis as the characters piece together whether the invasion is real while evidence in and around the cabin pushes them toward a final stand.

‘Somnium’ (2024)

Written and directed by Racheal Cain, ‘Somnium’ follows Gemma, a struggling actor who moves to Los Angeles and takes a night shift job at a sleep clinic where the line between dream and waking life starts to dissolve. Chloë Levine stars as Gemma with Will Peltz, Peter Vack, Grace Van Dien, Johnathon Schaech, Gillian White, and Clarissa Thibeaux rounding out the cast. The film arrives in theaters on August 28.

The story uses the clinic’s experiments and the culture of constant auditions to track Gemma’s ambition as her sessions grow more intense and her sense of reality becomes unstable. The production highlights the lab setting and the way recorded dreams and guided sleep rituals can be manipulated, setting up a slow fuse mystery that ties personal sacrifice to the consequences of technology that promises control over the subconscious.

Tell us which of these you will watch first and why in the comments so everyone can compare notes on this week of sci fi.