WurteleFlix — Saturday, February 28, 2026

Saturday night has teeth tonight — a new Rami Malek spy thriller makes its television debut, the NRL opens its season in Las Vegas, and Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller waits at the end like a reward. From back-to-back tennis finals to Back to the Future to Barry Jenkins' Moonlight and Scorsese at midnight, this is the kind of night where you genuinely have to make choices. The good news: almost everything is worth it.

Tonight's Timeline

5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM 12 AM 1 AM 2 AM

57th NAACP Image Awards

NHL Hockey

The Wolf of Wall Street

Live: The...

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Live Tennis: WTA...

Live Tennis: ATP...

All Elite...

Top Gun: Maverick

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Back to the...

United Rugby Championship

Moonlight

Tombstone

Back to the Future

AFL

The Amateur

Road to Perdition

NRL Rugby

LPGA Tour Golf

Dune: Part Two

Chris Fleming:...

Women's One-Day...

🎦 Movies

7:00 PM Movie Feature Film

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

TBSHD ·178 min ·R ·2024 ·Dir. George Miller

George Miller spent thirty years building this universe and Furiosa is the crown jewel — Anya Taylor-Joy's burning silence across two hours of practical-effects fury, and Chris Hemsworth absolutely shedding his nice-guy image as warlord Dementus. If you bounced off Fury Road, give this one another chance; the pacing is different and the emotional core runs deeper. Miller, at 79, was still the most ambitious action filmmaker alive.

Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke

8:00 PM Movie Feature Film

Tombstone

SUNDHD ·180 min ·R ·1993 ·Dir. George P. Cosmatos

If you've never seen Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday, tonight is your religious experience — it's one of the great scene-stealing performances in American cinema, a dying man choosing to die on his own terms, with style. Kurt Russell holds the center as Wyatt Earp, but Kilmer owns every single frame he occupies. 'I'm your huckleberry' isn't a movie line; it's a philosophical position.

Cast: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn

8:00 PM Movie Feature Film

Back to the Future

HS8090 ·120 min ·PG ·1985 ·Dir. Robert Zemeckis

Zemeckis and Bob Gale wrote the perfect screenplay — a time travel story with no wasted scenes, a hero's journey disguised as a comedy, and Michael J. Fox at the absolute apex of his charm. Forty years on, it still plays like clockwork. Part II follows immediately at 10, so clear your schedule if you haven't seen them back to back.

Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover

8:00 PM NEW Movie Feature Film

The Amateur

CRV1H ·125 min ·PG-13 ·2025 ·Dir. James Hawes

A CIA decoder whose wife is killed by terrorists decides to train himself in tradecraft and track them down personally — Rami Malek brings his particular brand of coiled, barely-contained intensity to what sounds like a passion-project thriller. Rachel Brosnahan and Laurence Fishburne round out a cast that suggests this isn't just another action movie. James Hawes, who has done some of television's finest work, makes a confident feature debut.

Cast: Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Laurence Fishburne

8:30 PM Movie Action

Mission: Impossible — Fallout

SHCSCHD ·180 min ·PG-13 ·2018 ·Dir. Christopher McQuarrie

Christopher McQuarrie made what is arguably the finest pure action film of the 2010s, and the helicopter chase sequence alone justifies the runtime. Cruise's commitment to performing his own stunts stopped being a marketing gimmick here and became genuinely terrifying to watch — there is a HALO jump that feels like surveillance footage. If you haven't seen it since theaters, the home rewatch reveals how meticulously every beat was engineered.

Cast: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames

8:30 PM Movie Feature Film

Dune: Part Two

SCIFI ·210 min ·PG-13 ·2024 ·Dir. Denis Villeneuve

Villeneuve's second chapter is the rare sequel that eclipses the original — wider in scope, more emotionally devastating, and featuring Zendaya finally getting the film she deserved after being largely absent from Part One. The sandworm riding sequence alone justifies the whole enterprise, but it's the dark final act that makes it genuinely stick. Watch it with the best speakers you have.

Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson

9:00 PM Movie Feature Film

Top Gun: Maverick

SHOWXHD ·130 min ·PG-13 ·2022 ·Dir. Joseph Kosinski

Joseph Kosinski somehow made the best sequel to an '80s blockbuster that anyone thought possible — Maverick works as both a nostalgia vehicle and as a standalone action film, with practical aerial photography that puts every CGI dogfight to shame. Miles Teller and the young cast give Cruise real competition, which is the one thing the original lacked. This was the movie that reminded everyone why theaters exist; it holds up just as well at home.

Cast: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly

9:35 PM Movie Feature Film

Moonlight

HBODRHD ·111 min ·R ·2016 ·Dir. Barry Jenkins

Barry Jenkins' Oscar winner remains one of the most quietly devastating films of the century — three acts, three actors as Chiron, and Mahershala Ali giving a performance of such contained power that a single scene contains multitudes. On a night when the NAACP Image Awards celebrate Black excellence, there is no better companion piece. It gets more beautiful every time you return to it.

Cast: Mahershala Ali, Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders

⚽ Sports

7:00 PM NEW Sports Sports event

Live: The Ultimate Fighting Championship

"UFC Fight Night: Brandon Moreno v Lone'er Kavanagh"

TNTSP1HD ·210 min

Moreno, the Mexican champion who fought his way back from heartbreak, faces Kavanagh in what promises to be a grappling clinic with standing-war potential. The UFC's Saturday night cards have been quietly delivering the best fights of the year, and this main event has all the ingredients for something memorable. Don't let unfamiliar names fool you — tune in for the co-main if nothing else.

7:00 PM NEW Sports Sports event

Live Tennis: WTA Merida Open 2026

"Final"

SKYSVMH ·120 min

Women's tennis has been producing some of its most compelling finishes in years, and a WTA final crowns its champion tonight in Mexico. The ATP Acapulco men's final follows on the same channel at 9 — if you're in a tennis mood, clear the block. Two titles in one night is a fine way to spend a Saturday.

7:00 PM NEW Episode Sports non-event

All Elite Wrestling: Collision

"Collision 2/28/2026"

TNTHD ·120 min ·TV-14 ·2026

Samoa Joe and Chris Jericho in the same building is appointment television for anyone who appreciates professional wrestling at its most theatrical, and the Death Riders-Don Callis Family war has been building for weeks. Collision on a Saturday does what it's supposed to do: give you a main event worth staying up for. This is how you start a night.

Cast: Samoa Joe, Chris Jericho, Jake Hager

7:30 PM NEW Episode Sports non-event

United Rugby Championship

"Lions v DHL Stormers"

PRSPRVM ·100 min ·2026

All-South African URC derbies at Ellis Park have a particular electricity — Johannesburg's altitude and the Lions' faithful create an atmosphere that television somehow captures. The Stormers have been one of the competition's model sides, but the Lions at home are a different proposition. Southern hemisphere rugby at its most physical.

8:12 PM NEW Sports Sports event

NRL Rugby

"Newcastle Knights vs. North Queensland Cowboys"

FS2HD ·138 min

The NRL is opening its 2026 season in Las Vegas — a genuine statement of international ambition — and Knights-Cowboys is a proper rugby league contest to christen the occasion at Allegiant Stadium. The novelty is real, but so is the football; the Cowboys have been one of the competition's most watchable sides and the Knights carry Northern NSW pride into every game. Part one of tonight's Las Vegas doubleheader.

8:30 PM NEW Sports Sports event

LPGA Tour Golf

"HSBC Women's World Championship, Final Round"

GOLFHD ·300 min

The Tanjong Course at Sentosa Golf Club is one of the most picturesque venues on tour, and the HSBC Women's World Championship consistently draws one of the LPGA's most internationally competitive fields, with Asian tour veterans and American stars going head-to-head in conditions neither side fully owns. Final-round Sunday golf is its own genre of compelling television. History on the line tonight from Singapore.

9:00 PM NEW Sports Sports event

NHL Hockey

"Vancouver Canucks at Seattle Kraken"

SNEHD ·180 min

Elias Pettersson is the kind of player you watch even without a rooting interest — his vision and timing make the game look different, and Vancouver's playoff hopes rest on exactly these divisional matchups. Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena generates genuine home-ice atmosphere, and the Kraken, with Jordan Eberle as a steady veteran anchor, are no soft touch at home. Pacific Division positioning on the line.

9:00 PM NEW Sports Sports event

Live Tennis: ATP Mexican Open 2026

"Final"

SKYSVMH ·120 min

Acapulco is one of the most beloved stops on the ATP calendar — played outdoors under the Pacific sky, with crowds that create an atmosphere unlike any indoor hard court. A Saturday final here means the week's best player has survived; whoever is on court tonight has already earned it. Premium tennis before the clay swing begins, on the same channel that showed you the women's final two hours ago.

9:50 PM NEW Sports Sports event

Women's One-Day International Cricket

"3rd ODI: Australia vs. India"

501HANZ ·200 min

The Australia-India women's rivalry has become one of the most compelling in all of cricket — India has closed the gap on Australia's long-standing dynasty and a series-deciding third ODI carries real weight. This one matters for rankings, for momentum, and for the considerable pride on both sides. Essential viewing for cricket fans with the stamina for a late night.

10:10 PM NEW Sports Sports event

AFL

"North Melbourne vs Collingwood"

FTHDANZ ·155 min

North Melbourne and Collingwood at Mars Stadium in Ballarat gives Australian rules football an atmospheric regional stage quite different from the MCG's grandeur. The Magpies are perennial contenders and the Kangaroos are fighting for relevance — pre-season games like this establish form lines that matter when the real table points arrive. Late-night AFL has its own devoted audience, and tonight they're rewarded.

10:30 PM NEW Sports Sports event

NRL Rugby

"Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs vs. St. George Illawarra Dragons"

FS2HD ·120 min

Part two of the NRL's Las Vegas doubleheader, and this one carries history — the Sydney rivalry between Canterbury-Bankstown and St. George Illawarra dates back generations, now transplanted to the Nevada desert for rugby league's American experiment. The surreality of watching this fixture at Allegiant Stadium is genuinely part of the appeal. The sport has never looked quite like this.

🌟 Specials & Events

7:00 PM NEW Show Special

57th NAACP Image Awards

KMTVDT ·120 min ·2026

Hollywood's most joyful awards night, where excellence in Black storytelling gets its due — and the room always knows how to celebrate. With Moonlight airing on HBO later tonight, think of this as the perfect prologue for Barry Jenkins getting his flowers all over again. The stars come out, and they mean it.

8:47 PM NEW Show Special

Chris Fleming: Live at the Palace

HBOHD ·78 min ·TV-MA ·2026 ·Dir. Bill Benz

Chris Fleming is one of the funniest people working in comedy right now — his YouTube work built one of the internet's most devoted cult followings, and this HBO special finally brings him to the big room. Fleming's observations on masculinity, social performance, and modern absurdity have an almost surgical precision wrapped in a delivery style that is utterly, irreducibly his own. This is a genuine discovery for anyone who hasn't found him yet.

Cast: Chris Fleming

🌙 Late Night

10:00 PM Movie Feature Film

Back to the Future Part II

HS8090 ·110 min ·PG ·1989 ·Dir. Robert Zemeckis

Watch this one immediately after the first — Part II makes more sense as an extended meditation on anxiety about the future than as a straightforward sequel, and Zemeckis' formal ambition here, with characters crossing their own timelines, is actually quite daring. The vision of 2015 that got almost everything wrong and somehow captured the spirit exactly right. A worthy continuation that rewards the double feature.

Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson

10:20 PM Movie Feature Film

Road to Perdition

TMCXHD ·120 min ·R ·2002 ·Dir. Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes followed American Beauty with this rain-soaked Depression-era masterpiece — Tom Hanks as a mob enforcer, Paul Newman as his patriarch boss, and Jude Law delivering the film's most quietly terrifying performance as a ghoulish freelance killer. Conrad Hall's cinematography won the Oscar and deserves every frame of recognition; this is one of the most visually stunning American films of its decade. Late night is exactly the right time for something this handsome and bleak.

Cast: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law

10:45 PM Movie Feature Film

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

TCMHD ·135 min ·R ·1971 ·Dir. Robert Altman

Robert Altman's great anti-Western — Warren Beatty as a bumbling entrepreneur and Julie Christie as the pragmatic madam who is actually running things — plays like the quiet demolition of every John Ford myth that came before it. Leonard Cohen's three songs on the soundtrack do half the emotional lifting, and the snow-covered finale is one of cinema's great sequences. TCM saving the best for last, as it tends to do.

Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois

12:07 AM Movie Feature Film

The Wolf of Wall Street

STZCHD ·181 min ·R ·2013 ·Dir. Martin Scorsese

Scorsese at maximum velocity — three hours of DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, and Margot Robbie in her breakout role, making excess feel both irresistible and nauseating by turns. Nobody has made a film about American capitalism quite like this one, and the passage of time has only sharpened its indictment. The perfect film for when the rest of the night is finally over and you're ready to commit.

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie