Titan: The OceanGate Disaster — Netflix
The implosion of the OceanGate Titan submersible in 2023, which resulted in the death of its five occupants, including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, made international headlines. This documentary takes a deep and not always comfortable look at Rush, and the influence of his greed and ambition on the tragic fate of his deep-sea mission. His need for the spotlight and determination to become the next barrier-breaking tech billionaire ultimately serve as a familiar Icarus warning tale, even if in retrospect it seems horrifically obvious what the results would be.
The Amateur — Rent or buy Apple TV+
Rami Malek and Laurence Fishburne star in this easily watchable, adaptation of the novel by Robert Littell. Malek plays Heller, a mid-level decoder at the CIA who — after a terrorist attack in London claims the life of his fellow CIA agent wife — blackmails his superiors into allowing him to pursue the culprits on his own. As his search for justice takes him across the world and deeper into the murky world of CIA dark ops, it’s a race against time to see whether he will survive long enough to make those responsible pay the ultimate price.
Chimp Crazy — Showmax
The team behind lockdown-era blockbuster Tiger King turn their attention to the equally wacky and crazy-character world of “chimp moms” in this docuseries. Focused on the story of Tonia Haddix, a former nurse whose obsession with the animals led her to change careers and become an exotic animal dealer. In her new role she faces the increasingly chaotic challenges of keeping her ape children from pesky interfering authorities, angry animal rights activists, including actor Alan Cumming and a world that just doesn’t understand the unique bond between a human mother and her chimps.
Echo Valley — Apple TV+
Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney give their best in this uneven but not unwatchable drama in which Moore’s beleaguered, struggling horse-farmer mother must do everything she can to protect Sweeney’s lost, drug-addicted daughter from angry criminals looking to get back what’s been taken by them by any means necessary.
#1 Happy Family USA — Prime Video
As he so successfully did in his live-action comedy series Ramy, Arab-American comedian Ramy Youssef, working with South Park animator Pam Brady, draws on his own experiences of careful navigation of Muslim and American identities in post 9/11 America to gently hilarious and human effect in this adult animation series about a Muslim American family in 2001, when they’re forced to code-switch like never before to convince their adopted country and neighbours that they’re nothing like “those Arabs”.
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