We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
For drama fans: Apples Never Fall (March 15, TVNZ+)
Hell of a cast for TVNZ+’s new drama, which stars Sam Neill and Annette Bening and is based on the best-selling Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers) book of the same name. Bening plays a mother of four who suddenly goes missing, and as her family try to solve the mystery of her disappearance, they discover that they never really knew their mother at all. Moriarty specialises in stories full of secrets hiding under the shiny surface, and this looks like a juicy, dark drama filled with compelling twist and turns. / Tara Ward
For rom-com fans: Irish Wish (March 15, Netflix)
To celebrate St Patrick’s Day, Netflix has rubbed its lucky shamrock and given the Blarney Stone a big pash and found Lindsay Lohan sitting in a pot of gold at the end of the streaming rainbow. Irish Wish is a romantic drama that sees Lohan play Maddie, a woman who agrees to be her best friend’s bridesmaid even though she’s secretly in love with the groom. Days before the nuptials in Ireland, however, Maddie makes a spontaneous wish for true love and wakes up as the bride-to-be. Awkward, to be sure! Made by the team behind The Princess Switch, this film is headed straight for the #1 slot on Netflix’s movie list quicker than you can name all four members of The Corrs. / TW
For fans of manufactured 90s pop: Girls5Eva (March 14, Netflix)
Netflix has all three seasons of this American comedy-drama about a 90s female pop band who reunites after years apart. Back in 2021, we asked real life pop star Megan Alatini just how true to life the series is: “It takes us oldies back to the fun days gone by, and for the young ones it’s a reminder of what not to do in the music industry,” the TrueBliss singer said. “The producers have emulated the 90s pop world perfectly; the actresses are so good you forget they’re not actually washed-up popstars and the music is so bad that it’s great. Girls5eva will have you in fits of laughter and we all deserve a chance to laugh – even if that means at ourselves.” / TW
For fans of a nice frock: The 92nd Annual Academy Awards (March 11, Disney+)
It’s fun to pretend you’re watching The Oscars so you can celebrate 2023’s greatest cinematic achievements, when really you’re just watching it for the frocks. This year, Disney+ subscribers can watch the Oscars live from 11.30am NZT, with coverage starting on the red carpet and then moving inside the Dolby Theatre for the big awards. Ahead of the ceremony, be sure to check out our list of where you can stream all the big Oscar nominated films in New Zealand. / TW
For fans of Taylor Swift: Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Disney+, March 15)
Are you ready for it? Taylor Swift’s concert film of The Eras Tour hits Disney+ this week, which means fans can enjoy the concert from the comfort of their own homes. Filmed in August 2023, this quickly became the highest grossing film concert of all time, partly because Alex Casey shelled out $25 to see it at the movies last year:
“Filmed with over 40 cameras over three nights, you get even closer to the action than a kid waiting stageside to receive a bowler hat,” she wrote. “In close-up you can see the dancers’ dedication to their office worker roles in ‘The Man’, you can see the label on the bottle of wine Swift pours during ‘tolerate it’, you can see the fact that one of her guitarists is absolutely rocking a Sue Nicholson haircut. All details you’d never catch otherwise, all highlighting just how many people are involved in this enormous, historic, record-shattering production.”
Everything else:
Netflix
Young Royals S3 (March 11)
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (March 12)
Steve Trevino Simple Man (March 12)
Inkabi (March 13)
Red Ollero (March 14)
Art of Love (March 14)
24 Hours with Gaspar (March 14)
Beau is Afraid (March 15)
Chicken Nugget (March 15)
Copland (March 15)
Iron Reign (March 15)
Asteroid City (March 15)
Below Deck S7 (March 15)
Ford v Ferrari (March 15)
Gray (March 15)
Guide to Prepare for Separation (March 15)
Killing Gunther (March 15)
Monk (March 15)
Murder Makbarak (March 15)
Royal Blood (March 15)
The Forgiven (March 15)
The Outreau Case: A French Nightmare (March 15)
The Phantom of the Open (March 15)
Spiderman: No Way Nome (March 16)
Mr Malcolm’s List (March 16)
The Wolf and the Lion (March 16)
TVNZ+
Savage River (March 11)
Attenborough’s Dynasties (March 12)
Motorway Patrol (March 14)
Naked Education (March 14)
Renters (March 14)
Reel Life: The Great Erection Deception: The Stiff Nights Story (March 14)
The Ides Of March (March 15)
The Mechanic (March 15)
Gran Torino (March 15)
Swordfish (March 15)
ThreeNow
Serving the Hamptons (March 13)
Dublin Murders (March 15
Disney+
Not Dead Yet S2 (March 13)
Will Trent S2 (March 13)
Breeders S4 (March 13)
Sacred Soil: The Piney Woods School Story (March 15)
Coppola: The Agent (March 15)
Neon
Chillin Island (March 12)
People of the Earth S1, S2 (March 13)
The Flash (March 13)
Asteroid City (March 15)
The Girls on the Bus (March 17)
Apple TV+
Manhunt (March 15)
Prime Video
Invincible S2 (March 14)
Frida (March 14)
AMC+
True Crime Story: Smugshot (March 14)
Shudder
First Contact (March 11)
Depraved (March 11)
Sympathy for the Devil (March 11)