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Siri Vonbank
We can all feel a bit overwhelmed when looking for something new to watch in the world of streaming - so if you're in need of some guidance as to what's hot and what's not (or if you're just looking for something other to watch than football) you've come to the right place.
This week, Game of Thrones prequel and mega-hit House of the Dragon is back and better than ever, with the season 2 premiere really firing up the feud between Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy) and Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke).
The series has been gone from our screens for almost two years, but that time has clearly been well spent on constructing a truly gripping arc that is able to delve deeper into George RR Martin's lore than the first.
Elsewhere, near-to-the-knuckle superhero satire The Boys is back for its fourth diabolical season on Prime Video after a two-year wait. The new run finds The Boys at their lowest ebb, as Homelander (Antony Starr) looks to consolidate his power by upending US politics, utilising his secret weapon, Vice Presidential candidate and head-popping supe Victoria Neuman.
Meanwhile, Apple TV+ certainly knows how to bring in the stars for its drama series, and it's continuing that trend with Presumed Innocent, a new legal thriller based on the novel of the same name. Jake Gyllenhaal takes the lead here as chief deputy prosecutor in Chicago Rusty Sabich, who becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a colleague.
All in all, there's no shortage of streaming options, and so to give you a bit of a hand, RadioTimes.com has collated some of the best new offerings: from Netflix and Disney Plus to Prime Video, BBC iPlayer and Apple TV+, here are the latest highlights across the services.
A spoilt medieval queen goes on the run in the wake of a peasant revolt in this raucous and intermittently rude period comedy. Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education) stars as the stroppy royal, unseated by commoner Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) and forced to fend for herself. Screenwriter Andy Riley and director Curtis Vowell fashion a feminist fable, and the setting brings to mind a potty-mouthed episode of Horrible Histories.
Jessica Alba stars in this revenge thriller as Parker, a special ops agent who reluctantly returns to her home in New Mexico when her father dies in mysterious circumstances. She uncovers a conspiracy, and her quest for justice soon escalates into violence.
This solid, if unspectacular, adaptation of the popular computer game stars Josh Hutcherson as the security guard at an abandoned family theme restaurant. After discovering its animatronic creatures come to life after midnight with murder in mind, he must thwart his furry robot foes and save his younger sister from their evil clutches.
A sitcom about three retired couples in a seaside resort that debuted in 2014 on BBC One, to a mixed reception. But the fans and naysayers were both right: yes, it may dip into predictable jokes and stereotypes, but it can also do well-worked farce and subtler gags, underplayed by a cast that includes Alison Steadman and Philip Jackson, Russ Abbot, Stephanie Beacham and the tremendous James Smith.
After the success of Get Out and Us, writer/director Jordan Peele returns with a singular blockbuster that appears to be about extraterrestrials, but is no ordinary creature feature. It follows siblings OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emerald (Keke Palmer) in southern California, who train horses to be used in Hollywood films. They have been rocked by a series of UFO sightings on their ranch, and farther down the valley, former sitcom child actor Jupe (Minari's Steven Yeun) has also seen something in the sky.
Kaluuya exudes irresistible charisma and Palmer is the strongest outlet for the script's comedy, while Peele wrings tension in a way that recalls Spielberg's Jaws and M Night Shyamalan's Signs. The result is an enigmatic, thought-provoking thriller.
Although Ultraman is perhaps not the most famous superhero among Western audiences, in Japan he's one of the most iconic characters of all time. Now, he's finally being introduced to a wider international audience, thanks to a brand new animated Netflix film from Kubo and the Two Strings writer Shannon Tindle and co-director John Aoshima.
These days, we tend to think of John Grisham as the king of the legal thriller, but back in the 1980s it was Scott Turow who ruled the courtroom, thanks to the suspenseful bestseller Presumed Innocent. Its story of a prosecutor put on trial for the killing of his mistress has made it to the screen before, in a rather dry 1990 movie starring Harrison Ford.
Dutch director Halina Reijn makes her English-language debut with this slick black comedy. Playing out like a 21st-century re-imagining of And Then There Were None, it follows a group of 20-somethings - and one notably older boyfriend - who gather for a \"hurricane party\" at a flashy mansion, only for things to descend into chaos when one of their number is found dead. The blame game soon erupts, and the situation continues to escalate until a corker of a final reveal.
The buzzword-heavy dialogue could easily have become irksome, but the charismatic cast is so convincing as a group of bickering friends that their verbal sparring and back-stabbing begins to seem not only believable but inevitable.
Daniel Brhl plays the German designer as a brittle, jealous man making his way through the Rome, Monaco and most importantly Paris couture scenes in the 1970s, constantly fighting to overcome his personal insecurities and the sideswipes from his increasingly envious rivals. The atmos is high hysteria.
When American backpackers Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) find funds running low on a trip to Australia, taking a couple of live-in bar jobs seems like the answer. Soon after, they are in the outback serving beer to a male-dominated clientele who serve up toxic masculinity in return.
Director Kitty Green stokes the atmosphere, making all the microaggressions the women experience add up. This is thriller rather than horror territory, but violence always feels less than a spilled drink away. After a gripping first half, character cracks do begin to show, and despite strong acting from Garner and Henwick, the pair's interactions become increasingly difficult to believe as the action rushes headlong to its conclusion.
A Croatian journalist forms an uneasy alliance with the police, while the Ukrainian wife of a politician hunts for her missing niece. In series two, Ukraine has been invaded by Russia, which upends everything.
In this follow-up to 2018 creature feature The Meg, Jason Statham returns as deep-sea diver Jonas Taylor, who this time does battle with even more enormous sharks and a plethora of other prehistoric sea beasts.
Brnice Bejo plays Sophia, the scientist trying to warn the mayor that a triathlon is about to become a feeding frenzy. Playing its daft premise deadly seriously, the result is a surprisingly entertaining disaster movie that dares you not to laugh at its bloody set-pieces.
A documentary profile that aims to put you straight if you think of Cyndi Lauper as merely a two- or three-hit pop wonder. It starts with her childhood, where she was the rebel at school, before following her into the music business, where her every success was achieved in defiance of those who told her not to dress like that, not to talk like that, not to sing like that.
The Nuremberg trials are the centre point of a documentary series that looks at the rise of Adolf Hitler and the sheer scale of Nazi wrongdoing, asking how it happened and whether it could happen again. Historians analyse how the dictator tapped into existing feelings within Germany, convincing apparently ordinary folk to help exterminate an entire people.
This suitably bleak prequel is set 64 years before the events of the first Hunger Games film. It chronicles the rise to power of the young Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), the president-to-be originally played by Donald Sutherland, who is tasked with mentoring contestant Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) ahead of the Tenth Annual Hunger Games.
The latest Spanish-language offering to arrive on Netflix is Raising Voices (Ni una ms), an eight-part drama about the prevalence of sexual violence against women. The series opens with 17-year-old Alma (Nicole Wallace) attaching a banner to the front gates of her school which reads: 'Beware! A rapist is in there!'
Sarah Parish and James Murray also star in this charming and fun coming-of-age series co-created by neurodiverse author Holly Smale, who has adapted her bestselling novels, which are loosely based on her own experiences as a reluctant teen model.
Set in 1971, this atmospheric prequel sees American novice nun Margaret (Nell Tiger Free) join forces with a troubled Irish priest (Ralph Ineson) who is convinced that religious elders running an orphanage in Rome plan to use one of its young girls to conceive the offspring of Satan.
For decades, Camden in north-west London has been home to musicians seeking to be part of the latest scene. This four-part series explains how the neighbourhood has meant different things to different generations: it opens by looking at Dua Lipa and Coldplay using it as a gateway to stardom, before looping back to explain how Britpop bands and later rockers like the Libertines had it as their base.
Even in the super-savvy social media era, it seems young people can still be brainwashed into joining a good old-fashioned cult. That is, at least, the accusation levelled in this documentary series against an unusual Los Angeles pastor, who as well as running his own church was the boss of a management company that found and nurtured young dancers who had risen to fame on TikTok.
An entertainingly demented, bubble-gum black comedy for fans of Heathers and Tim Burton. In the late 80s, a freak lightning strike brings a Victorian gentleman (Cole Sprouse) back to life. Depressed teen Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) sets about healing this strange and silent creature, before things turn murderous. Screenwriter Diablo Cody crafts a camp and macabre tale, filmed with verve by debut director Zelda Williams.
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