We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
If you like a sweet escape: Sweet Tooth (Netflix, June 6)
The third and final season of the New Zealand-filmed apocalyptic thriller about a hybrid-human child travelling through a post-pandemic world drops this week. “While Sweet Tooth is certainly older-child-appropriate, for all its fantasy elements and CGI animals it still tells a vividly human story for adults,” we said of season one in 2021. “Don’t go into it expecting a riveting, realistic apocalypse drama. Instead allow yourself to be drawn into the pages of its storybook, to enjoy a tale that’s a bit more Brothers Grimm than Stephen King’s The Stand. Your weekend will be warmer for it.”
If you love a romantic comedy: Hit Man (Netflix, June 7)
Oscar nominated director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused) brings the laughs in this new romantic comedy about a mild-mannered professor (Top Gun’s Glen Powell) who moonlights as a fake hitman in police stings. Don’t worry if that doesn’t make sense, because things get even more complicated when the prof falls in love with one of his clients. Awkward! It’s quite the charming caper, currently sitting at 97% approval on Rotten Tomatoes. Get into it.
If you snooping inside fancy houses: NZ’s Best Homes with Phil Spencer (TVNZ+, June 9)
New Zealand’s love affair with Location, Location, Location hits a new high this week, with the arrival of property series NZ’s Best Homes with Phil Spencer. Not only is LLL host and property expert Phil Spencer actually in Aotearoa (sadly sans LLL-sidekick Kirstie Allsopp), but he’s hooning around the country visiting the nation’s biggest and fanciest houses. Expect a lot of big windows, impressive views and the always-charming Spencer being continually amazed by how clever the wealthiest people in the country can be.
If you love a psychological thriller: Mother’s Instinct (Prime Video, June 7)
Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Josh Charles star in this psychological drama about two neighbouring housewives in the 1960s, whose lives are turned upside down when one of their young sons dies in a tragic accident. Will their friendship survive the trauma? The trailer suggests it definitely won’t, but this is one heck of an unravelling. If you like a quiet, uneasy thriller with a side of Stepford wife, this is the film for you.
If you love reality TV: The Fortune Hotel (TVNZ+, June 6)
Love Island UK returns to TVNZ+ this week, but there’s another reality TV show that’s snuck quietly into TVNZ’s schedule – and it looks like a good one. Stephen Mangan (Green Wing, The Split) hosts this new British reality series that’s a cross between The Traitors, The Amazing Race and Deal or No Deal. Ten couples fly to the sunny Caribbean, each with a briefcase that could win them a lot of cash. Throughout the game filled with riddles and challenges, the couples will have a chance to swap or keep their case – most cases contain nothing, some have a “go home” card inside, while just one holds the coveted £250,000 prize.
The rest
Netflix
Little Baby Bum Musictime (June 3)
Jo Koy Live From Brooklyn (June 4)
The Price of Nonna’s Inheritance (June 4)
Anti Hero (June 4)
Ride on Time (June 4)
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial (June 5)
How to Rob a Bank (June 5)
Under Paris (June 5)
All My Friends Hate Me (June 6)
The Queen of Dirty Money (June 6)
Rafa Maquez El Capitán (June 6)
Baki Hanna (June 6)
Kubra (June 6)
Basma (June 6)
Sweet Tooth S3 (June 6)
Baki Hanma vs Kengan Ashura (June 6)
Hit Man (June 7)
Hierarchy (June 7)
The Greatest Showman (June 7)
League of Superpets (June 7)
Time Addicts (June 7)
Summer Love (June 7)
Perfect Match S2 (June 7)
Violent Night (June 8)
Marmalade (June 10)
TVNZ+
The Chase Bloopers (June 3)
Animal Control (June 3)
Crazy Ex Girlfriend (all seasons, June 3)
Love Island UK S11 (June 5)
Seasick (June 5)
The Tower S2 (June 8)
Night in Paradise (June 9)
NZ’s Best Homes with Phil Spencer (June 9)
ThreeNow
He Lied About Everything (June 5)
Neon
We’re Here S4 (June 3)
Day of Our Lives S60 (June 3)
Nobody Has To Know (June 3)
The Road Dance (June 3)
You Were My First Boyfriend (June 4)
The Cleaning Lady S3 (June 5)
Shrek (June 5)
Shrek 2 (June 5)
Shrek The Third (June 5)
The Nun 2 (June 6)
Retribution (June 6)
The Swan Princess: Far Longer Than Forever (June 6)
Am I Ok? (June 7)
John Wick (June 7)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (June 7)
John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum (June 7)
Unseen (June 7)
Justice League: Warworld (June 8)
The Green Mile (June 9)
Prime Video
Marlon Wayans: Good Grief (June 4)
Mayor of Kingston S3 (June 3)
WNBA: Chicago Sky At Washington Mystics (June 6)
Mother’s Instinct (June 7)
Disney+
FX’s Clipped (June 4)
Star Wars: The Acolyte (June 5)
Disney Jr.’s Ariel: Mermaid Tales (June 5)
Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Colour(June 5)
Life Below Zero: Port Protection Alaska: Season 1-7 (June 5)
Trafficked: Underworlds with Mariana van Zeller (June 5)
Becoming Karl Lagerfeld (June 7)
Queenie (June 7)
Michael Strahan X Jon Bon Jovi: Halfway There (June 7)
For the First Time in Forever: The Making of World of Frozen (June 7)
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (June 7)
The Real Red Tails (June 7)
Out on a Limb (June 9)
Crazy Over Daisy (June 9)
Hayu
Real Housewives of Dubai S2 (June 3)
Below Deck Mediterranean S9 (June 4)
Acorn TV/AMC+/Shudder
Family History Mysteries: Buried Past (Acorn TV/AMC+ June 3)
The Babadook (AMC+/Shudder, June 3)
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