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Movies & TV
Every App Comrade review tagged Movies & TV, across every platform.
BloodStream is a free horror channel that asks you to trust the name.
Studio Dome's ad-supported Roku channel arrived in July 2025 with a one-word pitch and almost no public information. The name does most of the marketing.
MAY 11, 2026
MultiBox is a Roku channel that asks you to take it on faith.
A free, unknown movies-and-TV channel from a single developer with no store description, no screenshots of UI in motion, and no track record. The metadata is the whole pitch.
MAY 11, 2026
Raw Multimedia is a Roku channel that won't tell you what it plays.
A free movies-and-TV channel from RAW MULTIMEDIA LLC, published mid-2025, with no store description and a name generic enough to belong to anyone. Installation is a leap of faith.
MAY 11, 2026
BijouTheater turns the Roku into a small-town repertory screen.
A free, ad-supported channel from Wintree Corporation that leans into its name — bijou meaning a jewel-box cinema — and programmes a thin but watchable run of films you would not otherwise wander into on Roku Home.
MAY 11, 2026
Hong Kong Fight Club is a free shelf of kung-fu cinema for a quiet Saturday.
A Future Today-operated, ad-supported Roku channel built around Hong Kong action and martial-arts catalogue titles. No subscription, no account, and the films play.
MAY 11, 2026
Screamify is the small, scrappy horror channel Roku users actually click on.
A free, ad-free indie horror channel from Oh Gosh Yeah Entertainment with a punchy logo, three screenshots, and a thesis: queue up a B-movie and get out of the way.
MAY 11, 2026
On-the-Marc-TV is a personal channel that asks you to trust the name on the door.
A free, ad-free Roku channel from iVOD TV Developer with no store description and no public catalogue preview. You install it on faith, or you don't.
MAY 11, 2026
ATMTV is a Roku channel that asks you to trust the name.
A free movies-and-TV channel from Acquired Taste Media, published in September 2025, with three screenshots and no store description. There is not much to go on, and that is part of the review.
MAY 11, 2026
SweetspireTV arrives on Roku with almost nothing on the marquee.
A new movies-and-TV channel from Sweetspire TV, launched in late 2025, lands on the platform with a five-star rating, a free price tag, and a store listing that tells the viewer very little about what they are about to install.
MAY 11, 2026
Netflix on iOS is the place its mobile-only features actually live.
Smart Downloads, full-season offline grabs, the games shelf, iPad picture-in-picture, FaceID-locked profiles — almost every Netflix feature designed for a phone or a tablet lands on iOS first and best. The ad tier strips most of them out.
MAY 10, 2026
Netflix on Android keeps adding tabs and forgetting the basics.
The 2026 redesign bolts a vertical Clips feed onto a player that still hides Continue Watching, punishes ad-tier viewers, and quietly raised the price again.
MAY 10, 2026
Tubi keeps the bargain, but the ads are testing it.
Fox's free-with-ads streamer still has the deepest catalog of forgotten movies and weird TV on Android. The trade is a mid-roll cadence that feels heavier each quarter.
MAY 10, 2026
Channel Indie is the kind of small Roku channel the platform quietly needs.
A free indie-film curation channel from a one-developer shop. The catalogue is small and the design is plain, but the films on the carousel aren't ones you'll find queued up on Netflix's home row.
MAY 10, 2026
NuTV World is a free Roku channel that asks you to take it on faith.
A late-2025 movies-and-TV channel from NOWCAST with no store description, no ad load, and no IAP. What's inside is whatever NOWCAST decides to broadcast that day.
MAY 10, 2026
Anime Verse arrives on Roku without a single sentence of self-description.
A new free-with-IAP anime channel from Tech Sky Systems, listed in September 2025 and quietly updated since. The Roku page leaves the licensing question completely unanswered, and that matters.
MAY 10, 2026
Free Movies Club is a small free-movie channel with a single developer behind it.
An ad-supported Roku channel from a solo developer, launched late 2025. Take it on its own scale — not as a Tubi or Pluto alternative.
MAY 10, 2026
WAVE TV is an indie Roku channel chasing a crowded name.
A free, ad-free movies and TV channel from an independent developer called Thomas, listed under the tagline Connect, create, share. The pitch is broader than the catalogue.
MAY 10, 2026
Escape is a generic-named small-publisher channel doing the bare minimum.
A free, ad-supported movies-and-TV channel from a UK indie publisher, released November 2025. The icon and name promise more than the catalogue delivers.
MAY 10, 2026
123movies on Roku borrows a notorious name, and the channel doesn't explain itself.
A free movies-and-TV channel from a developer called Grades Genius, published in late 2025, with no public description and a name lifted from one of the most-blocked piracy domains of the past decade. Proceed with eyes open.
MAY 10, 2026
Zona Movie is the kind of TV app that asks more questions than it answers.
A free movies-and-shows app dropped into the Samsung TV store with a name that echoes a long-running Russian streaming aggregator. The library is big, the ads are loud, and the provenance of the catalogue is the part nobody wants to talk about.
MAY 10, 2026
Netflix on Fire TV is the same Netflix, on Amazon's hardware, doing exactly what you'd expect.
The Fire TV build is the standard Netflix client with HDR10+ support, no Dolby Vision, and Alexa voice search wired into the remote. The app is fine. Fire TV's display story is the limit.
MAY 9, 2026
Prime Video on Fire TV is the canonical version of Amazon's own service.
On Amazon's own hardware, Prime Video is what Amazon has spent a decade engineering it to be — vertically integrated, pre-installed, voice-searchable from the home screen. The 2024 ad-tier shift is still the editorial story.
MAY 9, 2026
Paramount+ on LG webOS is the same streaming service as on Samsung TV.
Star Trek, the Yellowstone-universe ranch dramas, current CBS network shows, and AFC NFL Sundays. The LG webOS app is a competent client to the same content.
MAY 9, 2026
Tubi is the free streaming service that's quietly killing the cable industry.
Fox-owned, ad-supported, and home to a catalogue larger than Netflix's. The Fire TV experience is functional, the ad density is honest, and the price (zero) makes everything else negotiable.
MAY 8, 2026
Tubi on LG webOS is the same free streaming as on Fire TV.
50,000+ free titles, no signup required, ad-supported. The webOS implementation adds Magic Remote pointing and the LG OLED display advantage; the catalogue is the catalogue.
MAY 8, 2026
Prime Video on LG webOS is the streaming bundle Amazon makes you accept.
Same Prime Video as on Roku, with LG OLED's display advantages and the same 2024 ad-tier shift that made Prime Video meaningfully more annoying for free-with-Prime users.
MAY 8, 2026
Netflix on LG webOS is the streaming app LG TVs were built for.
The Netflix app benefits from LG's display hardware in ways that Roku and Fire TV can't match — particularly on OLED. The app itself is the standard Netflix client; the picture quality is the LG advantage.
MAY 8, 2026
Hulu on LG webOS is the same Hulu, on the same death watch.
Disney's 2026 consolidation of Hulu into Disney+ applies to LG webOS the same way it applies to Roku and Samsung Tizen. The webOS app works fine for now.
MAY 8, 2026
Prime Video on Roku is the streaming app most users access by accident.
Bundled with Amazon Prime, full of NFL Thursday Night Football, and quietly home to one of the largest movie catalogues in streaming. The 2024 ad-tier shift was the biggest editorial change in the platform's history.
MAY 8, 2026
Hulu on Roku is a working app on a death watch.
Disney is folding Hulu into the Disney+ app over the course of 2026. The Roku channel still works. The Nintendo Switch one shut down in February. There is a clock on this app.
MAY 8, 2026
Tubi on Samsung TV is the same free streaming, with Bixby.
Same 50,000+ catalogue, same ad density, same no-signup model — on Samsung's Tizen platform with Bixby voice search and QLED display.
MAY 8, 2026
Hulu on Samsung TV is on the same death watch as the Roku version.
Disney's planned 2026 consolidation of Hulu into Disney+ applies across every smart-TV platform. The Tizen Hulu app works for now. The Disney+ install is the future.
MAY 8, 2026
Paramount+ on Samsung TV is the streaming app for the people who want Star Trek and the NFL.
ViacomCBS's streaming bet — Paramount Originals, the CBS catalogue, AFC Conference NFL games, and a Showtime tier — wrapped in a Tizen app that's competent at what it does.
MAY 8, 2026
Netflix on Samsung TV is the same Netflix as on LG, with QLED instead of OLED.
Same catalogue, same subscription tiers, same picture-quality differences that come down to the underlying TV display. For Samsung QLED owners, this is the right Netflix install.
MAY 8, 2026
Prime Video on Samsung TV is the bundle Amazon makes you accept, on QLED.
Same Prime Video as on every other smart-TV platform. Samsung Tizen lacks Dolby Vision but the QLED brightness is excellent for daytime viewing.
MAY 8, 2026
Netflix on Roku is the boring app the platform was built for.
It launches in two seconds, plays without buffering on the cheapest stick Roku makes, and has done exactly that for ten years. Nobody is going to write a tribute to it. That's the highest compliment a TV app gets.
MAY 7, 2026