The Bear, I Am: Celine Dion, Mary and George, A Family Affair and more are coming to screens. Photo / The Spinoff
The Bear, I Am: Celine Dion, Mary and George, A Family Affair and more are coming to screens. Photo / The Spinoff
From award-winning The Bear to Celine Dion’s heart-wrenching documentary,we round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+.
If you love being stressed yet on the pulse: The Bear S3 (Disney+, June 27)
All aboard the anxiety-inducing rollercoaster straight back to Hell’s Kitchen! Season three of the critically-acclaimed, award-winning, genre-bending The Bear returns this Thursday, picking right back up in the trenches of a newly opened fine dining restaurant. Little is known about what we can expect, plot-wise, but the trailer has some clues. Despite being locked in a freezer last season, Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) appears to still have no chill, Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) is as gently sarcastic as ever, and Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) is screaming bloody murder about some mismatched bowls. All that, and some food critics are popping by. Should be relaxing!
This week is a dream come true for fans of a royal corset and some big wigs, with both Mary and George and My Lady Jane (Prime Video’s colourful drama about the reimagining of the life of Lady Jane Gray) dropping this week. Julianne Moore stars in this historical drama alongside Nicholas Galitzine, aka the internet’s boyfriend, and the rave reviews, especially of the raunchy bits, are rolling in. The Guardian gave it five stars and called it a “magnificent, audacious” drama, Variety called it “irreverently erotic”, and CNN noted “a level of debauchery that makes Bridgerton look like a Sunday-school romp.”
If you are a human being with a heart: I Am: Celine Dion (Prime Video, June 25)
I Am: Celine Dion. Photo / Prime Video
Get ready to cry enough salty tears to sink the Titanic all over again, as Celine Dion’s much-anticipated documentary arrives this week on Prime Video. Billed as a “love letter” to her fans, I Am: Celine Dion is an intimate portrait of the singer as she reflects on her career and her future in music after being diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder. “If I can’t run, I’ll walk, if I can’t walk, I’ll crawl,” she says through tears in the trailer. “I won’t stop.” Directed by Irene Taylor (Leave No Trace, Trees, and Other Entanglements), it is said to be a “gut-wrenching” and “stunning” portrayal of the singing superstar. Bring tissues.
If you like a slow burn road movie: Fancy Dance (June 28)
Lily Gladstone, the breakout star of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, leads this poignant new drama set on on the Seneca-Cayuga reservation in Oklahoma. Since her sister’s disappearance, Jax (Gladstone) has become the guardian of her niece and dedicated every spare minute to the search for her sibling. At the risk of losing custody to Roki’s grandfather, the pair hit the road and scour the backcountry to track down Roki’s mother in time for the upcoming powwow. What transpires is part mystery, part road movie, all of which adds to a welcome wave of indigenous stories on screen. “It’s a story about resistance in its most basic form,” wrote a reviewer for Roger Ebert. “Keeping a family together no matter what.”
If you love a romantic comedy: A Family Affair (Netflix, June 28)
Ramona Quimby all grown up and trapped in a rom-com with Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman? Don’t mind if I do. This new Netflix movie sees Joey King (star of Ramona and Beezus, one of the greatest movies ever made) play Zara, a personal assistant to a famous actor (Efron) who is having an unexpected dirty old fling with Zara’s mother (Kidman). Despite Zara’s efforts to break the pair up, it seems her boss and her mum might just be falling in love. Chuck a bit of Kathy Bates into the mix, and this could be the perfect watch to blob out on the couch with this long weekend.
