The Lost Bus to Rosalie: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

<p>Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera try to outrun the Californian wild fires to save a bus load of children in an epic, edge-of-your-seat thriller, plus a tender and heart-tugging tale about a ‘bearded lady’</p><p>As the director of 9/11 drama United 93, Paul Greengrass has form in fictionalising real-life disasters. So it’s no surprise that his <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/19/the-lost-bus-review-matthew-mcconaughey-america-ferrera-paul-greengrass">new film</a>, about a school bus trying to flee the epically destructive 2018 Camp Fire in California, is a tense, thick-of-the-action thriller – one that may have you checking your hair for singeing by the end. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/20/matthew-mcconaughey-interview-faith-fame-shocking-incident-that-defined-him">Matthew McConaughey</a> (at the frazzled end of his handsome spectrum) is driver Kevin McKay, who picks up a bunch of kids, plus teacher Mary Ludwig (America Ferrera), as an inferno surges towards the town of Paradise. Greengrass keeps a vice-like grip on the plot, and our emotions, as the temperature rises and&nbsp;their options narrow. <em><br>
Out now, Apple TV+</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/03/the-lost-bus-to-rosalie-the-seven-best-films-to-watch-on-tv-this-week">Continue reading...</a>