We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
Outlander (Neon, March 7)
With season eight of the beloved Outlander being its last, rumours are flying about what the “genre-busting and wildly entertaining” fantasy romance series has in store for its epic conclusion. Season seven may have ended with a shocking cliffhanger, but showrunner Matthew B. Roberts has promised answers to Outlander’s long-held mysteries, including the fate of Claire’s daughter Faith and finally explaining Jamie’s time-travel capabilities. Grab a box of tissues – it’s finally time to say farewell.
Mr Nobody Against Putin (DocPlay, March 2)
Taking home Best Documentary at the BAFTAs, Mr Nobody Against Putin follows co-director Pavel Talankin at a primary school in Karabash, a poor mining town that subsists in the shadows of the Urals. In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the school’s videographer Talankin finds himself at odds with Putin’s newly implemented “patriotic education policy,” so he decides to covertly document how the war is transforming classrooms. Described as an “indelible document of ideological warfare that echoes far beyond Russia,” Mr Nobody Against Putin is a harrowing and heartbreaking watch.
May December (MĀORI+, March 8)
Loosely based on the scandalous story of Mary Kay Letourneau, the Oscar-nominated May December stars Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Berry, an actress who travels to the bayous of Georgia to meet Julianne Moore’s Gracie Atherton-Yoo, a sex offender she is set to play in an upcoming indie film. Helmed by the uncompromising director Todd Haynes, this disarming black comedy is “a brilliant ode to female toxicity that begins at a place of camp and ends at one that’s closer to horror”. Destined to become a modern classic, May December will leave your skin crawling.
DTF St. Louis (Neon, March 2)
In this HBO miniseries, Jason Bateman, David Harbour and Linda Cardellini are three middle-aged St. Louis locals whose struggles with “ennui, loneliness, and hidden desires” spiral into a love triangle that ends in murder. DTF St. Louis – which ironically echoes the scandal that ended Harbour’s marriage to pop star Lily Allen – also features Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins and Wednesday star Joy Sunday as the oddball detective duo tasked with solving the salacious murder.
Nouvelle Vague (AroVision, March 4)
Receiving 10 nominations at the 51st César Awards, Nouvelle Vague is the latest outing from the legendary Richard Linklater. Detailing the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, the film that announced the arrival of the radical French New Wave, Guillaume Marbeck plays the garrulous Godard and Zoey Deutch as the dazzling Jean Seberg. Together they star in a “wittily engrossing and ultra-disciplined execution of a conceit” that will be catnip for cinephiles, but accessible enough for casual film fans.
Pick of the Flicks: Orwell: 2+2=5 (DocPlay, March 2)
Premiering at Cannes, and helmed by the Oscar-nominated Raoul Peck, Orwell: 2+2=5 traces the career of the prophetic George Orwell, spotlighting how his observations on 20th-century totalitarianism still ring true. With such despots as Trump, and Putin dismantling democracy, and the truth becoming increasingly fragile with the dissemination of newspeak through social media, the Haitian filmmaker has made “the boldest documentary anyone could make right now”. White hot with rage and relevance, Orwell: 2+2=5 is essential viewing.
The rest
TVNZ+
Damages S1-S5 (March 2)
The Last Action Hero (March 2)
The Dark Horse (March 3)
The Murder of Nicholas Billingham (March 3)
Matlock S2 (March 3)
Ted S2 (March 6)
MĀORI+
Dragon Girls (March 2)
Long Way North (March 6)
7 Days (March 6)
Spy Cat (March 7)
Universal Soldier (March 7)
May December (March 8)
Netflix
Gabby’s Dollhouse S13 (March 2)
Bruce Bruce: I Ain’t Playin’ (March 3)
Blue Therapy (March 4)
Street Flow 3 (March 4)
Vladimir (March 5)
A Friend, a Murderer (March 5)
Boyfriend on Demand (March 6)
Hello Bachchon (March 6)
Strangers in the Park (March 6)
War Machine (March 6)
The Dinosaurs (March 6)
The TikTok Killer (March 6)
BEASTARS S3 P2 (March 7)
Still Shining (March 7)
Neon
DTF St. Louis (March 2)
The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball S2 (March 2)
Marshals (March 2)
Lockout (March 5)
Scrubs S1-S9 (March 6)
The Matrix (March 6)
The Matrix Reloaded (March 6)
The Matrix Revolutions (March 6)
Outlander S8 (March 7)
Mirror, Mirror (March 7)
The Naked Gun (March 8)
The Social Network (March 8)
Whiplash (March 8)
The Bus Driver: Britain’s Cocaine King (March 8)
Prime Video
Siren’s Kiss (March 3)
Young Sherlock (March 4)
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (March 5)
Disney+
O11CE S1-S3 (March 4)
Ghost Elephants (March 8)
DocPlay
Orwell: 2+2=5 (March 2)
2000 Meters to Andriivka (March 2)
Mr Nobody Against Putin (March 2)
Folktales (March 2)
Hayu
Southern Hospitality S4 (March 5)
Ladies of London: The New Reign (March 6)
AroVision
Nouvelle Vague (March 4)
