New To Streaming: What to watch on Netflix NZ, Neon and more this week

We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.

Spider-Noir (Prime Video, May 27)

Nicolas Cage stars in Spider-Noir as the aging Ben Reilly, a down-on-his-luck private eye and the only superhero in 1930s New York City. Drawn from the Oscar-winning animated film Into the Spider-Verse, Reilly must become The Spider once more when he stumbles across a dangerous web of corruption. His foe? Brendan Gleeson’s Silvermane, a cunning and cutthroat mobster. Presented in both monochromatic black and white and in eye-popping colour, the web-slinging detective series is a big-swing for the Spider-Verse, so tune in to see if it sticks the landing.

Propeller One-Way Night Coach (Apple TV, May 29)

Fresh off the plane from Cannes, John Travolta adapts his own 1997 novel of the same name in this directorial debut. Starring Clark Shotwell as the wide-eyed Jeff, and Kelly Eviston-Quinnett as his self-absorbed mother Helen, the film follows the two as they embark on a red-eye cross-country flight to Los Angeles. With the trip transforming into a life-altering journey filled with adventitious moments, this “charmingly quirky” film is one for the whole whānau.

Raging Grace (MĀORI+, May 30)

In writer and director Paris Zarcilla’s remarkable feature film debut, Max Eigenmann plays Joy, an undocumented Filipina immigrant. She’s employed at a stately mansion to care for a bedridden, terminally ill old man, but as Zarcilla “carefully builds his suspenseful tale with a horror twist layer-by-layer,” it becomes evident that nothing is as it seems as a monstrous danger will soon befall her. Labelled as a “first-rate suspenser with a sociopolitical soul,” Raging Grace is one to watch if you enjoyed Get Out and Parasite.

The Unicorn (TVNZ+, May 27)

Before Walton Goggins wandered the wasteland in Fallout, he starred in The Unicorn, a sitcom that follows the accomplished American actor as Wade, a recently widowed father of two daughters. Encouraged by his tight-knit group of friends to move on from the loss of his wife, Wade re-enters the dating scene, and to his surprise he’s quite the catch. In this “thoughtful and sophisticated sitcom about what follows mourning,” Goggins is joined by a stellar ensemble cast including Rob Corddry, Omar Miller, Maya Lynne Robinson and Michaela Watkins. What’s not to love?

Star City (Apple TV, May 29)

A spinoff of the critically acclaimed For All Mankind, Star City takes us back to the age of the space race, and proposes a reality where the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. Set behind the iron curtain, this “propulsive paranoid thriller,” charts the story of the cosmonauts, engineers and intelligence officers who risked it all in the race for the moon. A blend of The Man in the High Castle and Chernobyl, Star City is bound to be a riveting watch.

Pick of the Flicks: The Long Walk (Neon, May 30)

Based on Stephen King’s dystopian novel of the same name, Francis Lawrence’s The Long Walk follows 50 teenage boys in a televised contest where each competitor must maintain a nonstop walking pace of 4.8 km/h. Those who fall behind are executed, and the walk only ends when there is one boy left standing. Featuring rising stars Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson, alongside Hollywood legend Mark Hamill, the fraught film has been described as “a tense and surprising dystopian drama, steeped in personal and national ethos.” The Long Walk isn’t for the faint of heart, but it may be one of the best Stephen King adaptations ever made.