We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
Memory of a Killer (Neon, January 27)
Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey swaps the operating room for a cut-throat world of smoke and mirrors, playing a fearsome hitman moonlighting as a photocopier salesman and father. The twist? He’s diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a foe that crumbles the walls separating his two compartmentalised lives. A “redemptive story about a man who is losing his memory but gaining a conscience,” this thriller is sure to be a cut above the rest.
Bridgerton (Netflix, January 29)
Split into two titillating parts, Bridgerton’s hotly-anticipated fourth season follows Luke Thompson’s Benedict Bridgerton, the titular family’s second-eldest sibling, as he “who once looked on dreamily from the corner of the ballroom is now ready for his own Bridgerton love story.” Embarking on a Cinderella-style romance with Yerin Ha’s Sophie Baek, he meets his love at Lady Bridgerton’s famed masquerade ball, but her identity remains a mystery behind a shimmering silver mask. “A heady cloud of pleasure and true love,” Bridgerton is the perfect guilty pleasure watch.
The Wrecking Crew (Prime Video, January 28)
Shot across Hawaiʻi and Aotearoa, the buddy cop comedy The Wrecking Crew stars honorary New Zealander Jason Momoa and man mountain Dave Bautista as feuding half-brothers. Forced to come together to solve the conspiracy behind their father’s murder, the loose-cannon cop and hard-edged Navy SEAL soon find themselves in over their heads, facing off against the merciless Yakuza on the streets of Oʻahu. With our own Temuera Morrison and Piha’s Lion Rock also appearing, The Wrecking Crew promises a no-holds-barred good time.
Marvel’s Wonder Man (Disney+, January 28)
More akin to Seth Rogan’s The Studio than The Avengers, Wonder Man sees Aquaman star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams, an aspiring actor who is quietly developing superpowers. In this not-so ordinary origin story, Williams has a chance meeting with failed actor Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley) and learns that a legendary director is remaking a superhero film that he is perfect for. The two then decide to join forces, doggedly pursuing life-changing roles in the blockbuster remake. If you love self-aware humour and are sick of conventional superheroes, Marvel’s Wonder Man is the show for you.
Mistress Dispeller (DocPlay, January 26)
A gem from last year’s Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival, Elizabeth Lo’s Mistress Dispeller documents the life of Wang Zhenxi, a Chinese woman with an unusual, but increasingly popular profession: she goes undercover to end extramarital affairs. When Zhenxi is hired by Mrs. Li, a heartbroken wife whose husband has taken up a mistress, what unfolds is “modest, melancholic and strangely romantic” and “a profound and searching panorama of loneliness and partnership, where everyone gets a chance to be heard.”
Pick of the Flicks: Predestination (TVNZ+, January 27)
The mind-bending Predestination features Ethan Hawke as Agent Doe, a temporal agent on his final mission: he must travel back in time to 1970s New York to prevent an infamous terrorist from carrying out another devastating attack. Also starring Sarah Snook in her extraordinary breakout role, this one-of-a-kind time-travel saga “succeeds in teasing the brain and touching the heart.” Reminiscent of La Jetée and Looper, the less you know about Predestination going into it the better.
The rest
Netflix
Awake (January 27)
Bridgerton S4 P1 (January 29)
Glitter & Gold: Ice Dancing (1 February)
M3GAN 2.0 (1 February)
How to Train Your Dragon (1 February)
TVNZ+
Predestination (January 27)
The Amazing Race S37 (January 31)
The Walsh Sisters (February 1)
Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner (February 1)
LA’s Finest S1-S2 (February 1)
Hyundai Country Calendar: Celebrating 60 Years (February 1)
Couple to Throuple (February 1)
Erika Jayne: Bet it All On Blonde (February 1)
Baking It (February 1)
Below Deck Season 6 (February 1)
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills S13 (February 1)
Below Deck Mediterranean S3 (February 1)
Vanderpump Rules S6 (February 1)
Denise Richards: It’s Complicated (February 1)
Barbarian (February 1)
Blink Twice (February 1)
MĀORI+
Manou the Swift (January 24)
Rambo: First Blood (January 24)
PNG: The Road To Independence (January 25)
6 Festivals (January 25)
Tickled (January 26)
Paper Planes (January 30)
The Lost King (January 30)
Little Monsters (January 31)
Rambo: First Blood Part 2 (January 31)
Mary & Max (February 1)
Neon
Bring Her Back (27 January)
Smurfs (27 January)
Memory of a Killer (28 January)
My Ayrton, By Adriane Galisteu (28 January)
The Seduction (28 January)
Angela Diniz: Murdered and Convicted (28 January)
Scars of Beauty Special (28 January)
Luva de Pereiro: Viral Moves (29 January)
The Murder of Actor Rafael Miguel (29 January)
Who Killed Our Daughter? (29 January)
Now or Never: F.C. Montfermeil (29 January)
South Park S1–S2, S12 (29 January)
Depravity (29 January)
Killing Eve S1–S4 (30 January)
Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records S1 (30 January)
Catwoman (30 January)
A Clown in a Cornfield (30 January)
Letterkenny S4–S5 (1 February)
Girl Taken (1 February)
Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head S1–S2 (1 February)
Dora S4 (1 February)
The Cut (1 February)
Rust (1 February)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1 February)
A Clockwork Orange (1 February)
He’s Just Not That Into You (1 February)
New Year’s Eve (1 February)
Valentine’s Day (1 February)
The Wedding Singer (1 February)
Prime Video
The Wrecking Crew (January 28)
Disney+
Tracker S3 (January 28)
Disney Jr. Ariel – The Little Mermaid S2 (January 28)
Marvel’s Wonder Man (January 28)
Pupstruction Construction (January 30)
Apple TV
Shrinking S2 (January 28)
Yo Gabba Gabbaland! S2 (January 30)
Shudder/AMC+/Acorn/HIDIVE
4th And Loud (AMC+, January 27)
DocPlay
Mistress Dispeller (January 26)
