We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
Train Dreams (Netflix, November 21)
Following up on the Oscar-nominated Sing Sing with Train Dreams, Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar craft a generation-spanning drama where “life and death intertwine in the duality of the symbol of the train.” The remarkable Joel Edgerton stars as Robert, a railroad worker whose quiet life is “perennially tested by a nature that seems to have more control over human destiny than people themselves do.” Echoing Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, this “staggering work of art” serves up a meditative ride through the towering timbers of the Pacific Northwest.
The Legend of Ochi (AroVision, November 18)
In Isaiah Saxon’s directorial debut The Legend of Ochi, Helena Zengel is Yuri, a shy farm girl raised to fear the mythical and reclusive forest creature Ochi, a reclusive forest creature. When she stumbles across a baby Ochi separated from its pack, Yuri sets out to reunite the harmless critter with its family, unknowingly embarking on the adventure of a lifetime. A “charming throwback” to classic 80s adventure movies like The Neverending Story and The Dark Crystal, this A24 film is one for the whole whānau.
The Serpent Queen (ThreeNow, November 23)
In The Serpent Queen, Samantha Morton stars as Catherine de’ Medici, the cunning 16th-century Queen of France. From her traumatic childhood to her ruthless reign, the sardonic historical drama follows the misunderstood monarch as she rises throughout the French court, doing whatever it takes to survive and thrive in a man’s world. “Splitting the difference between straight-faced, old-school costume drama and gleefully anachronistic romps like The Great and The Favourite,” The Serpent Queen is bound to be a wickedly entertaining watch.
Little Fires Everywhere (TVNZ+, November 23)
Exploring “the weight of secrets,” and “the ferocious pull of motherhood,” Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington go head-to-head off in Little Fires Everywhere, an adaptation of the bestselling 2017 novel by Celeste Ng. Set in late 90s Ohio, the miniseries follows the two as Mia and Elena, matriarchs divided by race and class. Their differences kindle conflict, sparking a sequence of unforeseen events that change the lives of both families forever. Labelled “a high-end soap opera driven by star power,” Little Fires Everywhere is dangerously bingeable.
The Man Who Stole The Scream (Neon, November 18)
This stranger than fiction true-crime documentary tells the story of Pål Enger, a promising footballer turned thief who swiped Edvard Munch’s The Scream from the National Gallery in Oslo. “A ridiculous tale of nicked art, told by the thief himself,” the self-mythologising Enger, who had been obsessed with Munch’s masterpiece since childhood, decided to pinch the priceless painting, setting in motion a series of events as absurd as a Monty Python sketch. With the recent Louvre heist still making headlines, The Man Who Stole The Scream is a topical and thrilling watch.
Pick of the Flicks: The Bourne Trilogy (Netflix, November 23)
Perhaps the most influential action film franchise of all time, The Bourne Trilogy spans The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum, all three being adapted from the Robert Ludlum novels of the same name. With its notorious shaky-cam aesthetic, the films “nailed the formula of the modern action film: a stoic intelligence agent who has a complicated relationship with his own government.” Starring Matt Damon as America’s James Bond, the lean and mean The Bourne Trilogy has aged like a fine wine.
The rest
Netflix
Selena y Los Dinos (November 17)
Gabby’s Dollhouse S12 (November 17)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (November 17)
Gerry Dee: Funny You Should Say That (November 18)
Envious S3 (November 19)
The Carman Family Deaths (November 19)
The Son of a Thousand Men (November 19)
Champagne Problems (November 19)
A Man on the Inside S2 (November 20)
The Follies (November 20)
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory S4 (November 20)
Train Dreams (November 21)
ONE SHOT with Ed Sheeran (November 21)
The Bourne Identity (November 23)
The Bourne Legacy (November 23)
The Bourne Supremacy (November 23)
The Bourne Ultimatum (November 23)
Jason Bourne (November 23)
TVNZ+
Noel Edmonds’ Kiwi Adventure (November 17)
Pam & Tommy (November 17)
Secret Nazi Bases S4 (November 20)
Little Fires Everywhere (November 23)
ThreeNow
The Borderline (November 18)
The Serpent Queen S1-S2 (November 23)
Neon
The Girl in the Pool (November 17)
Booba S5 (November 17)
Holiday Baking Championship S10 (November 17)
Going In Style (November 18)
The Man Who Stole The Scream (November 18)
Bad Boys (November 19)
Bad Boys 2 (November 19)
Extracted (November 20)
Push (November 20)
Prime Video
Landman S2 (November 17)
The Mighty Nein (November 19)
Red Dog (November 20)
Disney+
Sebastian Maniscalco: It Ain’t Right (November 21)
Apple TV
The Family Plan 2 (November 21)
Shudder/AMC+/Acorn/HIDIVE
The Ugly Stepsister (Shudder, AMC+, November 17)
A Remarkable Place To Die (Acorn TV, AMC+, November 17)
Inside S2 (Acorn TV, AMC+, November 17)
My Gift Lvl 9999 Unlimited Gacha: Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon, I’m Out for Revenge! (HIDIVE, November 19)
DocPlay
In the Name of the Father (November 17)
The Extraordinary Miss Flower (November 20)
AroVision
The Legend of Ochi (November 18)
Roofman (November 19)
The Wolves Always Come At Night (November 19)
The Thread (November 19)
Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy (November 19)
Limelight (November 19)
