We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+
Tucci in Italy (Disney+, May 19)
Most recently playing an American cardinal in the fortuitously timed Conclave, acclaimed actor Stanley Tucci is no longer locked away in the Vatican but swapping the papacy for pasta. One mouthful at a time, and as debonair as ever, the charming sex symbol traverses Tuscany, Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Abruzzo, and Lazio, indulging in the diverse culinary cultures of these regions. Per The Post’s James Croot, his appetite for conversation and cuisine is “truly infectious and delightful.”
M9 (TVNZ+, May 19)
Blending a TED talk, a theatre show and whaikōrero, M9 returns with with nine orators delivering powerful kōrero on Te Ōhanga Māori. Visionary kaikōrero such as business leader Traci Houpapa, cultural strategist Te Wehi Wright, and founder of Māori Millionaire, Te Kahukura Boynton, all share their pathway to prosperity. From collective economic, to whanaungatanga, to mana motuhake, this groundbreaking special is bound to inspire the next wave of Māori innovators and entrepreneurs.
Sirens (Netflix, May 22)
The star-studded Sirens follows Devon DeWitt (Meghann Fahy) over one incendiary weekend, when she unexpectedly turns up at an idyllic seaside estate in search of her sister Simone (Milly Alcock). With Simone’s all-consuming new job and strange relationship with new boss (Julianne Moore), who also happens to be the seductive leader of a disquieting wellness cult, alarm bells soon start ringing. Billed as an “incisive, sexy, and darkly funny exploration of women, power, and class,” this fusing of Get Out and A Simple Favor is sure to be sharp, savage, and salacious.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Neon, May 22)
Rarely are actors as powerful as the superheroes they embody – Christopher Reeve is the exception. From the documentarians who helmed McQueen, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story candidly charts the American actor’s meteoric rise to fame as Superman in the late 70s and his work as an activist after a freak horse-riding accident in the mid-90s left him paralysed. This “extraordinarily moving and frequently unvarnished portrait” of a super man will likely leave you in tears.
Nine Perfect Strangers (Prime Video, May 22)
Riding in on the coat-tails of The White Lotus, the second season of Nine Perfect Strangers departs from Liane Moriarty’s source material with a fresh setting and a new bunch of overworked city-dwellers. Invited for a week of transformational psychedelic therapy in the snow-caked Austrian Alps by mysterious director Masha (Nicole Kidman), the titular strangers include Henry Golding, Dolly de Leon, and Christine Baranski. Set to be pushed to the brink and “healed” while doing it, breathe in and get ready to trip out.
Pick of the Flicks: The Surrender (Shudder, AMC+, May 23)
Premiering at SXSW, Julia Max’s debut feature The Surrender may go under the radar without a theatrical release, but like Lake Mungo or Relic, this through-your-fingers supernatural horror is a hair-raising rumination on grief. Loosely inspired by Max’s own experience, the film hauntingly follows Colby Minifie’s fraught relationship with her grieving mother, who hires a malevolent figure to resurrect her recently deceased husband. Labelled as a “wholly unique vision of grief, filled with carnage and unspeakable horror that escalates at a steady clip,” The Surrender is one to watch from behind the sofa.
The rest
Netflix
Untold: The Fall of Favre (May 20)
Sarah Silverman: Postmortem (May 20)
Newly Rich, Newly Poor (May 21)
Real Men (May 21)
Sneaky Links: Dating After Dark (May 21)
Tyler Perry’s She The People (May 22)
Sirens (May 22)
Brassic: S1-S3 (May 23)
Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds (May 23)
Fear Street: Prom Queen (May 23)
Off Track 2 (May 23)
Forget You Not (May 23)
Big Mouth: S8 (May 23)
Our Unwritten Seoul (May 24)
TVNZ+
M9 (May 19)
Code of Silence (May 19)
Grosse Pointe Garden Society (May 20)
Big Adventures in Thailand with Sue Perkins (May 21)
Confessions of Octomom (May 22)
Hot Tub Time Machine (May 22)
Attitude (25 May
Pathfinders S3 (25 May)
Watson (25 May)
Tom Kerridge Cooks Britain (May 25)
ThreeNow
Suburgatory S1-S3 (May 22)
Long Bright River (May 25)
Whakaata Māori
Under the Whāriki (May 19)
Neon
Underplayed (May 20)
Chinatown (May 21)
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (May 22)
Machete (May 23)
The Natural (May 24)
Greedy People (May 25)
Prime Video
Edge of Tomorrow (May 20)
Motorheads (May 20)
Nine Perfect Strangers (May 22)
Clarkson’s Farm S4 (May 23)
A Haunting in Venice (May 23)
Disney+
Tucci in Italy (May 19)
Minnie’s Bow-Toons: Pet Hotel (May 20)
Kaizen (May 21)
Pirates: Behind the Legends (Episodes 1-8) (May 21)
Apple TV+
Fountain of Youth (May 23)
Shudder/AMC+/Acorn/HIDIVE
Dead End Drive-In (Shudder, May 19)
The Surrender (Shudder, AMC+, May 23)
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter S2 (AMC+, May 23)