We round up everything coming to streaming services over the holidays, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
The Night Manager (Prime Video, 11 January)
After a decade away, Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman reprise their roles as Jonathan Pine and Angela Burr in season two of The Night Manager, one of the first must-watch TV shows of 2026. Extending beyond the source material (John le Carré penned only one The Night Manager novel) the latest instalment of this high-stakes espionage thriller forges its own destiny as Pine encounters Diego Calva’s Teddy Dos Santos, a Colombian arms dealer. “Gripping without being excessively silly, compelling without being indulgently cerebral,” season two of The Night Manager has been described as utterly “irresistible.”
The Rip (Netflix, 16 January)
Childhood pals Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reunite to play a pair of no-nonsense Miami cops who stumble upon an eye-watering stash of cartel cash. Inspired by true events and directed by The Grey’s Joe Carnahan, The Rip finds the pair forced to reckon with the temptation to pocket the dough as loyalties and motives become ever murkier. Also starring One Battle After Another’s Teyana Taylor and The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun, this action-packed crime drama is sure to be a rip-roaring watch.
Workmates (Netflix, 16 January)
Workmates, the Tāmaki Makaurau-set romcom which premiered at last year’s Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival, is the third feature film from director, actor and writer duo Curtis Vowell and Sophie Henderson. Described by Henderson as a “scrappy little love story about theatre,” she plays a version of herself alongside Matt Whelan’s Tom, the man she’s not-so secretly in love with. Together they run the underfunded Crystal Ballroom, a thinly-veiled stand-in for the beloved Basement Theatre. Described by The Spinoff as a “coming-of-age film for the late bloomers among us,” Workmates is the pick-me-up you need if the return to work has you feeling blue.
Sinners (Neon, 16 January)
If you missed out on seeing Ryan Coogler’s Sinners in cinemas last year, now’s your chance to check out the “genre-defying, mind-bending shoot-em-up that stars Michael B. Jordan as twins.” Set in 1930s Mississippi in the midst of Jim Crow, twins Smoke and Stack open a juke joint with stolen money. Once the sun sets, the diametric duo and a ragtag group of revellers find themselves battling the smooth-talking and sneering Jack O’Connell, the leader of a group of ancient and bloodthirsty vampires. Set to be a major player at this year’s Oscars, make sure you sink your teeth into Sinners.
Ponies (TVNZ+, 16 January)
Set behind the Iron Curtain in 1970s Moscow, Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson star as secretaries working at the American Embassy. When their husbands are both killed in mysterious circumstances, the two embark on a new line of work as clandestine CIA operatives. Uncovering a vast conspiracy that leads to the upper echelons of the Kremlin and the Pentagon, the fish-out-of-water duo must do whatever it takes to survive, while attempting to solve the murders that made them widows. Reminiscent of Get Smart and Slow Horses, Ponies is a slick spy thriller well-worth binging.
Pick of the Flicks: The Mastermind (AroVision, 14 January)
From the modern master of slow cinema Kelly Reichardt comes The Mastermind, an arthouse art-heist film that stars the shape-shifting Josh O’Connor as an unemployed carpenter turned bumbling burglar. Described as “the slinkiest, most satisfying piece of ‘mood cinema’ you’re likely to have seen for a long while,” O’Connor executes a poorly planned heist on a local art museum, stealing four priceless paintings. Bringing “political conflict and existential comedy into the finely observed details of crime and escape,” The Mastermind is a must-watch.
The rest
Netflix
The Boyfriend S2 (13 January)
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials (15 January)
Love Through a Prism (15 January)
The Upshaws P7 (15 January )
To Love, To Lose (15 January)
The Rip (16 January )
Can This Love Be Translated? (16 January)
Kangaroo Island (16 January)
No Tail to Tell (17 January)
Undercover Miss Hong (18 January)
TVNZ+
Love Island All Stars S3 (14 January)
Frauds (15 January)
Ponies (16 January)
Corriedale (15 January)
The Amazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition S9 (10 January)
Build Your Dream Home in the Country S2 (16 January)
The Big Fat Quiz Best Bits (16 January)
Resto My Ride (15 January)
Bombshell (15 January)
Anna (15 January)
Cold Pursuit (15 January)
Snowpiercer (15 January)
Neon
Industry S4 (12 January)
Reno 911! S1-S7 (14 January)
Key To Love (14 January)
Sunrise (15 January)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (16 January)
Sinners (16 January)
Peter Rabbit (17 January)
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (17 January)
White Chicks (17 January)
The Cult Behind The Killer: The Andrea Yates Story (18 January)
Silent Witness S27 (18 January)
Black Adam (18 January)
The Iron Lady (18 January)
Prime Video
Molly Mae: Behind It All Season Two P2 (16 January)
Disney+
Hey A.J.! (14 January)
Shudder/AMC+/Acorn/HIDIVE
The Wives (AMC+, Acorn TV, 12 January)
The Holiday (AMC+, Acorn TV, 12 January)
DocPlay
Wilding (12 January)
AroVision
Nuremberg (13 January)
The Mastermind (14 January)
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (14 January)
Eleanor the Great (14 January)
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (14 January)
Riefenstahl (14 January)
Hit N Fun (14 January)
My SHINee World (14 January)
