New to watch
The last fortnight: series that just started, films and series newly on the streaming services, and films just out to rent or buy.
Stacey Dooley's Australia: Off the Beaten Track
Stacey Dooley ventures into Australia's remotest corners—cattle stations, rainforests, island communities—meeting the people who live far from the beaten path. It's intimate, curious travel documentary with real stakes: how do humans…
Missing(2023)
A taut thriller about a young woman using every tech tool available to find her missing mother in Colombia. Storm Reid carries the film as June, glued to screens and phones, piecing together a mystery that keeps shifting beneath her…
Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook
Awkwafina travels America discovering Asian American food culture while confronting her own culinary incompetence—a deeply personal journey rooted in her family's legendary Flushing restaurant. It's intimate, funny, and genuinely curious…
Interstellar(2014)
A father's desperate bid to save humanity doubles as a love story stretched across galaxies and decades. Christopher Nolan pairs Hans Zimmer's cathedral-sized organ score with genuine astrophysics, turning a rescue mission into a…
Dead Poets Society(1989)
Dead Poets Society is a boarding-school drama about the electric, dangerous gift of a teacher who tells his students to think for themselves. Robin Williams plays John Keating with melancholy as much as mischief, and the film builds…
Arrival(2016)
Arrival is science fiction built like a language lesson rather than an invasion movie: a linguist is handed the impossible task of talking to visitors whose grammar reshapes how time itself is experienced. It's cool, patient, and visually…
Possible Love(2026)
A four-character emotional collision about desire, regret, and the gap between who we are and who we thought we'd be. Two couples meet and something shifts. It's a slow-burn drama that trusts you to feel the weight of unspoken longing—two…
Spy×Family(2022)
A world-class spy is ordered to fake a family to infiltrate an elite school, unaware his new wife is a secret assassin and his adopted daughter is a telepath who already knows everyone's lying. It runs on dramatic irony and slapstick…
iZombie(2015)
iZombie blends case-of-the-week detective work with horror-comedy heart: newly undead med student Liv Moore solves murders by eating victims' brains and briefly channeling their memories, quirks, and appetites. It's breezy, funny,…
Minority Report(2002)
Spielberg's slickest, most cynical blockbuster: a future where murder is stopped before it happens, and the cop running the system becomes its target. It's part chase movie, part detective story, part civil-liberties nightmare, wrapped in…
Rise of the Planet of the Apes(2011)
A sci-fi thriller about a genius chimp's quiet suburban life shattered by cruelty, igniting an uprising. Andy Serkis motion-captures Caesar with uncanny intelligence and pathos. It's a thinking person's action film—part family drama, part…
Stargate SG·1(1997)
Stargate SG-1 is what happens when Star Trek's optimism meets special-ops swagger: a four-person team steps through an ancient portal into a new alien crisis almost every week, for ten seasons. It's proudly episodic, packed with wormhole…
The Banshees of Inisherin(2022)
On a fictional island off Ireland's coast during the Civil War, one man's sudden decision to end a friendship spirals into inexplicable, escalating cruelty. It's a fable dressed as an odd-couple comedy—gorgeous, funny, and unbearably…
Brideshead Revisited(1981)
Brideshead Revisited is the gold standard of British costume drama: an eleven-part, unhurried adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel that trades plot for atmosphere, letting Jeremy Irons' narration drift through Oxford spires, Venetian…
Miracle(2004)
Miracle is the story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, told with the polish of a big studio sports picture and the sincerity to match. Kurt Russell disappears into Herb Brooks's flat Minnesota vowel and iron will. It's for people who…
Nikita(2010)
Nikita is glossy CW spy-action at its most enjoyable: a trained killer turned rogue, taking down the black-ops agency that made her while dragging her ex-handler-turned-lover along for the ride. It's soapy, propulsive, unapologetically…
War for the Planet of the Apes(2017)
A richly mounted science-fiction war film where Andy Serkis's motion-captured ape leader Caesar confronts a human colonel across a landscape of ruined cities and moral compromise. It's less about spectacle than about the slow corruption…
Will Trent(2023)
A procedural about a Georgia Bureau of Investigations agent with the highest case clearance rate, driven by his abandonment as an infant and years in foster care. Grounded, character-focused crime drama with genuine stakes. For viewers…
Eight Below(2006)
A Disney adventure built on real events: a dog-sled guide is forced to abandon his team on the Antarctic ice, and the film splits its time between the dogs' brutal fight to survive and the humans scrambling to get back to them. It's…
Shaun the Sheep Movie(2015)
Aardman's plasticine flock goes properly cinematic: Shaun engineers a day off, things escalate into a full city rescue mission, and not a single word of dialogue is spoken throughout. It's a masterclass in visual comedy — sight gags,…
The Following(2013)
The Following is a propulsive crime thriller about an FBI agent hunting a charismatic serial killer who's assembled a cult of murderers to do his bidding. It's tense, operatic, occasionally absurd—think obsession and cat-and-mouse games…
Wildfire(2005)
A horse-racing drama centered on troubled young people finding themselves at a California ranch. It's warm and character-driven, unafraid of mess—broken homes, addiction, love complications—without ever turning bleak. For anyone who loved…
Napoléon(2002)
A four-part French miniseries that strips away legend to show Napoleon as a man of contradictions—ambitious but insecure, brilliant but ruthless, shaped by love and loss as much as military genius. Intimate and sweeping at once, it won an…
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy(2004)
A gloriously stupid time capsule of 1970s local news, built entirely around Will Ferrell's magnificent idiot Ron Burgundy and the sexist newsroom he rules until Veronica Corningstone shows up. It's less a plot than a delivery system for…
Cashback(2007)
A young man reeling from heartbreak takes a night shift at a supermarket and discovers that time, when you're awake for it, can be stopped—literally. *Cashback* is a visual love letter wrapped around a gentle rom-com premise: funny,…
Elf(2003)
Will Ferrell plays a human raised as an elf who arrives in Manhattan believing wholeheartedly in Christmas, candy canes, and singing loudly for all to hear. It's a fish-out-of-water comedy built entirely on Ferrell's commitment to a joke…
Love and Death(1975)
Woody Allen's absurdist romp through Napoleonic Russia, where a bumbling conscript and his cousin scheme to kill the Emperor. It's Allen at his most playfully philosophical, riffing on death, love, and the futility of grand gestures…
Murder in the First(1995)
A young public defender takes on the case of a lifer accused of murder in prison, discovering the brutal system that created him. Christian Slater and Kevin Bacon anchor this deeply felt courtroom drama about institutional cruelty and the…
Radio Days(1987)
Woody Allen's warmest film is a scrapbook, not a story: overlapping memories and half-invented radio legends set in wartime New York, narrated with fond exaggeration. It drifts from a Rockaway family's kitchen table to Manhattan broadcast…
Step Into Liquid(2003)
Step Into Liquid is a 2003 documentary about surfing that transcends sport to explore obsession, freedom, and the hunt for perfect waves. Shot across multiple continents, it captures both the technical mastery and spiritual yearning that…
The Croods(2013)
A vibrant prehistoric adventure where a paranoid caveman father must accept the world is changing—and that his kids are smarter than he is. DreamWorks animation at its most visually inventive, packed with sight gags, genuine heart, and a…
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three(1974)
A New York subway car gets hijacked by four cool professionals demanding a ransom, and the transit cop stuck negotiating is having, frankly, a terrible day. It's grimy, funny, and procedural all at once — walkie-talkies crackling,…
Carolina Caroline(2026)
A young woman escapes her suffocating small town with a magnetic drifter, and their crime spree becomes a desperate, doomed romance. It's a character-driven thriller that trades spectacle for intimacy—two people spiralling together, each…
Hunting Season(2025)
A survivalist and his daughter pull a wounded woman from a river and stumble into a revenge thriller with a brutal criminal at its center. Mel Gibson anchors a tense, economical action film that works best when it stays focused on…
Beyond the Gates(2025)
A glossy melodrama about an affluent Black family navigating wealth, status and secrets in a gated Maryland suburb. It's prime-time soap opera—lush production values, interconnected crises, moral ambiguity—built on the engine of family…
Rise of the Rockstar Chef
A three-part documentary following Marco Pierre White, Gordon Ramsay, and Heston Blumenthal through the 1990s revolution in British cuisine. It's a story of ambition, rivalry, and transformation told through their own voices and those…
The Greatest
A compelling portrait of Muhammad Ali's transformation from Olympic golden boy to heavyweight champion and outspoken icon. The series traces his evolution from Cassius Clay through boxing's demands and America's racial reckoning,…
A Dog's Perfect Christmas(2026)
A heartfelt family film about a dog determined to reunite his fractured household before Christmas. It balances genuine emotional stakes—a family in crisis—with the warmth and humor of watching a devoted pet work to fix what's broken. For…
Taken: Natalee Holloway
A three-part documentary series following a mother's decades-long search for answers after her daughter vanishes during a trip to Aruba. Beth Holloway narrates the investigation from its desperate early days through a shocking late…
Bass X Machina
A steampunk Western where a father takes violent justice into his own hands to protect his family in a lawless frontier crawling with outlaws and machines. Brutal and atmospheric, with a cast led by Brian Tyree Henry and Janelle Monáe.…
The Shadow's Edge(2025)
A grizzled tracking specialist gets dragged out of retirement to run down a slick crew of thieves in Macau, and Jackie Chan plays it more world-weary than acrobatic. It's a big, glossy Hong Kong crime thriller with real stunt-work bones…
Resident Evil(2026)
A ground-level reboot of the Resident Evil universe that swaps the franchise's superhero mythology for something nastier and closer to the bone. A medical courier gets swallowed by one outbreak night, and the film stays in that grubby,…
Sense and Sensibility(2026)
Jane Austen's novel of two sisters navigating love, disappointment and growing up gets a lush, witty 2026 film adaptation. It's elegant without being stiff, romantic without being saccharine, and genuinely funny about desire, money and…
Primetime(2026)
Primetime reconstructs the making of To Catch a Predator from inside the control room, with Robert Pattinson's Chris Hansen chasing ratings as much as justice. It's less true-crime thriller than character study of ambition curdling into…
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother(2026)
A hitman grapples with faith, fatherhood, and conscience after tragedy forces him to choose between his violent world and his children's safety. Mahershala Ali anchors this morally complex thriller with quiet intensity, trading spectacle…
Beware Boiúna(2026)
A creature-feature set in the Amazon basin, where a medical team's expedition goes sideways when they disturb something massive and prehistoric. It's a jungle survival thriller with body horror edges and the sense that the environment…
Forrest Gump(1994)
Forrest Gump is the great American tall tale rendered as feel-good epic — one gentle man's accidental brush with three decades of history, from Vietnam to ping-pong diplomacy, narrated with a shrug and a box of chocolates. It's shameless,…
Prisoners(2013)
Denis Villeneuve's slow-burn abduction thriller follows two fathers and one relentless detective through a waterlogged Pennsylvania winter after two little girls vanish. It's less whodunit than a study in how grief and fear push ordinary…
My Best Friend(2026)
A Brazilian comedy about two women navigating midlife, empty nests, and the particular freedom that comes when your kids leave home. Julia and Clara decide to chase their daughters across the world, but the real journey is about…
Killers of the Flower Moon(2023)
Scorsese's late-period epic is a slow, appalled unspooling of a real conspiracy: white settlers marrying into and then murdering the Osage Nation for oil money. It's less thriller than tragedy — patient, mournful, told partly through…
The Nice Guys(2016)
A shaggy, profane buddy comedy dressed up as a hardboiled 1970s LA noir, from the writer of Lethal Weapon. Gosling's hapless private eye and Crowe's hulking enforcer stumble through a smog-choked mystery involving porn, pollution and a…
Never After Dark(2026)
A Japanese horror film about a traveling psychic drawn into a nightmare at an isolated house. Atmospheric and methodical, it builds dread through suggestion rather than spectacle, favoring creeping unease over jump scares. For viewers who…
The Outfit(2022)
A master tailor in Chicago's underworld finds himself trapped between his craft and survival when a violent crime family makes him their confidant. Taut, claustrophobic, and built on tension rather than spectacle, it's a chamber piece…
Good Will Hunting(1997)
A Boston janitor solves grad-level math problems on chalkboards nobody expects him to read, then spends the rest of the film making sure no one gets close enough to see the rest of him. It's part mentor movie, part love story, part study…
It's a Wonderful Life(1946)
It's easy to forget, under all that Christmas Eve sentiment, how genuinely dark this film gets — a desperate man contemplating the end of everything, given one night to see what his absence would actually cost. Capra earns the warmth by…
Jurassic World(2015)
A theme park finally works, which is the problem. Twenty-two years after the original disaster, Isla Nublar has genetically engineered attractions, a bored corporate clientele, and a hybrid super-predator built for spectacle rather than…
A Story of Derry(2026)
A 30-minute horror film that takes the Derry, Maine mythology back centuries before Stephen King's Pennywise emerges. Three young people descend into the Western Wood and face something older and rawer than the famous clown—a genuinely…
Nocturne
A gritty crime thriller where an ex-soldier detective retreats to small-town Pennsylvania for peace, only to face a methodical serial killer who threatens everything he's rebuilt. Nocturne is taut, character-driven television that…
Dead-End Job
A young man accepts an impossibly lucrative part-time job through a mysterious agency, only to discover it's a descent into supernatural horror. Dead-End Job blends workplace dread with genuine scares, building an atmosphere where every…
How to Ruin Diwali: Meet the Parents
A Netflix comedy about an engagement that drags together a Zulu family and an Indian medical dynasty for Diwali, with secrets and clashing customs threatening everything. It's the kind of warm, character-driven ensemble piece that mines…
Collision Course(2026)
A Spanish heist film where a bank robbery's violent getaway becomes the catalyst for unraveling the conspiracies and resentments binding its criminals together. Tense, character-driven, operating in that space where crime thrillers become…
Apocalypse Z: New World(2026)
A Spanish zombie thriller set in a post-apocalyptic Europe where the Canary Islands are humanity's last stand. When a supply mission to the mainland goes catastrophically wrong, survival becomes secondary to the question of who you can…
You, Me, Us(2026)
A tender Italian drama about a couple navigating the grueling bureaucratic and emotional gauntlet of adoption. It finds humour in their fumbling determination and quiet moments of doubt, but never at their expense. For anyone who's felt…
Drive - The Pretenders(2026)
A race car mechanic and a scandalized driver fake an engagement to rebuild their reputations, but genuine feelings complicate the deception. This is a sharp romantic thriller that uses the high-octane world of motorsports as both backdrop…
Ali G: Who Iz I?(2026)
Ali G returns after two decades away, dragged into adulthood by impending fatherhood. Cohen reprises his shapeshifting provocateur across multiple characters in a film that lurches between crude comedy and genuine stakes. It's aggressive,…
The One About Matthew Perry
A documentary series built from interviews with those closest to Matthew Perry, examining the person beneath the beloved sitcom star. It traces his private struggles and generosity alongside his public success, constructed entirely…
Forgotten Island(2026)
Two best friends fall through a portal on the last night before adulthood and land in Nakali, a folklore-drenched island where the toll for going home is every memory they have of each other. It's bright, funny, family-animation on the…
The Dog Stars(2026)
A post-plague survival story that trades zombie hordes for something quieter and stranger. One man, one dog, one aircraft, and the mystery of a radio signal that suggests they're not alone. Slow-burn sci-fi that's as much about loneliness…
Verity(2026)
A ghostwriter moves into a beautiful, off-putting house to finish a bestselling author's unfinished series, and immediately regrets it. What she finds — in manuscripts, in the husband, in the walls themselves — turns this into a slow-burn…
Minimum Wage
A workplace comedy following a ragtag crew of teenagers trying to keep a pizzeria afloat while dealing with school, their chaotic boss, and the grinding reality of minimum wage. Based on viral social media shorts, it trades cynicism for…
The Mob
A reality competition where celebrities execute mob-movie-inspired challenges in a luxurious Italian villa, competing for $250,000 under the rotating iron fist of a democratically-chosen "don." It's *Survivor* meets *Goodfellas*—part game…