We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
F1 (Apple TV, 12 December)
Helmed by Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski and starring Brad Pitt, F1 is one of the highest grossing films of 2025 for a reason – it’s “big, noisy, obvious and hugely entertaining.” Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, a former racer who returns to the track after a 30-year absence to save his former teammate’s struggling F1 team. Racing alongside the team’s hotshot rookie, played by one-to-watch Damson Idris, this turbocharged sports drama is one hell of a ride.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix, 12 December)
In the third instalment in the Knives Out film franchise, Daniel Craig reprises his role as the Sherlockian master detective Benoit Blanc. Set in a supposedly picture-perfect town in upstate New York, Blanc is summoned to investigate a case that defies all logic when a monsignor is murdered during mass. With an ensemble cast that includes Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, and Andrew Scott, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery might just be “the best instalment yet”.
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour – The End of an Era (Disney+, 12 December)
Granted unprecedented access to Taylor Swift along with her band, dancers, crew, and family members, this hotly-anticipated six-part docuseries goes behind the scenes to trace the development, impact, and inner-workings of her record breaking Eras tour. Also featuring Sabrina Carpenter, Travis Kelce, Ed Sheeran, Florence Welch and Gracie Abrams, Swift has described Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour – The End of an Era as “every moment leading up to the culmination of the most important and intense chapter” of her life. Tailor-made for Swifties, this docu-series is bound to delight.
Mad Men (Disney+, 14 December)
With all seven seasons of Mad Men coming to Disney+, there’s no excuse not to return to one of the best TV shows of the 21st century. Mad Men is set in 60s New York, and traces the professional and personal life of Jon Hamm’s Don Draper, an enigmatic advertising executive and bastion of TV’s golden age. “An IV drip of pleasure whose potency remains undiminished even after multiple trips around the carousel,” this “meditation on how modern America came to be,” is as relevant and as revelatory as ever.
The Devil is Busy (Neon, 9 December)
A surefire contender for best documentary short at the Oscars, The Devil is Busy focuses on Tracii, the last line of defence at an Atlanta abortion clinic besieged by protesters. Following the head of security and woman of faith across one tumultuous day, the slice-of-life documentary offers “an unflinching look into the daily realities of both providing and accessing reproductive healthcare in a climate of intense hostility.” Enraging and illuminating, The Devil is Busy is a deeply affecting watch.
Pick of the Flicks: Inside Man (Neon, 12 December)
Following an elaborate bank-heist-turned-hostage-situation at a Manhattan bank, this Spike Lee joint stars frequent collaborator Denzel Washington as NYPD hostage negotiator Detective Keith Frazier. Facing off against Dalton Russell, Clive Owen’s smug criminal mastermind, the two go toe-to-toe in an “elegant, expertly acted puzzler that is just off-base enough to keep us consistently involved.” Reminiscent of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and Dog Day Afternoon, Inside Man is a joy to behold.
The rest
Netflix
Elmo and Mark Rober’s Merry Giftmas (8 December)
Blood Coast: Season 2 (9 December)
Badly in Love (9 December)
Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within (9 December)
Record of Ragnarok S3 (10 December)
The Accident S2 (10 December)
Simon Cowell: The Next Act (10 December)
Had I Not Seen the Sun P2 (11 December)
Man Vs Baby (11 December)
The Town (11 December)
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft S2 (11 December)
The Fakenapping (11 December)
Lost in the Spotlight (11 December)
Home for Christmas S3 (12 December)
City of Shadows (12 December)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (12 December)
The Amazing Digital Circus S1 EP 5-7 (13 December)
Robby Hoffman: Wake Up (14 December)
A Beautiful Mind (14 December)
Dark Game (14 December)
TVNZ+
Sydney’s Killer Cop (8 December)
Location Location Location S28 (8 December)
The Princess Bride (10 December)
The Neverending Story (10 December)
Spy Kids 4 (10 December)
Make It At Market (13 December)
Trigger Point S3 (14 December)
24 Hours in Police Custody (14 December)
ThreeNow
D.I. Ray S1-S2 (14 December)
The Floor US (12 December)
Neon
Drunk History S1-S2 (8 December)
Batwheels S2 (8 December)
Forever S1 (9 December)
Take My Tumor (9 December)
The Dark Money Game (9 December)
The Devil is Busy (9 December)
Under the Banner of Heaven (10 December)
Atsuko Okatsuka: The Intruder (10 December)
Key & Peele S1-S5 (11 December)
Paid In Full: The Battle For Payback (12 December)
Inside Man (12 December)
Non-Stop (12 December)
South Park S28 (13 December)
Bruce Almighty (13 December)
The Star (13 December)
A Beautiful Mind (14 December)
Dark Game (14 December)
Prime Video
Tell Me Softly (12 December)
Disney+
Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures S3 (8 December)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians S2 (10 December)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Official Podcast S2 (10 December)
The Stanford Prison Experiment (10 December)
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour – The End of an Era (12 December)
Mad Men S1–S7 (14 December)
Apple TV
F1 (12 December)
Shudder/AMC+/Acorn/HIDIVE
Food Wars! S2-S3 (HIDIVE, 9 December)
Influencers (Shudder, AMC+, 12 December)
The Creep Tapes S2 (Shudder, AMC+, 12 December)
The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors (Shudder, AMC+, 16 December)
Girls Under Panzer (HIDIVE, 16 December)
DocPlay
The First World War: The People’s Story (8 December)
Hayu
Love & Hip Hop Miami S1-S3 (8 December)
Love & Hip Hop Miami S7 (8 December)
AroVision
Hot Milk (10 December)
Stella: A Life (10 December)
Murder Report (10 December)
Adulthood (10 December)
The Conjuring: Last Rites (10 December)
Regretting You (10 December)
